originalvichy

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by originalvichy 10d ago
The easiest way to tell in Europe is that a woman who has never visited USA speaks in phrases or uses slang words that an African-American woman from Atlanta would use. African-American men and women probably have the largest global cultura
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by originalvichy 10d ago
It’s quite infuriating that all those sites you mention have gone with the race to the bottom to just hook in users with garbage content. Just last week, Youtube took even more steps in hiding your subscriptions homepage on iOS, and on desk
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by originalvichy 17d ago
I think it is extremely simplistic to blame the nuclear transition's failed potential solely on them. 1. The fact that nuclear power has been quite safe so far does not mean that it would have been just as safe if its deployment would
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by originalvichy 1mo ago
I don't know Lessig's work, but that chain of thought sounds like a more narrowed down version of Langdon Winner's "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" (1) The way in which technology shapes our world varies greatly, and I
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by originalvichy 2mo ago
I’m worried that we will spend precious resources like oil on useless transport. I strongly believe that all of us who care deeply about the future of our civilization’s technological progress need to push for stronger limits on short fista
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by originalvichy 2mo ago
I would recommend Ruuvi Air, its sensors are high quality, and is quite open for devs to do pretty much whatever with it. Works by broadcasting sensor data over BLE, so if you have a smartphone or a home assistant server with BT connectivit
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by originalvichy 3mo ago
Late reply. This is all assuming that the corps producing the hardware will live in the same world as before this squeeze. The reality is that the combination of a highly concetrated manufacturing landscape + the global political environmen
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by originalvichy 3mo ago
In my case, the ethical AI theatre fell apart as soon as I read about their first military contracts, specifically with the US government. Their ethos is boiled down to ”we’ll do everything to stop AI from killing us all! However, on the pa
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by originalvichy 3mo ago
This is the real risk after the slow death of personal computing. Even internet resources like servers will be hoarded by the hyperscalers that are the only ones who can afford to order years of compute hardware in advance. I’ve already sta
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by originalvichy 3mo ago
It’s a pretty non-controversial claim and argument about the interaction between technology and human society. If you read the post further you’d probably understand what is meant by that phrase. It’s not centered solely around electronics
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by originalvichy 3mo ago
This sort of analysis can help find a healthy level of gaming or computer use. I spent hours reading Microsoft’s offline encyclopedia on the family PC, and playing games like Age of Empires which taught me history on the side. Take control
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by originalvichy 3mo ago
As a person who has worked in many customer-facing jobs, the worst trap I faced numerous times is befriending a paying client. It becomes insanely difficult to say no to a client when hired as an expert for their assistance, when they are a
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by originalvichy 3mo ago
I wonder how developing electric motors compares to combustion engines. My hunch says that it’s the main reason the Chinese high-tech electronics industry was able to develop and iterate leading electric vehicles so fast. (Edit: My more cla
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by originalvichy 4mo ago
It’s probably quite similar here in Finland. I’m interested to see what the current fund(s) contain.
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by originalvichy 4mo ago
There is none. That’s why I wouldn’t invest in them either.
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by originalvichy 4mo ago
I wouldn’t, but thanks for the reply. I’ve gone through conscription and we are neighbours with Russia. I’ve not lived a day in my life without existential military threat.
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by originalvichy 4mo ago
You would think you’re investing in a software technology company, but after reading a bit of news stories, you realize you’re quite literally funding war crimes. If I invested in an arms company, I’d have reasonable expectations about what
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by originalvichy 4mo ago
Arms sales where? The non-US arms companies are the biggest winners, namely South Korea and European companies. The US not only threatened its allies, it also pulled ammunition from bases and order pipelines so European nations are picking
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by originalvichy 4mo ago
Nice read! Technology has politics, and it often serves to reproduce terrible modes of operation instead of something that could be described as "good progress" for humanity. The renewable energy landscape is the best example of a
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by originalvichy 4mo ago
It’s my favorite analogy against the cliche LLM will revolutionize all white collar work. Excel is probably the most powerful business application most people have used, but as you said, people only scratch the surface. No LLM magic will ma
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by originalvichy 4mo ago
This is definitely most annoying when dealing with software or standards with slightly illogical or hard to grasp cases. Recently, I worked on one of the software community's favourite spaces, timezones, and kept getting myself and my
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by originalvichy 4mo ago
Re: "The Asymmetry of Bullshit" I'm gonna speak on behalf of language models' capability of making online communities better. In recent times, the frustrating forum phenomenon of "learned helplessness" is makin
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by originalvichy 5mo ago
Cool!
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by originalvichy 5mo ago
Is that even possible with medial grade wrist devices? Apple Watches can perform it only during sleep which makes sense. It seems like a difficult problem to solve without a chest strap, or just measuring during sleep. The only other altern
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by originalvichy 5mo ago
I fear this is only the start of it. A minimum of 3-4 constellations more will probably be launched in the near future (Russia, China, EU). Their obvious dual-use nature makes them tempting, and a military target if a large conflict will ta
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by originalvichy 5mo ago
Valuable note!
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by originalvichy 5mo ago
Yup! Smaller quants will fit within 24GB but they might sacrifice context length. I’m excited to try out the MLX version to see if 32GB of memory from a Pro M-series Mac can get some acceptable tok/s with longer context. HuggingFace ha
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by originalvichy 5mo ago
Good news! Friendly reminder: wait a couple weeks to judge the ”final” quality of these free models. Many of them suffer from hidden bugs when connected to an inference backend or bad configs that slow them down. The dev community usually t
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by originalvichy 5mo ago
For at least a year now, it has been clear that data quality and fine-tuning are the main sources of improvement for mediym-level models. Size != quality for specialized, narrow use cases such as coding. It’s not a surprise that models are
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by originalvichy 5mo ago
Shot in the dark, but has your actual stove changed? When have you last changed the stones? Is the circulation of air worse? If your skin feels hot my guess would be that the steaming effect might be disrupted by the water getting evaporate

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