plasticchris

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by plasticchris 18d ago
The interesting thing is that ai actually helps me learn more effectively than ever before. Each session can become a personalized little seminar that dynamically tests me as it presents ideas and concepts and I attempt to apply and extend
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by plasticchris 20d ago
Anywhere the nerds or artists go, if they are good, eventually becomes overrun with such types. Just look at the state of Silicon Valley and y combinator, and gentrification in general…
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by plasticchris 20d ago
It will only get harder. From the trenches in tech it’s hard enough to get people who should know better to put in the work to understand the ai output. For education I can’t imagine. You might have to resort to actual discussion in classro
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by plasticchris 20d ago
Yes and much like the technological leaps of the past, everyone’s standard of living goes up.
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by plasticchris 22d ago
Because they need the local infrastructure to support them, which would be difficult and expensive to reproduce out in the middle of nowhere.
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by plasticchris 22d ago
Misses the point. Now that things are easier, we have greater agency, not lesser.
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by plasticchris 22d ago
Probably not when you consider the training cost and upkeep expenses, not to mention the depreciation…
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by plasticchris 1mo ago
Qwen’s 3.6/3.8 27b actually has some algorithmic advantage when it comes to the kv cache size needed, so it actually needs less memory at equivalent context. My experience using both in vllm supports, with considerably more overhead in
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by plasticchris 1mo ago
My earliest coding memory is messing with the gorilla code to get an advantage playing this against my brother…
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by plasticchris 1mo ago
Shots fired
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by plasticchris 2mo ago
Could be some other hardware issue for you, yeah. I recall there are some problems that can happen if the usb power supply is too weak. But this fixed it for me.
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by plasticchris 2mo ago
Make the sdcard a read only root fs, problem solved
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by plasticchris 2mo ago
Breakthrough! I’ve found it! The load bearing smoking gun is clearly how annoying this is.
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by plasticchris 3mo ago
The clocks aren’t even the biggest source of error in the pseudo ranges.
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by plasticchris 3mo ago
Believe it should be available to all eh? Where’s the hf link then?
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by plasticchris 4mo ago
I get much different results than others when using these tools. Turns out there is some skill in wielding them, and knowing the domain in which you do.
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by plasticchris 5mo ago
The cause stops mattering after a while, either you have to go on a full time campaign to educate people… or switch the setting to rebase and squash and be done with it.
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by plasticchris 5mo ago
It’s a recurring theme, see dune’s references to Samuel Butler.
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by plasticchris 6mo ago
The why is that most people when given the merge option don’t clean up their history so you end up with tons of garbage fix up commits.
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by plasticchris 6mo ago
Maybe if you can get it to zoom out far enough and wire up an array of lights on the surface of Nauvis…
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by plasticchris 6mo ago
It probably depends on the measure used to define peak, but the removal of arbitrary limits on honest intellectual inquiry has huge benefits, eg the enlightenment, science, etc.
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by plasticchris 7mo ago
It’s funny because captchas are meant to be hard for bots but easy for people and it might be the opposite now.
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by plasticchris 7mo ago
Radar might still have worked
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by plasticchris 10mo ago
Wait it’s not April?
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by plasticchris 10mo ago
Probably it means that now we have evidence that… it is a colloquialism Edit: yep, The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously thought, a new study sugges
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by plasticchris 11mo ago
People talking about efficiency are missing the point - the pedals are only there so it gets classified as an e-bike and not an electric motorcycle (so no license required, registration, taxes, can drive in the bike lane) and doesn’t have t
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by plasticchris 11mo ago
I’ve seen it fail, having tried it for a few years. There’s a type that passes this no problem but isn’t productive. I switched to a battery of knowledge questions centered on the type of programmer I was looking for, it works much better a
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by plasticchris 11mo ago
The trouble is, there would also be no unsolved thought crimes
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by plasticchris 11mo ago
Not enough connections to the bureaucracy…
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by plasticchris 11mo ago
At least in the USA it’s legal to record public spaces. So recording the street and things that can be seen from it is legal, but pointing a camera over your neighbors fence is not.

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