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by sbierwagen 1mo ago
Amusingly enough, someone from a frontier lab could probably answer this empirically. Years ago Microsoft demonstrated training LLMs on synthetic text-- books rewritten by LLMs to be more concise and more accurate. https://arxiv.
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by sbierwagen 2mo ago
A policy paper is intended to change policy. That means appealing to the party currently in power.
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by sbierwagen 2mo ago
>thanks to the use of composite materials Not always. 777X uses a conventional fuselage but has a 6,000 foot cabin compared to the 8,000 foot cabin on the legacy 777.
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by sbierwagen 3mo ago
Answer: they don't, they just work them into the ground because they can. Mainland China also has the 996 schedule for office workers purely as a cargo cult ritual, forcing people to sit at a desk at midnight and pantomime doing work.
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by sbierwagen 4mo ago
Stripe obviously records data around friendly fraud, (At minimum they implement Visa Compelling Evidence 3.0 https://support.stripe.com/questions/how-does-stripe-support... ) and since you did not include screenshots o
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by sbierwagen 4mo ago
> Paliney® 6 is an age-hardenable palladium silver-based alloy ideally suited for demanding low current sliding electrical contact applications
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by sbierwagen 5mo ago
Keep in mind that $275 today is the same as $140 in January 2000. Tech gadgets used to be far more expensive, both in real terms and as a percentage of average income.
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by sbierwagen 5mo ago
Depending on how you convert synapse count to parameters, the brain also has something like a thousand trillion parameters. In that light it's pretty darn surprising that an artificial neural network can produce anything like coherent
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by sbierwagen 5mo ago
What event was this?
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by sbierwagen 5mo ago
Are you planning on dying before 2036? That's one estimate for when they'll run out of power.
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by sbierwagen 5mo ago
Fun trivia (well, perhaps not fun) in the second paragraph: "the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF), which was retrieved in 1990 after spending 68 months in LEO" Long exposure, 68 months, right. But it was only supposed to be
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by sbierwagen 5mo ago
On a smartphone, you're trusting Apple or Google to make the OS. They already can do anything they want with your system. Do you read every line of code in every security update?
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by sbierwagen 5mo ago
The point of AI is that it's supposed to be intelligent. Why silo it in an app? Instead of telling it what to automate, shouldn't it sit at the OS level, watch everything you do, and figure out what to automate by itself?
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by sbierwagen 6mo ago
From the author's writeup: >the final pre-trained model came out to about 340 million parameters, and had a final validation bpb of 0.973. The pretraining process took about five hours on-chip, and cost maybe $35. I had my pretraine
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by sbierwagen 6mo ago
Recent Tesla updates will detect dirty glass inside the camera enclosure and offer to schedule (one!) free glass cleaning. You can do it yourself if you have a trim tool. (A thin plastic prybar) https://www.notateslaapp.com/
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by sbierwagen 8mo ago
Note for the confused: Ecombi achieves this by heating the bricks to dramatically higher temperatures using conventional resistive heating elements, thereby storing more energy, even though the specific heat capacity of any ceramic material
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by sbierwagen 8mo ago
>The drag coefficient was the headline: 12% better than our design target. Is the drag much better than a regular cubesat? It doesn't look tremendously aerodynamic. From the description I was kind of expecting a design that minimize
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by sbierwagen 8mo ago
From the article: >Evercoast deployed a 56 camera RGB-D array Do you know which depth cameras they used?
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by sbierwagen 9mo ago
Ask one of the hundreds of vending machine companies in the NYC area where they put them, I suppose. https://www.google.com/maps/search/vending+machine/@40.69452... I walked into a Fred Meyer yesterday and sa
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by sbierwagen 9mo ago
The only people who care about SSO are large enterprises. Coincidentally, large enterprises also are the only customers that make SAAS profitable. Every other plan is part of the sales funnel to the big enterprise contracts.
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by sbierwagen 9mo ago
The author has got to be taking the piss with that page background. Constantly moving blobs, really?
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by sbierwagen 9mo ago
Seems like a foreshock of AGI if the average human is no longer good enough to give feedback directly and the nets instead have to do recursive self improvement themselves.
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by sbierwagen 9mo ago
Double time at 14 hours? IBEW local 46 starts double time after 10: https://ibew46.com/media/7641/071724iwtentativelyagreedto.pd...
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by sbierwagen 9mo ago
O365 raising the price to $40 a month ten years from now didn't quite land. Microsoft 365 E5 is $57 a month right now! $100 or $1000 a month makes the joke clearer.
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by sbierwagen 10mo ago
A couple thousand of them in the US https://carta.com/data/spv-spotlight-q3-2024/
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by sbierwagen 10mo ago
I built a meter around a SCD30 six years ago. The self-calibration routine was not very good, for two reasons. 1) It had an unrealistically low default level, something like 380 ppm. The atmospheric concentration keeps going up! The linked
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by sbierwagen 11mo ago
For my sins, I have recently been called upon to cold boot and then provision a few dozen Samsung tablets by hand. The "laggy Lagdroid piece of lagshit" pasta has been repeated a lot. I swear to God it just ignores ten percent of
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by sbierwagen 11mo ago
Also a pg essay from 2010: https://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html >By 1998, Yahoo was the beneficiary of a de facto Ponzi scheme. Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo's re
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by sbierwagen 1y ago
>This Monday, I moderated a panel in San Francisco with engineers and ML leads from Uber, WisdomAI, EvenUp, and Datastrato. The event, Beyond the Prompt, drew 600+ registrants, mostly founders, engineers, and early AI product builders. &
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by sbierwagen 1y ago
Same thing down on the production floor. Each program (737, 767, etc) has its own part number series. I'm sure there has to be some parts commonality, somewhere, with the same part getting two different numbers printed on it at the f

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