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by sfifs 4d ago
Yes - CFAA in the US. The problem is that governments & the elite investors backing these AI companies (espl. the current US government whose family & friends are investors) see the potential of using these capabilities for their ow
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by sfifs 1mo ago
It's very impressive and I'm running it locally on 2x DGX. Non thinking mode is very responsive. Thinking mode has some latency but can be switched on when needed. Both are really good
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by sfifs 2mo ago
ISS today generates and radiates away about 120 KW of energy with its old tech 3250 sq m of panels panels and it's current radiators. That's what 3 H100 racks need There may be an economic challenge - which seems to be the sort of
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by sfifs 2mo ago
Well OpenAI is offering equity to the US Government (and who knows who else privately) Tim Apple famously refused to bring manufacturing back to the US when the current president asked and play hardball on infosec. While this is a civil cas
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by sfifs 2mo ago
Materials science fundamentally has a math & computability problem. Rigorous materials simulations at a nanometre scale seem now feasible - so you could model physical properties of small groups of atoms - eg. Modeling molecular reactio
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by sfifs 3mo ago
HaHa I was thinking just the same :-) For those unfamiliar with the reference, in Hitchikers guide to the galaxy series, Mice are projections of hyper intelligent extra terrestrial beings from a higher dimension who commission the creation
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by sfifs 3mo ago
Used both. DeepSeek-4 Flash Q2 - last 6 layers Q4 quant with DwarfStar which just about fits in 128Gb is definitely superior IMO - my contexts tend to run typically 50-100k. Throughput tends to be about 12-13k tok/sec - just about acce
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by sfifs 3mo ago
Is this advice coming from personal experience of significant diabetes and weight reversal or just online reading informed opinion? Physiology & psychology are quite complex and individualized and "just do this.." doesn'
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by sfifs 3mo ago
It's quite interesting what incentives and culture being a privately held company creates.
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by sfifs 3mo ago
You do see this working in many places. Singapore is probably the best example with an explicit scholar programme and competitive pay in much of the upper rungs of the government. This comes with its own problem culturally but does result i
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by sfifs 3mo ago
> We're still in the "$5 airport Uber" era of LLMs. They're heavily subsidized, and everyone still complains about costs. This is nonsense that AI providers want to peddle. Inference is wildly gross margin profitable
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by sfifs 3mo ago
Inference I estimate runs 90% plus gross margins. Just work out the math on these servers. I am pretty sure any player can price down. It wouldn't look good on an IPO prospectus.
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by sfifs 3mo ago
So a lot depends on your specific use case but mid-sized open weight models are pretty actually good now, so this is realistic [1] The first question to ask is does your use case require handling personal or sensitive data. If you're u
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by sfifs 3mo ago
And companies from outside the US will outcompete those from the US forcing more protectionism, higher prices in US etc. I think there have been several cycles of several industries that have gone through this cycle (cars, shipping?), and m
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by sfifs 3mo ago
The problem here is that open weight models are already good enough for a majority of process automation and intelligence tasks and that is where a good chunk of efficiency corporate dollars are. So there's an ever shrinking slice of i
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by sfifs 3mo ago
As an update, turns out Antirez created a brilliant 2 bit quant of Deepseek to fit into 128Gb systems along with a custom highlight tuned server. I've been running this the last few days and if I turn off envelope on OpenClaw, the perf
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by sfifs 3mo ago
I think Israel's leadership has very unwisely lost the Strategic plot here in favour of tactical political advantages of survival. The history of middle East for the last 5000 years (since Sargon of Akkad) is replete with 'the kin
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by sfifs 3mo ago
Deepseek Flash v4 actually runs on 128Gb systems (about 14 tok/sec). Antirez created a fabulous 2 bit quant and a highly tuned LLM server https://github.com/antirez/ds4
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by sfifs 3mo ago
Pretty sure this ruling will be used as a precedent in cases against the other providers really soon. As I understand it, there is a legal cottage industry that brings digital related cases (eg. Copyright) in Germany.
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by sfifs 3mo ago
I found cloudflare zero trust excellent for this and it works perfectly well on the free tier (I do use cloudflare as my registrar)
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by sfifs 3mo ago
Deepseek is too large for me to self host on Spark. I was actually using Deepseek as my cloud backup and it performed well but then read the T&C which doesn't give as strong data protection guarantees unlike Google and Alibaba. Kim
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by sfifs 4mo ago
Picketty's analysis has been empirical. The assumption that is likely mistaken is there is such a thing as market economy.
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by sfifs 4mo ago
Qwen is definitely the model to beat as of Mid 2026. While I didn't benchmark with SWE as my use cases are OpenClaw [1]. I found both Qwen 3.6 35B A3B and more impressively Qwen 3.5 122B A10B starting to be competitive with closed flas
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Mid-size local models are now competitive for AI Agents(srinathh.medium.com)
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by sfifs 4mo ago
What is "finish the job"? Iran is a large populous country that's mostly been a unified polity since Cyrus the Great. They are a different people and culture from their Arab neighbours - how will the Arabs rule and why will t
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by sfifs 4mo ago
Given their precarious domestic supply situation, it's been surprising they haven't chosen to lead the world on electrification of transport. China had much the same equation and have clearly gone through other way. In my recent v
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by sfifs 4mo ago
Only if you insist on passing on global prices into your domestic economy. Not doing this is very difficult if you're a net importer but very much possible if you're a producer. This "leaves money on the table" but it is
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by sfifs 4mo ago
Concord was very old technology. I am quite sure a clean sheet now 1. Would have much lower sonic booms thanks to recent research (quite a bit of it by NASA on wing geometry) and more importantly computer simulation available now 2. The eng
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by sfifs 4mo ago
Benchmarking the kind of cost savings I'm seeing moving from sonnet and gemini flash to local models, inference runs at least 90-95% gross margins. So they are probably still gross margin profitable. BTW form my benchmarking, open weig
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by sfifs 4mo ago
> The frontier labs have fantastic margin on inference. You do not understand how fantastic. And they have license to change inputs at will based on profitability. This. The gross margin on inference is at least 95% if not higher - sever

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