somewhereoutth

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by somewhereoutth 11d ago
and I suppose the rest of us will have to wait until the grim laws of finance do their work before our own sweet release.
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by somewhereoutth 11d ago
Exactly this. The overall productivity of not doing something should never be underestimated.
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by somewhereoutth 2mo ago
This chart of free cash flow for the big tech companies should worry people: https://www.advisorpedia.com/media/media/2026/02/23/trailing... Somehow we've managed to turn software from a machin
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by somewhereoutth 2mo ago
However, who will pay for the very expensive training if the ROI isn't there? Absent government subsidization, then likely the frontier models will be sold off to the hyperscalers by the bankruptcy administrators to wring a few more do
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by somewhereoutth 2mo ago
Banning smoking from indoor spaces did in fact make it go away [from indoor spaces]. Actually, the analogy is compelling - an addictive habit that is pleasurable to the user, profitable for the supplier, but others around them must suffer t
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by somewhereoutth 2mo ago
The key point I'm trying to make is that the shade structure or outer shell should be separated by at least 50cm, and in such a way that even the slightest breeze moves air though it.
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by somewhereoutth 2mo ago
Great for low density single storey dwellings, not so helpful for medium/high density multi-floored residential.
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by somewhereoutth 2mo ago
But there is no airflow inbetween the outside and the building core - the panels are still part of the building itself.
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by somewhereoutth 2mo ago
Maybe we need shade structures - a shade above/around the building and detached so that air flows underneath and there are no thermal bridges to the building proper. Like you would make to protect tents at e.g. Burning Man.
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by somewhereoutth 2mo ago
Of course the tragedy is that the actual food had the 'AI' treatment years ago (in the US), the artwork is only now catching up.
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by somewhereoutth 2mo ago
I suspect it is a fair representation of the food you would receive - looks kinda like real food, but actually isn't.
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by somewhereoutth 2mo ago
the key comparison is variable reward . That 'triggers a surge of dopamine and creates highly addictive habits' [thanks Gemini!] LLM use for code generation does exactly that, sometimes it works amazingly, sometimes it fails inex
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by somewhereoutth 2mo ago
> and a few new tricks I discovered This right here. Any gambler would recognize that statement.
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by somewhereoutth 2mo ago
So... basically watching them set fire to money in realtime??
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by somewhereoutth 3mo ago
The EU is predicated on the pooled sovereignty of its constituent countries, as exercised thought the EU Council. Apart from a limited number of certain matters, any EU country can veto any decision made by the EU Commission, or indeed th
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by somewhereoutth 3mo ago
I went to look for a new phone about 6 months ago - everything was AI this, AI that, all the display stands made a big deal about AI (to the extent I considered a 2024 phone because no AI). In the end I didn't buy at that point. Just l
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by somewhereoutth 3mo ago
*to billionaires but snark aside, society needs to have a big conversation (meaning political) about what is good and what is bad about what should really be understood as the 'connectivity revolution' of the last 10-20 years.
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by somewhereoutth 3mo ago
was this before or after Lisp's epiphany for lexical binding?
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by somewhereoutth 3mo ago
Following S.I. notation, we might have Tk for token, so kTk, MTk, GTk etc.
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by somewhereoutth 3mo ago
> Money doesn't appear out of thin air. In fact [fiat] money does appear out of thin air (well, created by banks when they originate loans) - and has to to support a growing economy. Unfortunately, for various reasons, rather too
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by somewhereoutth 3mo ago
So apparently grid forming or synthetic inertia can be provided electronically nowadays, but presumably it would not be too terrible to put a rotating mass in between the (e.g.) solar power source and the rest of the grid? So the electricit
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by somewhereoutth 3mo ago
1. Both costs (going down) and performance (going up) likely are, or will shortly, approach asymptotic limits. 2. CFOs are seeing the token spend on the bottom line, and are not happy. CFOs don't care about 'the next big thing&#x2
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by somewhereoutth 3mo ago
Yes. As makers we tend to assume that the more that is made the better, and that simply by having lots of (shiny!) stuff we will get paid/honored/favored etc, whereas in fact often this stuff becomes someone's problem somewhe
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by somewhereoutth 4mo ago
Banning online advertising would solve very nearly everything. Specifically, social media would die (and traditional media would get a new lease of life). An intermediate step would be to ban personally targeted advertising, at least then t
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by somewhereoutth 4mo ago
Push up asset prices mainly - so locking poorer people out of (e.g.) home ownership. Money is not a tangible thing, you can't eat or drink it. Instead it is a signalling protocol for resource allocation. If the very wealthy have many e
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by somewhereoutth 4mo ago
lack of new content from the internet will make them go out of date. Not just facts and figures, but (for example) new programming languages/techniques.
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by somewhereoutth 4mo ago
Yes the huge discrete stepwise training spend is critical. Maybe investors will realise that "the only winning move is not to play". And so we are left with (as was) frontier models getting more and more out of date as whoever the
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by somewhereoutth 4mo ago
(sorry, nit pick, but I don't your usage of 'abrogate' is quite correct here, you can't abrogate to something)
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by somewhereoutth 4mo ago
The real test would be if an LLM makes an important conjecture.
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by somewhereoutth 4mo ago
But it is not a real economy is it? Vast sums of money are being spent subsidizing token processing with little to no tangible business benefit for the end user. For those of us lucky enough to have the choice, the best bet is to sit it o

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