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by spencer-p 4mo ago
Astronauts can spend many months on the ISS, and it’s very important they don’t become irritable and kill one another before the research is complete.
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by spencer-p 6mo ago
Weird that the steps are for "Gemma 4 12b", which does not exist, and then switches to 26b midway through. There's also a step to verify that it doesn't fit on the GPU with ollama ps showing "14%/86% CPU/G
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by spencer-p 7mo ago
The question in the zeitgeist is whether coding agents will be to software engineers as the quartz revolution was to expert watchmakers. Commoditized software is here. Will there be a market for high-end, luxury software? Becoming an artifi
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by spencer-p 9mo ago
I do miss n-gate. I have to assume they are much happier now that they've ended that project, though.
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by spencer-p 10mo ago
I think they mean to refute the article's suggestion that tiktok and misinformation are the cause by highlighting that they received accommodations at a young age. >You seem to imply your conditions have not really improved and you
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by spencer-p 10mo ago
The article frames being smart and promising (to a university) as at odds with having a learning disability, which is not necessarily true. It also frames depression and anxiety as learning disabilities, which they are not.
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by spencer-p 1y ago
Amazon claimed their energy usage was "matched with 100% renewable energy" in 2023, while Google's goal is to actually "run on 24/7 carbon-free energy". Google already claims to have matched 100% of their energ
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by spencer-p 1y ago
I appreciate how the author highlighted the python domain-specific tricks like dropping imports and rewriting tabs/spaces. It's good to be reminded that even with "large" language models you can get better results with q
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by spencer-p 5y ago
The quote you pulled out mentions "distributed execution" being completely contained in a "single-program system" - isn't a single-program system, by definition, not a distributed system? With the emphasis on distri
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by spencer-p 5y ago
This article could use a disambiguation. Distributed systems are systems "whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another"[0]. This a