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by swiftcoder 21d ago
You know, I kind of hate that having a large vocabulary is rapidly becoming a marker of being a robot
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by swiftcoder 21d ago
> we just keep that "genocide" going for a year, but we just stop breeding new ones "Carry on for a year and then it's all good" is not one of the available choices. Your choices are (a) wipe out the species enti
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by swiftcoder 21d ago
That's a very neat soundtrack. Reminds me a little of Vangelis
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by swiftcoder 21d ago
> in the 80s the Star Wars were already a cult thing I grew up in the 90s, and when the special editions came out in '97, it was the kind of thing that only those of us with nostalgic dads actually went to see. I only saw Empire at
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by swiftcoder 21d ago
> If humans were making shitty pizza on average I don't know about that. Shitty pizza sells very well. Nobody frequents fast-food pizza chains because of the quality of their pies...
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by swiftcoder 21d ago
These are highly nostalgic. My grandfather had a Mac Classic he bought from a friend at work, and it was equipped with After Dark, but also the Looney Tunes sound effects pack (the only one I recall, is that it said "That's all fo
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by swiftcoder 21d ago
> would just mean we'd stop replenishing them Keep in mind that we already have to perform widespread culling of wild animals in this category. Having eliminated most of the apex predators, we're on the hook to keep populatio
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by swiftcoder 22d ago
> instead of just not breeding more As one might guess, the "just" there is doing a lot of work. Common pets reproduce just fine without our intervention - in practice it requires costly maintenance programs just to keep their
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by swiftcoder 22d ago
> crazy complicated algorithms they cannot implement themselves I'm not sure I know very many engineers who would fall in this bucket. Or do you mean the business types who suddenly think AI can replace all the engineers?
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by swiftcoder 22d ago
I find it quite funny all these folks who are addicted to chasing frontier models, only just noticing that small models became "good enough" for most tasks. Those of us without fable-sized expense accounts noticed this quite a whi
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by swiftcoder 22d ago
> look back in horror at how we enslaved animals out of their natural habitats Somehow, vegan-inclined folks never seem to factor in the mass-genocide of domestic breeds that is necessary to achieve their particular utopia. We're ta
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by swiftcoder 22d ago
> Not saying this is AI-gen The prose is definitely written by a Claude-like
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by swiftcoder 22d ago
I think the bigger issue is that a lot of the demand for labelling training data is now in highly-specialised fields (i.e. things like medical imaging), and mechanical turk's focus was on the generalist problems
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by swiftcoder 22d ago
> They only went up from 3000€ to 4000€ which isn't a lot. Keep in mind that the DGX Spark was delayed quite a while, meaning that starting 3k price tag is already well into the RAM crisis - just 2 years ago, a 128GB DDR5 kit could
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by swiftcoder 22d ago
I'm not sure that is the comparison - the OP is planning to run an open weights model locally, the obvious comparison would be paying a hosted provider to run the exact same model
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by swiftcoder 23d ago
What is actually getting you flagged by the openweights inference providers? Thus far I haven't hit any of the reverse engineering or infosec guardrails that Anthropic is so keen on
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by swiftcoder 23d ago
> you will get more value (or, at least more predictable value) from a Dacia I picked up an older Dacia Sandero for cheap a few years back - it's the best money I've ever spent on a car, hands down. That car does not quit.
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by swiftcoder 23d ago
StarLink tops out in the 300mbit range, and has anaemic uplink speeds, whereas most fibre rollouts offer symmetrical gigabit. The latency over StarLink is also 2-5x higher than rural fibre. StarLink beats the hell out of the copper phone li
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by swiftcoder 23d ago
Welcome to the club! Here in Spain we hit this milestone last year. It really is pretty incredible, compared to the state of rural broadband coverage in countries that haven't put in this level of investment...
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by swiftcoder 23d ago
> You can't possibly think that it's going to get cheaper and cheaper to pay for tokens though. Right? Absolutely I do. Each generation of open-weight models has come with significant efficiency improvements, and there are sign
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by swiftcoder 23d ago
Two different knowledge bases. One to store AI's "learned" context, the other for you to manually edit.
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by swiftcoder 23d ago
> DeepSeek token prices are continuing to _increase_ One increase does not a trend make. And the current crop of models are now undercutting deepseek flash...
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by swiftcoder 23d ago
I've been making the Basque burnt cheesecake every year lately, it really is a delight
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by swiftcoder 23d ago
> I wonder when we reach the state of having a perfect font. "Perfect font" can only happen when we stop developing new display technologies, and print dies out completely. If "perfect" is not subjective in the first
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by swiftcoder 23d ago
> it would likely take years to spend $4000 (plus the real cost of electricity) Since that cluster only yields 20-30 tok/s on that size of model, at least a decade before the hardware breaks-even with current token costs, and that&#
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by swiftcoder 23d ago
It's "insane" compared to the $1,500 it should have cost before the RAM crisis
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by swiftcoder 23d ago
Yeah, that little cluster costs about the same as a brand-new Dacia Sandero.
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by swiftcoder 23d ago
It's even cheaper than DS4's off-peak pricing. Seems like DeepSeek have some stiff competition now
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by swiftcoder 23d ago
> it's the only model in the whole lineup that isn't priced insanely $4,000 isn't priced insanely? ye gads
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by swiftcoder 23d ago
For sure the version accessible from OpenCode had a massive timeout problem the first day or so, which seemed to heavily degrade its task completion rate

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