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KeplerBoy··on The AI bubble is popping; we just don't know it yet
Who cares about a few ms more latency on an LLM API? Maybe for voice, but most other use-cases are quite latency insensitive.
KeplerBoy··on The AI bubble is popping; we just don't know it yet
Open weight models tell a different story. Inference is not that much more expensive than what a 100$ plan would allow and will only get cheaper (for current capability models of course, frontier not so much).
KeplerBoy··on Karpathy’s Pelican
you are seeing single realizations of non-deterministic processes. Confidently stating one model is better than the other is not really possible this way; that's just like stating one dice is better than the other because you rolled a six with that one on the first try.
KeplerBoy··on Gpiozero Flow
Is that really used professionally?
KeplerBoy··on French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time
Sure, the point is that carbon credits are issued for a certain area of land to be and stay forested.
KeplerBoy··on French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time
Then the area should have to be replanted without granting new credits. It's perfectly natural that trees die and are replaced by new ones in a forest. The unusual thing is just the entire forest dying at the same time.
KeplerBoy··on Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years
The city burns quite a bit of fossil fuel for heating and transportation every day though. That certainly has effects on microclimates (think vents from the tube, which is getting ever hotter).
KeplerBoy··on HMD Touch 4G
To be fair there's nothing else left under this sun.
KeplerBoy··on Qwen 3.8
Sir, this is a multi-billion dollar operation. There have to be some incentives.
KeplerBoy··on LLM-Integrated Multivariable Calculus Course
is that renderer open source?
KeplerBoy··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
It's not that simple. Yes, newer standards push for higher frequencies to get more bandwidth, but 5G for example also uses the old sub GHz bands with excellent range and penetration.
KeplerBoy··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
They turn it into sugar, what's not to love?
KeplerBoy··on Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond
Sure, I didn't imagine a utopia of joyful people talking to strangers. That's not what public transport ever looked like, but I do miss the times of a bit more diversity in how people spend their during the commute. Newspapers, books, handheld game consoles (which don't constantly shove ads in front of their users).
KeplerBoy··on Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond
Getting a tiny phone not meant for media consumption is probably the closest you can achieve. You are not going to waste a lot of time watching youtube on a 3" screen, because that's just no fun.

The "jelly star" phone looks kind of fun. I just sat in a busy tram and wondered what the scene would look like if we all had phones like that. It's an innteresting thought experiment.

KeplerBoy··on “Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky
> It's like people who say "it sure is strange that we had a 'once-in-a-century flood' two years in a row": that's not how odds/probabilities work.

That usually refers to climate change and the fact that the odds have changed against our favor.

KeplerBoy··on Right to Local Intelligence
Isn't the RTX Spark from every OEM just nvidia throwing a bone to their decade long partners after nvidia crashed the regular PC market?
KeplerBoy··on CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3
That doesn't sound like something one would want to do in cooperation with the entire rest of the world.
KeplerBoy··on Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies
You can be a PI without having a PhD?
KeplerBoy··on Half-Life 2 in a Browser
It's not legal just because the copyright owner doesn't immediately sue you.
KeplerBoy··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
You don't need a whole lot of software support if you just want to serve a single family of LLMs.
KeplerBoy··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
Still competition for cerebras. Seems quite unlikely they will get an OpenAI deal anytime soon.
KeplerBoy··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
Also there's some much boilerplate around everything. Writing a testbench with codex is extremely feasible. This is the kind of verifiable feedback loop the agents shine at.
KeplerBoy··on Printing Gaussian Splats
Sure beats flexy dragons, so I'm all for it.
KeplerBoy··on Printing Gaussian Splats
How much are the prints approximately? Can't see a price anywhere.
KeplerBoy··on Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
Wow, this is so much worse than i thought.
KeplerBoy··on Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
Of course there is a house. You have a spread and probably a ton of other not so obvious fees. The house always wins by design, especially on polymarket.
KeplerBoy··on OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber
If they won't, some consultant with a subscription eventually will.
KeplerBoy··on Canyon HUD helmet for road riding
Having the route in your fov without taking the eyes off the road seems like a win. But we all know it would end up with people watching tiktok instead.
KeplerBoy··on Canyon HUD helmet for road riding
Well the helmet is also a consumable (you should swap them every few years and of course after every crash). But having the visor integrated in the visor is awkward.
KeplerBoy··on Canyon HUD helmet for road riding
Kind of surprising this stuff still is little more than a concept. 12 years after google launched and scrapped it's glasses there are still no well established alternatives for cycling, which is such an obvious market. Everyone is wearing glasses, everyone has a computer mounted to their handlebar, let's integrate them together already.
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