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granted when I fire up Cyberpunk 2077 nowadays I'm not sure if I'm playing a computer game or a documentary

This may be true (not perceptible w/ my apple silicon Macs), but the important thing is that they get slower more slowly than my wintel gets slower (I blame disgruntled Windows and/or nvidia drivers devs....)

the other side of this is the science behind the NS5B protein and the meds behind the new hep c cures. This is pretty fascinating stuff. In medicine, it's not often we see a cure like this.

hep c antibody basically if positive they will probably do hep c viral load

https://www.labcorp.com/tests/144050/hepatitis-c-virus-hcv-a...

granted one should really look at the LFP output from EEG electrodes before getting too gung ho on this sort of thing...

I suppose that's one way to measure, but would a "real world measure" i.e. cost of the amount of ram to realistically run the apps/software/OS of the time be more relevant?

I wonder why so many ex apple followed this particular path of Kool Aid? or maybe this says more about how the rank and file are just as susceptible to kool aid as any average Silicon Valley schmuck

they should've just given Hegseth the Producer Button

"1981 was a different time for computing. It was expensive (both hardware and software)"

doesn't sound so different anymore...the VCs have managed to go back to the future...

I feel like if it gets a malignant company out of the country, probably. Royal Dutch Shell does not really have a sterling record throughout its history...former biomedical engineer colleague who transitioned over from petroleum engineering mentioned one big reason was all random environmental abuses in Africa he'd see and that his RDS colleagues would dismiss casually every time they'd send him on a business trip over there...

I propose going forwards that we refer to all distilled models as "moonshine"

There's one of this that is a language model; are the rest reinforcement learning models?

The need for transportation grows but the margin is likely terrible bc of the fuel prices. Hence why you can have "the most flights etc etc" but Spirit and other airlines are going under

I propose from this point forward we refer to these Chinese distilled models as "Moonshine" and the newest ones as "White Dogs"

It's sad that this is true and yet their software is filled with bugs...

most importantly, is Ian Cutress' blog basically the new Anandtech? I miss that site...

I mean, I sure as heck can't buy a nVidia one, at least not the founder editions which are the one that fit in my case...

distillation of wheat, barley and malt is delicious, though!

honestly if they did what he said they did, it seems like it would be cheaper just to train your own model from the get go

paranoid me feels like the artificial gpu/ram/ssd shortages are a plot by the VCs to forcefully reclaim central control via new age mainframes

one certainly cannot buy a PC for cheap anymore

sadly, this is happening more as medicine and healthcare become more and more corporate. Seeing this as hospitals all get acquired into these mega health systems (ostensibly to fight the now merged mega health insurance companies), that then like to throw their weight around.

clearly you have never been a floor nurse at a hospital...

would it be situational re economies, though?

i.e. if you have a lot of financial resources and can buy 1000 ships cheaply for the cost of propping up your steel industry to build 100 ships, should you buy 1000 ships (or the steel needed to build them quickly) to instead?

Is this the Indian equivalent of Allen Brain institute?

maybe not nut jobs, but I think the argument that the inherent structure that they put in place to maintain power is poor at optimizing human capital and expertise, such that they will aways make lousier decisions because they are surrounded by yes men

Granted, there is what is China is "openly saying" in terms of official warnings and such, and what they are "openly saying" in terms of what they are actually spending money on in terms of material, equipment and capability (of which there is at least some degree of logical, non-nut job type thinking behind):

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/mirage-chinas-military-...

I think they already have that, they want to make sure it stays that way

alternatively, there's a Dennis Ross piece out pointing out that China's procurement patterns over the years suggests they are not seriously thinking of invading Taiwan, they just want everyone to think that way...

Wasn't there something in statistics to describe something like this? i.e. gaussian distributions vs something that's modeled on sparse occurrences, etc?

The Costco buyers are all really quite good; whatever they are doing, they manage to fine really good suppliers for most things they carry in the store. The SoCal locations all carry really good mangoes when in season, rivaling one well known heirloom producer (Wong's...or maybe they buy from Wong's...). A local chef tried all sorts of strawberries from various farms for his line of ice cream, and concluded the Kirkland ones were the best bang for the buck...

this is how Sekiguchi Genetics got started. Or maybe Weyland Yutani Corporation