earleybird

I prefer to be also known as John Bigbooté.

As sibling comment says: survivorship bias as a heuristic is useful.

Water can be problematic in lithium fires.

"nobody had anything near as convenient as the Osborne 1."

I had/still have an Osbourne 1 and would occasionally lug it from home to work. At almost 25 lbs it was a workout. 10 minute walk to the Seabus and then another almost 10 min walk to the office in downtown Vancouver.

I implemented a threaded interpreter [0] on it where the source was spread over 3 floppies. To assemble it I ran the 3 floppies through a small basic program that stripped all the comments out wrote it to a single floppy.

In the office it was occasionally referred to as 'the nose burn' since the 5" screen was rather small and some had to get close to the screen to read it.

It was sufficient to write resumes for myself and a sibling.

[0] https://sinclairql.speccy.org/archivo/docs/books/Threaded_in...

Pacific NorthWest

Around 1998 (into the early 2000's) I ran LRP[0] on a 486 which provided NAT & firewall services behind my cable modem. It booted from a 1.44mb floppy and ran out of ramdisk iirc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Router_Project

I'm running a Renogy inverter/charger 2000W with a single 12V 100Ah LiFePo battery that run 3 Odroid H2's (Proxmox cluster 1), 3 Beelink's (docker swarm cluster) and various switches and ISP device. There is also a dual gpu desktop that pulls 400-450 watts when running folding at home. It will carry that load for 6+ hours from an 80% charge which is were I keep it for long term battery health; though I do shutdown the dual gpu if the power is out for more than a few minutes.

The Renogy will pass 'shore power' directly through and switch (purportly) in <10ms although I'm not confident enough that it is quick enough (1/2 a cycle at 60hz) so I run the standard consumer ups downstream.

I'm using a pretty stock RV circuit layout. The one thing I did do is limit the max charging amps to 20 to ensure that the charging load plus the working load stayed well in the capacity of the 110V/15A line.

I did try a Bluetti 3BA but it never worked as expected; ie it would cut out at unexpected times and firmware updates are problematic.

In their paper they say "To prevent overfitting, we use Low-Rank Adaption (LoRA) [35] for fine-tuning . . ."

I'm way out of my league here so I have no opinion on whether or not that actually addresses overfitting.

(that quote probably doesn't capture their intention - just a pointer into the paper)

Jon Skeet is who Chuck Norris calls when confronted with a regex[0]

(Apologies for the Medium link)

[0] https://medium.com/geekculture/the-chuck-norris-of-programmi...

Prior art (~5yrs ago):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMeEh5OUaDs

Video description includes a link to build notes.

A long food chain is a good food chain.

Fair to say "exploiting the commons for personal gain"?

Or as a sibling of mine did recently. Electrician didn't have time to do the work so sibling did the work and electrician reviewed on completion (when he was back from vacation) for a nominal fee. Electrician noted the work was meticulous, in fact better than any of his assistants. Several things to note, siblings meticulous work also applies to day job as developer, it probably took longer than the electricians assistants would take and finally you could say the electrician 'approved and merged the PR'.

Our PDP-8/E in jr high school 4k core, with a later upgrade to a winchester disk (32Kb total storage) and a high speed tape reader. Still had to punch the tapes out on the KSR-33 but reading them was quite fast (relatively). If you were lucky, you'd get permission to use a bit of space on the winchester. Now that was a feeling of privilege.

Including Colossus: The Forbin Project; two years after 2001 (1968). In some ways, Colossus hits much closer than 2001 with respect to unfettered AI.

When you say 2.2 kUSD do you mean $2,200.00 or $22,000.00? In my locale, the installed figure is at or above $22,000 for a heat pump that is about $3,000 for the unit itself. On the other hand, an electric (no heat pump) hot water tank is $900 for the tank and $900 for the install.

I'd really like to have a plumber be able to install a mono block heat pump since the labour costs to install a heat pump look like highway robbery.

Had to go digging . . . Kenneth Haase did a Phd (1990) where he builds an exploratory system called Cyrano and does a substantial review/analysis of AM (& Eurisko)

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/14257?show=full

It's quite interesting.

Those same wealthy folks will install a battery component (just because they can) and will pay their own cost to produce have about the same effect as retail consumption/production. Tying fixed costs (infrastructure) to variable costs (power production) will always favor one group or another. Low consumers infrastructure costs are subsidized by higher consumers. It costs just as much to provide the grid access for 1 KWh/day as it does for 100 KWh/day.

Might not have been dowsing but a geoelectric survey of the inductive/capacitive/resistive variety. The BBC Time Team folks occasionally use these for non invasive surveys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU9aRZK4j84&t=663s

PaaS - Primes as a Service; spun out of the IaaS, Integers as a Service

It speaks to the character of the offender, not the crime itself. Is that a smear campaign; I don't know. Perhaps when more facts are known it will become clearer.

Using numbers associated with running a Leaf over the last 6 yrs - 400km at 7km/kwh is about 57 kwh. 57 kwh at $0.14/kwh is $7.98 - call it $8 for 400 km. That overnight rate must be pretty good.

Some day I may upgrade to a 60kwh battery :-)

And you could boot a small linux to act as a firewall/nat service [0] for your brand new cable modem service on a cheap 486. Ran that for 3-4 yrs before nat routers became a thing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Router_Project

Your second question asks: "Who owns the Infinite Library[0]?"

related, there was a presentation (i've lost the reference) on automatic song (tune?) generation where the presenter claimed (rather humourusly) that he'd generated all the songs that had ever been and will ever be so that while he was infringing on a large but finite number of songs, he was non infringing on an infinite number of future songs. So, on balance he was in a favourable position.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel

"compensating the authors for using their works would be the fair move"

Fundamentally their asking to renegotiate the sale price of their work depending on what the purchaser decides to do with the book.

I'm looking forward to the time when I must declare if I'm purchasing a book for:

  - personal enjoyment
  - to produce a parody
  - burn it

I see authors et al claiming it is illegal or infringing to train an LLM on their art analogous to claiming a person is infringing or committing an illegal act by reading or viewing their art.

Asking an LLM to write something in the style of some author amounts to asking a person to parody that author. Asking that same person to produce the original work verbatim is a different matter. And yes, LLMs can certainly be tuned to respect these issues.

I'll end quoting 10cc, Art for Arts Sake, money for God's sake. "gimme a bullet, gimme a smash"

TranBC is a wordpress site. DriveBC is four bare metal hosts that have a baseline nic load of around 1 Mbyte continuous. On 'snow days' it goes up two orders of magnitude - yes, close to saturating single gb nics on each host. We followed a mantra of "publish to static; static is king".

You're quite right, most people don't camp out on the DriveBC map or events pages. They do however park themselves on the webcam pages (which update as frequently as every two minutes). The webcam component of DriveBC is 10:1 in the request stats. The majority of bandwidth is consumed on the webcam pages. Have a look around, try out Replay-the-Day.

I like that analogy. I have one of those slicers and every time I use it I have two thoughts. First, this slices so quick and evenly. Second, there's a whole lot more I have to clean up compared to the knife.

Weights are data in the same way that instruction codes in memory is data.