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jscott817

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jscott817··on Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved
My small org has definitely had internal discussions around self-hosting gitlab. We'll see what happens.
jscott817··on Kimi K3-256k
Can we assume that model performance at 90% of the 256k limit != 90% of 1M token limit?

Is this the exact same model just with less VRAM allocated for context window?

jscott817··on Our position on open-weights models
I generally disagree with the claim that distilling a model is equivalent to training on freely available internet content – mostly due to investment required to turn it into a model – but piracy is another story. Pretty inexcusable.
jscott817··on The Beam Engine
Similar to balls to the walls (or similar). Coming from the analog aviation controls I believe.
jscott817··on The Beam Engine
Great historical science book on the steam engine here: https://www.amazon.com/Most-Powerful-Idea-World-Invention/dp...

One of my favorites. Good read.