kadoban

Something sounds wrong there. MTP should be impossible for it to degrade quality, it's exactly the same token stream.

> feels like cheating somehow

Yeah, we're used to "convex" polygons. That's the phrasing to remove that part that feels wrong.

Yeah, IMO more people should do 1440p or 1080p, it's _way_ easier to drive and cheaper and it looks great for gaming.

Do _not_ get the Aqara ones. The things will not stay connected for shit.

I have a couple of the Tuya ones and I'm pleased with them. The humidity accuracy is questionable, but it's fine.

I also have an airgradient (not zigbee, uses wifi) for high accuracy the one place I care about that. Works great in Home Assistant with esphome.

I would also assume it's not just "okay hit the button, okay there's that snapshot", it's likely sitting there collecting photons for a _while_ to get each picture.

> I challenge you to come with an alternative solution to be able to permanently ban a player without requiring ID verification or potentially affecting innocent players that can't be easily circumvented.

At least allow hardware+email overrides/allow-list. If someone has a banned cpu and they promise they're not the offender, why not allow them back on _with_ a fixed email address?

If they keep doing it, not like you won't notice by the time they're like "no really, the 4 other guys before me cheated, I bought this cpu from them".

> I am particularly disappointed that it has influenced how people play the game.

> The joy comes from the journey and the experience.

> Look at competitive chess and Go and how they have fundamentally been transformed.

Go is better since AlphaGo. Tools are better, it's easier to learn from your games, we're better at it. The AI makes sick fucking moves and we get to see.

The journey is still there, the experience is still there.

Chess I doubt is worse off either, but I don't know chess that well.

The act of unlocking it can incriminate you. It's ~proof that you have control of the device beyond what they already knew.

Yeah, the key is in how you model it. It's not a chessboard with 64 squares you need to fill some of, it's a permutation of 8 numbers, the location of the one queen in that row.

You still need to get the backtracking correct and there's some minor tricks to work out, but that'll get you up to n=8 working quite well.

Jesus. Would hate to see the work you _do_ want to shit on.

Did they fix it by not releasing a point release of an already existing model? No?

Did they just get a bunch of credulous "news" coverage out of it? Yes?

Will they just release this within the next weeks, at best? Yes?

Huh, funny that.

> Is it possible that one day a dinosaur extinction size asteroid will be annouced on a collision course?

Yes, but it gets less likely as we keep searching more of the sky.

You can never _really_ say it's impossible, there can always be a cosmic bullseye heading our way from way off in interstellar space that we can't see until it gets closer.

But there is still room for quite a few rocks in the solar system to have our name on them too, last I checked.

Germany chased the nazi war criminals out.

Did Russia, Japan or China chase out their war criminals to the same extent? I doubt it.

How did they nail down a price but no specs? Very odd.

They're targetting people who want AI and will spend thousands, but don't know enough to ask _any_ details? Why wouldn't that audience just be on chatgpt?

They use passive cooling _because it's in a goddamn vacuum_. Passive cooling is basically your only option.

I encourage Musk to launch all of his GPUs into space as soon as possible. Benefit away, creepy weirdo.

Look at what they're doing. It runs for 15 minutes and then sleeps for an unstated amount of time (I'd guess hours to days).

Literally nobody thought it would explode if you run it for even a nanosecond.

It's an offensively stupid idea. Anyone trying to sell you on it thinks you're stupid.

Look at the article: they threw 4 cards in a box and launched it. It works for 15 minutes and then it has to snooze for who-knows-how-long.

> The satellite, dubbed MVP, is about the size of a refrigerator. Inside, it has four of Google’s custom TPU AI accelerators, which are used to train AI models and run inference to generate tokens for AI workloads.

Yeah, this is a science-fair project. They threw some cards in a box and are paying someone to launch it to generate idiotic news articles.

You think authors are the ones driving the $49 view fees? They are not.

> The antipathy towards Tman rivals Musk and few other public personas and that, previously somewhat small crowd, appears to be growing.

That would make me optimistic as well if dictatorships governed with the consent of the populace. They do not.

My understanding is that there's a bunch of short, probably unremarkable ciphertexts out there that if anyone spent a good amount of time on (days/weeks), they'd break, but nobody really has the incentive to do so.

These models/agents are quite good at that type of thing, working through the tedious bits with available information and tools.

> i would assume yes, to throw off decyphering. even more impressive that they managed to crack it

Were operators of enigma machines aware enough of cryptology or the weaknesses of enigma, for that to have been done intentionally to prevent decryption? I doubt it, otherwise _many_ things should have been done _much_ differently by the operators.

There is, IMO a lot of value in fine tuning existing models. If that gets them funded, great, who cares, right?

This is not their first release. BTL-2 (or -3 maybe? I forget) looked kind of interesting but it was annoying to run, needed a patch on llama.cpp, looks like they're improving their tooling.

I'm certainly interested in how this actually performs.

Only because I hadn't previously thought of it xD Step up from the standard ass-hat for sure.

How has software/driver support been? I got burned hard by AMD last generation or the one before. Things smoother now, or do you have to baby it like hell and pick and choose software that works?

Oh, wow, they think it's just a smidge below the q4? That's crazy good if true.

Honestly looks pretty good except whatever is going on with its booty. Is that an ass helmet? I cannot parse what's going on there.

My problem with that is the answer of if I'm too busy depends on what the request/question is. Does it need a huge context switch? Is it something I like working on? Etc.

You can run the ~4 bit quant(s) on 24gb, if you're not _too_ picky on context size.

This will hopefully be better, though it'd be a _very_ surprising increase in performace at the size they say. Would love to see more about how it benchmarks.