speedgoose

Can someone explain me like I’m a middle age person why Italy, and France, bet on nuclear fission?

It’s not competitive on cost anymore and we don’t have a good track record.

A small model can fit in an old gaming computer. One of the computers you keep for no reasons. My requirement was to run in 8GB of GDDR.

You still have to pay for the electricity though.

I think it's almost never worth it now. An up to date LLM with a good few-shot prompt, or an agentic LLM will likely outperform a small finetuned LLM, at a lower cost with more flexibility.

Moreover, it's very seldom that you have enough high-quality data to do a meaningful fine-tune.

I have successfully finetuned a small Gemma to play chess badly, and that worked. Mostly because chess data is plentiful and because my aim was to not have perfect answers. I'm self hosting the model inference because running it in the cloud would be too costly.

I also finetuned small LLMs using too small datasets of business specific human conversations and the results were disappointing.

I wonder how much faster GitHub actions could be if they weren’t running on Azure. Because Azure is either slow or very expensive.

30 years of busy GPUs instead of idling GPUs converts to a lot of pee in the shower. I’m not sure I will live long enough.

Nice. I will make sure to turn my WiFi box off at night and pee in the shower to compensate the environmental impact of this.

I would need proper benchmarks but in my limited testing on my Phone using Qwen 0.6b, this doesn’t work well.

Between "brocoli and poop soup" or "cake", it recommends me to eat the soup.

Human made summary: A telecom company had time synchronisation issues in a location of their infrastructure. They eventually used a single hardware GPS clock that fixed the issues but became their only authoritative clock in this location.

One day, the clock was turn off and on and it went 1024 weeks backwards because the time GPS time protocol sucks and use a week counter with too few bits.

Apparently a GPS clock can keep track of the time if it’s up and running when the week counter overflows, otherwise it has to take a wild guess. Apparently their hardware GPS clock used a hardcoded start time from its firmware instead of trusting a less reliable existing clock.

The article finishes with some AI looking suggestions to prevent such an issue to happen again.

Mine would be to have bought one or two more GPS clocks and not from the same provider.

No progress?!

On one hand, it's very annoying.

On another hand, you realised that you are vulnerable to denial of wallet attacks without loosing that much money.

I didn't know 2 thirds of the training data would be source code.

I gave some very bad sketch made in jspaint to Astra, plus some text instructions, and I got back some clean STL file and a beautiful 3D render.

It even made a second STL file with the same model rotated for 3D printing.

I remember all those hours on SolidWorks many years ago, and now you can just speak and present bad drawings to the computer, and it does it okay.

Why not?

Yes sir. Let us know if you have more questions.

Ignoring the use of JavaScript in the old demo, is there an individual on earth that uses a modern web browser with JavaScript disabled, wants to order a personalised Apple product, and can’t enable JavaScript back for previewing?

Is there any audience using a web browser that can negotiate a modern TLS connection to apple.com, but not support a better rendering method?

I once encountered a joke building that was so large, I remember in the magnitude of 500km2, that you couldn’t edit it in the web editor. You had to download a desktop application to delete it.

It was in a place of the world that is unlikely to be popular within the OSM community.

It’s pretty good at CAD.

But thanks to the Jevon Paradox, the global power consumption would probably increase.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

But I have to trust them that they run what they present.

Sincerely, what the fuck Apple?

> Your data is not accessible to Apple either, thanks to Private Cloud Compute, and "independent security experts can verify this promise at any time". Siri Recaps auto-delete after seven days too. Apple is serious about getting users to trust this feature.

Alright. Let say I’m an independent security expert, how could I verify? I can’t, right?

> play some fun video games, like Red Dead Redemption

To each their own.

If you like the competitive aspect of chess, you may enjoy physical sports too. I started to find video games pretty boring compared to pushing myself physically.

Isn’t Apple famous for faking GPS accuracy by moving the points to roads and paths using their mapping data?

It’s very convenient not having to worry about your watch state of charge.

Yes but a Garmin is an upgrade.

It could be because a digital signature could be use to track without consent.

I’m no expert in religion, but wouldn’t Jesus speech be more on the Greta side if he came back to earth today? By like a very very wide margin?

Man in the middle attacks are much easier.

I think it’s more about the ANT+ sport heart monitors.

I put my gold in the safe of my best friend, he has a good safe. Then I rapped and killed his wife and children, and destroyed his house. But he doesn’t want to give me the gold back.