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ta988··on Behold the pawpaw
I am surprised it died with the mower, I had one snapped in half, put the up part in the soil, now two pawpaws...
ta988··on Tokens too cheap to meter
I read that log graph with a different conclusion, there are no more "small GPUs" and the focus is only on big ones? or is that just an artifact of the data selection?
ta988··on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
Decidedly not the ones who approved the design of those fridges...
ta988··on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
or at the very least go back to safe default when the computer part fails which is (should be) design 101. designing failsafe systems was one of the first thing we learned in engineering class (that was a while ago but still)...
ta988··on Why agent harnesses need plans – and why you shouldn't compact context
compact with instructions to keep the plan...
ta988··on There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy
Most of them of the B group for various reasons. Addition of vit C is not that common.
ta988··on Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
They have had that with Apple Music ln MacOS when pressing play on BT headsets... Can't be removed on locked down machines...
ta988··on Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service
It will simply teach them how to go around those "protections". And put them at risk of using shaddy services to do so. Exactly like what happened with the war on drugs...
ta988··on Wax motor
As you seem to know how to explain that would you mind fixing it? You don't even need an account.
ta988··on Introducing System One Models and Jev
Current models go beyond the simple embedding because you start to encode groups of concepts in the context-aware part of the model (attention heads or any other method). So it is never simply words/tokens in isolation anymore.
ta988··on Eating Fruit Skins
This is what everyone poisoned with them say. And really often why they don't make the link between those and their illness.
ta988··on Site Is Closed on Sundays
They are also competitively priced for computer stuff and you are sure they are not counterfeit which is not the case on amazon (especially but not only sdcards).
ta988··on How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret
the value of the shares would drop anyway for the first group.
ta988··on How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret
x% of the money distributed to shareholders for how long this was going on taken from current revenue, not benefits. That should also push shareholders to do the right choices in who they support.
ta988··on Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)
yeah they don't talk about cleaning them either... that's a massive problem in this kind of ion separation techniques, things splatter and stick everywhere.
ta988··on Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)
they can absolutely see uranium. It ionizes and thus get separated like many other things https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7470433/

Calutrons are using the same principle of separating ions by their mass/charge ratio, just in a preparative scale (you want to collect what is separated) rather than analytical (you just want to know how much of what).

ta988··on Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)
We know that intelligence tests and tests in general can be impacted by motivation and potential monetary gains (the article brushes on that). Maybe they can also be impacted by the happiness and other emotional states of the test taker.
ta988··on Taxpayers Funded a $533M Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
The remote control of machines is just the cherry on top.
ta988··on Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck
Not of AI, of the owners and steerers of the AI systems.
ta988··on Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed
I once ordered a vegetarian burger in some kind of trivia bar of a big american city. It came with bacon... When I asked they said: "but nobody ever complained about having bacon in it". there are alternate realities out there. Even in the deepest small town I had never seen that.
ta988··on Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
yes
ta988··on Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
I warned them about the risk of those things and showed them what I found, they continued buying the next generation (that person and his two >40yo kids). They NEEDED to watch those soccer games more than they cared about security...
ta988··on Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
A familly member had one of those (he had to pay a yearly subscription in addition to the stick). Network would be unusable as soon as it was on for anyone else, and it also tried to scan things on the local network. It was indeed connecting to all kind of services all over the world (and saturating some tables in the router doing so which blocked other clients). Definitely evil, definitely on purpose.
ta988··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
Windows is malware that pulls other malware.
ta988··on Unlimited OCR: One-Shot Long-Horizon Parsing
This is already used in OCR, tesseract uses that.
ta988··on Unlimited OCR: One-Shot Long-Horizon Parsing
I don't think that's a universal statement that aplies to every kind of documents and languages. Mistral OCR is able to do things no "traditional" OCR was ever able to.
ta988··on Unlimited OCR: One-Shot Long-Horizon Parsing
Cost, throughput, latency...
ta988··on Biohub releases a world model of protein biology
Boltz (they likely have private ones with their company now), ESM are MIT licensed as well. Alphafold older versions were Apache. In this specific subfield, it looks like open is more common than not.
ta988··on Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute
Didn't Anthropic pull the same in both ways? you pull me up I pull you up kind of deal? Sounds like SpaceX bought themselves some time up to Q4, which is not the case of Anthropic and even worse for OpenAI. Not counting that none of them got their S&P500 fast-track ticket.
ta988··on Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day
the volume of CO2 is negliglible (ppms) and it uses often Oxygen from the air.
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