It's easier to call someone a bot or other names than to engage with them or to try and understand their point of view. We're increasingly pushed into different groups and sides with little to no toleration of each…
I think it's a combination of both... Before AI people would still try asking questions on SO despite the hostility because it was the only/main place to get answers. Over this time, SO popularity was deteriorating.…
The picture element [1], [2] supports controlling which image is used via a media selector, allowing you to serve smaller images on smaller devices and on things like the viewport orientation. [1]…
And with light/dark mode support and CSS variables the colours in a print mode should be easy to define and support. So you're primarily left with hiding content that shouldn't be printed (like navigation or menu…
Printing also covers things like exporting to PDF, or rendering in an eBook format (EPUB, Kindle, etc.) for reading the content offline while travelling, etc.
Probably some form of ablation [1] e.g. [2]. This is typically done by identifying the direction that the refusals/political alignment is represented within the model's weights and then reversing that direction. [1]…
I like a lot of Scala but dislike implicits. I feel like it is the wrong abstraction in that it is similar to implicit type conversion in C/C++, making it harder to reason about what the code is doing and navigating to…
There are three return states that a parser (or partial parser) can return: 1. an item (`T`) for a successful parse; 2. an error (`ParseError`) for an unrecoverable parse error; 3. a partial item (`T with ParseError`)…
The A3B part of that model means that each "expert" in the mixture of experts (MOE) model use 3B parameters. At 4-bit quant, you can fit 2 parameters per byte. That gives you 1.5GB per expert (plus a bit for overhead),…
There's a Minecraft YouTuber called TangoTek who's building a deck building game called Decked Out 3 in Minecraft. That is using a token ring system to control events and messages sent in the game to avoid conflicts…
How so? Can you link to the numbers? Antropic's revenue is up [1], [2], [3] and if you calculate adjusted operating income (by excluding most expenses like training costs) then by that measure it is profitable. However,…
And CoreWeave's stocks are trending down due to concerns over its debts. [1] https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-5... [2] https://www.tradingview.com/news/seekingalpha:173ffc32a094b:... [3]…
Stonking is British slang for large/huge/etc. For example, "Labour won by a stonking majority."
Some of the things that annoy me re: snaps are: 1. the update process is separate from the main system update -- "close this program to update, or will forceably update in X days" notifications; 2. breaking desktop file…
Yeah, it also suffers from the over-powered protagonist trope found in a lot of fanfics. It has good elements (of what I've read thus far). I think the story could have been better if it focused on a few crossovers and…
Just like with L Ron Hubbard's work being a foundation for Scientology.
My Immortal?
If you're looking for a job without a stable source of income every expenditure matters. You need to cover essentials -- rent/mortgage, clothing, food, utilities, etc. Those give you a baseline burnthough rate: how long…
I think it's only a matter of time, like the build-up to the financial crash in 2008 or the dot-com bubble. There's currently a huge amount of money being bet on the big AI tech companies without any real sense of…
It's a data centre being build specifically to run LLMs (and possibly other ML models). As such, it will be focused on NVIDIA servers with large numbers of inter-connected GPUs (so they can run the 2T-4T parameter…
Yeah, like what happened in the 2008 financial crisis where governments had to step in to save the banks as people defaulted on housing payments due to high mortgages. Oracle is already close to being classified as junk…
Listening to Ed Zitron on various podcasts, there are several issues with Oracle stocks: 1. they are one place above junk; 2. they are being treated as effectively junk; 3. if they get classified as junk, any pension…
The Cask of Amontillado is great for that. And the classic poem The Raven describes existential dread so well. I found with King the scarier aspects were the more mundane and psychological parts of his writing. I also…
Over time I've come to find a balance between something like tailwind/FCSS (one class per CSS style) and Bootstrap (classes reflect components). Specifically: 1. provide a baseline of default styling on the HTML…
For local projects I'm using a repo per module/package, creating tagged releases, and pushing them to a local package hosting server. I can then reference those artifacts as dependencies in the projects that need/use…
It's easier to call someone a bot or other names than to engage with them or to try and understand their point of view. We're increasingly pushed into different groups and sides with little to no toleration of each…
I think it's a combination of both... Before AI people would still try asking questions on SO despite the hostility because it was the only/main place to get answers. Over this time, SO popularity was deteriorating.…
The picture element [1], [2] supports controlling which image is used via a media selector, allowing you to serve smaller images on smaller devices and on things like the viewport orientation. [1]…
And with light/dark mode support and CSS variables the colours in a print mode should be easy to define and support. So you're primarily left with hiding content that shouldn't be printed (like navigation or menu…
Printing also covers things like exporting to PDF, or rendering in an eBook format (EPUB, Kindle, etc.) for reading the content offline while travelling, etc.
Probably some form of ablation [1] e.g. [2]. This is typically done by identifying the direction that the refusals/political alignment is represented within the model's weights and then reversing that direction. [1]…
I like a lot of Scala but dislike implicits. I feel like it is the wrong abstraction in that it is similar to implicit type conversion in C/C++, making it harder to reason about what the code is doing and navigating to…
There are three return states that a parser (or partial parser) can return: 1. an item (`T`) for a successful parse; 2. an error (`ParseError`) for an unrecoverable parse error; 3. a partial item (`T with ParseError`)…
The A3B part of that model means that each "expert" in the mixture of experts (MOE) model use 3B parameters. At 4-bit quant, you can fit 2 parameters per byte. That gives you 1.5GB per expert (plus a bit for overhead),…
There's a Minecraft YouTuber called TangoTek who's building a deck building game called Decked Out 3 in Minecraft. That is using a token ring system to control events and messages sent in the game to avoid conflicts…
How so? Can you link to the numbers? Antropic's revenue is up [1], [2], [3] and if you calculate adjusted operating income (by excluding most expenses like training costs) then by that measure it is profitable. However,…
And CoreWeave's stocks are trending down due to concerns over its debts. [1] https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-5... [2] https://www.tradingview.com/news/seekingalpha:173ffc32a094b:... [3]…
Stonking is British slang for large/huge/etc. For example, "Labour won by a stonking majority."
Some of the things that annoy me re: snaps are: 1. the update process is separate from the main system update -- "close this program to update, or will forceably update in X days" notifications; 2. breaking desktop file…
Yeah, it also suffers from the over-powered protagonist trope found in a lot of fanfics. It has good elements (of what I've read thus far). I think the story could have been better if it focused on a few crossovers and…
Just like with L Ron Hubbard's work being a foundation for Scientology.
My Immortal?
If you're looking for a job without a stable source of income every expenditure matters. You need to cover essentials -- rent/mortgage, clothing, food, utilities, etc. Those give you a baseline burnthough rate: how long…
I think it's only a matter of time, like the build-up to the financial crash in 2008 or the dot-com bubble. There's currently a huge amount of money being bet on the big AI tech companies without any real sense of…
It's a data centre being build specifically to run LLMs (and possibly other ML models). As such, it will be focused on NVIDIA servers with large numbers of inter-connected GPUs (so they can run the 2T-4T parameter…
Yeah, like what happened in the 2008 financial crisis where governments had to step in to save the banks as people defaulted on housing payments due to high mortgages. Oracle is already close to being classified as junk…
Listening to Ed Zitron on various podcasts, there are several issues with Oracle stocks: 1. they are one place above junk; 2. they are being treated as effectively junk; 3. if they get classified as junk, any pension…
The Cask of Amontillado is great for that. And the classic poem The Raven describes existential dread so well. I found with King the scarier aspects were the more mundane and psychological parts of his writing. I also…
Over time I've come to find a balance between something like tailwind/FCSS (one class per CSS style) and Bootstrap (classes reflect components). Specifically: 1. provide a baseline of default styling on the HTML…
For local projects I'm using a repo per module/package, creating tagged releases, and pushing them to a local package hosting server. I can then reference those artifacts as dependencies in the projects that need/use…