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Comment #49252171
> omitting explicit type declarations makes the code more compact. I guess this ignores languages with type inference? Hindley-Milner and others
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Comment #49248404
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Comment #49192687
I agree with this wholeheartedly. Embracing this change in what you value in relationships is a key part of growing up. The shift from playing together (childhood) to having each o…
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Comment #49178712
The "CLI crowd" is also primarily using LLMs on their own computer. Where they have their CLI tools. This doesn't cover the case when you're talking to an LLM from web, or via Slac…
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Comment #49149351
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Comment #49094946
Why do monitors need drivers to work?
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Comment #49074663
That's about right. Half the TPS with half the power. GLM-5.2 will be much more demanding tho
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Comment #49067106
> like 180W-250W TDP > running GLM 5.2 would be cool at like ~100 tokens per second for a single session Your power consumption estimates are off for this generation of GPUs. A 27B…
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Comment #49030573
If it takes longer to find stuff on a page, one of the most prized metrics goes up: time on page. And here we are.
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Comment #48986726
Opus: No life ran more bleak and desolate than Yu Xin's — yet in his twilight years, his verses stirred the rivers and the passes.
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Comment #48966636
I don’t think you need a 10-30b model for most smartphone use cases. But I meant to counter gp’s claim that “I can run a 27b model on an iPhone” is kind of pointless and disingenuo…
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Comment #48928178
We're too easily conflating parameter count with capability. That Bonsai 27B you're running is at 2-bit quantization. Is it really better than the best 10-18B models?
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Comment #48902065
> It makes it impossible to click on any links in the footer of the page That's a UI bug. Real infinite scroll does not have a footer.
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Comment #48887873
No, Apple Watch won't have the compute or the ram needed in 5-10 years. That will require 8-9 doublings in RAM and even more in compute.
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Comment #48798322
> and nothing would stop you playing it Not true for PS5 games. Sony can push a firmware update to disable games, even if you own the disc.
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Comment #48781686
There are only 170 ground stations (about 100 in the US). So for someone living in rural america, it's really "famous last 300 miles".
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Comment #48738984
Agreed. The graphs clearly show that opus 4.8 performs strictly better at the same cost per task
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Comment #48723921
That $6700 is a $5000 upgrade over a base model Macbook Pro. $5000 in US Treasuries (currently at 4.89%) yields $244.5/yr. That's more than enough to cover the annual Claude Pro su…
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Comment #48702930
> We know intuitively that a ball atop a 20ft ladder has twice the potential energy of a ball atop a 10ft ladder. This assumes that energy increases linearly with distance (given c…
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Comment #48695379
Looks like in your 2nd equation you've already assumed kinetic energy is quadratic with speed T = ½∑ⱼ mⱼ v⃗ⱼ²
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Comment #48680498
MSFT is also down 3.5% today, so there's just lots of volatility in big tech.
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Comment #48637404
Calgary is quite sunny at 2400 hrs/year. But not nearly as much as Vegas (3800) or LA (3250) or SF (2950).
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Comment #48576591
pareto frontier does not mean cheapest.
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Comment #48362698
I had a similar issue with the Nikon Z5 full frame camera. It can be charged via the built-in USB-C socket only if the battery still has some charge . If the battery is fully dead,…
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Comment #48020929
Wikipedia say 3.6 billion Chrome users.