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You can already run a large LLM (like sonnet 3.5) locally on CPU with 128GB of ram which is And obviously consumer hardware is already being more optimized for running models local…

But most of the time, we as engineers don't pick the winners. Some C-Suite executive or middle manager, who isn't very technically inclined, picks the winners, and we as engineers …

Content is being banned because the governments don't think the citizens collectively can handle that content. This is the government thinking for the people. I wouldn't have an is…

There are two things wrong with this argument. One, it implies that there isn't a better way to deal with an such a malicious organization. And two, it doesn't acknowledge how such…

And linux. They provide a linux version and it runs great on linux

How? They could declare everything and anything as antidemocratic. There is legitimately no oversight to the Secretary of Commerce, which is an appointed position. If the act is pa…

Banning TikTok wouldn't take your free speech away, but the Restrict Act doesn't even directly ban Tiktok. It gives the government broad rights to censor any content it deems "unde…

Websites that are critical to the governments message are blocked in the West too. Either blocking sites isn't only a symptom of a closed country or the West is more closed then yo…

San Francisco isn't the embodiment of European individualism, it is the embodiment of American mismanagement.

Why would it kill all startups? The amount of AI startups that are being restricted by this are minimal. Hugging Face isn't going to have to shut down because of this. University r…

The patriot act clearly compromises every 5-eyes nation. China and Russia have their own equivalents of a Patriot act, so hosting there is no good either. Mid tier and neutral coun…

It played Stockfish 8, which was already a year old when they played, and the match was under arguably unbalanced circumstances. The current version of Stockfish is Stockfish 15, a…

I have been daily driving FreeBSD as a desktop since the last time this article was posted and I love it. It is super consistent and reliable, and after I got it set up, I don't ha…

Unfortunately, the OP's mindset is that of many Westerners. Currently, the average Indian citizen emits half the greenhouse gas of the global per capita average. To argue that they…

I have talked to somebody in the SBB R&D department recently about this and the problem is actually that there has to be at least one person on the train. Imagine a door gets jamme…

Of course fascism is coming to the US. The US has always been fascist when it comes to international politics. First its reach was mostly limited to the Americas, but after World W…