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bbatha

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About bbatha

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    Comment #49171767

    > The actual risk that the author does not even broach upon for investors... the thing that will actually torpedo this massive investment are the open source open weight chinese mo…

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    Comment #49069775

    > future models can be trained to be even more aware of external knowledge Then you need longer contexts, which is proving to a much more stubborn problem than general knowledge co…

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    Comment #48725770

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    Comment #48509335

    Exactly cd players in cars didn’t become common until the 2000s when anti skip became common place.

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    Comment #48480230

    I’ve been asking for the volume feature since I switched from a blackberry in like 2009!

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    Comment #48387330

    Resolve unfortunately only supports a few brands of raw. Om systems is not supported for instance.

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    Comment #48387284

    You can. Davinci is more powerful for this too because you can copy the parts of the node tree. So you can have a base edit for exposure, white balance etc then apply your look as …

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    Comment #48387248

    It is. That was for the beta

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    Comment #48385119

    For all the potshots about AI, this update is huge even if you take away the AI features. They basically added lightroom to this release. There's some polish before you'd want to c…

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    Comment #48361925

    Imo vistas biggest problem was they underspecced the minimum system requirements. Most peoples experience with vista was on sub 1gb of ram machines with a single core, no gpu and 3…

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    Comment #48356662

    What's time to first token? Raw throughput is usually not the problem in local setups in my experience.

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    Comment #48243380

    Moreover the two lost shuttles included human lives. Better to blow stuff up with demo payloads now before sending up large contracted payloads or worse human beings!

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    Comment #48048620

    Games will typically un at 4k or less which is about 8mp on the other hand it’s difficult to buy a stills camera with less than 20 mp, and >40mp is common. Most algorithms are n^2 …

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    Comment #48035061

    Interesting, IBM sales and consulting were infamous for sending in an army of blue suits in

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    Comment #47814814

    I remain convinced we won’t look at project estimates as time based in software engineering as our primary cost estimate. And this is transition will happen rapidly. We’re going to…

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    Comment #47360780

    A lot of enhancements came on the model side which in many ways enabled context engineering. 200k and now 1M contexts. Better context management was enabled by improvements in stru…

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    Comment #47203776

    I generally do this when I arrive at the agent getting stuck at a test loop or whatever after injecting some later requirement in and tweaking. Once I hit a decent place I have the…

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    Comment #47150972

    Newton knew a lot about investing for the time. He was a master of the mint for much of his adult life.

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    Comment #46889701

    Its funny you mention excel, I see vibe coding in the business sense right now being a gateway to replace all of the ad hoc uses of excel. We've basically leveled up the quality of…

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    Comment #46256785

    I’m more interested in what happens when a language is designed specifically for llms? When doing vibe coding a lot of code is a lot more verbose than I’d do normally. Do we drop d…

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    Comment #46046197

    Don't forget shortening copyrights would have a major impact on this issue as well! 25 year copyright would make most of these libraries public domain. Then the price would truly r…

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    Comment #45762251

    > explain exactly how this doesn't end poorly Explanations aren't sufficient either. The industry has burned that bridge. Strong contractual guarantees. Ceasing personal data colle…

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    Comment #45334807

    > f you need one in zig you can go that approach or use a tagged union just that zig is open about what an interface is. Perl objects worked like this and the ecosystem is a mess a…

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    Comment #45275862

    It’s several factors and all of your alternatives are true to some degree: 1. An h20 is about 1.5 generations behind Blackwell. This chip looks closer to about 2 generations behind…

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    Comment #45263186

    I wrote a longer post a few months ago.[1] The tl;dr is a) computer aided design and manufacturing b) aspherical elements c) fluorite glass d) retro focus wide angle designs and e)…