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bhouston

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About bhouston

https://ben3d.ca/about

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    The improved efficiency is great! The Apple Neo was still 2x faster for graphics and around 1.4x faster for single core cpu. And remember the Apple Neo is running an iPhone CPU tha…

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    Comment #49221131

    Modern systems are complex. AI is able to thoroughly search for issues across very large surface areas. The only real way to protect will be to use AI to search for holes before ot…

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    Comment #49214005

    Weird given how much Oracle has bet on AI, both in terms of data centres and in terms of layoffs.

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    Comment #49204930

    FYI I find that Whisper is far from the best transcription models out there as well. I did a bunch of testing and I found that Assembly AI's transcription models are significant be…

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    Comment #49202521

    Toronto Canada startup btw.

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    Comment #49184133

    Nice! I did something similar to HDR/EXR/Ultra JPEG images here: https://hdrify.ben3d.ca/?image=%2Fexamples%2Fmoonless_golf_1...

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    Comment #49155466

    Isn't the ocean filled with salt and already knows how to biologically degrade fish? I sort of think that you could deposit this at sea somehow, just need to spread it out sufficie…

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    Comment #49030081

    Very authentic almost down to the pixel. I love it! Btw default buttons like OK should have a thick black outline. Also windows UIs loved group boxes and radio buttons and checkbox…

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    Comment #49029292

    The consumer desktop market is screwed with really high hard disk and memory prices and GPU prices. Premium desktops are a dead market.

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    Comment #49026378

    512 threads and 1GB of on chip cache. Love it!

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    Comment #49000008

    I bet it has multiple times but as part of white hate security testing.

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    Comment #48998168

    > This is science fiction, these models don't have access to their own weights A bet a worm could pull along a 1GB file with weights in it and run it on a compromised machine, but …

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    Comment #48997791

    We are sort of lucky that AIs right now require so much specialized compute+weight storage that we can easily "unplug" them remotely when they misbehave. I wonder if that will alwa…

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    Comment #48938218

    Whether it is "open" or not seems to be in question. While it was initially called an "open" model, it seems that "open" mentions have been scrubbed from website.

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    Comment #48911333

    When your customers are government mandated, are they really customers or hostages?

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