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bubaumba

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    Comment #42545829

    > L40S are great cards and very cost effective from https://www.asacomputers.com/nvidia-l40s-48gb-graphics-card.... nvidia l40s 48gb graphics card Our price: $7,569.10* Not arguing…

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    Comment #42545662

    it may be even cheaper to use big models through API. Claude, GPT, whatever. Rental is efficient only for big butches, while API is priced per call/size and is cheap for small mode…

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    Comment #42533534

    It's a trick. If you donate something to charity you can write it off the taxes. After IPOs most new billionaires did it, including Zuk. It's enough to just promise it publicly. Th…

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    Comment #42523981

    Simple tax optimization. Like new billionaires promising to significant donations. a) they don't have to donate. b) they can immediately slash those promised donations from taxes.

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    Comment #42509465

    Absolutely worth doing. Here is interesting related video, local RAG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq1Plo2RhYI I'm not an expert, but I'll do it for learning. Then open source i…

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    Comment #42509006

    3. Quick lookup into internal documents. Almost any company needs it. Navigating file-system like hierarchy is slow and limited. That was old way. 4. Quick lookup into the code to …

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    Comment #42508848

    This is cool, but how about local semantic search through tens of thousands articles and books. Sure I'm not the first, there should be some tools already.

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    Comment #42502548

    > I don't think I see them as a win Unavoidable, probably > but they're easily dealt with. AI will need analysts at the latter stage to evaluate the outputs but that will be a rela…

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    Comment #42502525

    > it will just have much better precision than us. and much faster with the right hardware. And that's enough if AI can do in seconds what humans takes years. With o3 the price is …

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    Comment #42502474

    After collision drone should shut itself down and drop like a rock. Looks like it wasn't the case here. And there should be nobody on the ground below, of course. Flying over that …

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    Comment #42501460

    > home made explosive With this a lot of damage can be done even without drone. As for weaponized it's not a future, it's a reality in Ukraine for years now. Defense against them i…

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    Comment #42497462

    Nothing to worry about. They are dead end only if we find something better. Till then they here to stay. And likely even after they will be used.

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    Comment #42496673

    They are not mutually exclusive. Likely we'll get more clear separation of architecture and underlying technology. In this case agents (i.e. architecture) can use different technol…

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    Comment #42493840

    > AGI is special. Because one day AI can start improving itself autonomously AGI can be sub-human, right? That's probably how it will start. The question will be is it already AGI …

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    Comment #42493807

    > if the underlying LLMs dont get any better, there is no reason to expect the system built out of them to get any better. Actually o1, o3 are doing exactly this, and very well. I.…

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    Comment #42438665

    > search speed for potential room temperature superconductors? and what if it's a dead end?

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    Comment #42415097

    This becomes a crowded field. Here is similar robotic arm from Boston Dynamics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9N2jlie9c8

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    Comment #42414728

    > My brother and I both read around 900 wpm. That's a great speed. I'll never reach because I have to read some paragraphs several times before I understand the article. Some times…

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    Comment #42414695

    > multiple years in with much investment and little return Hmm.. where do you live? It's quite transforming already in many areas and not going to stop any time soon. I'll call it …

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    Comment #42414658

    Like it or not Meta is a major player in AI world with its free models and tools. As for social impact of the rest it's debatable. I personally don't have active social accounts, a…

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    Comment #42414122

    I can explain a bit. Russians living in Empire of Evil can see all internet including US and EU news. At the same time 'Putin propaganda' channels are blocked in EU. In EU only one…

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    Comment #42413781

    > European press agencies It's very naive to believe in 'European press'. To get the idea check Ukrainian war coverage. What you'll see first is how single sided it is. This cannot…

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    Comment #42381030

    You may think Anthropic is different? It's the same UI + API. The difference is they don't create free accounts for personal emails. Sort of shadow banning. However they accepted m…

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    Comment #42380941

    They are both. and there are UIs for their API, which costs $$. But web UI is free. And limited. It's nice to have options.

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    Comment #42373153

    it's impossible to do it safely. open source model for kids!? without moderation every 'hacker' would like to get access. imho, the only option is to sell support as a business to …