Viewing profile — em500

I wonder if someone already made a somewhat turnkey setup like this? Small models should ideally not waste a lot of parameters on trying to memorize too much knowledge and then hal…

I don't think this type of legislation will have any kind of real world effect. Apple App store labels all their buttons with "Get". Google Play Store just prints the price on the …

Everybody is in a bubble. Which is why it's worth looking into other people's bubbles occasionally. https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/07/15/people-in-many...

Government issued versus corporate issued age verification is a false dichotomy. There are other options, such as refusing games that require them. (Yes, we do have a teen, and yes…

Why would that be a shame? "bc" is a mandatory POSIX command, while /bin/bash isn't (/bin/sh is the standard).

This article seems high on vibes, low on metrics. > While a plain-vanilla philosophy degree remains as hard to monetize as ever, David Chalmers, a prominent philosopher of consciou…

It's not "the company" that makes such decisions, but some senior managers or directors who do. They don't see a penny extra in their paycheck for savings money, but they are on th…

I think you're missing my point. China does not need to or aim to attract any researcher from anywhere. Just attracting top tier ethnic Chinese researchers and technical talent fro…

It's not too different for ethnic Chinese researchers, of which there are a lot in American STEM departments.

Pertinent data: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPPOP65UPTOZSUSA

We've had the great small Qwen 3.6 early April that many could actually run on their laptop. Then similar from Google a few weeks later (Gemma4, better in prose, worse in code). Th…

Just to be accurate, median annual salary is over $62k accross the US for kindergarten and elementary school teachers, with California nearing 100k. [1] https://www.onetonline.org/…

Noteworthy that Z.ai, maker of the just released near-frontier GLM 5.2, has already been on the Entity List since Jan 2025[1]. Being on the Entity List does not mean all trade is f…

Hourly wage for all private sector workers is up +32% since Dec 2019 ($37.54 vs $28.38)[1]. For non-management workers +35% ($32.31 in May 2026 vs $23.85 in Dec 2019)[2]. [1] https…

> The biggest trap is the hallucinated citation. It will easily insert an absolutely authentic sounding quotation from another case that perfectly proves the point you are trying t…

So this is specifically about Toyota's hybrid engines (which is very different from e.g. Honda's engine, not to mention plug-in hybrids or "mild hybrids"). The explanation of the m…

They learnt from ooenai that naming yourself open-xyz doesn't actually require opening anything.

> The cities' water usage is to keep people alive with basically mandatory things, like hygiene, and drinking Almost half of city water usage is for residential landscape irrigatio…

I sure hope connected health device makers include some generous tolerance for network outages.

> Why do you think an employer would waste resources like that? The parent post specifically mentioned large organizations, where the "employer" is not some person who hires and pa…

> The price of a loaf of bread in gold now is still similar to what it was in the Roman Empire 2000 years ago. That seems pretty unlikely, when the price of a loaf of bread in gold…

Yes, under How It Works : > libqemu-system-aarch64.so (QEMU TCG, no KVM) TCG means software emulation

You mean his terrible financial decisions of founding a company in 2004 that IPO at 104B within eight years, and now 14 years on is valued at 1.6T? Are we looking different track r…

This also works persona: emotionless vulcan

> I'm worried that this will lead to a Prop 65 [0] situation, where eventually everything gets flagged as having used AI in some form. This is very predictably what's going to happ…