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    Comment #48979390

    I'm sure Iraqis, Libyans, Iranians, Palestinians, etc. agree that putting Russia in the same sentence as America is stupid.

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    Comment #48938217

    According to that 17% of boomers+ are dependent on their parents. Just looking at boomers, that is around 70 on average. How many people that age even have parents still alive, let…

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    Comment #48934752

    Gell-Mann Amnesia? Interestingly enough, the term was coined by Crichton.

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    Comment #48847419

    Elite dangerous?

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    Comment #48847115

    Do any voice models support different conversation "threads" with different context?

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    Comment #48846250

    The article mentioned the "the 12-year-old Queen of Sweden" which is quite an interesting story of its own. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina,_Queen_of_Sweden

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    Comment #48808151

    That can get thrown into a tiny 2" screen in the instrument cluster.

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    Comment #48804675

    Meta overbought compute and is considering selling it like SpaceX did.

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    Comment #48804531

    Members of parliament who owned stock in the East India company bailing it out by allowing it to sell tea directly to the American colonies?

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    Comment #48764126

    Probably because benchmarks are leaked. Included in their training or model can cheat by finding answer online.

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    Comment #48721614

    In the saga period of Iceland, 1/3rd of the laws had to be recited orally each year in a public assembly. If we had something like that then our legal code would be a lot slimmer.

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    Comment #48676531

    How is Anthropic going to make sure every person using an API key is a citizen?

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    Comment #48676128

    Products with Chinese made RAM can effectively only be sold in China due to US sanctions or threats thereof. It helps a bit because Chinese companies then buy less Korean RAM but n…

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    Comment #48676058

    Let's money for scalpers and more money for the company making the product.

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    Comment #48675870

    Linus Tech Tips built a computer with around twice the performance at the same price with current RAM prices. You lose out on size and SteamOS features like quick resume & CEC.

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    Comment #48674552

    Are you including the emissions of producing two cars instead of one?

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    Comment #48673892

    Tokens/seconds and watt-hours seem related?

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    Comment #48632693

    What regulations did he as federal reserve chair rollback and which of them caused the 2008 crash?

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    Comment #48629806

    Isn't Just Stop Oil funded by an oil heiress?

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    Comment #48589346

    It's not just the weights. It is the system prompt, harness, safety filters, etc. Those can affect performance of the same underlying model significantly.

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    Comment #48494006

    But they do generate zero power at night.

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    Comment #48359792

    Wouldn't a local llm be just as vulnerable to this?

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    Comment #48222015

    The overhead shrinks with larger models. It doesn't seem that bad. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.03992v2

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    Comment #48181029

    How about a chatbot in front of feature requests that gets all the details the fist time?

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    Comment #48179864

    > “AI detected bugs are pretty much by definition not secret, and treating them on some private list is a waste of time for everybody involved – and only makes that duplication wor…