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gpjt

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About gpjt

https://www.gilesthomas.com/

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    I must admit that I found it confusing that they lumped people with unmanaged hypertension in with those who were on meds to manage it. Those feel like separate groups. Does anyone…

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    I'm adding MoE support to the GPT-2 code from Sebastian Raschka's "Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)". Just the minimal changes. Planning to do (or at least start!) a fro…

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    Comment #49127656

    Lovely bit of inadvertent editorialising by the submission form there :-) Title should be (as it is on the page) " How I use AI on this blog".

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    In the EU, at least one of the problems is regulatory/tax for digital services. They need to charge you the VAT rate for the country where you are based. For that, they need two pi…

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    OP here -- yes indeed. I ever do a new series of posts on upgrading my network to anything faster, the first one will probably be titled something like "25Gb/s Ethernet: how much i…

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    OP here -- yes, 100%! Within my study it's DACs all the way. I only use 10GBASE-T where it's the only option: through the wall cabling, and from the connector on my ISP's crappy ro…

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    Thanks for making the comment! It saved me having to bolt a USB fan over the old, misbehaving SFP+ module or something similarly silly...

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    Comment #48517625

    Doesn't say anything about citizenship though. There are plenty of US residents who are not citizens. And a lot of people abroad appear to use US billing address credit cards -- in…

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    Comment #48412990

    Excellent points. It's also worth noting that many people don't wind up working in the field they studied at university. CS grads have probably been the exception in recent years, …

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    That is an excellent point so long as you don't take it too far! Lisp/Haskell/Erlang yes. INTERCAL/Brainfuck less so...