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Sounds like something r/datahoarders would be / may already be into.

Every such provider likes to play games with who they give good rates to or who they exclude altogether from their network. People said the same about cellular access and it's stil…

At the least you need storage for the content ($10-20), and a physical device to read it off of ($20-40). If your community has lots of computers with no wireless antennas (old ser…

There's also a longer overview here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internet-in-a-Box And (when supplies return) you can get one in a 3d-printed box with Wikipedia pre-installed h…

A year in, seems more like a scam. Surprised to see such credulous coverage in Wired.

At 5 cents per neuron with 4o-mini, for pretty satisfying descriptions. "we fine-tune Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct to directly predict per-token activations ... [this] allows us to use sm…

The schema migrations are a delight. And I appreciate the shoutout to Dabble! Thanks for working on this + congrats on the release. An optimized hosted version with permalinks to E…

Chain effects are strong with this one. This seems significantly better than GPT-Instruct.

Very nice work indeed.

Some journeys never truly (truly never) end -- what a lovely compilation and reflection. The best books and the best adventures share a certain feel.

This is almost exactly backwards. Half of the staff work on tech. https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/staff-contractors/ 2005-2008 was extraordinary from this standpoint, no quest…

Nice (& same!) How do you use it that you couldn't use dbpedia?

Dark times indeed.

Ongoing discussion here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Communications/Wikimedi...

A melody-writing duo published (on the Internet Archive) and released into the public domain 2TB of recorded audio that includes all 8-note melodies. This is something people have …

This flexibility in time, specialization, and order of operation is surely one of the joys of modern digital collections. Library scientists might say archiving and structuring and…

GPT2-bot should autogenerate an essay like this once a month... it would be guaranteed to get attention each time.

A nice summary of the subtle mechanics of section 230 by Eric Goldman. Complemented by this overview of what it costs to resolve spurious takedown requests: https://www.engine.is/n…

The clearest models should be: what the world looks like when all ice and permafrost are melted, and how we plan now to be able to cope then.

I love this use of multicolumn. Now it just needs an 'Inside of a Dog' mode for libgen books on the darkweb...

Now train a second bot on parrot.vc advice to make bets via MicroVentures...

Many analyses of the world aren't bayesian /or/ frequentist, they use much simpler pattern-matching, with feedback loops that update the approach used as well as the conclusion. Pr…