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skolos

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    Comment #49014466

    Interesting - in my setup (llama.cpp rtx5090 qwen-3.6 27b) prompt processing with mtp is almost half vs non mtp. Sounds like I need to investigate what is wrong.

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    Comment #49014155

    "Multi-token prediction gives a free speedup of up to 2x on many models" - at the expense of halving prompt processing speed

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    Comment #48893328

    deterrent - no one starts war with a country that has nukes

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    Comment #48860603

    There was lots of discussion within Russian and Ukrainian war analytics that nukes (at least tactical) are useless in this war for the following reasons: - they would not change mu…

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    Comment #48860392

    It sounds more like market based allocation than gameification.

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    Comment #48734678

    I'd say adding another 16Gb gpu would be worth it - you'd be able to run larger model/larger context all within gpu's. It would give you more options of what you can run fast. Your…

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    Comment #48662768

    > The Department of Defense said the xAI data center powered by the gas plant is critical to national security, revealing Grok was used to fire thousands of missiles in the Iran wa…

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    Comment #48319256

    How many times did you try? Same model running multiple times can produce both very good and very bad results. In my benchmark even 10 runs often not enough to tell for sure if one…

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    Comment #47131085

    I like Mathematica and use it regularly. But I did not see any benefits of using it over python as a tool that Claude Code can use. Every script it produced in wolfram was slower w…

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    Comment #46355708

    Claude code regularly asks me questions - I like how anthropic implemented this

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    Comment #46036593

    Looking at examples I see: ``` c = Sector(radius, start = 180°, end = 270°).translate(y = radius); ``` Programming language that requires (maybe it does not require, but then examp…

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    Comment #43313996

    They did operate on a "continuous refresh" basis. However, it mostly stopped for almost 2 years now. Other than HW4 I don't think anything else is different between current models …

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    Comment #37230930

    Here you go: https://blog.adaptiverisk.com/post/2023-08-22-dataslicer/ Calculations are local, not in the cloud.

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    Comment #35184294

    > shit build quality That's old news. If build quality is your only concern, I suggest you to check them again. They supposedly improved build quality significantly after initial r…

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    Comment #31609514

    Last two years used Tesla prices were higher than new ones. You need to wait up to a year to get new Tesla though. So you could actually make some money while driving newest versio…

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    Comment #31604201

    > the company optimizes delivery numbers of cars sold by sacrificing quality control How do you know this? Did you see their internal data? There are lots of anecdotes going around…

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    Comment #30759485

    It does work: NIO does it (they have 700 battery swap stations already). CATL also announced that they will produce swappable car batteries. I, myself, don't see how this can be mo…

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    Comment #30759294

    They did try it in 2013, but abandoned the idea: https://www.tesla.com/videos/battery-swap-event

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    Comment #30546287

    How Russian people would know about this? You are underestimating efficiency of Russian propaganda machine. Russian government does not shy away from inflicting damage onto Russian…