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You can run GLM 5.2 at a reasonable quant on a cluster of DGX Sparks. On the link below, the guy is getting decent performance and links to a repo. An 8x Spark cluster can run it e…

Their bar graph showed that in almost every category except for accessories, the weights were pretty much identical.

Yeah it seems like a cheap CNC drill which can drill holes in steel sheets would be something that would last basically forever. Something like this: TTC3018 CNC Router Machine 3-A…

Hey I just did a bit of a deep dive into this. Wow, thanks for pointing this out. It seems like 'PEEK' would last the longest, but most printers can't do this. "Standard estimates …

You can print QR code with different heights representing white or black. That piece of plastic would last a long time, and you could encode.....something. You could pint a version…

Isn't this like saying that if better woodworking tools come out, and you like woodworking, that woodworking somehow 'isn't your craft'. They said that their craft is about making …

Hey! I built a Lego technic car once 20 years ago. I am fully confident that I can build an actual road worthy electric vehicle. It's just a couple of edge cases and a bit bigger r…

Ah interesting. I have been using OpenCode more and more and I prefer it to Claude Code. I use OpenCode with Sonnet and/or Opus (among other models) with Bedrock, but paying metere…

Is this still the case? Is Anthropic still not allowing access to OpenCode?

Most AI agents have a 'bash mode' and, you can use Warp terminal which is terminal first, but easy to activate the AI from the terminal. For example, if you mangle a jq command, it…

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Yeah, whenever there are human subjects there is an IRB which is necessary. But, beyond that, we didn't participate in the market in any way. We wanted to see if there was bias the…

Using the Propser.com data set (a peer-to-peer lending market), I used MTurk to analyze the images of people applying for a loan. This was used in a finance research project with 3…

On the show Full House S05E25 the character Michelle was learning to cook. She made tuna flavored ice cream. Uncle Jesse says something to the effect of "It's great that you like t…

> The sprinkler defaults to off to conserve water as the system is potentially unmonitored and a burst pipe could cause issues. I had a friend in Australia who ran cattle on his fa…

It isn't clear that 'conserve water' is a reasonable default position. Perhaps 'keep doing what it was programmed to be doing' would be a better position?

Amazon's revenue in 2024 was about the size of Belgium's GDP. Higher than Sweden or Ireland. It makes a profit similar to Norway, without drilling for offshore oil or maintaining a…

I'm still on Carmen's Headline Viewer. I see no reason to swtich.

> "Blue text, while also a widely recognizable clickable-text indicator, is crass and distracting. Luckily, it is also rendered unnecessary by the use of underlining." Can someone …

Isn't that completely circular then? E.g. "if there are no technologies which change $X, then we predict that $X will stay the same."

I use the Warp terminal and I can ask it to run —-help and it figures it out

I just saw Weird Al in concert, and one of my favorite songs of his is "Everything You Know is Wrong." This is the AWS version of that song! Nice work Corey!

> It's more a combination of a lack of a meaningful train system Doesn't the USA have the world's largest and most cost-effective rail freight network? This seems meaningful.

> Until we get superhuman autonomous coding agents the human in the loop grokking the generated code is still the limiting factor. They never get tired, work for pennies, can searc…

This is super cool. When I was doing a lot of math-related typesetting I found that I got really fast with Emacs + AuCTeX. I have no idea of the state of that project, but if you w…