Posts by Amy
"My agent act weird after I lose my Temper"
Un-fucking-believeable
I'm not thinking about us well-paid western software engineers, a lot of us could afford to make those investments as tools of our trade. I'm thinking more about the general public.
I think that's true to an extent, but consider the hardware requirements of even something like the ~80B Qwen 3 models. Even if they were comparable to Sonnet/Flash/etc, the mac minis people are running them on are 10 years ahead of what most people have on their desk.
It's like trying to explain that a Bagger 288 is out of service and they're going "oh that's fine, my builder friend has an excavator so he can probably help".
A big part of it is people are accustomed to thinking "oh it'll run a bit slower" or "I'll have less space" and thinking that's still fine for their needs. The baseline hardware requirements for an 800 billion parameter model are simply beyond the average person's experience.
This book "Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents" by Lindsay C. Gibson was a very educational and insightful book. I learned a lot about myself and it taught me about what I lacked when growing up, especially being a gay child, but also in my adult life in relations with family.
#booksky
Yeah I read this a few years ago too, had a similar experience. Cannot recommend it enough to anyone who had that unfortunate spawn point in life.
This is the kind of crime you should get a cool amount of time for. "Yeah bear suit, they put me in the slammer for a week"
There's a texan guy on one of the solar subreddits that started a business doing exactly this type of installation and posts a lot of the finished projects. It's so popular he can't scale it up quick enough.
After living in the netherlands for a few years it's unfathomable to me that the world should be any other way. Every single "well ackshually" argument crumbles to dust once you've been accustomed to living this way.
Interstellar in Major
There is no world in which you're prepared for how incredible this is
There's some rot economy here you might want to look at with ASML. www.reddit.com/r/ASML/comme...
Massive layoff/restructuring plan that's run aground. Projects 6+ months behind schedule, staff totally checked out, featuring best friends McKinsey completely fucking it up too.
realest shit i've ever read
7.30pm: *slaps knees* right, better get the day started
it was an option to be beautiful.
Hey I tried this and it didn't work, can you check again plz
youtu.be/zVcY6PrdJ5c?... Not a minute of OWL held a candle to this
I was in the competitive TF2 scene during the golden era and knew a lot of folks that got involved as players or on the operations side of OWL. It was staggering how joyless they all were about it, compared to the decade or more many had given TF with no real expectation it could ever make money.
The _average_ speed of a cyclist in Amsterdam is 17 km/h and Ebikes only assist up to 25 km/h. It's more about covering longer distances without being sweaty and tired when you get where you're going than speed. A study a couple years ago showed they mostly replaced short car trips.
Amsterdam's not banning ebikes, it's just the Dutch version of pandering to pensioners moaning about "kids these days". Fatbikes are a problem, but mostly it's just them being modified in ways that are already illegal.
Transgender Activists Petition White House for Nuclear Weapons Access
This kind of training exists as liability insurance. No one in the field is under any impression it works, it just lets them scapegoat you if something bad happens so they don't have to acknowledge systemic faults beyond "don't hire that dumbass next time".
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
I understand the point you're making and I do agree, I just wouldn't count "if it fails then our care is worse" as an unforeseeable externality in the decision making to put our hypothetical hospital's record system in the cloud. The hospital chose saving money over savings lives in a crisis.
You're also still leaving the "why the are the military hiding inside the civilian data center" question on the table too.
Medicine was one of the last fields to digitise, and many medical systems around the world still maintain and test paper/analog backup for their digital systems. You could bomb every data center in the UK and the hospitals and ambulance services would still work, they train this scenario regularly.