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Comment · 9 days ago
Why would companies withdraw licensing agreements? They get money from Nvidia and also from the consumer that has to buy the game separately.

They certainly aren't launching it on a different game-streaming service or intending to compete with it. Withdrawing doesn't make customers buy more of their games either - probably less.

So why would they be withdrawing from licensing agreements that are effectively free money for them?

Comment · 25 days ago
I used half my nations energy for a day and discovered the cure to cancer! I tested it thoroughly, and it works - you put the petri dish in the oven (300C for 30mins) and the cancer is destroyed!
Comment · 3 months ago
Ah, I thought it was opt-out and hidden by default now. (For new accounts, that is)
Comment · 4 months ago
It's a good idea. But this would no longer work now that Reddit hides post history, right? Or does the API still provide a user's post history?

You'd basically need to be pulling all the data for all the subreddits, and then recreate a user's partial post/comment history from that.

Comment · 4 months ago
How did you manage to uncover the operation? Is there any things that tipped you off? Is it like, accounts only posting on a precise subset of subs, or how much a network of accounts reply to each other? Or too much linking/references to products, or perfect spelling/identical consistent typos?

I'm curious because it feels like it could be built into a tool to analyse - even if it does become a bit of an arms race.

Comment · 6 months ago
I think he must have sworn off any v3 after MS-DOSv3.
Comment · 7 months ago
It's also a pretty silly thing to say difficulty = tokens. We all know line counts don't tell you much, and it shows in their own example.

Even if you did have Math-like tokenisation, refactoring a thousand lines of "X=..." to "Y=..." isnt a difficult problem even though it would be at least a thousand tokens. And if you could come up with E=mc^2 in a thousand tokens, does not make the two tasks remotely comparable difficulty.

Comment · 9 months ago
Is this sarcasm? Not that Trump's word means anything, but Trump has been against it since his first term. Having cancelled it temporarily in that first term, has said that he'll end H1B if he gets reelected, and that US shouldn't have the H1B program.

It's only since 2025 when Elon was in his good books and told Republicans to not vote for a bill that Trump woke up that day and decided he'd be pro-H1B.

Comment · 9 months ago
English isn't your first language right?
Comment · 10 months ago
Could do something funky like convert it to grayscale, add a 4th "colour" channel and put the grayscale image it that
Comment · 10 months ago
What are the quotes? I don't understand, some of them are just a single word like "Art", "Autoimmune", "Cartoons"; or innocuous phrases with no context.

What am I supposed to understand from this?

Comment · 10 months ago
The first two talks are in the "Ethics, Society & Politics" category, and the third in the "Art & Beauty" category. Why would they need to be about computing?

It's a big organisation, and politics is wrapped up in what they do, along with the post-WWII Antifaschism culture in Germany.

Even if it weren't the case, I don't get why attack them for helping stand up for democracy, something in dire need of advocacy these days

Comment · 1 year ago
No I don't think it's the bits. I would say it's the computation. Inference requires performing a lot of matmul, and with more tokens the number of computation operations increases exponentially - O(n^2) at least. So increasing your context/conversation will quickly degrade performance

I seriously doubt it's the throughput of memory during inference that's the bottleneck here.

Comment · 1 year ago
What do you mean? Is mRNA not used to produce the enzyme that these comments mentioned? I don't think they were saying mRNA is gene editing itself. Just commenting on a modified mRNA helping the process compared to normal mRNA. Might be misunderstanding though so correct me if I am
Comment · 1 year ago
Japan's WWII history is uniquely bad but they don't learn about it.

Can threaten authors with treason for negative books like he did in an EO recently. Change school curriculums. Then Maga can start revising history..

Was the 2025 recession from tarrifs? Nah it was Biden's inflation, or Ukraine aid. Actually.. didn't China impose tarrifs on US and US just reciprocated?

The reality will be altered and murky

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