cbsmith

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Comment · 13 days ago
Agreed, though this appears to be much more than open weights.
Comment · 16 days ago
Missed opportunity to say "Kinds of kindness". ;-)
Comment · 1 month ago
Yeah, but only the Rust guys are right. ;-)
Comment · 1 month ago
What could possibly go wrong? ;-)
Comment · 1 month ago
I kind of like the whole Paramount acquisition as something that is just going to drag them down.
Comment · 1 month ago
Anyone else immediately think "Clippy for developers".
Comment · 2 months ago
I thought we all moved over to Niquests and/or aiocquic and HTTP/3 these days.
Comment · 2 months ago
"my bet is that close to no one knows what the acronym BDD stands for".

That's disconcerting. Software engineers ought to know.

Comment · 2 months ago
As a guy named Chris Smith, I can tell you, people do absolutely "match people on first and last name", and it causes me no end of trouble.
Comment · 2 months ago
> I don’t know if that’s true. More schooling does not mean more trustworthy or careful doctors. And I suspect some negative trait selection.

The medical boards are well aware of this, which is why the standards are far more than just about having more schooling.

I am familiar with Friendman's dissertation, and while the economic claims it makes are solid, it isn't a take down about the medical impact of the boards. It really doesn't say one thing or another about them. Let's put it this way: if you are going to inflate the cost of a service, it's hard if the quality of the service is terrible and easily replicated by someone else.

Comment · 2 months ago
Everything old is new again. ;-)
Comment · 3 months ago
The article concedes that there is a minimum power consumption. Thinking that therefore defines your generation strategy (e.g. I will have plants that constantly generate that minimum amount and the rest I'll handle with separate peak plants) is a myth.
Comment · 3 months ago
...because they have other goals beyond reduce carbon emissions.
Comment · 4 months ago
Better a financial barrier than a physical one. If satellites and spaceships are literally smashing in to each other, I have a hard time interpreting it as anything other than a regulatory failure.
Comment · 4 months ago
Are there other OSS LLMOps projects that have overtaken you? I couldn't think of one.

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