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Comment · 16 hours ago
It would be nice to have some context for each video, a summary of the comments that recommended it in the thumbnail tooltip?
Comment · 12 days ago
I am amazed and disappointed anyone here thought this was not sarcasm.
Comment · 12 days ago
The fact that Russia has access to LLMs that could decompile and explain this firmware ( and possibly even translate the explanation to Russian! ) is just another proof that this was definitely part of the hybrid war and Europe needs to spend a few more tens of billions on weapons and possibly impose restrictions on open weight LLMs.
Comment · 16 days ago
Maybe it had the widely known Aesop's fable in his training set, so this was a skewed evaluation.
Comment · 23 days ago
For the coup? Yes, Churchill/British Petroleum (Anglo-Iranian Petroleum Company before the rebranding to BP right after the coup) couldn't topple Mosaddegh and asked the CIA for help. Nationalized often means reverting transactions that could be seen as fraudulent, when powerful nations bribe/take advantage of poorly run developing countries/banana republics and suddenly own a large part of the natural resources that then no longer benefit the population. That is the type of communism the US was often afraid of - increasing literacy, healthcare, land reform at expense of foreign private companies.
Comment · 23 days ago
the Islamic Republic's rise is a consequence of a harsh authoritarian monarchy imposed on Iran by the US and the UK in 1953 (for oil obviously). Your turn.
Comment · 26 days ago
my bad, I had missed that word.
Comment · 26 days ago
There are many non-Chinese open weights models, just not very good ones.
Comment · 26 days ago
Comment · 1 month ago
just use torch/vllm/sglang/llama.cpp and the rest of the ecosystem, most have decent support for AMD, it's not that different from CUDA once you get it working (and it is much easier now than it used to)
Comment · 1 month ago
A snarky talk tldr could be

'Overrated Ruby programmer finally tries fast languages in domains they are clearly better suited to than Ruby, now that he does not need to write the code himself. He unsuprisingly draws the wrong conclusions and also inevitably mentions his Linux for techbros project, since this is his conference and his keynote.'

Comment · 1 month ago
voice cloning is a tool, it is not necessarily evil, even though the scenarios it can be used for nefarious purposes outnumber the legitimate ones.
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
Unsurprisingly, mammals (not just humans) also fear death and are very distressed when being lead to slaughter and seeing their peers go down before them.
Comment · 1 month ago
to be fair the majority of the statements that site mocks are not about bitcoin being dead but being a ponzi scheme, evil, hard to use by normal people, silly, a risky investment etc.

All are criticism that can be evaluated on their own but it's irrelevant how much bitcoin grew since they were made.

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