metasj

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Sam Klein. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:sj
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Comment · 1 year ago
Sounds like something r/datahoarders would be / may already be into.
Comment · 1 year ago
Every such provider likes to play games with who they give good rates to or who they exclude altogether from their network. People said the same about cellular access and it's still far too expensive for most people in most rural areas.
Comment · 1 year ago
At the least you need storage for the content ($10-20), and a physical device to read it off of ($20-40). If your community has lots of computers with no wireless antennas (old servers), USB keys that can be passed around make sense. If you have lots of mobile devices with wireless (phones or tablets), a hotspot like this makes sense and can be used by dozens of people at once.

In practice USB keys run a slightly higher risk of being wiped and repurposed for personal storage. Some IIAB users glue the SD card into their socket for that reason, making it take a lot longer to swap out.

Comment · 1 year ago
There's also a longer overview here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internet-in-a-Box

And (when supplies return) you can get one in a 3d-printed box with Wikipedia pre-installed here: https://store.wikimedia.org/products/internet-in-a-box

Sustained by a wonderful international community of builders, authors, and translators (and always looking for more to join in)

Comment · 1 year ago
A year in, seems more like a scam. Surprised to see such credulous coverage in Wired.
Comment · 2 years ago
At 5 cents per neuron with 4o-mini, for pretty satisfying descriptions.

"we fine-tune Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct to directly predict per-token activations ... [this] allows us to use smaller models, and the task of directly predicting the output (integer from 0-10) gets rid of the extra tokens, making the prompt much shorter."

Comment · 3 years ago
The schema migrations are a delight. And I appreciate the shoutout to Dabble! Thanks for working on this + congrats on the release.

An optimized hosted version with permalinks to Explorer views would open access to even more users.

Comment · 4 years ago
Chain effects are strong with this one. This seems significantly better than GPT-Instruct.
Comment · 4 years ago
Very nice work indeed.
Comment · 4 years ago
Some journeys never truly (truly never) end -- what a lovely compilation and reflection. The best books and the best adventures share a certain feel.
Comment · 5 years ago
This is almost exactly backwards. Half of the staff work on tech. https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/staff-contractors/

2005-2008 was extraordinary from this standpoint, no question. A reminder of what a small group can accomplish with a vision that brings together a community ready to rewrite the world, from the ground up if need be.

Comment · 5 years ago
Nice (& same!) How do you use it that you couldn't use dbpedia?
Comment · 6 years ago
Dark times indeed.
Comment · 6 years ago

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