terribleperson

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Comment · 2 days ago
Copyright doesn't care whether it's expensive. The fact that someone else, with the infrastructure and training data could get the same or almost the same weights makes it obvious there's no human originality in the weights, which means they aren't eligible for copyright. Some aspect of the infrastructure or processing of the training data might be copyrightable (or patentable), but the weights themselves? No human originality. No copyright.
Comment · 5 days ago
Oh, I'm not saying it wasn't awful. I'm just saying that generally speaking, rural living involved more backbreaking labor than city living.
Comment · 6 days ago
Bookmarks are so badly neglected tabs might be preferable. Firefox mobile doesn't even allow you to tag new bookmarks.
Comment · 6 days ago
Urban women definitely had easier lives. In a certain class, of course, you had a servant, but even below that professional laundresses existed. Only the poorest did all of their own laundry.

This extends to a whole lot of things. Rural life historically meant having to do much of what you need yourself.

Comment · 8 days ago
This is probably my favorite metaphor in this thread. Most of the others feel fairly stretched, but this one is less concerned with matching something in the real world 1:1, and I think as a result is clearer.
Comment · 11 days ago
The idea that any LLM trained on public data in 2026 or later could be invisibly poisoned in multiple ways by multiple parties is horrifying.

If it actually works that way, I think it's almost guaranteed organizations and people will be doing it, and soon.

Comment · 15 days ago
PTM is still all the rage, but liquid metal is more marketable.

Of the latest gen of AMD GPUs, a bunch used PTM.

Comment · 16 days ago
Comment · 16 days ago
Did you throw it into ChatGPT 5.6 pro? Some people claim 5.6 is smarter than 6.
Comment · 20 days ago
0.82g/lb of lean body mass is a ton of protein compared to any normal diet. That's like 5 scoops of whey protein powder for a 180lb person.
Comment · 21 days ago
I think almost the exact opposite. They want open models. Without credible open models, they only have a few customers, and those customers have leverage against nvidia. With open models, they have tons of customers, and nvidia has all the leverage.

Smaller customers are also less able to develop their own hardware and threaten NVidia's business.

Comment · 21 days ago
I wonder if that shielding would show up in WiFi imaging techniques.
Comment · 24 days ago
China produces roasted unrefined rapeseed oil (caizyou) from low erucic acid rapeseed these days. It might just be for export, but it exists.
Comment · 24 days ago
I don't even know what I lost it for. I was talking about Dwarf Fortress, trying to help someone backport a dfhack script to fix a bug (I was the author of the script). Next thing I know the post was deleted by admins and I was banned. Did an appeal but I didn't get a response.

Also, it's true. In some subs I swear a third of the comments are obvious bots. I don't think the admins care - as long as the officials user numbers keep going up, they're happy.

Comment · 24 days ago
At some point in the recent (last few years) past, reddit account bans became a fully-automated process with no oversight. Unfortunately, that leads to people getting banned for nothing. That happened to me.

In this case, you did violate reddiquette. Historically, you were expected to make 10 posts in a subreddit for every one self promo post. But violation of this usually led to a subreddit ban, not to a reddit ban. Also, no one actually cares about reddiquette anymore, not even Reddit.

I expect that they auto-ban self promos these days because they want people to pay for ads.

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