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New comment by thelastparadise in "Emotional support across adulthood: A 60-year study of men’s social networks"

thelastparadise — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 19:50:37 +0000

I had two, then only one once the liquor store down road closed up shop.

New comment by thelastparadise in "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL"

thelastparadise — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 19:33:37 +0000

But do we know that the same techniques won't scale if trained in the huge clusters?

New comment by thelastparadise in "ChatGPT Pro"

thelastparadise — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 21:22:09 +0000

The megga disappointment is o1 is performing worse than o1-preview [1], and claude 3.6 had already nearly caught up to o1-preview.

1. https://x.com/nrehiew_/status/1864763064374976928

New comment by thelastparadise in "ChatGPT Pro"

thelastparadise — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 21:20:03 +0000

I could a car for that kind of money!

New comment by thelastparadise in "ChatGPT Pro"

thelastparadise — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 21:19:43 +0000

Is it working?

New comment by thelastparadise in "Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network'"

thelastparadise — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:15:11 +0000

Do they denied their surgery or did they get it but bankrupt after?

New comment by thelastparadise in "Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network'"

thelastparadise — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:13:07 +0000

What do you should be done with him then?

New comment by thelastparadise in "Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support"

thelastparadise — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:36:27 +0000

So what you're saying is Intel, or any other would-be NVIDIA competitor, needs to put out fast interconnects, not just compute cards. This is true.

I'm not sure your argument stands when it comes to OP's idea of a single card with 128GB VRAM. This would be enough to run ~180B models with reasonable quantization --we're not near maxing out the capability of 180B yet (see the latest 32B models performing near public SOTA).

This indeed would push rapid and wide adoption and be quite disruptive. But sure, it wouldn't instantly enable competitive training of 405B models.

New comment by thelastparadise in "Raspberry Pi boosts Pi 5 performance with SDRAM tuning"

thelastparadise — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:07:39 +0000

Thank you.

No one ever talks about just how easy it is to add GPIO to anything.

New comment by thelastparadise in "Engineering Sleep"

thelastparadise — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 14:52:03 +0000

Yeah, this is is true. I've been taking for 3 months now --best consistent sleep of my life, but definitely occasionally the most terrifying sleep paralysis I've ever experienced, or even heard of.

I know it sounds ridiculous, but ~1-2 nights of absolute terror per week is totally worth it compared to how it used to be (getting maybe ~1 good night of sleep every couple weeks.)

New comment by thelastparadise in "Performance improvement plans are on the rise"

thelastparadise — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 22:35:32 +0000

If they did that to me I would take it as a sign of disrespect and resign immediately.

Oops now you gotta hire a new one.

New comment by thelastparadise in "Performance improvement plans are on the rise"

thelastparadise — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 22:32:37 +0000

Several cases like this on here. These would be valid wrongful termination lawsuits.

New comment by thelastparadise in "Performance improvement plans are on the rise"

thelastparadise — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 22:30:54 +0000

Lol. Wonder how often toxic teams end up PIPing the actually highest performing people on the team, leading to a salt lake effect and slowly dieing corporation.

New comment by thelastparadise in "Model Context Protocol"

thelastparadise — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 22:11:12 +0000

Your point about boilerplate is key, and it’s why I think MCP could work well despite some of the concerns raised. Right now, so many of us are writing redundant integrations or reinventing the same abstractions for tool usage and context management. Even if the first iteration of MCP feels broad or clunky, standardizing this layer could massively reduce friction over time.

Regarding the standalone servers, I suspect they’re aiming for usability over elegance in the short term. It’s a classic trade-off: get the protocol in people’s hands to build momentum, then refine the developer experience later.

New comment by thelastparadise in "OpenMPTCProuter: Aggregate and encrypt multiple internet connections using MPTCP"

thelastparadise — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 16:09:00 +0000

That is done with multiwan in opnsense or mwan3 in openwrt.

New comment by thelastparadise in "Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs"

thelastparadise — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:24:34 +0000

So no computer use (pixel-level understanding).

That's disappointing as the devtools approach always has limitations.

Kura agents, Runner H, and scrapybara will all end up more reliable than you.

New comment by thelastparadise in "YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs"

thelastparadise — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:12:26 +0000

YouTube no longer has a monopoly on internet video distribution. If you notice, all the major platforms now have good support for direct posting of videos.

Further, it's now easier than ever to decouple one's online life from google and so anyone not doing so is taking unnecessary risk.

New comment by thelastparadise in "IMG_0416"

thelastparadise — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 22:04:31 +0000

Likewise. Got an error at first, then it was working fine.

New comment by thelastparadise in "Boycott men? South Korea's 4B movement gains traction in the U.S."

thelastparadise — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 18:16:41 +0000

This can't be real.

New comment by thelastparadise in "Starship's Sixth Flight Test"

thelastparadise — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 21:13:58 +0000

This kind of thing is why I got into engineering in the first place.

There's so much more to it than money.