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  1. Comment on Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget in ~comp

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    this article is relatively old now (LLM stuff moves frighteningly fast) but I'd assume still quite accurate. tl;dr: "The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), a powerful internet overseer, has...

    this article is relatively old now (LLM stuff moves frighteningly fast) but I'd assume still quite accurate. tl;dr:
    "The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), a powerful internet overseer, has forced large tech companies and AI start-ups including ByteDance, Alibaba, Moonshot and 01.AI to take part in a mandatory government review of their AI models, according to multiple people involved in the process."

    2 votes
  2. Comment on What are some traditional internet forums that you still use? in ~tech

  3. Comment on US DeepSeek users could face million-dollar fine and prison time under proposed bill in ~society

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    "could" is doing a lot of work here, the bill has 0 chance of passing and is not seriously designed to be anything more than a stunt, so why let it attract attention?

    "could" is doing a lot of work here, the bill has 0 chance of passing and is not seriously designed to be anything more than a stunt, so why let it attract attention?

    14 votes
  4. Comment on Book recommendations for regular people living through fascist/authoritarian regimes? in ~books

  5. Comment on DeepSeek’s safety guardrails failed every test researchers threw at its AI chatbot in ~tech

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    llamafiles do this! They also use a really cool trick to be platform agnostic

    You technically could wrap the weights in a binary-only executable

    llamafiles do this!
    They also use a really cool trick to be platform agnostic

    5 votes
  6. Comment on Why is AI slop so easy to spot but hard to detect? in ~tech

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    I guess it depends how you define AI slop, but if you're talking about AI content in general then this'd just be due to having no way of measuring false negatives and so you can't assess your...

    I guess it depends how you define AI slop, but if you're talking about AI content in general then this'd just be due to having no way of measuring false negatives and so you can't assess your accuracy properly.
    Also if you have a sufficiently large corpus you can do frequency analysis, as certain phrases are much more common

    15 votes
  7. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I've been trying to learn about compression algorithms as a prelude to implementing some file formats. So far I've implemented run-length encoding and have an arithmetic coding implementation...

    I've been trying to learn about compression algorithms as a prelude to implementing some file formats. So far I've implemented run-length encoding and have an arithmetic coding implementation which I'm currently debugging

    3 votes
  8. Comment on What are some accidental life hacks you've stumbled into? in ~talk

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    the "jeopardy passwords" is a very good idea, it's pretty much the recommended thing second to using random gibberish and a password manager. It was popularised by this xkcd and is sometimes...

    the "jeopardy passwords" is a very good idea, it's pretty much the recommended thing second to using random gibberish and a password manager. It was popularised by this xkcd and is sometimes called diceware

    8 votes
  9. Comment on MOS brings macOS' smooth scrolling to any mouse in ~tech

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    If the author is talking about what I think they are, something similar exists on the MX Master mice, and I really enjoy using it

    If the author is talking about what I think they are, something similar exists on the MX Master mice, and I really enjoy using it

    5 votes
  10. Comment on What's a charity/organization that you donate to regularly? in ~talk

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    Archive.org GiveWell, which I think is very important and more people should consider switching their donations to

    Archive.org
    GiveWell, which I think is very important and more people should consider switching their donations to

    11 votes
  11. Comment on Considerations on rent control in ~finance

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    I don't think this exactly works on the other side of the analogy, so this is a minor nitpick, but in the case of harvest failure, price increases could incentivise storage for the next time a...

    I don't think this exactly works on the other side of the analogy, so this is a minor nitpick, but in the case of harvest failure, price increases could incentivise storage for the next time a harvest fails, or diverting capacity from other less important uses where alternatives can replace it (if these exist)

    5 votes
  12. Comment on SpaceX says its Starship rocket broke up mid-flight as debris videos emerge online in ~space

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    This has been around for a bit, it might have been popularised by SpaceX but it probably originated during the space race

    rapid unscheduled disassembly

    This has been around for a bit, it might have been popularised by SpaceX but it probably originated during the space race

    18 votes
  13. Comment on I need some help with the sciency bit of my short story in ~creative

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    btw 25,512 is not 1.5x earth's diameter, 1.5x earth's diameter would be closer to 19,000km (I think you put down 2x earth's diameter)

    btw 25,512 is not 1.5x earth's diameter, 1.5x earth's diameter would be closer to 19,000km (I think you put down 2x earth's diameter)

    5 votes
  14. Comment on What significant dates from fiction have we reached? in ~books

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    the Bell Riots from Star trek were last year (star trek had novels, so that counts right?)

    the Bell Riots from Star trek were last year (star trek had novels, so that counts right?)

    19 votes
  15. Comment on USA: Metrics for a presidential report card in ~society

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    Oh also in addition US has stuff devolved to the states which makes it even more messy for some things

    Oh also in addition US has stuff devolved to the states which makes it even more messy for some things

    7 votes
  16. Comment on USA: Metrics for a presidential report card in ~society

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    One thing that I dislike about this idea is that it overrates the powers of the executive. There are 3 branches of government, and acting like the president is some sort of dictator undermines...

    One thing that I dislike about this idea is that it overrates the powers of the executive. There are 3 branches of government, and acting like the president is some sort of dictator undermines checks on the others, and allows blame to be shifted. Secondly, you should really be comparing against the counterfactual of what would've happened with some other president (maybe comparing against other countries is a good proxy), as blaming a president for (e.g.) a pandemic's effect on the economy feels unfair to me, even if you can blame their handling of it

    13 votes
  17. Comment on Lawsuit reveals how colleges really talk about rich applicants in ~life

  18. Comment on Elon Musk’s attack on F-35s fuels debate over expensive fighter jets in ~society

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    He'd probably just encourage use of tech made by businesses he's friends with, e.g. Anduril's drones

    He'd probably just encourage use of tech made by businesses he's friends with, e.g. Anduril's drones

    2 votes