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this as well as pickle files will likely be unavailable

pickle files are usually the limiter here. I would be surprised if it can handle pickle files since it relies so much on runtime LUTs of the objects and arbitrary object definitions. This usually doesn't work in other use cases such as swig or cython either IIRC.

To assess where a event betting platform has placed their lines is in no way useful here. Perhaps you are only fishing for people to pile onto the other side of a bet you made or helping you to feel well about this bet you chose to make which would be an inappropriate use of this platform.

Open weights are only valuable to people who have access to expensive hardware to run them on. Treating Anthropic as a service that lets you rent such hardware (there are multiple products that a single token operates on) is also where Anthropics investment and reinvestment applies.

This is a personality difference. People who notice their surroundings and seek to improve them. People who are content with the way they are. People who are more type-A, DIY, etc. People who don't know the difference btwn a phillips vs flathead,etc.

This is something that is hard for people to factor in when decision making. Optimism will blind us from considering such a tragedy since not only was there buy-in on the home, there was buy-in on the future trajectory of the company you decided to work for.

A gist I (claude) threw together that maps this color scheme on hexl-mode. https://gist.github.com/zacharyasmith/bcfd91c9685c6cec30385a...

A gist I (claude) threw together that maps this color scheme on hexl-mode. https://gist.github.com/zacharyasmith/bcfd91c9685c6cec30385a...

I read the book but don't recall any correlation to the topic of solar system alignment. Spoiler: Era 3 in the novel does speak of space exploration but this is all before the launches of Voyager (though Sputnik had launched by the books release IIRC).

LVDS implies differential signals and are designed to minimize EMI and can be hard to splice while still maintaining signal integrity. They can support high data rates (ethernet cables also use twisted pair LVDS). Theoretically this should be feasible up to 100s or even 1000s of mbps

Please read through this incredible book review (book is All Things Are Full of Gods by David Bentley Hart). It is the kind of philosophy that everyone is looking past. Syntactic vs informational determinacy. LLMs is designed to create copy that is syntactically determinate (it is a complex set of statistics functions). Whereas the best human prose actually is the opposite--it does not converge on syntactic determinacy (see quote below) but instead converges on informational determinacy. The plot resolves as the reader's knowledge grows from abstraction and ignorance to empathy, insight and anticipation.

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/one-to-zero

  Semantic information, you see, obeys a contrary calculus to that of physical bits. As it increases in determinacy, so its syntactical form increases in indeterminacy; the more exact and intentionally informed semantic information is, the more aperiodic and syntactically random its physical transmission becomes, and the more it eludes compression. I mean, the text of Anna Karenina is, from a purely quantitative vantage of its alphabetic sequences, utterly random; no algorithm could possibly be generated — at least, none that’s conceivable — that could reproduce it. And yet, at the semantic level, the richness and determinacy of the content of the book increases with each aperiodic arrangement of letters and words into coherent meaning.

In other words, it is impossible for an LLM (or monkeys at keyboards [0]) to recreate Tolstoy because of the unique role our minds play in writing. The verb writing hardly appears to apply to an LLM when we consider the function it is actually doing.

[0] https://libraryofbabel.info

Go thee to the land of government contracting and see thou how well thine ideas hold up.

consider how the xz supply-chain attack occurred 2 years ago [0]. the malware isn't auditable with a `git clone` as easily as you might want.

[0] https://research.swtch.com/xz-timeline

key word "encourages"

when someone uses `npm install/add/whatever-verb` does it default to only using trusted publishing sources? and the dependency graph?

either 100% enforcement or it won't stick and these attack vulnerabilities are still there.

The DIY tuning fork clock is very cool. I am hard pressed to understand why accutron doesn't still make and sell tuning-fork watches. I really admire the creative use of resonance frequencies (not dissimilar to quartz watches but cool that you can really see the tuning fork for you watch as opposed to a diminutive quartz crystal).

I would be very careful of transmitting on the same frequency as WWVB. It is very likely illegal.

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman is the book that comes to mind with this article link. 2 years ago my wife and I took the TV off the wall. My kids don't have Bluey or the latest Disney cartoon to keep them company. I am not going back... It has been the most blissful time. Amazing that the TV is not required to lead a thriving life despite what the incessant sales-industrial-complex will tell you.

I tried to do this recently but discovered that the DRM algorithm changed and I couldn't use the standard de-DRM tools.

It is a Linux variant. Has been rootable in the past.

USB ethernet tether might be the “how” here. Or some sort of VPN (tailscale) to the home LAN that the phone is hooked up to. Not quite “off-grid”.

What is the functional difference? unzip is installed as a default on linux distros just as tar is...

The more pedantic compiler flags you introduce, the more strongly typed it becomes.

I have been using grist [0] for a number of months. Self-hosted. Uses Python and has defined all common Excel functions as Python functions. Has a web-api so it can be used as a kind of database. Very nice for my small use-cases where Excel would have fit the bill. I have not stress tested it and I know there are row limitations without going to the enterprise edition.

0: https://www.getgrist.com/

On iOS install ReadKit which can interact with a very nice interface to FreshRSS. I self-host FreshRSS and it works perfectly, syncing with the server so when I go to the computer, it is up-to-date with what I have opened. I do not know if ReadKit is on Android.

emacs org mode… anything else needed?

He was an early detractor of Freud for example. Forgive me for not keeping my sources.

There are better apps. You want one that supports library exports if/when they also "discontinue" their services. I use pocketcasts.

Correct. I do not open amazon e-books in the Kindle app. I jailbroke my kindle to allow for OPDS connection to my calibre server, and put it in airplane mode when not copying books from the server.

Firewall is used as a metaphor as it was in networking parlance. What is in the firewall I can trust. I do not trust pirated content. Period.

I think C.S. Lewis is right in a lot of this. How much of ourselves do we give up in pursuit of being "in the circle", "in the know", "with those important folks"?

He extends this philosophy in science-fiction/novel form in _That Hideous Strength_[1].

[1] https://a.co/d/4MuVdWD