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cjtrowbridge··on Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone
It's just an innovated (enshittified) version of Facebook's free 405b model.
cjtrowbridge··on MobileLLM: Optimizing Sub-Billion Parameter Language Models for On-Device Use
Llama-3-8b runs fine on raspberry pi
cjtrowbridge··on MobileLLM: Optimizing Sub-Billion Parameter Language Models for On-Device Use
Why no mmlu or gsm8k?
cjtrowbridge··on Build and train GPT-2 from scratch using PyTorch
Also check out Andrej's new llm.c library which includes a script to do this from scratch with fineweb.
cjtrowbridge··on Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys
I also have a Kokoni. He has a doll that looks just like him since he was born. Sometimes he will pose it to be doing things you tell him to do that he doesn't want to do. So wild to see.
cjtrowbridge··on Czech news crew in SF covering APEC robbed at gunpoint while filming
Welcome!
cjtrowbridge··on Companies that use PHP and pay well
It's literally 80% of the internet
cjtrowbridge··on Companies that use PHP and pay well
Over 80% of the internet is written in PHP
cjtrowbridge··on CD Projekt staff form union after layoffs
Good. Every workplace should be a union workplace.
cjtrowbridge··on Custom instructions for ChatGPT
It doesn't have to be able to actually quietly think in order to act like it does and give a very different kind of response as a result.
cjtrowbridge··on LLM Constellation
There are thousands on hugging face but if you look at their leaderboards for all the metrics, almost all of them are garbage. A small number really stand out.
cjtrowbridge··on Show HN: Explore large language models with 512MB of RAM
That's not what this is.
cjtrowbridge··on Starbucks illegally withheld raises and tips from union workers, NLRB says
Yes and, not no but.
cjtrowbridge··on Cadillac Ranch
It's so cute. One of my favorite parts of driving the 40.
cjtrowbridge··on TikTok says it has 150M US users amid renewed calls for a ban
Yea great point. If everything about the reality of the story was completely different; then the argument would make sense.
cjtrowbridge··on TikTok says it has 150M US users amid renewed calls for a ban
Every part of your argument is more true of Facebook, Google, and Amazon than TikTok. Platforms like Facebook actively sold the ability to influence US elections while enabling genocides around the world. TikTok has never done anything like that. Your argument is just baseless sinophobia and misdirected rage that would be more accurately aimed at American companies.
cjtrowbridge··on SVB collapse: Peter Thiel’s role scrutinized as spark of bank run
That's the same thing.
cjtrowbridge··on SVB collapse: Peter Thiel’s role scrutinized as spark of bank run
Why don't you go try to start something like that and tell us how your ideas work out in real life.
cjtrowbridge··on SVB collapse: Peter Thiel’s role scrutinized as spark of bank run
Because that's not how banking works. They aren't allowed to get a loan to cover liquidity obligations. They have to sell assets which takes time. If Peter Thiel starts screaming for everyone to withdraw their money, the bank can't keep up, and the FDIC steps in.
cjtrowbridge··on SVB collapse: Peter Thiel’s role scrutinized as spark of bank run
By that logic, all banks are unsound. It's not turtles all the way down, and pretending the guilty party is blameless because "someone else would have done it" is nonsense.
cjtrowbridge··on SVB collapse: Peter Thiel’s role scrutinized as spark of bank run
That's literally what they did that triggered the FDIC to take over. Assets are not always liquid though. It takes time to prematurely sell 46 billion of bonds, and it comes with a huge cost.
cjtrowbridge··on SVB collapse: Peter Thiel’s role scrutinized as spark of bank run
SVB was never "unsound." They had plenty of assets to cover all their deposits and plenty of cash to cover normal withdrawals. If not for people like Peter calling for a bank run, SVB would still be in business today.
cjtrowbridge··on Scientists generate XX and XY cells from a person with Klinefelter syndrome
It is. And that quote is correct.

There's two problems here. One is that XX/XY is not even a majority of the common human chromosome karyotypes, and changing karyotypes does not change someone's sex characteristics; those are determined at one specific moment during gestation, which may or may not be affected by changing the chromosomes beforehand, but certainly would not be affected by changing their chromosomes after that moment. Primary and secondary sex characteristics are determined by androgen metabolism, not by chromosome karyotypes.

Secondly most of the human karyotypes are not assigned a sex until some time after birth, and XY is often assigned female at birth because the divergence of homologous structures depends on androgen metabolism, not chromosome karyotype. Sex and gender don't exist for cell lines in the same way they do for people.

TL/DR; This is an article about a study that found they could change a cell line's karyotype, not a person's sex characteristics which are determined not by chromosome karyotypes but by androgen metabolism during gestation. Whoever wrote the headline didn't understand the topic.

cjtrowbridge··on Scientists generate XX and XY cells from a person with Klinefelter syndrome
The article title is a factually incorrect representation of the study being discussed. If you read the article and the study, you'll see the study was about changing chromosomes in a cell line, not about changing the sex of a person.

Everything about primary and secondary sex characteristics would not be affected by changing someone's chromosomes. Homologous sex structures diverge before birth based primarily on dht metabolism. Even then, chromosome expression doesn't always determine how dht will metabolize, meaning whatever chromosomes a person has can still lead to someone having any kind of primary and secondary sex characteristics. The six most common sex chromosome patterns in humans are XX, XY, XXY, XYY, X, and XXXY (in that order).

Sex and gender are both far more complex than merely chromosome expression, and chromosome expression is anything but a binary. This study has nothing to do with being male or female.

cjtrowbridge··on Repairing Your Car in Your Own Garage Is Considered Illegal in Sacramento, CA
There are no laws that are actually fully enforced. The choice of when and where to enforce what rules falls to whoever is in charge of enforcement, and they use the rules only when it helps to enforce the unspoken and unwritten rules in society. The role of rule-enforcement in society is to punish whatever the individual agent perceives as deviance, not to enforce the law or to "serve and protect."
cjtrowbridge··on Apple TV+ to adapt William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel Neuromancer
I am terrified of what they will do with it, but foundation was good.
cjtrowbridge··on Use a laptop as a 2nd display on Linux using FreeRDP
There are a lot of approaches to this across all platforms including Windows;

https://alternativeto.net/software/maxivista/

cjtrowbridge··on Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music
Do you have any sources for more information about this?
cjtrowbridge··on If PHP Were British (2011)
I started writing an includable file to make all of these functions work, but I can't figure out a way to override or replicated if/then as perchance/otherwise.

With something like string_replace() it's easy to simply write a new function and redirect the parameters.

Is it possible to replicate the way if/then works with other code; like not just a function but then a series of code blocks in braces?

cjtrowbridge··on Westinghouse sees a tech disrupter in its eVinci microreactor
The soviets used nuclear power plants to build citrus greenhouses in the arctic; becoming a global-scale exporter of a crop that dies if it freezes and growing it in temperatures of -30.
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