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timmmmmmay··on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
No, but you can compare it to the similarly-sized Gemma4 model and see the difference, it's not subtle
timmmmmmay··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
I don't think you can characterize the discussion around then as simple calling for caution. There was a serious attempt to keep all access to even very basic LLM techniques locked into essentially an exclusive guild.
timmmmmmay··on ASRock 4U16X-GNR2 packs 8 B300 GPUs, demands liquid cooling
entire post is an AI rewrite of this article: https://www.servethehome.com/asrock-rack-4u16x-gnr2-nvidia-h...
timmmmmmay··on AI companies are shredding rare books
so... not rare, then? another fear mongering article lying to everyone.
timmmmmmay··on Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake
SpaceX has had multiple share classes the entire time, what are you talking about? pre-IPO there was a third Class C with no voting rights at all, these got converted to Class A
timmmmmmay··on I think you might be fooling yourself with AI
what evidence? more than half of social science studies fail to replicate, why would I believe that this one is in the good half?
timmmmmmay··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
this is fun! I'm excited to see what they'll ban two weeks from now
timmmmmmay··on Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth
perhaps! but you can look at what a five year old GPU (Nvidia A100 80gb) sells for today. it's not cheap! I wish it was!
timmmmmmay··on Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth
This is also true of the older P100 and hobbyists do this stuff now, today
timmmmmmay··on Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude
Of course it is. If I write a movie review and sell it to a magazine or whatever, it's derived from the movie, and it's fair use, and I don't need to ask the movie owner for permission first, or give them a cut of my sales. Even if I use some reasonable number of screenshots and video clips, as long as the resulting work is "transformative" i.e. actually a new work, a movie review instead of a copy of the movie.

Do you want this to work any other way? I constantly see people in the AI debate working themselves into wildly copyright maximalist positions. I actually don't think that we should give every author veto power over a book review!

timmmmmmay··on Grok Build is open source
you know you can just log onto eBay and see what the price of a used H100 is. nobody is stopping you
timmmmmmay··on Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (2025)
there's no prize for predicting 12 of the past 2 bubbles
timmmmmmay··on Byobu – text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
oh no he's using computers to write software
timmmmmmay··on Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
if you want people to use public transit, you need to make it not be a mobile homeless shelter. otherwise everyone who can afford to will insist on a private transport
timmmmmmay··on Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5
it seems like they were trying that last year, it didn't work, so he flipped out and fired everyone and now plan B is to buy Cursor and run a quick rename of "Composer 3" to "Grok 5"
timmmmmmay··on Starship V3
there is literally zero evidence to support that assertion
timmmmmmay··on Teaching Claude Why
fascinating! we find the objectively correct value system by "currently widespread agreement"! Good thing "the common view" is always correct. Hey, have there ever been any issues where there used to be "widespread agreement" and now there's disagreement, or even "widespread agreement" in the polar opposite direction?

I can think of several off the top of my head, but maybe you need to spend some more time thinking about the history of moral philosophy.

timmmmmmay··on Teaching Claude Why
"Mainly, one suspects, to make the open models less ethical on demand"

Or because the user's idea of what is ethical differs from the model creator. The entire "alignment" argument always assumes that there's an objectively correct value set to align to, which is always conveniently exactly the same as the values of whoever is telling you how important alignment is. It's like they want to sidestep the last ten thousand years of philosophical debate.

As a concrete example, the Qwen model series considers it highly unethical to ever talk about Taiwan as anything other than a renegade province of China. Is this alignment? Opinions may differ!

timmmmmmay··on Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
it's in a former appliance factory that's right next to two pre-existing TVA power plants, a Nucor steel mill, and a sewage treatment facility. you've been lied to about how close it is to a residential area, just look at a map
timmmmmmay··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
You should backtest this strategy over the last 20 years before you make serious decisions off of the vibe from internet comments
timmmmmmay··on OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports
it's been pretty funny seeing people who did not predict Claude Code's success and previously said the whole sector was a nonsense dead end now saying, well okay there's one massively successful killer app, but what if that's the only one ever?
timmmmmmay··on AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel
fortunately, you aren't only operating on representations, right? lemme check my Schopenhauer right quick...
timmmmmmay··on OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable
the people that want to make sure the AI never gives you any "potentially dangerous information" also want to rigorously control your google search results, and also what books you're allowed to read
timmmmmmay··on Improving storage efficiency in Magic Pocket, Dropbox's immutable blob store
are these "technological advancements" in storage in the room with us right now? because I'm looking at today's price per TB and it's higher than it was in 2020
timmmmmmay··on Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe
connectors are bad for signal integrity and GDDR is particularly picky about this
timmmmmmay··on Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act
"repeatedly struck down" means somebody keeps bringing it back
timmmmmmay··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
you've posted this multiple times and it's not actually true. go read the ingredients list on a supermarket burger
timmmmmmay··on No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user
they're obviously trying to steer customers to the monthly subscription instead of the pay-per-token API.

now, the consensus of the commentards on this website, who don't have access to any of anthropics financial data, is that the monthly subscriptions are a money loser!

so either the leading AI company's business dev team is wrong or the Jacker News comment section is wrong, it is a mystery

timmmmmmay··on Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk
no, the other such labeled companies are foreign owned firms like Huawei that the government never intended to do business with in the first place
timmmmmmay··on Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs
Grocery stores track their customers very extensively and cash purchases are fairly rare. I'm very confident that Costco, for example, knows everything that every member has bought from them since the tariffs started.
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