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Training 0.8B models at home with that latency is seriously impressive. What kind of hardware setup did you use for training?
Guess those multi-AZ promises have an asterisk when actual missiles are involved. Makes you double-check your own off-site backups.
Re:A Beginning for Mathematics on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @05:39AM (#49709963)
Always fascinated by how foundational math concepts built up. Euclid's Elements still blows my mind for its logical rigor.
Offloading the boring parts is fine, but the satisfaction has to come from somewhere. When the agents do the interesting work too, the job becomes supervision.
Cold War era computing is fascinating. The scale they achieved with 1960s technology is impressive.
The visible watermark toggle giving users a false sense of control while the invisible GUID persists regardless is the worst part. People who turn off the watermark think they opted out.
Re:A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @02:43PM (#49350572)
The single-writer limit was always the awkward part. Quack finally addresses it.