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Re:A Tiny Boltzmann Machine on Thursday May 15, 2025 @12:45PM (#43996818)
The section after the interactive diagrams has no left padding and thus runs off the screen on iOS.
Your silvery cylindrical cell contacts are not beating the contact-resistance-driven-fire allegations.
Could be worth considering that outdoor cats in the US may actually be a positive because so many of our country's natural predators of rodents and birds have been wiped out.
Do they groom themselves of ticks?
I've found great success in ignoring, entirely, baseless aspersions cast by faceless anon avatars about people in the public eye.
Re:Starlink User Terminal Teardown on Friday May 09, 2025 @01:09PM (#43939035)
No, it's based on OpenWRT.
Fascinating that you take the court's ruling that he has a "mental illness" at face value.

How would you like it if one of your harmless hobbies was declared illegal overnight and your home raided?

How would you feel if the only way the court lets you go home without a prison sentence is to agree to be declared "mentally unfit"?

Re:Designing Electronics That Work on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @06:10PM (#43405786)
"If I have to show my card to get into Costco, the free samples aren't free"
Re:Delta CRJ Crash Toronto 17th Feb 25 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @07:20PM (#43096935)
If adamanonymous' opinion was worth the pixels it was printed on, he wouldn't need to post it anonymously. Ditto for me.
Re:Questions censored by DeepSeek on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @05:52PM (#42859197)
> I'm pretty sure it was running locally.

If this family member is experimenting with DeepSeek locally, they are an extremely unusual person and have spent upwards of $10,000 if not $200,000. [0]

> ...partially print the word, then in response to a trigger delete all the tokens generated to date and replace them...

It was not running locally. This is classic bolt-on censorship behavior. OpenAI does this if you ask certain questions too.

If everyone keeps loudly asking these questions about censorship, it seems inevitable that the political machine will realize weights can't be trivially censored. What will they do? Start imprisoning anyone who releases non-lobotomized open models. In the end, the mob will get what it wants.

[0] I am extremely surprised that a 15-year-long HN user has to ask this question, but you know what they say: the future is not fairly distributed.