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Re:Meta Llama 3 on Friday April 19, 2024 @12:10AM (#40083356)
A chunky portion of those dollars were spent on buying and pre-ordering GPUs that were used to train and serve LLaMa
Re:Reflections on Distrusting xz on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @09:53AM (#39917500)
Brazil the country is also known for onerous bureaucracy
Re:Reflections on Distrusting xz on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @06:50AM (#39915749)
Re:The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is video on Thursday February 22, 2024 @01:06AM (#39463735)
I don't think highlighting one mistake is enough, when these can sometimes have more mistakes than corrects. I've found use for LLMs (in large part thanks to your teaching) in cases where I can easily verify the results fully like code and process documentation, but tasks where "fact-checking everything" would be too much work are very much on the danger zone for getting accidentally scammed by AI.
Re:Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel on Thursday January 18, 2024 @12:08PM (#39044341)
That he still wrote "in prison for killing my wife Nina" when she wasn't his wife anymore at the time indicates IMO that he still doesn't get it.
Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @10:13AM (#38628526)
I wanted to have a way to type something in a meeting and display it to the person sitting next to me with as large a font as possible, so I threw together https://fullscreentext.com/
For most purposes a normal email with no signatures is fine too.
Bold of you to assume that the AI trainers would choose to not use material based on the licence.
Re:When MFA isn't MFA, or how we got phished on Thursday September 14, 2023 @10:51AM (#37509810)
Hardware keys are much cheaper than GitHub enterprise
Re:Show HN: Ghidra Plays Mario on Monday September 11, 2023 @03:12PM (#37472230)
I thought I recognized the GitHub username, you contributed to my GNOME Shell extension years ago!
Re:I don't know how I feel about email on Sunday July 16, 2023 @11:26AM (#36748071)
I remember porting numbers becoming a thing and I was born in 1989 so it must have been late 90s earliest. In Finland though, so don't know about north america
Re:AlmaLinux – Our Value Is Our Values on Friday June 30, 2023 @01:43PM (#36539135)
Cray, the US super computer company uses SUSE
Re:Why TLS is better without STARTTLS (2021) on Friday February 10, 2023 @11:06AM (#34741509)
"Meddler-in-the-middle", I hope this catches on.
Re:The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence on Sunday January 15, 2023 @09:28AM (#34389635)
That was my experience studying statistical physics in Uni. For "some reason" the fourth book I read was the "only one" written in a way that made sense. No relation to the order I read them in, just written better.
Simple, just use Firefox as your primary browser!
Springtime for T-Rex and dinosaurs
Re:The Olkiluoto 3 EPR plant unit started up on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @04:58AM (#29635767)
Started over 10 years ago is an understatement. It was supposed to be finished over 10 years ago. First the Berlin airport, now this and James Webb Space Telescope: are we really just going to finish our collective homeworks?
I wish archive.org fundraised like WMF. Archive.org is super slow when it doesn't plain timeout with some message about server load.
Re:The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004) on Thursday May 14, 2020 @01:42PM (#23182756)
I do the same, but just use the vendors name as is.
At least for me it's for work
Re:Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager on Monday October 07, 2019 @01:12AM (#21177717)
Yes