Indeed! I'm showing my age, but I do remember using this with Puppet and it was one of my inspirations :D (no commits in nearly 13 years, ouch) https://github.com/devstructure/blueprint
Yes! I always thought that was a very clever project, and was sad when it ceased development. Very excited to try this out, and glad to have stayed on Debian all these years.
I'm really interested to see what happens during the world cup. Won't be surprised if somehow it may end up even bigger of a scandal than Qatar'22. Even if we set immigration and politics aside, heat it going to be an even bigger issue than everyone is anticipating.
Yes missions accomplished, indeed. I am sure there are some good promotions being had by the Chinese and Russian intelligence operatives who successfully convinced enough of the US population to give up on everything that made our country a world leader and choose self-destruction instead. Leftist degrowthers have nothing on reactionary destructionists.
The length of tasks (measured by how long they take human professionals) that generalist frontier model agents can complete autonomously with 50% reliability has been doubling approximately every 7 months for the last 6 years...
Yeah--I wanted a short way to gesture at the subsequent "tasks that are fast for someone but not for you are interesting," and did not mean it as a gotcha on METR, but I should've taken a second longer and pasted what they said rather than doing the "presumably a human competent at the task" handwave that I did.
I agree. After all, benchmarks don't mean much, but I guess they are fine as long as they keep measuring the same thing every time.
Also, the context matter. In my case, I see a huge difference between the gains at work vs those at home on a personal project where I don't have to worry about corporate policies, security, correctness, standards, etc. I can let the LLM fly and not worry about losing my job in record time.
Exactly.
With the Intel-Nvidia partnership signed this September, I expect to see some high-performance single-board computers being released very soon.
I don't think the atx form-factor will survive another 30 years.
I had a Xolo Tegra Note 7 tablet (marketed in the US as EVGA Tegra Note 7) in around 2013. I preordered it as far as I remember. It had a Tegra 4 SoC with quad core Cortex A15 CPU and a 72 core GeForce GPU. Nvidia used to claim that it is the fastest SoC for mobile devices at the time.
To this day, it's the best mobile/Android device I ever owned. I don't know if it was the fastest, but it certainly was the best performing one I ever had. UI interactions were smooth, apps were fast on it, screen was bright, touch was perfect and still had long enough battery backup. The device felt very thin and light, but sturdy at the same time. It had a pleasant matte finish and a magnetic cover that lasted as long as the device did. It spolied the feel of later tablets for me.
It had only 1 GB RAM. We have much more powerful SoCs today. But nothing ever felt that smooth (iPhone is not considered). I don't know why it was so. Perhaps Android was light enough for it back then. Or it may have had a very good selection and integration of subcomponents. I was very disappointed when Nvidia discontinued the Tegra SoC family and tablets.
I'd argue their current CPUs aren't to be discounted either. Much as people love to crown Apple's M-series chips as the poster child of what arm can do, Nvidia's grace CPUs too trade blows with the best of the best.
It leaves one to wonder what could be if they had any appetite for devices more in the consumer realm of things.
It's perfectly feasible to never use Amazon. I don't know your situation, but i think people should go out more and prefer quality over quantity. Most of the stuff that Amazon sell is crap anyway.
> but i think people should go out more and prefer quality over quantity
Whether you find higher quality in your local area depends on your local area and what you're buying. More generally applicable, you can find higher quality with independent online stores.
What is the endgame? Why is OpenAI throwing that much money on image/video generation? Is there a profitable market for AI-generated image slop? Do people choose ChatGPT instead of Gemini/Grok/Claude because of the image generation capabilities? To me, it looks like a huge fiery money pit.
OK but how realistic is that? Not everyone lives in a city nearby local stores.
There is such a wide variety of products that people go to Amazon for. I know I do. So many things are niche I can't see how any local stores could exist to stock things like that in even a 1 hour range from a majority of the population.
How many people are going to drive hours to go to a special boutique that has this random thing they want or need?
Maybe people use Amazon to buy routine things that could easily be stocked locally. But I guess I use Amazon to get things that I can't really get or even usually find anywhere else for that matter. Most come from small operations using Amazon as their sales platform. Amazon is providing a lot of discoverability and logistics to them and I am not sure I would even stumble across the seller if I had to find some tiny website that they operated themselves.
I am not sure most people would prefer to shop locally, most people don't seem to even go to the store anymore and instead use delivery services for everything. This saves so much time to allow us to do other things that we enjoy in our lives. I don't think small shops would be able to offer this level of convenience.
And you don’t have another big online marketplace that’s basically similar?
And if not, you are saying you have a similar availability of such a vast network of goods, almost anything you might want and the convenience of fast delivery and simple returns via local shops or something?
I guess I’m not sure what you are suggesting. I personally find that shopping and finding and acquiring the products I want is vastly more convenient and easier with Amazon than before we had Amazon and yes I was around back then too. I’d never want to go back personally. Most family and friend I know seem to feel the same.
I think it would be even more wasteful to continue inference in background for nothing if the user decided to leave without pressing the stop button. Saving the partial answer at the exact moment the client disappeared would be better.
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