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Not gonna lie, I am looking forward to Trump's nickname for a democrat named Schatz.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Goredho replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Poor kid, and there will be a lot like them. This is exactly what we ran into Texas via the TEA back in 2014 that prompted our move to Colorado. Texas ultimately got bitch slapped in the courts by the US dept of education, which now seems to be on the hit list. Union official says Education Department employees were placed on leave after taking diversity training during Trump’s first term Dozens of employees who attended a diversity training course that former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos encouraged during President Donald Trump’s first administration have been placed on paid leave as part of Trump’s targeting of DEI programs, a union official told NBC News. Sheria Smith, president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 252, which represents hundreds of Education Department employees, said that at least 55 employees had been placed on leave as of Friday evening and that she expected the number to grow as she learns more. The affected workers included a public affairs specialist, civil rights attorneys, program manager analysts, loan regulators and employees working to ensure schools accommodate special needs children with individualized education programs. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/union-official-education-department-employees-leave-dei-training-rcna190337 -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Goredho replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Elon: You’ll have to pardon me, I have to go sneak into the back door of the White House to dismantle the United States government. Conspiracy theorists: have you heard Trump is releasing all the JFK, RFK and MLK files?! SCORE! -
Well, if Canada becomes part of the U.S., the Fentanyl they are sending here no longer streams across our northern border. It becomes locally sourced U.S. fentanyl. We solve the northern border fentanyl crisis and bring industry back from abroad. Well played. Russia and China are on the clock for their own imperialistic desires.
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“We turned off the Fentanyl faucets from the north”
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Without mentioning the T word, what are the goals of these tariff policies? What are we trying to accomplish? What is the argument that tit for tat tariffs with Canada and Mexico are in someone's best interest?
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Goredho replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
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RFK Jr looks like Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs if he targeted octogenarians from Florida to make his skin suit out of.
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No One: Trump Voters: SESAME STREET GROOMED MY KIDS TO BE FURRIES!!!
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I could play air guitar with those.
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All these budget brands have their place, but I have owned 3 Harley Bentons, and they a project to get playing/sounding great. Better than not having a guitar if that's what your budget is. But if you want it to play and sound great, you'll have some work to do and/or money to spend. You can get a great guitar that isn't a project beyond a setup in the $500-$800 range. If you start with a $200 budget guitar and need to put $300 worth of electronics/luthier labor into it to play and sound like a $1000 guitar, why not buy a used Reverend or PRS SE for roughly the same amount and just set it up and play? I get some people love the tinkerers aspect and the sweat equity they put into making a cheap guitar great, but I decided I'd rather just play.
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Goredho replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/29/on-deepseek-and-export-controls/#atom-everything On DeepSeek and Export Controls. Anthropic CEO (and previously GPT-2/GPT-3 development lead at OpenAI) Dario Amodei's essay about DeepSeek includes a lot of interesting background on the last few years of AI development. Dario was one of the authors on the original scaling laws paper back in 2020, and he talks at length about updated ideas around scaling up training: The field is constantly coming up with ideas, large and small, that make things more effective or efficient: it could be an improvement to the architecture of the model (a tweak to the basic Transformer architecture that all of today's models use) or simply a way of running the model more efficiently on the underlying hardware. New generations of hardware also have the same effect. What this typically does is shift the curve: if the innovation is a 2x "compute multiplier" (CM), then it allows you to get 40% on a coding task for $5M instead of $10M; or 60% for $50M instead of $100M, etc. He argues that DeepSeek v3, while impressive, represented an expected evolution of models based on current scaling laws. [...] even if you take DeepSeek's training cost at face value, they are on-trend at best and probably not even that. For example this is less steep than the original GPT-4 to Claude 3.5 Sonnet inference price differential (10x), and 3.5 Sonnet is a better model than GPT-4. All of this is to say that DeepSeek-V3 is not a unique breakthrough or something that fundamentally changes the economics of LLM's; it's an expected point on an ongoing cost reduction curve. What's different this time is that the company that was first to demonstrate the expected cost reductions was Chinese. Dario includes details about Claude 3.5 Sonnet that I've not seen shared anywhere before: Claude 3.5 Sonnet cost "a few $10M's to train" 3.5 Sonnet "was not trained in any way that involved a larger or more expensive model (contrary to some rumors)" - I've seen those rumors, they involved Sonnet being a distilled version of a larger, unreleased 3.5 Opus. Sonnet's training was conducted "9-12 months ago" - that would be roughly between January and April 2024. If you ask Sonnet about its training cut-off it tells you "April 2024" - that's surprising, because presumably the cut-off should be at the start of that training period? The general message here is that the advances in DeepSeek v3 fit the general trend of how we would expect modern models to improve, including that notable drop in training price. Dario is less impressed by DeepSeek R1, calling it "much less interesting from an innovation or engineering perspective than V3". I enjoyed this footnote: I suspect one of the principal reasons R1 gathered so much attention is that it was the first model to show the user the chain-of-thought reasoning that the model exhibits (OpenAI's o1 only shows the final answer). DeepSeek showed that users find this interesting. To be clear this is a user interface choice and is not related to the model itself. The rest of the piece argues for continued export controls on chips to China, on the basis that if future AI unlocks "extremely rapid advances in science and technology" the US needs to get their first, due to his concerns about "military applications of the technology". -
ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Goredho replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
Interesting... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/28/we-tried-out-deepseek-it-works-well-until-we-asked-it-about-tiananmen-square-and-taiwan -
I am sorry for your loss, Brisket. I lost my dad in 2005 and my mom in 2022. It's very, very weird being parentless. To not have those giants in your corner any more, and to think it is now your responsibility to somehow fill their void in the world. I can't say anything to make it easier. I would just urge you to not rush whatever grieving process you need to go through. And I would think about a fishing trip for next Father's Day, someplace in solitude, so you can be alone with your dad.
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Soaking in water helps to bring out the starch so they fry up crisper.
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Goredho replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Goredho replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
Yep, I very well could be naive that this will change anything within our company or outside of it. But I hope something does, or the "broken eggs" will be worse than a few hundred billion market cap across a handful of companies. Whether or not that could be correctly characterized as broken eggs or catastrophic failures will largely depend on where one sits on a spectrum of sociopathy. -
ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Goredho replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
Listen to @Captainant, @raw dog. He does this for a living, every day. We're in the peer review stage. If this is just Chinese propaganda, it will be a blip after being exposed as such in short order. If its not, its going to upend the game table for AI as alluded to in that post and as seen in the market yesterday. I don't think the Chinese would release DeepSeek as (sorta) open source if it would not pass scrutiny, but we will see. The problem is not looking at how to make differentiating products and intellectual property with AI. Its being pressured to provide "AI YESTERDAY" so that everyone is doing piss-poor work and slapping an "AI" sticker on it to check the AI box as quickly as possible to placate people who have no idea what they are pushing for or the risks being taken. We are one three mile island event at the hands of an AI managed system from "AI" becoming a dirty word. We're creating a context where that is more likely to happen, though this event will just cost hundreds of billions vs any human lives. I am hoping this event instills some sobriety in AI-drunk executives/directors/investors. -
ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Goredho replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
Yep, every BOD meeting I am in for our company, the first question is, "What are you doing to bring AI to bear for our business?" No consideration for how AI might be applicable, just "We need AI, we need it yesterday." In the long run this will all be good for the industry, and some of that good would be dampen the pressure to wantonly adopt AI, any AI. -
ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Goredho replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
Well, it seems like the Chinese went into the problem from a different perspective and found an elegant, simplified solution to the compute gluttony associated with training models. This happens a lot, but not at this scale of investment and publicity. Something foundational was missed by all the engineers for all the big AI players in the US who are used to operating with unlimited compute and capital. It really calls into question their leadership in the space. Its an oversimplified exaggeration, but billions of investment dollars have been sunk into what may wind up being a dead branch of the evolutionary tree of AI and at the urging of American technologists. How are investors going to react to that? There are going to be some tense board of director meetings coming up. Good article about the market implications. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/01/27/nvidia-deepseek-haircut To make a long story short, it’s been broadly assumed that leading-edge model training and inference requires the highest of high-end hardware — which hardware, especially for training, pretty much exclusively comes from Nvidia. The assumption was that any company trying to compete in this fiercely competitive field — a field with massive implications for industry, culture, and national security — must get in line to buy (or rent) enormous amounts of computational power exclusively available on the very best systems from Nvidia. That hardware isn’t available (at least legally) to Chinese companies, because of the Biden administration’s export bans. DeepSeek engineers found and implemented multiple massive efficiency improvements that allowed the company to train its latest models at far lower prices using far-less-capable hardware, and perform inference under heretofore unprecedented memory constraints. DeepSeek’s achievements render obsolete several prior planks of conventional wisdom regarding the state of AI. My link a few sentences prior in this paragraph is to a WSJ report from 14 days ago that now feels like it dates from at least 14 months ago. -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Goredho replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Those states should deport him back to Texas. LA MIGRA! VAMANOS! -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Goredho replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
I mean, DDOSing government services with bullshit was a valid tactic before the election. Why stop now? -
Seen posted in a FB neighborhood page. ICEing will be the new SWATing. Hey Leopards! Look over there!!
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