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skolos

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DOD: Grok was used to fire thousands of missiles in the Iran war

utilitydive.com
3 points·by skolos·17 giorni fa·2 comments

Coding agent is a slot machine

blog.kvit.app
2 points·by skolos·6 mesi fa·0 comments

Coding Agent Is a Slot Machine

blog.kvit.app
2 points·by skolos·7 mesi fa·0 comments

Coding Agent Is a Slot Machine

blog.kvit.app
2 points·by skolos·7 mesi fa·0 comments

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skolos
·21 ore fa·discuss
There was lots of discussion within Russian and Ukrainian war analytics that nukes (at least tactical) are useless in this war for the following reasons:

- they would not change much on battlefield - there is no large concentrations that you can nuke - everything is dispersed

- nuking urban centers again won't change much on battlefield but would alienate China

- Russia's equipment is known to be not most reliable/maintained and worst that can happen to Russia is them trying to nuke and nukes not working
skolos
·21 ore fa·discuss
It sounds more like market based allocation than gameification.
skolos
·11 giorni fa·discuss
I'd say adding another 16Gb gpu would be worth it - you'd be able to run larger model/larger context all within gpu's. It would give you more options of what you can run fast. Your current model probably doesn't run completely from GPU (depending on quants I don't think you can squeeze Gemma4:26b into 16Gb vram), so you already have some layers running on gpu and some on cpu. If you add another gpu you might be able to move all layers to vram which should speed up things for you. The layers calculations happen on whatever gpu's it sits, so the layers that are already on your rtx5080 would compute same, but the layers that currently your cpu handles will be computed with faster vram/compute of rtx5060.
skolos
·17 giorni fa·discuss
> The Department of Defense said the xAI data center powered by the gas plant is critical to national security, revealing Grok was used to fire thousands of missiles in the Iran war.
skolos
·mese scorso·discuss
How many times did you try? Same model running multiple times can produce both very good and very bad results. In my benchmark even 10 runs often not enough to tell for sure if one model is better than another.
skolos
·5 mesi fa·discuss
I like Mathematica and use it regularly. But I did not see any benefits of using it over python as a tool that Claude Code can use. Every script it produced in wolfram was slower with worse answers than python. Wolfram people are really trying but so far the results are not very good.
skolos
·7 mesi fa·discuss
Claude code regularly asks me questions - I like how anthropic implemented this
skolos
·8 mesi fa·discuss
Looking at examples I see:

``` c = Sector(radius, start = 180°, end = 270°).translate(y = radius); ```

Programming language that requires (maybe it does not require, but then example is not good) to type degrees. Or maybe it is not designed to be typed and rather ai generated?
skolos
·8 anni fa·discuss
> If your screws are longer than 2”, you’ll need different ones, otherwise they will poke out the top of the board and stab you in the foot.

Actually nominal 2 inch lumber has thickness of 1.5" [1]. So your screws should be shorter than 1.5".

[1] https://www.archtoolbox.com/materials-systems/wood-plastic-c...