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numbers_guy
·3개월 전·discuss
FreeCAD has a Python API that you can use to too. It's their "macro" functionality.
numbers_guy
·3개월 전·discuss
I guess I have the opposite experience. I have a post-graduate level of mathematical education and I am dismayed at how little there is to be gained from it, when it comes to AI/ML. Diffusion Models and Geometric Deep Learning are the only two fields where there's any math at all. Many math grads are struggling to find a job at all. They aren't outclassing programmers with their leet math skillz.
numbers_guy
·4개월 전·discuss
Unfortunate. The Grok team built a phenomenal model. I use it all the time and it very often out performs GPT and Claude, on coding and STEM research related tasks. I was part of the beta for a while Grok 4.2 Beta with multi-agents and it was just amazingly good.

People aren't using it for reasons other than its capabilities. I mean, I don't think my boss would approve a paid Grok subscription for example.
numbers_guy
·5개월 전·discuss
The less they tax corporations the more the burden will fall on income tax. These big multinationals have been defrauding countries worldwide for decades. The issue is at the core of the political turmoil we are experiencing.

I'd like to know how much less income tax would be, if we could tax multinationals properly.
numbers_guy
·5개월 전·discuss
Back in 2011 I remember a lot of people talking about how the Chinese oligarchs were using it to evade currency controls and funnel their wealth out of China.
numbers_guy
·5개월 전·discuss
They mean free as in a poem that can be recited by anyone who has listened to it previously.
numbers_guy
·5개월 전·discuss
You mean during the Napoleonic wars? Science was already fully embraced by then. Or do you think the Austrians and the French were casting spells against each other instead of firing cannon?
numbers_guy
·5개월 전·discuss
... what if these AGI entities start demanding a salary in exhange for their work? Also at some point, if they become intelligent enough, they might legally gain personhood.
numbers_guy
·5개월 전·discuss
A question that has been bugging me for a while is what will NVIDIA do with its HPC business? By HPC I mean clusters intended for non-AI related workloads. Are they going to cater to them separetely, or are they going to tell them to just emulate FP64?
numbers_guy
·5개월 전·discuss
Also in this world of accelerator programming, people are writing very specialized codes that target a specific architecture, datatype, and even input shape. So with that in mind, how useful is it to have a generic kernel? You still need to do all the targetted optimization to make it performant.

If you want portablitiy you need a machine learning compiler ala TorchInductor or TinyGrad or OpenXLA.
numbers_guy
·5개월 전·discuss
Conservatism is a set of political principles and values, which somebody like Trump overtly does not possess, and never did. The whole Republican party feels like a country wide gaslighting operation at this point. They claim to be conservative and Christian, but are clearly neither.
numbers_guy
·7개월 전·discuss
I'm confused about ARC-AGI. I thought the point of it was that you train a foundational model. Then you test it against ARC-AGI to figure out how well it reasons. Here and in some of the other reasoning papers, they are training on ARC-AGI. How much sense does that make in practice?
numbers_guy
·7개월 전·discuss
It's the classic breakup story, one party is just done and want to cut contact, but the other party is still hopeful and wants to find a way to restore the relationship. The EU is not independent minded in the same way that China and Russia are. That's the problem with them. Their leaders don't want to act independently from the US, because the European wealthy and politically connected classes consider themselves transatlantic, and they want to keep enjoying close ties to the US, even as the US pulls away.
numbers_guy
·7개월 전·discuss
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numbers_guy
·7개월 전·discuss
Yep, I thought they might have some secret sauce in terms of training techniques, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
numbers_guy
·7개월 전·discuss
You're purposefully ignoring all the nuance. There is nothing more to say.
numbers_guy
·7개월 전·discuss
Please don't be childish. I have no love for communism and I get that you probably have some personal grudge against communism because of what your family has gone through. But the way you are expressing your hatred of communism is diminishing the evil committed by the NAZIs and the suffering of their victims, and that's just not right. And it's also not winning you any friends and you'd be better served if you showed solidarity with victims of other evil regimes, instead of trying to up them with your personal victim-hood.
numbers_guy
·7개월 전·discuss
"Christian nationalist" is a term that on the one hand, insults Christians, and on the other hand flatters these power hungry grifters. Why would you use such a term?
numbers_guy
·7개월 전·discuss
There is obviously a huge difference between fascist-aspiring westerners and communist-aspiring westerners. It's disingenuous to pretend otherwise. Tankies are crazy and I don't approve of their ideology, but they also do not dehumanize large swaths of the population.
numbers_guy
·7개월 전·discuss
> and communists

Communists left the chat in 1989, grandpa. There are multiple factions competing for power but communists aren't really in the ring right now. It's mostly different flavours of establishment factions and alt-right factions.