Brian Glendenning
@bglenden.bsky.social
Is there a page somewhere that contains the features you intend to implement it?
December 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Is there a page somewhere that contains the features you intend to implement it?
Eventually, and in practice you might not have any choice. If I was to move back to PEI I would have e to wait years to get a family doctor. (Which system is better for any given individual is complicated, I think the Canadian system is better for society but it has a lot of problems too).
December 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Eventually, and in practice you might not have any choice. If I was to move back to PEI I would have e to wait years to get a family doctor. (Which system is better for any given individual is complicated, I think the Canadian system is better for society but it has a lot of problems too).
I’m a bit dubious the $68M will go very far, but don’t know the numbers well enough to be sure. (Google says the total federal premium subsidy in 2024 was 5x that).
December 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I’m a bit dubious the $68M will go very far, but don’t know the numbers well enough to be sure. (Google says the total federal premium subsidy in 2024 was 5x that).
I use DR for things where I really care about the results (e.g., medical things, things I'm going to spend a lot of money on) and I want a lot of references that can be cross-checked, and I'd like a decent length report. Maybe this is an outdated holdover from the olden times of 6 months ago.
November 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I use DR for things where I really care about the results (e.g., medical things, things I'm going to spend a lot of money on) and I want a lot of references that can be cross-checked, and I'd like a decent length report. Maybe this is an outdated holdover from the olden times of 6 months ago.
I don't remember the details, but at 5000m (ALMA altitude) IIRC the atmospheric pressure is about 50% of sea level, so naively it would suffer half of the cosmic ray attenuation that sea level does so it could be significant (presumably this is why I checked).
November 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I don't remember the details, but at 5000m (ALMA altitude) IIRC the atmospheric pressure is about 50% of sea level, so naively it would suffer half of the cosmic ray attenuation that sea level does so it could be significant (presumably this is why I checked).
In ALMA at one point I had to do a little calculation about how often one of our little microcontrollers might be negatively impacted by cosmic rays (this microcontroller sometimes moved equipment so there was a bit of a human safety factor). (It wasn't an issue).
November 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
In ALMA at one point I had to do a little calculation about how often one of our little microcontrollers might be negatively impacted by cosmic rays (this microcontroller sometimes moved equipment so there was a bit of a human safety factor). (It wasn't an issue).
To capture all the overheads (training, R&D, ...) plus accounting for the huge variation in prompt size (write a limerick about ..., improve test coverage in this code base) I think the best metric would be the simplest one: Watt-hours per month per monthly active user. Also harder to game maybe.
November 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
To capture all the overheads (training, R&D, ...) plus accounting for the huge variation in prompt size (write a limerick about ..., improve test coverage in this code base) I think the best metric would be the simplest one: Watt-hours per month per monthly active user. Also harder to game maybe.
Astronomy professor and prolific SF author - you're living the life I dreamed of when I was young. Way to go!
November 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Astronomy professor and prolific SF author - you're living the life I dreamed of when I was young. Way to go!
Hopefully it’s a version with rum.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Hopefully it’s a version with rum.
Apologies for my mistake (and misplaced snark).
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Apologies for my mistake (and misplaced snark).
Is the main motivation for a 7B model over larger models that it can run on smaller hardware, lets you turn around experiments faster, etc, or is it somehow tuned for particular classes of problems? Is 7B a common size for a reason? Why not 3B or 1B? (Sorry if these are dumb questions.)
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Is the main motivation for a 7B model over larger models that it can run on smaller hardware, lets you turn around experiments faster, etc, or is it somehow tuned for particular classes of problems? Is 7B a common size for a reason? Why not 3B or 1B? (Sorry if these are dumb questions.)
Alas, I rarely get through your paywall, so I don’t know the explanation for your inaccurate headline.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Alas, I rarely get through your paywall, so I don’t know the explanation for your inaccurate headline.
33d year of extrasolar planets…
November 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
33d year of extrasolar planets…
Sorry if this is an annoying and off topic question. My wife and I kind of fell into having pet parrots, and it's amazing to us how smart they are given how small their brains must be. Is there an accessible description for the non-specialist that explains what makes their brains so efficient?
November 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Sorry if this is an annoying and off topic question. My wife and I kind of fell into having pet parrots, and it's amazing to us how smart they are given how small their brains must be. Is there an accessible description for the non-specialist that explains what makes their brains so efficient?
I didn't even know there was a new season of "The Man in the High Castle!"
www.imdb.com/title/tt4603...
www.imdb.com/title/tt4603...
Sunrise (2015)
Rufus Sewell in The Man in the High Castle (2015)
www.imdb.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I didn't even know there was a new season of "The Man in the High Castle!"
www.imdb.com/title/tt4603...
www.imdb.com/title/tt4603...
This confused me recently in Tom Holland’s latest. (Pax).
October 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This confused me recently in Tom Holland’s latest. (Pax).
My wife and I thought S2 went off the rails, I doubt we'll give S3 a try (S1 was fun).
October 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
My wife and I thought S2 went off the rails, I doubt we'll give S3 a try (S1 was fun).
Local privacy for sure would be a good reason. I’m just curious there is a financial savings and if so under which usage patterns.
October 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Local privacy for sure would be a good reason. I’m just curious there is a financial savings and if so under which usage patterns.
What is the arithmetic of doing it locally vs in a cloud instance?
October 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
What is the arithmetic of doing it locally vs in a cloud instance?