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Swayson
@Swayson
Thinker. Tinkerer. The Curious. Fascinated by Cognitive Science, AI, Philosophy and Nature.
South Africa Katılım Ocak 2010
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned that South Africa desperately needs to increase investment to drive the growth it needs to create jobs—and he wants the private sector to do it.
businesstech.co.za/news/business/…
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We are, but also we have been for 500 years…
Dr. Dad, PhD 🔄🔼◀️🔽▶️@GarrettPetersen
We really are living through the singularity aren't we.
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GPU shortage is worse than ever.
H100s cost more today than they did 3 years ago, and you cannot get them on-demand.
The big AI labs have locked up most of the supply for years. I’m worried university researchers and individual developers simply won’t be able to get GPUs.
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@DoozerDiffuser @wholyv go without water for 7 days and then go without electricity for 7 days.
Then respond again
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@Magda_Wierzycka system is only as good as what the folks let politicians and lobbiests get away with
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Looking at the world, what is better a Parliamentary (parliament elects president) or a Presidential system (people vote for president)? I used to think the latter but looking at the global mess it doesn’t seem to matter. The system is only as good as the politicians.
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(a year ago someone gave a talk in NYC and someone asked if he was Defender and I think he should have said we're all Defender. You should just buy a yellow hat and wear it out in the world. That's what @workflowsauce did and he met another man with a yellow hat on a boat and they had a deep beautiful conversation. True story!)
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@DefenderOfBasic someone asked if I am you. can I be you one day?
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If you ask GPT-5.5 when AI will solve an Erdős problem, it predicts the mid-2030s (it happened in 2026).
Lisan al Gaib@scaling01
My take on why LLMs still suck at forecasting is that in some cases they are still over-reliant on pre-training priors and that they are getting fried by post-training / RL and safety, which makes them non-committal and hedgy. But I also think it's just not a skill that they are picking up in any math or coding envs. In the GPT-4 there was a slide on the calibration of base-model vs the final post-trained model. The base model was almost perfectly calibrated, the post-trained model wasn't. (this is of course weak'ish evidence because we don't know whether this is still true with current models and how its calibration translates to forecasting performance)
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@DoozerDiffuser @wholyv the crux of the argument is, do we really have to sacrifice noise, heat and fresh water, to have compute? I think we have the tech today, to do much better, but the incentives just dont afford it.
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@DoozerDiffuser @wholyv and you spend your money locally too. its not going to some tax haven island
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@DoozerDiffuser @wholyv haha, yeah but you dont wreck the entire local economy. i feel that is justified still. its these DCs being built in the middle of nowhere, and folks all of a sudden have to pay more for water and elec for no direct reason
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@w0nderfall is there any really solid guide or repo for this with good outlining and methods. no homebrew can add so much friction
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Perfect macOS setup to avoid getting hit by the next big supply chain attack:
- no homebrew
- no unsandboxed apps except Chromium/Parallels
- no Chromium extensions except passwords
- sandboxed apps + PWAs for basic stuff
- all dev/agentic workflows in VMs
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A grant meant to help nearly 1,900 struggling people in KZN somehow ended up linked to houses in Pretoria.
This is exactly why South Africans are angry.
Money meant for farmers, unemployed youth and elderly communities should NEVER become someone’s property portfolio.
The SIU freezing these assets is a start… but accountability cannot stop at headlines and press releases.
Every cent stolen from public projects is food taken off a family’s table and opportunity stolen from people who actually needed help.
Lifestyle audits should not be optional for people handling public funds.
Follow the money.
Source: iol.co.za/news/crime-and…
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@0xglitchbyte @ChShersh if you know that, it becomes a blackbox system you can game, to get outputs. but i here you, unless that maintenance of said system is inverted, it will slow you down
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@ChShersh ai is just lootboxes for coding, sometimes you get some gems but most of them suck
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I asked AI to write me a function to parse a string in the YYYY-MM-DD format into std::chrono::year_month_day in C++
It produced a 100 LOC function. A hundred lines for a single utility function.
I had to guide it to use the standard library and it finally managed to write a one-liner.
AI really can spiral out of control if left unmonitored.
Roy Carrilho@RuiCarrilho5
this must have been so satisfying
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@2010OGNolambo Rust. Intention is to test model capability, not to actually release a port of sqlite to anything
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@DoozerDiffuser @wholyv Honestly just an idea, i havent thought that through rigoursly but my sense is incentives and ingenuity is lacking
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