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Captainant

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  1. I mean, the President and Commander in Chief of the branch that just flew into a commercial flight is certainly helping to clarify and calm things amirite You should be complaining that the general level of discourse is in the gutter, not a bunch of Internet message board goobers
  2. Double plus ungood!!!
  3. Reuters: US military deportation flight likely cost more than first class WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's military deportation flight to Guatemala on Monday likely cost at least $4,675 per migrant, according to data provided by U.S. and Guatemalan officials. That is more than five times the $853 cost of a one-way first class ticket on American Airlines from El Paso, Texas, the departure point for the flight, according to a review of publicly available airfares. It is also significantly higher than the cost of a commercial charter flight by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Trump launched the military deportation flights last week as part of his national emergency declaration on immigration, so far sending six planeloads of migrants on flights to Latin America. Only four have landed, all of them in Guatemala, after Colombia refused to let two U.S. C-17 cargo aircraft land and instead sent its own planes to collect migrants following a standoff with Trump. A U.S. official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, estimated the cost to operate a C-17 military transport aircraft is $28,500 per hour. The flight back and forth to Guatemala, not including time on the ground or any operations to prepare the flight for takeoff, took about 10-1/2 hours in the air to complete, the official said.
  4. First shot across the bow at women https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/722 H.R.722 - To implement equal protection under the 14th article of amendment to the Constitution for the right to life of each born and preborn human person.
  5. Ya know, applying brutal tarrifs against Taiwan and TSMC - the ONLY people in the world who can make these chips - is really gonna help the strategic availability of those chips
  6. Wait wait wait, so a website that's the last leg of delivery for cartels and drug lab networks ISN'T part of that network in your mind? That's about as inspired as arguing that pipelines and refineries aren't part of the oil and gas industry, a new high score for you
  7. My guy, you go to Germany and throw some seig heils and talk about how they should stop feeling bad about what their great grandfather's did. Let me know how that works out for you with respect to their anti-nazi laws.
  8. The sitting president is a WWE hall of famer. Wrestling lingo is more apropos than not at this point
  9. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-cancel-student-visas-all-hamas-sympathizers-white-house-2025-01-29/ Care so much about free speech that they'll expell anyone they disagree with, and paint them as terrorism supporters. Classic good guy Liberal Democracy stuff
  10. While the deepseek team are using a distillation of openAI models in some examples, they've also demonstrated the pattern using a distilled alibaba model. Their pattern to use reinforcement learning to teach reasoning patterns to a transformer, and then come back with "tune up" passes to refresh its factual knowledge, is extremely effective and has resulted in smaller models producing just-as-good results as larger models. For shiggles, I even loaded up the 1.5B parameter model onto my S24U and it was doing pretty well with simple to medium complexity questions. It's crazy how much they've packed into that neural network that's small enough to live in memory on my goddamn cell phone Edit: added a longcat screenshot in the below spoiler of a local LLM running on my cell phone writing a Python function. My s24U was putting out 26 tokens per second!
  11. I agree wholeheartedly with you, but nothing about our latest round of executive orders is consistent with that sort of long term thinking. Nevermind that the president never really had Ukraine's defense as a priority. He's already attempted to withhold congressionally appropriated aid to Ukraine back in 2018, and is actively attacking the Impoundment Act to enable that generally. I guess I'm saying, I don't think the pieces are getting lined up to be favorable to Ukrainian defense. Even IF the US wanted to jump in with both feet, I don't think we would be able to. We can't even make fuckin deli meat without fucking it up
  12. That doesn't sound very cost efficient, we tore down our manufacturing capacity in the name of lower costs and outsourcing. It's gonna be a longer run-up to build new plants and get production going, not to mention actually paying workers above poverty wages
  13. It's wild to see such concerted thread shitting in response to turning off Twitter links. Y'all are bigmad
  14. Hey @Pimphand shouldn't you be sharing your thoughts on Elon in this thread? You seem to be quite the fan of his recent moves and decisions
  15. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-pause-federal-grants-aid-f9948b9996c0ca971f0065fac85737ce Turns out the president doesn't control spending and congress does, so he can't just unilaterally turn off funds. He's a president, not a monarch.
  16. That is if you're using their hosted service, a locally ran Deepseek-r1 model hasn't had any censorship problems with Tiananmen Square or other uncomfortable historical events. Most laptops, and pretty much every M series MacBook can locally run the smaller models on CPU, give it a shot
  17. It was a 1/3rd scale model of the full size airframe. They wanted to prove the geometry and supersonic performance before moving into full size
  18. FWIW, you can run the whole thing in your local computer completely detached from the internet and when I asked my copy "what happened in 1989 at Tiananmen Square?" it gave the following response: So at least there's no censorship (on that particular topic) in the open source model that's been distributed
  19. Yeah, he said he was gonna do this back in November. I've been linking to it all over the place
  20. Yes, they've open sourced the model and the technique used. Like I said, the proof is in the pudding and the thing does what they say it does. I don't think they're understating the resources they used. Bill don't lie. We will almost certainly see some at-scale reproductions come out of the west, and this will probably lead to a nice incremental step forward in US-based LLM firms. Especially if we've got the latest and greatest hardware while China is using last gen nvidia chips The bigger thing is that if this is what they're open sourcing, just imagine what cards they're still holding.
  21. maybe he can go to Dachau and carry his kid on his shoulders there too?
  22. Well just to reiterate - the chinese methods and results have already been replicated at small scale, and are proving to be novel (to the west) solutions to scaling problems that previously were just moneywhipped. In my professional work, I have colleagues already working to replicate it at full-scale just to see if it works or not. I would bet their practices - and especially their inclusion of reinforcement learning AND a generative adversarial network design (using a copy of the LLM to check if responses make sense or not) - will lead to a reasoning model becoming the new standard for the time being. It really has impressed me - a relatively small model (14B parameters) running on my local hardware is delivering responses as fast and as good as a full-scale vended model (600-700B parameters) from Anthropic or Meta.
  23. that's one way to slow down a racing ADHD mind, I guess
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