lordswork (u/lordswork)

lordswork commented on Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide mlive.com/news/2025/12/th... · Posted by u/bikenaga

JumpCrisscross · 2 months ago

Herbicides are a pesticide [1]. (Alongside insecticides, fungicides and fumigants, among others.)

[1] https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2017-01/documents/pe...

lordswork · 2 months ago

Technically, yes, but it's a similar relationship of humans being animals. If you say animals, the audience will assume you're not talking about humans.

lordswork commented on Kimi K2 1T model runs on 2 512GB M3 Ultras twitter.com/awnihannun/st... · Posted by u/jeudesprits

stingraycharles · 2 months ago

I don’t think it will ever make sense; you can buy so much cloud based usage for this type of price.

From my perspective, the biggest problem is that I am just not going to be using it 24/7. Which means I’m not getting nearly as much value out of it as the cloud based vendors do from their hardware.

Last but not least, if I want to run queries against open source models, I prefer to use a provider like Groq or Cerebras as it’s extremely convenient to have the query results nearly instantly.

lordswork · 2 months ago

As long as you're willing to wait up to an hour for your GPU to get scheduled when you do want to use it.

lordswork commented on M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued earthquake.usgs.gov/earth... · Posted by u/jandrewrogers

lordswork · 6 months ago

https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/tsunami/maps is getting a hug of death :(

If anyone gets on, please post a screenshot.

Posted by u/lordswork 7 months ago

ml-engineering/training/performance github.com/stas00/ml-engi...

lordswork commented on Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base businessinsider.com/repli... · Posted by u/jgalt212

llm_nerd · 7 months ago

This whole story sounds ridiculous. And I don't think he's clueless, but instead the guy wanted to bring attention to his bizarre "B2B + AI Community, Events, Leads", so setting up such a predictable footgun scenario seems purposefully suited for that outcome.

lordswork · 7 months ago

Agreed, it sounds like nothing of value was actually lost, just a vibe coded app and synthetic database.

lordswork commented on Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base businessinsider.com/repli... · Posted by u/jgalt212

tedivm · 7 months ago

Honestly, the person who decided to give an LLM Agent full and unrestricted access to their production database is the person who deserves all the blame. What an absolutely silly decision. I don't even give myself unrestricted access to production databases.

lordswork · 7 months ago

The database was synthetic and vibe coded itself:

>he said that the AI made up entire user profiles. "No one in this database of 4,000 people existed," he said.

lordswork commented on Context Rot: How increasing input tokens impacts LLM performance research.trychroma.com/co... · Posted by u/kellyhongsn

Workaccount2 · 7 months ago

What's really needed is a way to easily prune context. If I could go and manually manage the entire chat with a model, I could squeeze way more juice out of a typical ~200k token coding session.

Instead I have a good instance going, but the model fumbles for 20k tokens and then that session heavily rotted. Let me cut it out!

lordswork · 7 months ago

/compress is the command to do this in most cli agents

lordswork commented on At Amazon's biggest data center, everything is supersized for AI nytimes.com/2025/06/24/te... · Posted by u/pseudolus

progbits · 7 months ago

> The local utility will largely use natural gas to generate the additional electricity needed to power Amazon’s data center

Sad, but expected.

lordswork · 7 months ago

Far better than xAI's data center being powered by mobile Diesel generators

lordswork commented on At Amazon's biggest data center, everything is supersized for AI nytimes.com/2025/06/24/te... · Posted by u/pseudolus

v5v3 · 7 months ago

>A year ago, a 1,200-acre stretch of farmland outside New Carlisle, Ind., was an empty cornfield. Now, seven Amazon data centers rise up from the rich soil, each larger than a football stadium.

Can't they find brownfield sites instead of fields

lordswork · 7 months ago

This comment got me wondering whether loss of farmland in the US is a serious issue.

It looks like there's about 800 million acres of farmland in the US and we're losing about 2 million acres per year to the land being repurposed. Despite that, crop production has more than tripled in the past 70 years due to technological advances.

That said, economic effects, loss of farmland, and climate change have contributed to slower growth and higher variability of crop yields recently.

In the past decade there's been a modest 0.8% annual increase in crop production despite losing about 2 million acres per year.

lordswork commented on The Miyawaki Method of micro-forestry futureecologies.net/liste... · Posted by u/zeristor

lordswork · 7 months ago

For those wondering, the Miyawaki method differs from normal planting by doing the following:

- heavily pre-treat soil with organic matter (simulating forest floor)

- plant a mix of native plants that will make up canopy, tree, sub-tree, and shrub layers

- densely planting plants (3-5 saplings / m^2)

- heavy mulching after planting (weed suppression, moisture control, nutrients)

This encourages rapid growth into a biodiverse dense forest much faster than standard planting techniques.

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