yummybear (u/yummybear)

yummybear commented on Distillation makes AI models smaller and cheaper quantamagazine.org/how-di... · Posted by u/pseudolus

Animats · a month ago

A good question is whether you can grind down a model specialized for, say, customer service for your products, down to where it's really cheap to run on an ordinary server, maybe with a GPU card.

Are we really going to need all those giant AI data centers?

yummybear · a month ago

Even further - could it download a distilled modeb runtime in response to your type of question - if we’re talking vacation planning download vacation.model for 10 seconds and then let’s talk?

yummybear commented on AI is killing the web – can anything save it? economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/edward

lucasyvas · a month ago

AI will be ridden with ads - just disguised as answers.

And without the web there is no new datasets for AI so it’ll grind to a halt.

yummybear · a month ago

It’s even happening implicitly now when chat crawls some vendors site and proclaims their solutions as the answer to your question

yummybear commented on The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering philschmid.de/context-eng... · Posted by u/robotswantdata

yummybear · 2 months ago

Amazing to see people try to reinvent communication skills.

yummybear commented on YouTuber claims to have received an offer to buy the Commodore brand amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-... · Posted by u/daledavies

yummybear · 3 months ago

Well I couldn't think of a better steward for the brand than Perifractic

yummybear commented on AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret theregister.com/2025/06/0... · Posted by u/rntn

yummybear · 3 months ago

That all sounds nice, but if the government (US) doesn't honor it's own laws, what s to stop it from using unreasonable measures to coerce Amazon into doing what it wants?

This whole setup collapses when Bezos calls someone and says "you're fired if you don't do as I say", which he might if Trump leans heavily on him or threatens to take control.

yummybear commented on Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system rawstory.com/musk-treasur... · Posted by u/brohee

nikisweeting · 7 months ago

Why is it absurd for a 25 year old to write system-critical code? That's not even that young for the field. I'd been coding for 12 years at that age!

yummybear · 7 months ago

Do you think you, or anyone, have the capacity to understand changes you are making to a system developed over decades, that manages trillions and affects real lives, with only a few days worth of experience with the system?

yummybear commented on Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system rawstory.com/musk-treasur... · Posted by u/brohee

michaeljx · 7 months ago

Well,it didn't say anywhere that they are stopping grandma's checks. And if the system is so fragile that grandma will die before getting some human person to resolve her case, then we've got bigger problems than a 25 year old having r/w on the system.

yummybear · 7 months ago

That's a rather cynical take on what may amount to actual human suffering.

yummybear commented on Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system rawstory.com/musk-treasur... · Posted by u/brohee

erulabs · 7 months ago

The "code that directs Social Security payments, tax returns and other payments owed to Americans" is "COBOL and ... it has been such a struggle to maintain it [because it was] developed for decades with very little documentation"

But having a SpaceX engineer start a rewrite is... bad?

I freak out when some minor component of my company becomes abandonware. When no one can or wants to read or work on the codebase, it's _time for it to die_. Either this good news, or you have no experience maintaining existing critical software infrastructure.

As for the "unelected" argument... Did anyone ever elect any of the software engineers who worked on this codebase? It has always been federal employees appointed by federal agencies. Some acronyms changed.

yummybear · 7 months ago

He may be "SpaceX" (if that is supposed to mean super talented), but having a maximum of 1 weeks worth of knowledge about a system before starting to rewrite it seems extremely unsecure. This isn't a disposable rocket, this is a system that millions of people rely on.

yummybear commented on World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject eso.org/public/news/eso25... · Posted by u/Breadmaker

yummybear · 8 months ago

The skies may be brightening, but it seems the world is turning darker.

yummybear commented on Palm’s CEO emails Steve Jobs (2007) twitter.com/TechEmails/st... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

yummybear · 9 months ago

These are some of the richest people debating whether to stop people from seeking to work elsewhere. Absolutely despicable. Hat's off to Palm for seeking the reasonably route.