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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Reasoning models are just LLMs, and who said LLMs were a dead end was just wrong. Now, to be wrong happens (even if the version of being wrong, in this instance, was particularly aggressive, particularly in denial of evidences). However, trying to change the history and the terminology in order to be in the right side is, for me, unacceptable.

    They’re unprofitable by themselves, and adding extra processing to minimize hallucination / add “reasoning” doesn’t make them more profitable.

    LLMs are a dead end because they burn 2-3x what they generate in revenue. That is unsustainable for any company in the long run.

    We only need look at the evidence to come to this conclusion. There is no need to redefine any terminology.













  • I used to buy external drives when they went on sale, and I’d shuck the case off of them. In my opinion the quality of the drives in those externals went downhill sometime in the last several years. You might get lucky and get a drive meant for a data center, but I’ve stopped playing that lottery.

    These days I just buy retired but warrantied data center drives from sellers on eBay. They’re big, tested, reasonably priced and the seller will replace them within their warranty period if they do die (I usually see 3-5 year as the warranty time). So far I haven’t had any of these die in the last couple of years. Seagates used to fail me constantly thought. I’m now down to only one Seagate still working.