Tuesday, August 15
Daily News Stuff 15 August 2023
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- Large Language Models can generate valid JSON 100% of the time. (Hacker News)
If you install a plugin that smacks the LLM over the head with a ruler any time it tries to emit a character that would make the output invalid.
It's like lining up an infinite number of monkeys and shooting all the ones that aren't typing out Hamlet. Yes, it works in theory, but what are you going to do with all the dead monkeys?
Tech News
- The Beelink GTR7 Pro: A great small computer with a completely nonstandard power connector. (Serve the Home)
And unlike Apple with MagSafe, you're not going to find third-party replacements.
- The Delhi High Court has ruled that under Indian trademark law, Google cannot sell ads against trademarked search terms. (Tech Crunch)
Google operates something of a protection racket here: Competitors place ads against your company name to steer traffic away from you, so you not only need to advertise under your own search term, you have to outbid the competition to get top billing.
Not surprising someone would find this questionable.
- Sam Bankman-Fried used $100 million in stolen customer funds for political donations. (Reuters)
Will they give the money back?
No, they're Democrats.
Also, he's going to be held in the same jail where Epstein did not kill himself, so there's no need.
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"but what are you going to do with all the dead monkeys?" what I usually do with them, put them over there with all the dead scary clowns of course, and if I have to shoot some mimes, do I have to use a silencer?
Posted by: bob in houston at Tuesday, August 15 2023 11:44 PM (YBLgY)
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A reddit review of the GTR7 says it supports USB PD. I agree, a unique power cord is less than ideal; I'd probably try to buy a second one with the unit if I wanted one of these (and if I didn't already get my little i5-1235u mini PC a few months ago I probably would've gotten one of these.)
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, August 16 2023 12:59 AM (BMUHC)
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Reading further down that reddit post, I see that if you use USB, you're limited to 45W instead of 65. (The 7840/7940 are normally limited to 35/45W, but Beelink feeds them MOAH POWAH to make them run faster, boosting them beyond similar mini PCs. That means you'd lose that extra oomph if you used USB PD, though.)
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, August 16 2023 10:59 AM (BMUHC)
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As an aside, I broke down and bought a Galaxy Tab S9 this weekend (conveniently, it just came out this week or so.) Best Buy had a special where it cost $20 more for the 128GB model than a 256GB S8, and it came with a free "$139 value" keyboard/cover (as well as a copy of McAfee that I declined.)
It's much faster in 3d gaming than my Tab S4, and it supports something like 45W charging--at ~20% charge, "super fast charging 2.0" estimates 1 hour to charge vs regular fast charging (15W?), with a 2 hour estimate. 5A chargers and cables are pretty awesome.
It's much faster in 3d gaming than my Tab S4, and it supports something like 45W charging--at ~20% charge, "super fast charging 2.0" estimates 1 hour to charge vs regular fast charging (15W?), with a 2 hour estimate. 5A chargers and cables are pretty awesome.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, August 16 2023 11:01 AM (BMUHC)
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