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Yep sorry I'm in Aus not Canada, they're a local manufacturer (https://reclaimenergy.com.au/), expensive as hell but felt like showing my support to at least one of the few places this still does engineering in Australia

How is that heat pump treating you

Really good! the separate compressor from the tank makes it whisper quiet, can barely hear it even if you're a foot away, co2 which is the most environment friendly refrigerant, and power usage is well, minimal, only a small 160L tank because I live by myself, can see example of what it uses here (it's the light blue bit at around 8am in the morning):

That said it is summer here in Queensland, will have to see how it goes in winter but under 1kw a day for hot water, that's really not bad at all imo

Especially true here in Queensland 🌞

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84iRd0jnEKk

start at the same time, lots of overlap on starting services

I think they need to be built still tbh

but i don't think this will be a fix, there are more structural issues in the EU

EU is behind on chip making, software, space race, EV's, AI, etcetc

They will continue to be behind China and America so long as it's more difficult to do business and more difficult to raise money

What about Mistral? https://chat.mistral.ai/chat

hey i’m running on solar and battery so no waste of electricity here ;)

but yeah that was it, i just noticed how here and on mastodon i read ‘ai is a scam’ and then turn my head and read ‘ai will take all our jobs’, makes for a nice whiplash effect

also it’s 4am here i’m going to sleep, appreciate the chat

But cars have always had value, we're talking under an article that calls AI "magic beans"

How could magic beans which produce garbage enslave humanity under capitalism? Would you argue that cars which replaced horses as the primary mode of transport in a few years be called this?

You can argue that AI does some things badly, it's still very very early on and the progress people are making is insane, like nothing I've seen before, but you can't argue it is worthless and a giant threat to us at the same time, this is contradictory

That can't be possible, if they fire all their workers and produce AI slop then we will simply start a new company with human workers that doesn't.

This isn't communism we can simply start a new business at any time for any reason, with or without AI

but we had the same thing with Alpaca, Llama2, Llama3, 3.2, Mistral, Phi…

I don't believe so, or at least, them all getting smaller and/or more intelligent isn't the point, it's how they did it

I noted above that if DeepSeek had access to H100s they probably would have used a larger cluster to train their model, simply because that would have been the easier option; the fact they didn’t, and were bandwidth constrained, drove a lot of their decisions in terms of both model architecture and their training infrastructure. Just look at the U.S. labs: they haven’t spent much time on optimization because Nvidia has been aggressively shipping ever more capable systems that accommodate their needs. The route of least resistance has simply been to pay Nvidia. DeepSeek, however, just demonstrated that another route is available: heavy optimization can produce remarkable results on weaker hardware and with lower memory bandwidth; simply paying Nvidia more isn’t the only way to make better models.

https://stratechery.com/2025/deepseek-faq/

I'm slow, what's the point? how does people joking about the fact China is censoring output explain

why the US tech sector is absolutely fucked going into the next generation

Think might be this:

What is distillation?

Distillation is a means of extracting understanding from another model; you can send inputs to the teacher model and record the outputs, and use that to train the student model. This is how you get models like GPT-4 Turbo from GPT-4. Distillation is easier for a company to do on its own models, because they have full access, but you can still do distillation in a somewhat more unwieldy way via API, or even, if you get creative, via chat clients.

Distillation obviously violates the terms of service of various models, but the only way to stop it is to actually cut off access, via IP banning, rate limiting, etc. It’s assumed to be widespread in terms of model training, and is why there are an ever-increasing number of models converging on GPT-4o quality. This doesn’t mean that we know for a fact that DeepSeek distilled 4o or Claude, but frankly, it would be odd if they didn’t.

https://stratechery.com/2025/deepseek-faq/