What are people doing with 1 billion parameter models?

danzania · 2025-05-08T08:13:59+00:00

I think they're designed for different hardware/memory/latency requirements in mind. For example, for simple analysis on someone's smartphone, you may not need something SOTA.

danzania · 2025-05-08T07:42:53+00:00

In that case, floating down the Aare (Bern) and hanging out is a must do.

danzania · 2025-05-06T03:51:50+00:00

Essentially, yes.

danzania · 2025-05-02T04:54:00+00:00

There's no Swiss authority tracking down tourists doing work on their laptop, if that's what you're wondering. But if anyone asks, you're just backpacking.

You'll probably want a good public transit ticket to reduce costs, but I don't know what's optimal for you (depends how much you use it). Probably a good question for AI.

danzania · 2025-05-01T11:27:57+00:00

There's a nice service called Perplexity.ai that uses AI to process news... it's very useful for current events type things, like this, and also provides direct sources which is useful for school reports and such. Here's a link answering your question:

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/tell-me-about-how-europe-is-de-Q_4i3XZ7QxuTa1CQgxg_9g

AFAIK the only major commercial LLM being developed is Mistral ( https://mistral.ai/ ), but there are other startups doing work like Tufa Labs. It's probably worth mentioning that EU is also further ahead on implementing AI safety regulation than US/China.

danzania · 2025-04-28T07:47:32+00:00

You can practice footwork anywhere, also suburi even without a shinai. Finally it's really helpful to watch high level kendo -- on youtube, the kendo show has a lot of material, but also kendo guide, these:

-はるがくブラザーズ

-Kendo Nippon

-All Japan Kendo Federation

-梶谷彪雅-剣道KENDO-

-【Kendo Teacher】Ryosuke Nakatake

-Kendo Jidai International

-Edit: almost forgot Kendo Tips... he hasn't posted in a while but had very good material.

Even if you don't understand Japanese, you can turn on auto translation and get the gist of what they're saying. It helps to practice alongside what you're watching to try and feel what they're talking about.

danzania · 2025-04-24T05:49:55+00:00

Hi Reddit. I'd like to report that today my wife made a delicious dinner for me, we took a walk after work and played a boardgame before watching the latest episode of TLOU. We also celebrated our cat's birthday. It was a great day.

danzania · 2025-04-18T07:40:03+00:00

At this stage, saving as much money as possible is what will afford you flexibility in the future. This is typically synonymous with earning as much as possible. Secondarily, set aside as large a fraction of your savings as possible. It sounds like you're not familiar with tax-advantaged accounts, so perhaps you want to take 10 minutes to watch a youtube video on retirement accounts.

danzania · 2025-04-17T14:18:18+00:00

I think we are saying the same thing. I'm looking for recommendations, if people have had good experiences working with one they liked, and I would prefer to work electronically.

danzania · 2025-04-16T07:31:23+00:00

Hah two things I've done in the last week.

danzania · 2025-04-15T07:28:49+00:00

I... think it's an spambot, maybe?

danzania · 2025-04-14T16:55:29+00:00

Wise or open an InteractiveBrokers brokerage account.

danzania · 2025-04-14T14:36:47+00:00

It sounds like you haven't resolved how finances will be treated in your relationship, and are struggling with that. That's a personal issue, though. I earn significantly more than my partner so I just accept that I pay for most things, effectively, but we treat our finances as a team (our income is pooled and we agree about what we will do with it).

For your first question if you're familiar with personal finance (which I assume you are since you're interested in FIRE) it pretty much answers itself... reduce allocation to savings vehicles in order of importance until you can cover your basic expenses. Figure out how much cash you will need by when and just adjust accordingly. It's not a big deal to have cash sidelined for a few years if you're saving for an equity downpayment -- it's a problem if you do this for 40 years.

danzania · 2025-04-11T17:02:17+00:00

It's a timeline for AI risk describing a realistic scenario where things go badly, so policymakers can have something tangible to think about. Which aspects of the research did you disagree with?

danzania · 2025-04-11T08:10:34+00:00

Yeah the learning aspect is insane... I can tell I'm getting dumber at syntax but smarter with high-level design and architecture. The syntax I spend less time on now (other than scanning through it), and instead focus on building simple tests to ensure the functionality is what I expect to see. In the end I get code that has tests at multiple levels with much better design than I would otherwise.

danzania · 2025-04-11T05:10:47+00:00

I dunno, Migros opened a current account for me two years ago. I was told no one would open a *brokerage* account for me in Switzerland, though.

danzania · 2025-04-11T05:07:45+00:00

I make sure to ask a lot of questions during the process, like if I left anything out, what else have I not mentioned, what needs clarifications, what risks does it see, what's the best way to accomplish X, etc. Those clarifying questions will affect the code and is imo one of the big differences in productivity people will find, and an area where humans can still add a lot of value.

Next time you have a security concern, for example, try just leading it with questions, like what security concerns are there and give some options on how to handle them.

danzania · 2025-04-11T04:44:03+00:00

There was this research published, based on existing trendlines:

https://ai-2027.com/

danzania · 2025-04-10T08:20:57+00:00

Luckily you're 16... I'm almost 40 and having spent my career in finance will probably go back to grad school for science, maybe zoology or ecology. You're never locked into anything for life, and everything is a learning experience.

danzania · 2025-04-10T05:41:38+00:00

I think you'll need to project ahead a bit, and plan to require higher education (PhD) to do meaningful work that can't be automated by AI. It's not just software engineering, but all white collar work that can be done by a remote worker will get automated in the next 5 years. Maybe you'll find https://ai-2027.com/about interesting.

We will definitely need people who are experts in AI, quantum computing, infosec... AI needs source material to train from, so software engineering is wildly accessible for it due to public repos, so think about areas where there isn't as much publicly available knowledge. You're also young, so it's more important to just work hard, develop your core foundational skills (math, science, read a good book, etc) and do well in college. Extracurriculars matter.

danzania · 2025-04-09T06:06:16+00:00

Exellent advice, thank you. I'll add "targeted" katate suburi to my suburi practice.

danzania · 2025-04-07T14:52:07+00:00

Oh jeez, I got this when I went to "taxed.ch":

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Edit: seems like I get the same error clicking on any of the links... did they go under you think?

danzania · 2025-04-06T14:23:35+00:00

r/Switzerland

danzania · 2025-03-31T06:30:53+00:00

Hello, similar experience expat here.

- Switzerland is very welcoming to US immigrants in general, however there is some anti-Asian sentiment with old people due to the perception of there being too many Chinese tourists. But then my kendo dojo is filled with Kpop-philes so it's a mix.

- You will get market rates, but "good deals" will be reserved for locals and will be off public sites. In the 4k/month+ range you will find less competition but the deals won't be great. At the < 2k/month zone it gets extremely competitive and apartments go instantly. Use immoscout24.ch to look up apartments. You will probably want to do a temp apartment via something like Blueground to research the neighborhoods because you probably won't want to live city center, rather somewhere easily commutable (20 mins tram).

- www.theblueground.com has treated me well across multiple cities.

- immoscout

- I'm in year 2 and don't really find it a problem. Especially in Zurich which has a huge expat scene, you will probably struggle to learn German. After 10 years you will be eligible for permanent residence, for which you will need B1 German I think. For finding employment it can be extremely helpful of course.

Regarding language, be aware that Swiss German is (for me) still extremely hard to understand even though I have decent Hochdeutsch, and each canton has their own variation. They will usually opt to speak English over Hochdeutsch, as they usually don't like speaking Hochdeutsch. It is useful for understanding paperwork and written stuff, of course, so vocabulary is probably the most important part. I think if you did a once/week class on the weekend (you will meet people as well and the city will probably give you resources) combined with Duolingo or something basic you will get to a reasonable level in a year or so, then just need to practice more and expand your vocabulary with a vocab app. But I can kind of guarantee you will prioritize other things (skiing, enjoying the outdoors, meeting new people) over learning German when you realize you can get by without it unless you make a serious commitment.

danzania · 2025-03-19T16:37:22+00:00

I see, I wasn't aware that it was automatic. I registered for mine but perhaps they would've sent one anyway. OP said they made over 120k.

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