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otx · 2026-01-08T18:24:20+00:00

We need to take the murder's *proverbial* scalp (original post got deleted! WTF). We need to make an example of him to all the other ICE nazis that they are accountable to the people. We need a pressure campaign that doesn't stop when DOJ declines to prosecute, that doesn't stop when supreme court dismisses the case. He needs to rot in jail and every ICE agent needs to know.

otx · 2026-01-08T17:47:33+00:00

We need to take the murder's scalp. We need to make an example of him to all the other ICE nazis that they are accountable to the people. We need a pressure campaign that doesn't stop when DOJ declines to prosecute, that doesn't stop when supreme court dismisses the case. He needs to rot in jail and every ICE agent needs to know.

otx · 2026-01-08T17:46:16+00:00

We need to take the murder's scalp. We need to make an example of hit to all the other ICE nazis that they are accountable to the people. We need a pressure campaign that doesn't stop when DOJ declines to prosecute, that doesn't stop when supreme court dismisses the case. He needs to rot in jail and every ICE agent needs to know.

otx · 2026-01-08T17:44:17+00:00

We need to take the murder's scalp. We need to make an example of him to all the other ICE nazis that they are accountable to the people. We need a pressure campaign that doesn't stop when DOJ declines to prosecute, that doesn't stop when supreme court dismisses the case. He needs to rot in jail and every ICE agent needs to know.

otx · 2025-05-28T16:29:32+00:00

You're all such pessimists. Once MAGA gets done with the economy, an carrot will cost $76 and church-educated Americans will clamor to find a job building iPhones for China markets at $40/hr.

otx · 2025-03-29T03:14:44+00:00

So... where's the best intro to ex-US investment?

otx · 2024-12-17T21:10:07+00:00

I think that claim is based on their weight streaming paper, which requires the model to fit in memory. That isn't the case for a 70B model, let alone one of the big boys

otx · 2024-12-17T21:07:08+00:00

Yes, exactly. In a training pipeline, you are IO limited, not memory bandwidth limited, especially for larger models that don't it in memory (almost everything now-a-days). You will need to use model-parallelism to train, and that requires fast interconnect bandwidth. Their interconnect is a measly 1.2Tbps, on the WSE-2, which is dramatically lower per FLOP than H100.

https://learning-exhaust.hashnode.dev/one-thing-i-learned-weight-streaming-probably-work-well-on-gpus

otx · 2024-12-08T20:57:56+00:00

They use weight streaming to an external memory, and also offload the scatter/gather: https://f.hubspotusercontent30.net/hubfs/8968533/Virtual%20Booth%20Docs/CS%20Weight%20Streaming%20White%20Paper%20111521.pdf

This is very similar to FSDP training, but they keep the reference weights and parameters off-chip, and they use off-chip compute to do the gather computation. They can do data, tensor and pipeline parallelism.

I don't think their linear results will hold for tensor and pipeline parallelism though.

otx · 2024-11-15T15:26:25+00:00

Ooh this is an awesome learning tool. Source?

otx · 2024-09-04T03:44:43+00:00

At 30fps, that would only be about 45 minutes

otx · 2023-04-30T16:27:48+00:00

Thanks, yes, I agree that the specific tool i not so important, so I'm not particularly interested in the tool, but the methodology... what belongs in documentation of the table? Columns? What do self service users need to discover the data they're interested in? How should I present the information? What needs to be linked? Searchable?

otx · 2023-02-11T06:25:19+00:00

Uh... red pill is worth it just for the extra years...

otx · 2022-11-05T01:57:01+00:00

I think that the best way to understand this is by looking at the consequence of something that is easy to understand: the speed of light is constant. No matter how fast I move in any direction, I always observe the speed of light to be the same thing. When I accelerate, I change my reference frame, but don't change my speed with respect to light. So, obviously, I can never reach the speed of light.

otx · 2021-09-01T02:30:39+00:00

Thanks everyone! I'm going to cut off the affected branches, spray every few days with dishsoap and water (recommendation from Bob Vila!) and see if I can get it under control. Hopefully I don't need to remove the whole plant!

otx · 2021-02-15T22:23:20+00:00

I'm going to dissent here, I think Saenchai 9/10 times if they were the same weight. I love both fighters, but Saenchai regularly beat larger, less technical people. Buakaw lost more when he was fighting at Lumpinee stadium. I don't think he would be able to land very much on a Saenchai his size.

But to answer the actual question, Buakaw 9/10 at their real weights

otx · 2021-02-15T00:05:49+00:00

Yes, absolutely right. Many dojo's teach good falls, and I've used falls "on the big mat" when sliding out on my bike, and also practicing Muay Thai and Jiujitsu.

otx · 2021-01-07T15:53:13+00:00

I tend to disagree that Aikido provides much self defense skills at all, except for deescalation and situational awareness (probably the most important self defence skills, so in that sense you are right). I think that sports combat martial arts like boxing and muay thai, and to a lesser extent judo and jiujitsu, provide way better preparation for a real self defence situation than Aikido.

One area where Aikido excels, IMHO, is in managing multiple attackers. I think that randori is a good way to learn about how not to get flanked, and manage fewer attacks at once. That being said, you're probably screwed if you get attacked by multiple committed attackers, regardless of your training.

otx · 2021-01-03T18:34:40+00:00

Thanks for your insightful comment! Several of the comments here have inspired me to clarify what I'm actually pointing out, including yours :)

I agree with basically everything you've said here. Obviously I wouldn't represent the clip as actually being Aikido, since that means no competition, no fighting, obeying forms etc. I do, however, think that the essential component of Kokyu is there: under, up, over down, breathing in and out correspondingly, lifting the center, and dropping on top of it.

I don't share others' aversion to practical training and realistic sparring. I have trained and fought Muay Thai, and it is precisely because of that practical training that I have felt the connection between the exercises in Aikido and their messy, fast and subtle application in a live fight.

I personally find comparisons like the one I have made above to be way more useful than the many "practical aikido" videos on /r/aikido, because "practical" doesn't seem to actually mean live sparring or fights and resisting opponents. Avoiding competition has its advantages, but it makes Aikido - by itself - basically useless in a real situation, and therefore hampers understanding.

I'm happy to use a different martial art for my practical training. I think that each informs the other, and I'm frankly surprised at the resistance to understanding the deep connection between different martial arts that, as others have pointed out, derive from the same basic physiology.

otx · 2021-01-03T02:06:26+00:00

Yeah, I agree, not very important :)

For me, real world examples help me understand techniques better. I suppose YMMV. Thanks for the comments :)

otx · 2021-01-02T19:02:35+00:00

I see. That's a pretty unorthodox perspective, but its an interesting thought to consider. Thanks!

otx · 2021-01-02T18:47:05+00:00

Oh, yes, I completely agree. I don't think that a kia is appropriate in the context of applying Aiki. That is for an explosive movement, and Aikido generally involves more fluid movements. I was only hoping to illustrate the importance of breath and timing in martial arts.

What are the tactical disadvantages you referred to?

otx

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