Also confusing when the SF Fire captain is on the radio telling people to evacuate to 100 ft above sea level right after a CalTech seismologist says it is unlikely to cause much of a tsunami due to being a strike-slip earthquake.
Sonic is reselling AT&T fiber in most situations, but they provide their own support which is nice if you need it. If the problem is with the fiber, you are still relying on AT&T.
Not "most situations" for years and not at all for a bit now. AT&T fiber reselling in an area was always a stop gap until we could build out our own offering at that locatuon and offer a better and cheaper product of our own which is more profitable for us to people that were already our customers, which is a win for them and for us.
It might not be "most situations", but its certainly mine. I've been filling out the sonic form yearly for at least 5 years now. I'll say i do appreciate that it stopped offering me verizon. It always felt like a bit of a con for the frontpage to advertise gigabit, ask for my address, then give me a "success" page that only offered verizon. Unfortunately i suspect that with verizon not being offered it means sonic has decided this area isn't worthwhile and has stopped accepting customers (not going to fully out myself, but we have a bart stop and are not end-of-line).
Depending on where you live, if we already serve some houses in the area (very possibly if we're advertising locally), then it's likely that your specific location is more costly to serve and is being delayed until we reach that phase of the rollout for the area.
Specifically, aerial deployment through telephone poles is an order of magnitude cheaper than underground unless you get in when the neighborhood is being built (which AT&T and Comcast often do, and get pre-wired to each house). My understanding is that we are trying to fill in the areas between that aerial neighborhoods we initially built out where we provide service, it's just slower. If the availability form shows service for houses in your city that seem to have service delivered through telephone poles then it's possible we'll get to you in the semi-near future.
If you live in the bay area have service through a telephone pole and we can't service you, then I'm not sure what's going on. My understanding is we've covered most the bay area, but honestly that's not my department...
Any plans to resell AT&T fiber in locations where you don't have service? (Asking not-so-transparently if you will come down to San Jose where I live…)
That was the plan until AT&T pulled the rug out from the resellers, so it's not an option anymore, as much as we'd like to.
That said, I believe we are in San Jose, just mostly for aerial (telephone pole) locations. Below ground infra is much more expensive to serve, and historically we've focused on aerial for that reason, but I believe plans are moving forward to fill in the gaps in the areas where we already provide service with micro-trenching, so hopefully we'll be able to offer you something in the future.
Not an individual line, but if the poles aren't full then theoretically we could serve the area. Until the poles are full its free to use with an accepted usage plan and engineering plans to show pole stress and load/tension, but each tenant has a section with a buffer between them and there's only so much room.
If you want to contact me through my email in my profile) and are willing to accept that my crazy personal inbox situation might mean I easily miss it), I'm willing to do some closer looking with your actual info.
Yes. Sonic is not currently selling AT&T at all anymore as a new service, but we have existing customers on that product which can continue to use it. Where we are currently selling fiber, in much of the bay area and in Los Angeles now, it's our own product. Also, the vast majority of our current customers are on our own product and not resold AT&T fiber or any resold service from another provider.
Ecoflow switching time is listed at “<30ms” and the new Anker power stations are listed at “<20ms” so not the speed you’re looking for. APC’s tend to be listed at less than 12ms.
How do you get value from chatting with documents? I can scan and read a pdf faster than I can chat with an AI about it. There must be more to it than I realize.
PDF material comes with different information density. If you have a lose collection of 100 manuals, and you need to find a snippet of information that could be in 10 different ones, I'm guessing something like this can help you navigate and locate what you need.
That would be a great litmus test for these programs. Dump gigabytes of manuals and ask "how many pins does the 74LS04 have?" "What size bolts hold the oil pan on a 73 Porsche?"
That is what the RAG system does. The PDF is chunked and thrown into a vector store. And then when prompted, only the relevant bits are retrieved and stuffed into the context and sent to the LLM.
So yeah it's kinda smoke and mirrors. In some cases, for some long PDFs, it works really well. If it's a 500 page PDF with many disparate topics, it may do fine.
Indeed. Would only add, context windows are continually multiplying in size. Who knows how long Moore's Law will apply here, but it's a continually improving window.
I've found that the longer context windows don't seem to be a linear improvement in responses though. It's like the longer the context window, the quality of the response is perhaps broader, but less sharp or accurate. I've been using GPT4-turbo with the longer context window for coding tasks but it doesn't seem to have improved the responses as much as you would think, it seems to be more "distracted" now, which perhaps makes some intuitive sense.
I can give gpt4-turbo many full code files to try and solve a complex coding task but despite the larger window it seems to fail more often or ignore parts of the context window or just doesn't really answer the question.
I run https://Docalysis.com/ and there’s a few use cases. The first is getting information out of various reports and papers by chatting with it, which is faster than reading an entire document. Another is automating data extraction out of files, which is part of many business processes.
I use Claude 2.1 to create summaries and TOCs of the magazines on my magazine encyclopedia. There is no way I could do that by hand for several million magazines averaging 100 pages each.
How did you handle missing data? I’ve used NOAA data a few times and I’m always surprised at how many days of historical data are missing. They have also stopped recording in certain locations and then start in new locations over time making it hard to get solid historical weather information.
You'll have both. E.g. Tesla's credits litterally fuel the emissions of other carmakers.
Meanwhile the heavily EU subsidized incinerators in the Netherlands are buring up all of the EU's forests to charge those Teslas because some lobbyist managed to sneak in burning wood as a 'renewable' in the 'green' act.
Fossil fuels are about just as renewable as burning wood in reality, not at all, but hey, the Excel says so and if we don't follow the Excel we will be fined, so let them Dutch trucks carry of the last of our forests.
