Aurornis

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by Aurornis 5d ago
> This page has been in 'New model — collecting baseline data. Degradation detection paused.' state for months now. It seems to never say 'degraded'. Click the part at the end that says "View historical performan
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by Aurornis 5d ago
> 1/ if the point of setting xhigh or max effort on a "reasoning model" is -not- to have additional reasoning tokens applied to the problem, then I fear we are all using AI wrong You keep moving the goalposts. The core fla
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by Aurornis 5d ago
I doubt that would change the perception. Every model release is followed by accusations of nerfing. There are several projects that repeat benchmarks on published models. None has ever found significant fluctations Here's one example
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by Aurornis 5d ago
These analyses are much better than these Twitter charts. I don't think anyone is reading the details for the Twitter post because it was not an actual benchmark. They did a post-hoc analysis of their logs from day to day. Their random
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by Aurornis 5d ago
> Use your own data if you want to prove or refute what was seen in my corpus. I don't think you understand. What you posted is highly dependent on your corpus. I can't "refute" anything because it's not availabl
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by Aurornis 5d ago
> * Tune it down over time so that you end up only scoring 75 on the benchmark Where? I see so many accusations of this happening and it's so easy to check, but nobody ever proves it.
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by Aurornis 5d ago
They posted a long document explaining it all https://x.com/Lon/status/2101034933284417614 They're not measuring a fixed set of questions. This was post-hoc analysis on whatever prompts they were running each
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by Aurornis 5d ago
> to create a perceived improvement when in reality there isn’t really one? This wouldn't explain progress on benchmarks (including closed sets), or the fact that newer models are providing solutions to major math problems that olde
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by Aurornis 5d ago
You should read this person's full article to understand what these charts are showing https://x.com/Lon/status/2101034933284417614 If you thought this was a repeated test of the same problems showing fluctua
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by Aurornis 5d ago
> More than half of tech workers (53%) would steer a newcomer away from their own field, and they stay. It would be nice to see this survey repeated across professions. In my experience, most people have gripes about their profession bec
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by Aurornis 5d ago
The part can be replaced with the same part to repair the item. This is not locked.
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by Aurornis 5d ago
I prefer to stay grounded in the reality of how the world works when responding to questions about legalities.
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by Aurornis 5d ago
Two problems with modifying models like these, which you should be aware of. First, the training sets of these models are usually shaped around the refusal, too. They might not have enough of the knowledge to answer correctly even if you st
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by Aurornis 5d ago
No. Price discrimination and locking hardware are not illegal.
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by Aurornis 5d ago
> All cameras (glasses, phones, etc.) then blur your face in recordings. Rendering security cameras useless for identifying any criminals? Maybe some of these commenters aren’t old enough to remember when fighting for your right to take
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by Aurornis 5d ago
These things don’t matter to buyers. When the board doesn’t work right or crashes a lot they don’t care which step in their personal supply chain is at fault. They demand the original manufacturer give them a new one for free, which they be
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by Aurornis 5d ago
There were sellers buying the smallest RAM units, changing the RAM chips, and then reselling them as the higher RAM SKUs. The sellers who do this don’t always care to use good RAM chips and may even use QA reject parts. When the unit doesn’
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by Aurornis 5d ago
> Ignoring the development of the sorts of skills and abilities in the general public that come from tinkering with small bench top machines like lathes and 3d printers is detrimental to nation’s ability to be self sufficient and raise t
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by Aurornis 6d ago
> What are you talking about? Show me one survey that shows DIY crafts as a whole becoming more popular in the past several decades. Entry level 3D printer sales (the kind you buy from Prusa or Bambu Labs) have been surging for years. Yo
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by Aurornis 6d ago
Sherline was good for businesses and labs that needed a light mill for rare use. Hobby users weren’t a good market because they’re always searching for used deals and conversions. I haven’t shopped the Sherline catalog in a long time but th
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by Aurornis 6d ago
> And what happens if China decides that it is no longer in their interest to allow Americans access to cheap aluminum extrusions, hotends, motors, and controllers? Then home 3D printing will be the least of our concerns? What kind of qu
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by Aurornis 6d ago
> It takes all kinds and I see no reason to gate keep either way. Gatekeeping is a good way to describe it. This happens to a lot of niche hobbies that go mainstream. Some of the old ingroup that were into the hobby before it was cool ge
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by Aurornis 6d ago
Several companies tried this for distributing software. It was very controversial. Users were angry that software companies were using their internet bandwidth to distribute their software. Made a lot of people angry.
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by Aurornis 6d ago
I’ve had several printers over more than a decade. Even the most reliable new units can still be difficult to debug little things. My cousin’s family got a Bambu printer with no technical or mechanical experience and gets it working well mo
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by Aurornis 6d ago
> The lie has been heavily sold to the maker community that you are "wasting your time if you make something yourself" since it is cheaper to offshore even small 3d prints and machining projects. > The ability to make things
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by Aurornis 8d ago
> The latter is where the contention is, and it's a valid argument It has been tried in court several ways already. Remember the lawsuit that forced Anthropic to use physical books? They tried to argue that the books couldn’t be tra
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by Aurornis 8d ago
> It's the robbery of all of our culture to sell it back to us at a mark-up. At a mark-up would mean it’s more expensive. The outrage is that they’re taking knowledge that was expensive to access because you had to hire experts or o
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by Aurornis 8d ago
> If IP is real, then the AI companies have performed flagrant theft. It’s called Derivative Work and it’s a good feature for IP law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work You wouldn’t like a world where com
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by Aurornis 8d ago
The AI protestors in the article are holding up signs that say AI will kill us all. They think this is a doomsday technology. They’re not in the streets over a concern about cultural appropriation in LLM training sets.
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by Aurornis 8d ago
The Department of War is posting memes against Effective Altruism on Twitter and Bernie Sanders is putting out video of him talking to Elizier Yudkowsky. It is already a political culture war topic.

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