CJefferson

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by CJefferson 7d ago
Nope, I’ve tried this, it’s awful. For a start LLMs love LLM generated text, so you are boosting papers people never had any input in. Secondly, LLMs in my experience are good at small issues, but fail totally at the whole paper being obvio
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by CJefferson 7d ago
Something is going horribly wrong. I don't know what it is (without your code I don't know), have you profiled where it's going wrong? There's no way a game for 2004 would be that slow. If you want help, I've done s
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by CJefferson 8d ago
Anthropic getting angry other AIs are trained on their AIs output is, to me, one of the stupidest things I’ve read in a while.
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by CJefferson 8d ago
I mean, I don't seem to get to say, "Oh I want this but I can't buy it so I'll just steal it LOL", so why should AI companies?
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by CJefferson 8d ago
I'm 100% happy with either viewpoint. 1) AI companies all get sued out of existence. 2) AI companies can train networks with piracy, those networks don't fall under copyright, so give me a copy to do what I want with.
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by CJefferson 8d ago
No, but why should we accept they get away with it? Also Microsoft has definitely sued people for pirating windows and now collaborates with OpenAI and uses their ai trained on stolen materials.
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by CJefferson 8d ago
We don’t have to treat people reading books and companies stealing all human knowledge the same. Also, companies spent a long time telling us downloading single songs via Napster was the worst thing ever, before torrenting every book in exi
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by CJefferson 10d ago
Well seeing as both Russia and the US want to mess with Canada and Europe, it’s doesn’t make that much difference, bot wise.
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by CJefferson 11d ago
I could make a non-deterministic chainsaw fairly easily. I’d also get sued into the ground if I sold it, and I wouldn’t be able to claim ‘Oh, it’s just an unavoidable part of progress’.
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by CJefferson 14d ago
I mean, are you saying ‘but more RAM?’ because obviously yes that’s true but not a solution if you already own a laptop, and have you seen ram prices? Also swapping to a fast SSD isn’t like it used to be on spinning discs. I’ve been amazed
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What happens in practice if the P=NP problem is solved?(heather.cafe)
2 points by CJefferson 16d ago|0 comments
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by CJefferson 19d ago
Wow, that is widely disingenuous, I don't really think there is any excuse for that, I don't believe someone deep in compression algorithms wouldn't know they could adjust the block size, and 512GB is a huge block size fo
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by CJefferson 21d ago
What’s interesting is it’s not obvious how this is leveraged to ‘cure disease’. But I’d love to know.the advantage of this is there is a clear measure of success. Here is a rule language. Prove this. You are done when your proof passes. You
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by CJefferson 27d ago
I don’t attach a raw dump of all the conversations I have with colleagues to my commit messages, and wouldn’t want to work in a place where I did. Sometimes I tell Claude ‘don’t trust file X, it was written by a colleague who writes awful t
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by CJefferson 29d ago
I worry this doesn’t check correctness. I’ve been finding Claude is lately awful at folllowing instructions, I’ll ask it to implement the algorithm from a paper and it will do something simpler and slower and when challenged do it’s stupid
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by CJefferson 1mo ago
This is completely different to my experience and my reading of the research. Please link me to any of this research you are talking about.
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by CJefferson 1mo ago
Much less than that. Anthropic won’t let its best model discuss my digestive system issues, or how to install apps on my own Peleton exercise bike.
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by CJefferson 1mo ago
I dislike all censorship, but US models are much more censored, I often find myself using Chinese models to get answers I want. Now, of course I’d prefer no censoring, but I live in the world we live in. I’m working in the assumption that (
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by CJefferson 1mo ago
This is why I’m trying to move to open Chinese models — because I will be able to use them forever, while the older Claude models which I genuinely enjoyed writing short stories with have now been deleted, replaced with hypothetically cle
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by CJefferson 1mo ago
My big problem with leaving Google is I’ve clicked on far too many ‘login with google’ boxes. In retrospect this was a mistake as it now ties my own domain to google basically forever, but lots of sites don’t even have the option to undo it
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by CJefferson 2mo ago
I'm a software developer. This is clearly bad, and we can decide what it should be called. It might not be 'hacking', but you are clearly abusing the computer to steal a space in a class you shouldn't have.
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by CJefferson 2mo ago
My gym class operates on 'write on a piece of paper, cross off your name if you want to cancel'. I could cross someone else's name off and write mine in. They would have trouble figuring out it was me who did the malicious cr
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by CJefferson 2mo ago
I find it amazing people don’t believe this. I lost about 50kg and people treated me better. They didn’t randomly shout ‘fat fuck’ in the street for a start.
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by CJefferson 2mo ago
P.P.S. Assuming you are replying to me, you seem to be projecting very powerfully. Rust isn't my favorite language, and I just asked about how much of your code was safe vs unsafe.
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by CJefferson 2mo ago
Do you find most of your rust code is unsafe? Because I also find I do some unsafe stuff, because of the algorithms I work on I often end up with some unchecked array accesses and a couple of raw pointers into those arrays I pass around.
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by CJefferson 2mo ago
Except it's 1,000x worse with the American models, because Trump might just decide that everyone in Europe get their access cut off, or gets a 5,000% tarriff. Or the companies just all agree to hike prices 10x one day. With open Chines
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by CJefferson 2mo ago
The problem is you can't ban open models. All you can do is say that Americans have to pay whatever stupid prices OpenAI / anthropic / Google / Grok wants to charge you, while China uses, and attacks with, open models.
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by CJefferson 2mo ago
I'd much prefer NFC if I could see how much I was paying and had to always confirm it -- I understand this wouldn't have worked with physical cards but I wish it was an option on my phone.
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by CJefferson 2mo ago
This type of thing (scan QR code) is how basically all payments were done when I was recently in China, via wechat or alipay (either you show your QR code for big shops, or scan their QR code for small shops / vendors. They can just pr
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by CJefferson 2mo ago
This is where 'reasonable doubt' comes in from a jury. Would I believe that someone set up a 'wipe my phone' code, something that would be catastrophic, it was one digit different, and they accidentally typed it, or wo

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