CamperBob2

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by CamperBob2 5d ago
And nightmare fuel is just what they'll be selling at the UN this week, for this very reason. Sam's address will probably be more riveting, imaginative, and terrifying than the last couple of Terminator screenplays. Legislators w
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by CamperBob2 5d ago
You forgot a stage or two: 1: "Our model will bring about the end of all things. Flee, flee for your lives" 2: "Our model is basically AGI" 3: "Our model will be available in limited release next week" 4: &quo
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by CamperBob2 5d ago
Getting more likely every year.
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by CamperBob2 5d ago
Good point. I suppose watching the number go up is useful information in itself. I have been using CC with DeepSeek 4.1 Flash lately, and it's nice to see how the sausage is being made (even if it's partly illusory, as CoT always
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by CamperBob2 5d ago
How do you measure thinking tokens? They don't send those back to the client.
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by CamperBob2 6d ago
The funny thing is, we're mostly in violent agreement, going by your other comments. This is a weird point to disagree on... so weird, in fact, that it's easy to believe you are associated with OpenAI. Hence my follow-up comment
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by CamperBob2 6d ago
Hit dog hollers, sounds like.
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by CamperBob2 6d ago
No one has all the cards and no one controls all the levers. I'm as fanatical a free-market fundamentalist as you'll ever meet, but if someone were to argue that government has a role in preventing bullshit like OpenAI's un
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by CamperBob2 6d ago
Nothing wrong with auto start/stop by itself, just let the driver turn it on and off, and remember the state between drive cycles. It comes in handy in some situations while being a nuisance in others, and that's when you add a
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by CamperBob2 6d ago
Usually the way the licenses are interpreted, if I run it myself and use it to generate $X million in revenue in my own business, I'm subject to the license. In this case, the license seems to cover any commercial usage at all, which
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by CamperBob2 6d ago
No need to deploy it publicly. It's 7B, it'll run on a 3090.
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by CamperBob2 6d ago
It's not going to matter unless you plan to commercially deploy the model, as far as I see. It's not going to matter then, either. What are they going to do, sue me for copyright infringement?
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by CamperBob2 6d ago
From the April 3, 1999 entry at http://www.maydaymystery.org/mayday/update.html : This week sucked, so nothing really got updated, but I took a cue from one of the previous emails and decided to blow off about 3,000 i
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by CamperBob2 7d ago
They have. When you need more math -- and you will if you stick with this business for very long -- it'll usually be obvious, and you can pick up those skills then. It's never been easier.
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by CamperBob2 7d ago
The complaint I have is that for the sake of benchmark wars, UB has been retconned from "The code might not behave the way you want under certain conditions on certain platforms, hopefully you know what you're doing" to &quot
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by CamperBob2 7d ago
Anyone who has worked in ML for 10+ years has heard of the Bitter Lesson, and doesn't want to be its next poster child.
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by CamperBob2 7d ago
Mine, too. Now I can create a lot more software, just as I did when assemblers gave way to compilers. The idea that this is a bad thing is just bizarre. In technology, what's anomalous isn't change, but things staying the same f
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by CamperBob2 7d ago
What difference does it make? If the loop doesn't terminate, it doesn't terminate, which is almost always a bug, except when it's not. If it does terminate, then great, it terminates. Merging a buggy loop with another loo
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by CamperBob2 7d ago
My position is that what happened to them could happen to you or me. You don't seem concerned, though. So that's good. I guess.
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by CamperBob2 8d ago
Rule of law still has sway. Get back to me once the Good and Pretti homicides in Minneapolis have been prosecuted.
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by CamperBob2 8d ago
Nah, not really. Not anymore. Nice skill to have when debugging weird stuff, but nothing you can't get by without.
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by CamperBob2 8d ago
They have more guns than you do, and these days, most of the judges are blindly and shamelessly on their side. They don't "have" to do jack.
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by CamperBob2 8d ago
I've heard (but can't back up) that any city with an international airport counts as a 'border' for this purpose.
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by CamperBob2 8d ago
Are we going to make a new job title for that? Should we call that job a programmer? Works for me! The most popular programming languages in 2030 will be English and Mandarin. You don't have to like it, you just have to deal with i
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by CamperBob2 8d ago
That's great, but you and your family will go hungry as a result. If not this year, next year. Your stance isn't new, if it's any comfort. I heard (and probably said ) exactly the same thing when C compilers started gettin
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by CamperBob2 8d ago
A tool that's blamed for the actions of its user has a crappy user.
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by CamperBob2 8d ago
A tool that can't be misused is a crappy tool.
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by CamperBob2 8d ago
It was, as insane as it sounds. They walked that back AFAIK. Fable will still dump you back into Opus at the drop of a hat, but at least it will tell you when it happens.
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by CamperBob2 8d ago
The way you get out of a local maximum is to force yourself to try something radically new every so often, even if what you were doing before was working just fine. This is the 'stochastic' part of 'stochastic gradient descen
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by CamperBob2 9d ago
Who says the weights have to be duplicated in their entirety? Even that will likely be worth it. Imagine an OpenAI owning the ERP and CRM databases and workflows of a big chunk of the Fortune 500. Their typical customer's employee he

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