Certhas

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by Certhas 3mo ago
In my reading, "training for the benchmark" is very, very different from "this benchmark is in the training data".
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by Certhas 3mo ago
Fire predates modern humans. I will concede agriculture as up there with the two I mentioned, but I think you underestimate how radical the shift of industrialisation was/is, and I think this is because history teaches us about highly
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by Certhas 3mo ago
Not the person you are asking, but... In my view, the two most important technology clusters in human history are writing and industrialization. The former made culture (cognitive work) cumulative. The latter made physical work approximatel
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by Certhas 3mo ago
Here is what Sonnet says on genocide: "Surveys of genocide scholars (e.g., one by the journal Journal of Genocide Research contributors) show meaningful disagreement, though a visible and growing share of specialists in genocide studie
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by Certhas 3mo ago
That's the idea behind the future file format: https://github.com/future-file-format/F3 Bundle a wasm decoder as a fallback when native decoder isn't available.
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by Certhas 3mo ago
That's a strange statement... It's been true for a while now that OpenAI has had much more generous limits than Anthropic on their subscription plans. And with the Fable ban/guardrails disaster, there has been a lot of frustr
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by Certhas 3mo ago
No. Robust control theory was one case. Dynamical systems another.
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by Certhas 3mo ago
You are mischaracterizing what the post is reporting entirely. Porting an open source tool used in bioscience to rust is a software engineering task. But it is somewhat understandable that it gets stuck in the overly broad safety margin. Bu
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by Certhas 3mo ago
I disagree. When I got Fable to engage with research questions before they tightened the guardrails it was a genuine step up from Opus 4.8. I see no real reason that what everybody reported isn't exactly what happened. With these guard
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by Certhas 3mo ago
My experience, too. I work on nothing in any way related to cybersecurity or biology. I asked it a few purely mathematical questions, it refused immediately. Before the export embargo I did get it to look at some hairy problems and the outp
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by Certhas 3mo ago
What is your point? Sometimes it works due to other factors so we don't need regulation? Beyond the very real closures of unprofitable rail lines that is always happening or threatening (including in state owned rail companies) your ex
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by Certhas 3mo ago
There are many more places that were never reconnected.
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by Certhas 3mo ago
Officially it's not available anymore. But there are team plans that are not enterprise, so if you are small enough and fine with the data protection included in those maybe that is what you're working with? And I do know NGOs wer
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by Certhas 3mo ago
Individuals, sure. For enterprise you can't get monthly plans. You have to pay per token. It's a bit like saying "nobody pays for Microsoft Office". I certainly don't know anyone personally who has. Students get a f
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by Certhas 3mo ago
Infrastructure should not be (purely) profit driven. To improve profits for train operators, the simple option is to cut lines serving small and rural communities. The economics are much worse than serving large cities. Same for cell covera
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by Certhas 3mo ago
The question is: what proportion of tasks can not be handled by GLM5.2? How many software developers were working on code like the one you describe?
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by Certhas 3mo ago
So requires more transmission infrastructure. The difference is that we already have that built out over decades, and now we need a different network in a much shorter timescale. No one should pretend that the energy transition is free. The
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by Certhas 3mo ago
https://www.climate.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/global_t... CO2 and temperature track quite well. However, climate sensitivity actually says the relationship is not linear but logarithmic. Doubling C
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by Certhas 3mo ago
"Carl Benedikt Frey at Oxford has documented that the Industrial Revolution took seventy years before wages and employment recovered for the workers it displaced. In the interim, wages stagnated, the labor share of income collapsed, pr
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by Certhas 3mo ago
Actually the real danger is mass labor market disruption, and a massive shift of power from labour to capital. As was highlighted in previous discussions, the industrial revolution took 80 years to start benefiting workers. The continued im
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by Certhas 3mo ago
Maybe you need to argue that LLMs are so dangerous effectively weapons, and therefore should be covered by the second amendment? /s
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by Certhas 3mo ago
That would convince me that the US Administration is capable of good governance and interested in a regulatory environment that furthers the public good and curtails excessive corporate power. A tough sell indeed. But that was not the quest
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by Certhas 3mo ago
I agree that this is all ridiculously arbitrary right now, but it shouldn't be surprising either. I can't find the exact blog post (maybe on simonwillison.net ?) but I read people predicting that know your customer laws would be c
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by Certhas 4mo ago
Anthropic broke with US Gov over wanting restrictions and n how they use their model. OpenAI was more than happy to bend over backwards and hide behind a misleading press release. The idea that OpenAI is the one who are meaningfully pushing
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by Certhas 4mo ago
I think this is unfair to Julia. It has a strong lisp lineage, the just ahead of time compilation model is interesting and I think they were the first to make it work. I agree that it's lacking in many ways, but it's not just Pyth
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by Certhas 4mo ago
I did clearly say "my impression is". And you have no evidence to the contrary. We don't even reliably in w how many subscribers Vs enterprise customers they have. And the OpenAI leak doesn't even cleanly say that infere
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by Certhas 4mo ago
My impression is that individual subscriptions are the loss leading hook. The money is made on Enterprise token contracts. Employees and students used to coding with thousands of dollars worth of tokens (on a 20/100 dollar plan) will p
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by Certhas 4mo ago
I am talking about some very specialised results in an application area. Not Electro Magnetism which I believe you are referring to? The formulation of EM with antisymmetric field tensors (which is the same thing as a bivector) is certainly
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by Certhas 4mo ago
Maybe I wasn't clear: Other formulations that reveal dualities, etc... at the cost of obscuring the fundamental covariance deserve to be treated as secondary.
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by Certhas 4mo ago
The ideas of GA aren't new. As the article explains, the ideas of Clifford algebras are common place throughout research and deserve to be introduced earlier. Understanding bivectors and wedge products is much more important than, for

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