Espressosaurus

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by Espressosaurus 2mo ago
I’m working at a company where everyone is using LLMs for everything and I’m not aware of anybody using anything truly genetic. It’s all human in the loop babysitting the tool.
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by Espressosaurus 2mo ago
I think the parent's point (and perhaps the article author's point) is that he didn't spend his entire time there. He spent long enough, but not too long before he connected with the existing body of work, but now with a way
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by Espressosaurus 2mo ago
Every technology, every action has a moral aspect to it. Just because you want to ignore it doesn't mean it's not there. Society then decides on what morals we want to uphold, or at least tolerate, vs. those we want to change. Law
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by Espressosaurus 2mo ago
The problem is one of expertise, sometimes general, sometimes specific. If you don't know better, you don't know better to question what the AI says. I've seen this in the work environment with a coworker who insisted that I
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by Espressosaurus 2mo ago
I don’t know how you stop the slop writing. What the LLM writes has the voice of whatever has been RLHF’d into the weights. There will be a voice. It will have ticks. They can change it but it will be there. I do like that I have a term for
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by Espressosaurus 2mo ago
Look at the glacial retreat around the mouth of the fjord (which is why tourists go to the town) and yeah, the amount of change is insane. Any particular iceberg isn't that interesting, but the source! That’s the sad part.
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by Espressosaurus 2mo ago
Auto sales, airline ticket prices (notice the expansion of 1st, business, and comfort class seats), etc.
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by Espressosaurus 3mo ago
In the long term the sun will go red giant and all life on earth will die. In the short term I still need to eat, and tech integration that takes 20 years in the economy might leave me totally fucked!
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by Espressosaurus 3mo ago
I’ve observed the degradation, but I suspect what’s happening is they’re tuning it for lower inference costs. Maybe turning down the amount of thinking, maybe quantizing, maybe something else. It seems like there’s a week by week and someti
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by Espressosaurus 3mo ago
Machines are not humans.
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by Espressosaurus 3mo ago
Except I care about the reasoning trace because I can stop a rathole that burns $50 of tokens as it chews for 10 minutes before I get the desired feedback that it’s done the wrong thing.
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by Espressosaurus 3mo ago
Yeah. I have a set of 5 review prompts attacking different problems, an adversarial review, and then a final synthesis, with the best results gotten by multiple passes using multiple models (the adversarial review stage combining all passes
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by Espressosaurus 4mo ago
No one reads the terms and conditions. I went to a resort and read the T&C they made you sign to sign in and was told I was the only person in months who had actually done so. And even I have mostly given up on the website T&C becau
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by Espressosaurus 4mo ago
Everything reverts to the mean in the long term. Maybe even the state of unprecedented relative peace we had enjoyed.
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by Espressosaurus 4mo ago
It's not JUST about output, it's also about learning . The output is a way to measure the learning, it's not important of itself except as a reflection of the student's mastery of the curriculum. You're thinking of
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by Espressosaurus 4mo ago
Look at which models are getting open-weights vs. which ones aren't. That tap can be shut off at any time and it's already being shut off for their biggest models.
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by Espressosaurus 4mo ago
How many developers are making 2 million a year? 400k isn’t crazy for the FANG set but it’s still a subset of the developer market and hundreds of thousands of those jobs have been cut in the last few years as they all collectively work to
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by Espressosaurus 4mo ago
Yeah, it’s so easy to generate code that you can do a whole codebase rewrite in a day. Is this a good idea? Probably not—in the past we would only do that when the architecture was causing serious problems since it always has tons of behavi
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by Espressosaurus 4mo ago
Open source it and it gets crawled and optimized against and stops being a benchmark of any use whatsoever.
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by Espressosaurus 4mo ago
The fifties are when a lot of this infrastructure got its start. They want the 1850s.
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by Espressosaurus 4mo ago
Linear light, or linear perceptual?
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by Espressosaurus 4mo ago
Colonizing another planet will never be easier than our own biosphere. That claim for SpaceX is pure nonsense.
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by Espressosaurus 5mo ago
Yeah, my experience has been exactly that. And the person paying the bills will try as hard as possible to avoid/delay a metal rev as possible because they’re expensive and time consuming so they blow up the schedule if you can’t relea
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by Espressosaurus 5mo ago
Yeah, that was my experience. The model was worse in every way than ChatGPT or Claude or even Composer. I tried it out and used it when my other limits were hit, but only as a last resort. And I stopped doing even that because the model was
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by Espressosaurus 5mo ago
And if you don't know the syntax off the top of your head, as long as you know the verb you can find out what it is.
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by Espressosaurus 5mo ago
Git doesn't give you more power, it just makes their internals your problem.
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by Espressosaurus 5mo ago
If you're wealthy enough $250 is just the price of smoking (especially for someone that can afford a 1st class seat). I wonder why they don't have escalating non-monetary punishments?
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by Espressosaurus 6mo ago
There has been a measurable and noticeable drop in attainment starting with smartphones entering the classroom, supercharged by COVID chaos, and finally with AI cheating being just the latest assault on learning. Ask teachers that have been
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by Espressosaurus 6mo ago
Thanks for doing a "well AKTually" on a piece of amusing fiction.
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by Espressosaurus 7mo ago
It was true. Then they needed money for other things and whole orgs get laid off.

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