IanCal

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by IanCal 2mo ago
> Google acting like a normal but competent company that's just chugging away, Chugging away not releasing products or releasing ones worse than their competition typically. Not sure that’s what a normal competent company should be
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by IanCal 2mo ago
IMO that doesn’t sound so much like prediction any more. It’d be prediction if it’s “predict what would come next in this text sampled from distribution X”. But what’s it predicting if we’re looking for new useful outputs? It’s finding a di
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by IanCal 2mo ago
It’s always been nebulous but that was fine because we were so incredibly far away from it. We never really planned to be close to it figuring out the edge. Some have it at human or beyond for all tasks, but then rarely touch on “one human”
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by IanCal 2mo ago
We have those laws. You need consent regardless of how you get the data. That’s they say “we value your data” (a phrase you can read in two ways) and ask if 1368 partners can have it for various uses.
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by IanCal 2mo ago
Browser fingerprinting is not cookies. Cookies are a very specific technical thing.
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by IanCal 2mo ago
GDPR is not about cookies, and what data do you mean? The data about how you use the site, tied to anything they can identify you with?
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by IanCal 2mo ago
It might be that what we consider a basic and very hard puzzle are extremely close together on a more absolute scale. The difference is often for us what proportion of humans can solve it. And the low end of that is still quite high up -
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by IanCal 2mo ago
It’s not about cookies. It’s about what the site is allowed to do with your data. Cookies are an implementation detail. It’s baffling we’re having this misunderstanding on this site in 2026 still.
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by IanCal 2mo ago
In a way it is - or rather it wouldn’t t change anything if we added more features. The default is “no”. Without explicit consent you can’t do a lot of things. You can’t have a default yes, because how can you agree with consent but automat
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by IanCal 2mo ago
Utter nonsense. There’s no way you could get models as smart by fine tuning. I couldn’t throw a problem like “build a pokemon database with UI to teach my son sql” and get a working system, nice ui, tests (which it iterated on) examples and
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by IanCal 2mo ago
> I've worked with these systems for four years now and they have not meaningfully improved in that time frame. Not meaningfully improved?! Four years ago was gpt *3.5*! ChatGPT hadn’t been released!
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by IanCal 2mo ago
Huge fan of the non-seat/monthly based pricing. Do you need it to be higher to not just cover costs but also make a profit?
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by IanCal 3mo ago
> What am I missing? They’re testing the same models on the same task but different ways of organising the swarms and the new approach works better.
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by IanCal 3mo ago
I disagree, you’re optimising many different things and there is not a simple way to compare them. The very concept of Pareto optimal is about this! There is not one uniquely perfect solution to a problem most of the time. Spending too mu
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by IanCal 3mo ago
The Chinese room argument takes it even further as it does not claim the system is unable to anything a human can. And stochastic parrot isn’t a good description, certainly not any more with how LLMs are trained, but even without that it’s
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by IanCal 3mo ago
You have access to php and a database there.
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by IanCal 3mo ago
I think you're mixing up the lyrics and the video. > It's funny when the nerd is pointing at the old JS logo and star trek's klingon icon The lyrics are funny. The video is almost entirely converting each near standalon
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by IanCal 3mo ago
> I won't even try to stop you You don't need to, because I've not done that. This may be why you're reading my comments as obtuse because you think I'm saying something that I am not. I initially thought you we
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by IanCal 3mo ago
People aren't powerless. They keep voting for people that do these things and/or keep giving them money to do it again and again. That's why they have money, that's why they have power, and as long as people keep rewardi
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by IanCal 3mo ago
That’s the date of the conference. The proceedings appear to have been published the year before.
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by IanCal 3mo ago
There’s two sides to what you’ve said - I’d forgotten lots of the things like trying to lock the car doors, which is an additional point although the scene is still pretty direct. The other things you’re saying are about the song and storyt
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by IanCal 3mo ago
It does depend on what they’ve introduced though, the player saying they noticed an npc has glowing eyes doesn’t seem like quite the right split (caveat - of course always do whatever seems fun, fun is the point).
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by IanCal 3mo ago
This is really interesting. While I know others have posted about fixes I think it’s a very useful thing to see regardless about how well they can follow initial directions and understand what should happen. I think you could create an inte
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by IanCal 3mo ago
When my wife has a thing she says she needs to do and I can help, I now ask “do you want this done or do you want to do it?”. I think this is a similar kind of split. Sometimes I want to cook, that’s a thing I want to actively do. Sometimes
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by IanCal 3mo ago
> Taking your logic to its conclusion fishes (or descendants of fish) regularly recite Shakespeare. I believe that was the point.
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by IanCal 3mo ago
Lots of the shots in white and nerdy are literally showing what the lyrics are describing, is there another level to them with references I’ve missed?
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by IanCal 3mo ago
The first conference proceedings were published in 1976 which might be where this is coming from. https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/First-West-Coast-Comp...
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by IanCal 3mo ago
Accidental things and silent things are very different. Accidental means you didn't mean to do it, silent means you don't know you've done it (or might not if you want to get picky, you could notice).
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by IanCal 3mo ago
> The weird thing for me is the prompt optimization loop? Why not fine tune the model instead of AI generating the prompt? Why is it weird to optimise the prompt? Whether you optimise the model is a separate issue. If you use any closed
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by IanCal 3mo ago
How were you penalised? Was it just losing the ability to flag? If however you see things isn’t lining up well with how they want things flagged, it makes sense to remove that from you. Unless there’s more punishment attached this seems ver

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