Nevermark

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by Nevermark 12d ago
Indeed. It is better to discourage the pattern directly: Avoid unnecessary contrasts: "Not X, but Y" -> "Y" or "" And the model needs to create a skill that accumulates feedback, so it reliably primes itself
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by Nevermark 12d ago
Dial down "Contrast" and unrealistic "Highlights", dial up "Exposure" time and "Sharpness". Set "Temperature" per taste. Wot? The simplest image apps have had these widgets for decades, but
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by Nevermark 12d ago
If we filter out the pep tone, it is doing something useful: framing. Problem framing will always be important. Framing adjusts how big of problem-solving guns we bring out at the gate (modern or hobby cryptography?), and how to interpret i
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by Nevermark 14d ago
> <big corporations> often use consulting firms Large organizations also offload decision making when they don't have a clue, and simply want to point to some action taken. The answer doesn't even matter, they just don&#x
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by Nevermark 16d ago
So... we agree. Sort of. We don't know what Ternus can do. We know this event was a reflection of Cook, but that is all we know.
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by Nevermark 16d ago
False dichotomy. The right response to an inspiring founder that cannot be replicated, isn't to go for uninspiring.
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by Nevermark 16d ago
I agree, expecting Steve would be unfair. And trying to duplicate him would be a mistake. But find a voice that works for whoever is presenting, or get different presenters. The visuals and videos were excellent. The product was cool.
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by Nevermark 16d ago
Do they? I think everyone knows how many hours they practiced and the depth of talent they could draw from. The inhuman consistency demonstrates a deliberate choice, that undermines their own message. Care about impact wasn't just a St
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by Nevermark 16d ago
It isn't just twice the size. Both sides have the same aspect ratio as the whole screen. > this isn't great design, it's tautology. of course the phone open is twice the size of it closed. Well, it sounds obvious now, but
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by Nevermark 16d ago
John Ternus, and his co-presenters, still presented with the now institutionalized Apple-voice: obviously-rehearsed, emotionally-flat, robo-replay. They spent their time practicing to recite, instead of talk, to people. So hard to sit throu
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by Nevermark 17d ago
Funny exercise. For a moment I thought, wow, someone put a lot of work into creating this theme park of frustration. Next: It would be so easy to create a faux-Claude like this. Then: How hilarious to watch the transcripts of unsuspecting u
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by Nevermark 17d ago
In the comments: > @tao curious to know what makes LLM fundamentally different compared to (other) automatic theorem provers? It highlighted that "automatic" is a spectrum. And the norm is shifting toward "fully" (eve
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by Nevermark 17d ago
I have ADHD, and I approve this task's rules! Side note, because I recently gave my AI the skill of speaking with proper 4th grade grammar, wherever that suffices, to reign in recent redundant, over complex, and indirect speech styles.
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by Nevermark 17d ago
> There is not generally an expectation of privacy in public. Which is entirely different from an expectation of a generalized systematic loss of practical privacy in public. They are not even close to the same thing. The willingness to
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by Nevermark 17d ago
I had to ask Fable to create a skill for using proper fourth grade writing when fourth grade writing is enough, use the canonical terms for things, and reference things directly, not with creative indirections. It is as if Fable skipped any
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by Nevermark 18d ago
I am not dismissing anything. But if a model is built to be insensitive to something by design, it isn't a good indicator of its overall capabilities. In fact, it is uniquely poor at testing its capabilities. I suggest you really try a
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by Nevermark 22d ago
> "how many r's in strawberry" or "s's in espresso". And what percentage of your red retina receptors are firing? The "number of letters" critique was broken before it was introduced the first time
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by Nevermark 24d ago
The experiment is set up to make any already understood interactions some combination of easy to identify or extremely improbable.
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by Nevermark 24d ago
"I have always envied your ADHD hyperfocus superpowers." /h Everything I am really good at, I am really bad at, depending on context and the wobbly compass that governs my internal motivation. It is definitely not all bad. Wi
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by Nevermark 24d ago
I agree with this. My ever optimistic self would fail and fail and fail, create a system, fail, create another system, fail, .... at seemingly easy things. As soon as I had a rational reason for otherwise inexplicable challenges, enormous a
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by Nevermark 25d ago
I didn't know - but I was adaptively self-medicating. At one time it was Jolt Cola ("all the sugar and twice the caffeine!"), then energy drinks came along. I can drink 10 a day, because I genuinely function better that way.
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by Nevermark 25d ago
The most surprising thing my adult ADHD diagnosis revealed was that as I began telling friends that I had been diagnosed positive they told me they had known that since they met me. These were childhood friends. Thanks friends. I thought I
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by Nevermark 26d ago
For OpenAI, their data center archipelago is their own "local" and "personalized" AI.
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by Nevermark 26d ago
Their universal RAM strategy is so obviously helpful for AI. (1) GPU/NPU <--> CPU RAM copies eliminated. (2) All (most) RAM available for GPU/Neural, when local models are typically kneecapped by limited GPU RAM sizes vs. th
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by Nevermark 26d ago
> Everything is "too dangerous". GPT2 is going to invent a time machine and break crypto and genetically engineer super rabies. You are hyperbolically judging a post-hoc cherry-picked subset of a great spectrum of concern, with
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by Nevermark 26d ago
I remember doing this by hand. A long time ago. It gave me a nice ADHD fidget-subtask while my brain worked out the higher level organization of what I was writing. I completely forgot I did that. My life has 1000's of strange untold s
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by Nevermark 1mo ago
> Apple's five-finger inward gesture are the opposite. Once you could do it and start typing but nowadays it needs to render the animation There is no technical reason that animation should take that long. Someone said, "good e
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by Nevermark 1mo ago
What a nice question. There won't be a simple answer, but if the model=actor due to survival pressures theory stands, it must be clearly testable. I would go about answering that question as follows, identify the smartest creatures, wh
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by Nevermark 1mo ago
Consciousness occurs when: (1) The model we learn of the environment, extends to our own bodies status indicators, then our general emotional mood/emotions/reflexes, and finally to some level awareness of our thought behaviors. S
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by Nevermark 1mo ago
As has been evident in many spheres of human activity recently, being brazen about conflicts of interest, is often used as a PR shield for those conflicts. Sometimes transparency and honesty get weaponized. Especially by actors with central

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