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by OtherShrezzing 3mo ago
I feel like we read different articles, because without context, the pictured dish looked like overcooked pork chops served next to a type of carbonara tagliatelle topped with a fried egg & chives. I can't imagine anyone has ever s
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by OtherShrezzing 3mo ago
>But is that a widespread feeling, are the vibes bad for regular people, or is this effectively just old man shouting at clouds? A cursory glance at YouGov strongly suggests that people have bad vibes about AI in basically every territor
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by OtherShrezzing 3mo ago
There’s an OpenAI slide deck sitting in Goldman’s IPO preparation department right now with a pair of bullet points that read >Q3 2027, introduce ‘ad-enhanced’ paid subscription tier >Q2 2029, complete ad rollout to all paid subscribe
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by OtherShrezzing 3mo ago
In the UK, farm vehicles use a specially dyed Red Diesel, which is the same liquid with a chemical added to it to turn it red. It’s taxed at a much lower rate, so you’ll sometimes pass petrol stations selling two Diesel from two different p
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by OtherShrezzing 3mo ago
I’m not suggesting Simon’s pelicans in the dataset are having a meaningful impact. I’m expecting that a company like ScaleAI has a product along the lines of “benchmax dataset: SimonW’s Pelican on Bikes test” which is a private curated seri
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by OtherShrezzing 3mo ago
Respectfully, the pelicans used to be an unrecognisable mess and now they’re unquestionably pelicans on bicycles, rendered poorly, from every model. In the same timescale, model capabilities across the board have only meaningfully improved
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by OtherShrezzing 3mo ago
In part because model vendors specifically prefer when people think that lots of content is produced by their model. The more Claude-like writing appears on the internet, the more signal there is to investors that people are using Claude fo
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by OtherShrezzing 3mo ago
Decent summary of it here[0]. The “space” part of “SpaceX” is valued by market analysts and money managers at around 5% of the company’s entire value. Almost all of the rest is “AI stuff”, and Twitter is a rounding error. That is, if SpaceX
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by OtherShrezzing 3mo ago
> to demonstrate that the tech industry isn't just here to extract wealth from the poor/many and transfer it to rich/few? I think the problem is that the tech industry in large is just here to extract wealth from the man
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by OtherShrezzing 3mo ago
It's unlikely that AI will get to the point where it makes handwritten coders redundant, and then not immediately be at the point where vibe coders are redundant too. So if you earnestly take the position that handwriting code is a &
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by OtherShrezzing 3mo ago
>4x improvement on geospatial tasks with map in the loop. The graph shows a baseline 2% task success rate improving to to 8% task success rate, but the evals section details 100% success rates across the board. I'm not sure what the
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by OtherShrezzing 3mo ago
Safari's copy-text-from-image feature manages the entire base64 part of the string, except for the first character (I instead of a T). Weirdly, it gets much worse performance if you try to copy the entire string, including the hashbang
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by OtherShrezzing 3mo ago
I think this is a case where two people can successfully complete the task manually faster than one attempting to automate it. Get a ruler, read five centimetres of characters to your colleague, have them type it in as you go, then repeat t
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by OtherShrezzing 3mo ago
Would they still get the highlighted "PEACE FOR ALL" text throughout the shortened string? It looks like the length, and presence of those characters, was an explicit design choice.
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by OtherShrezzing 3mo ago
It’s difficult to articulate the tedium and monotony of a Starbucks gig. There’s so little intellectual stimulation available in that setting. If you managed to learn more from your fast food than your humanities degree, then I think that’s
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by OtherShrezzing 4mo ago
I don’t think any engineers who cost $150/hr are having their productivity moved by 20% depending on a $10/hr gap between models on or near the frontier. Most of the gains right now come from tooling and process and any big post
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by OtherShrezzing 4mo ago
No, standard floating point implementations have higher precision for smaller numbers than larger. So for example, in a 32bit float, there are far more numbers between 0-1 than there are between 1,000,000 and 1,000,001. For 32bit floats, yo
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by OtherShrezzing 4mo ago
Most of the interesting research I’ve ever done started while reading through the intermediate steps in an unrelated paper. As far as I can tell from colleagues in other domains, it’s the same there. One paper will mention something off-han
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by OtherShrezzing 4mo ago
What’ll happen when Google Deep Mind go to release their next models, developed mostly in London? Are Google going to end up in a situation where the people working on their models cannot use the models after launch?
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by OtherShrezzing 4mo ago
> robot maid that could clean, wash and fold the laundry, do the dishes, etc. would be huge. I think a lot of people would pay new-car money for something like that. Once you take maintenance of a machine with price-parity to a new car i
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by OtherShrezzing 4mo ago
I think they’ve just picked poor peer examples. Instead of choosing other models near 5.2 on the intelligence scale, they’ve picked some open models from further down the scale.
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by OtherShrezzing 4mo ago
>As an AI-native startup founder, your responsibility is to know what's in your codebase, understand any potential exposure vectors, and not ship obvious vulnerabilities to real users who are trusting you with their data. This is fa
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by OtherShrezzing 4mo ago
I sometimes use the Claude app with text to speech enabled. It’s got a quite distinctive voice/tempo combo when it’s outputting speech. Whenever I see a typical Claude-tell in writing, my internal reading voice switches automatically f
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by OtherShrezzing 4mo ago
A debates purpose is surely to reveal if there’s a measurable difference to be reconciled in the first instance. Any actual reconciliation is a nice bonus on top. So even if the debate reveals that no, there wasn’t a viable reconciliation,
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by OtherShrezzing 4mo ago
I don't think this article properly engaged with the criticism from the politician. That's fine, I wasn't expecting it to, but this isn't valuable commentary on the politician's point. I suppose it does serve to dem
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by OtherShrezzing 4mo ago
I see the value in being able to discuss features more centrally. I’m not seeing the value in a per-keystroke delta of the software as it’s built though. It feels like this communications problem could be solved through draft PRs and a dece
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by OtherShrezzing 4mo ago
I don’t see the value proposition here. I’ve seen roughly this feature proposed by multiple companies, and absolutely none of the have given a convincing reason for the technology to exist.
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by OtherShrezzing 4mo ago
>The health service now has to spend more money settling maternity-malpractice claims than it does on actually providing maternity care This figure is from an article in the Times, and has no connection to official NHS figures. The Times
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by OtherShrezzing 4mo ago
In the UK, a £45k/yr employee pays their own tax and gets a take-home of £35k. The employer pays £6k for National Insurance (atop the employee's NI contributions). Pension: 2-3k. Apprenticeship levy is £300. 3yr-amortised recruitm
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by OtherShrezzing 4mo ago
This is odd behaviour, and provides some evidence that Anthropic isn't being managed by serious people. With this policy across AWS/GH/Zed/etc, they're taking their massive lead in enterprise/govt sales and han

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