RainyDayTmrw

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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Is this gonna be Turnitin[1] all over again? [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/style/ai-chatgpt-turnitin...
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
The SD and micro SD form factors are not the most robust or reliable. It would be nice to have a next step up form factor. In some ways, that's the motivation for CF Express Type B (and XQD before it), as popularized in digital photogr
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Public transit is ideal, but electrification of private cars is still significant harm reduction.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
See also: Zooko's triangle[1], a fundamental limitation and trade-offs for names. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
The steelman argument - not to say that I agree with it - is that this capability was present all along, but due to variability in the behavior of the model, adding certain context, such as chain-of-thought, exposes it.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
As much as I like fedi, it does make it hard to understand which user on which instance is the correct one.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Not to mention child processes in computing and all the things that need to be done to them.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
The extra cynical take would be, the model vendors want to personify their models, because it increases their perceived ability.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Does this actually work? I always find it strange when a system prompt tells an LLM to do or not do something that requires domain knowledge to understand. Like, how does the underlying base model at all understand what it means to verify d
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
I'm not sure I understand who the target market is. Post-quantum algorithms already run fine on general-purpose hardware.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
At the risk of being overly reductive, isn't this exactly the expected behavior: With ECS on EC2, the EC2 VM is a security boundary, and the container is not?
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
There's a related post from the same blog about using Bitcoin mining for space heating. Whatever one may think about Bitcoin, I kinda get the impression that practicality isn't at all high on the author's list.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
No, I'm saying that prestige schools are a symptom of a broader socioeconomic failing - something about how power is obtained and maintained, which I struggle to articulate properly. Shutting down prestige schools does nothing for the
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
I think legacy admissions are bad and wrong. But I also don't think that removing legacy admissions will make a dent, not on the state of college admissions, and especially not on any broader socioeconomic context. Prestige schools doi
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Router models exist, and do something like what you describe. They run one model to make a routing decision, and then feed the request to a matching model, and return its result. They're not popular, because they add latency, cost, and
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
I'm not being facetious. This is a legitimate, baffling disconnect.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
That seems really oddly specific. Why is an ostensibly universal system prompt going into the details of Python libraries and fonts?
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Even so, the economics may change over time. If the cafe's own expenses are going up, it has a difficult decision to raise prices (and lose business) or try to push through more business (and annoy customers).
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
I would like something in between a cafe, a network cafe, and a coworking space. Ideally, I would like to pay per time for a desk space with an internet connection, and I would like to be able to order food and drinks a la carte.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Since it's remote and networked to begin with, is there some way to get a time-share on one of these telescopes? I don't think I'm the target audience, but I imagine that one exists.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
If PCs were newly invented today, they may well have been locked down from the start. You already seeing the big names, Apple and Microsoft, with MacOS and Windows, respectively, inching along in that direction.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Simon Willison[1] of Django Framework founder[2] fame is a pretty big AI programming proponent at his blog. He's pretty high profile, as far as real-world programmers (as in, not executives and not promoters) go. You could argue, he ma
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
This sounds... surprising. I thought we were collectively very good at logistics, and that transport was comparatively cheaper than most things. That's why chicken meat takes a round-trip from the US to China and back to the US, becaus
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
It's a race to the bottom, and it hurts all of us.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
2010s startups were a lottery ticket with bad aggregate odds but real upside. If you wanted to make a risky bet, or if you believed you were better at picking winners than the rest of the market, there were some real opportunities to be had
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Maybe I'm missing something important. Is this purely an overlay network on top of regular IP with regular ISPs? Or have the got their own physical layer that I missed during reading? My confusion comes from LAN usually implying physic
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
I'm not sure if I believe that story, though. Look at Sears, for example. Yes, they mostly missed the wave on e-commerce, and were on a decline ever since then. But are you really claiming Eddie Lamport didn't do anything wrong th
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
Asset stripping is evil. I think we should have more regulations against asset stripping. How would those regulations be written, though? In my opinion, as a lay person who reads the news, asset stripping seems to be a way of "hacking
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
As I understand it, the author has an established reputation, to the point where, when someone finds one of these, they send it to someone like the author.
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by RainyDayTmrw 1y ago
What's that famous quote? First as tragedy, and then as farce? If the British Post Office Horizon was the tragedy, this may be the farce.

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