Tossrock

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by Tossrock 1y ago
Altman doesn't have any stock. He's playing a game at a level people caught up on "capitalism bad" can't even conceptualize.
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by Tossrock 1y ago
Weird that there was no mention of paramagnetism/diamagnetism in here.
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by Tossrock 1y ago
Are you sure you're using 4? Mine says January 2025: https://claude.ai/share/9d544e4c-253e-4d61-bdad-b5dd1c2f1a63
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by Tossrock 1y ago
If you were disappointed in the brevity of the article, you may enjoy this multi hour podcast on the ELT, in the form of an interview between one of the scientists working on it and a German CS PhD / podcaster: https://omega
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by Tossrock 1y ago
https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Pixel_UI
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by Tossrock 1y ago
Actually I think they're tiny homunculi, trapped in a room full of meaningless symbols but given rules on how to manipulate them.
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by Tossrock 1y ago
My favorite part of the "stochastic parrot" discourse was all the people repeating it without truly understanding what they were talking about.
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by Tossrock 2y ago
Also interesting that GPT4.5 does the best, and also betrays close to the least. Real statesman stuff, there.
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by Tossrock 2y ago
I suspect the suggestion of letting them choose names at the start would improve this confusion - the tokenization and tracking of "P#" is no doubt harder to manage, especially for weaker models, than a more semantically meaningfu
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by Tossrock 2y ago
The fact that it scales sub linearly with hardware is well known and in fact foundational to the scaling laws on which modern LLMs are built, ie performance scales remarkably closely to log(compute+data), over many orders of magnitude.
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by Tossrock 2y ago
That is literally the pitch line for Devin. I recently spoke to the CTO of a small healthtech startup and he was very pro-Devin for small fixes and PRs, and thought he was getting his money worth. Claude Code is a little clunkier but gives
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by Tossrock 2y ago
"The Impact Of Taking A Survey About AI On Answers To A Survey About AI" doesn't have the same ring to it.
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by Tossrock 2y ago
Spacemonger is this to a tee.
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by Tossrock 2y ago
There is evidence that as LLMs increase in scale, their preferences become more coherent, see Hendrycks et al 2025, summarizer at https://www.emergent-values.ai/
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by Tossrock 2y ago
Spoiler!
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by Tossrock 2y ago
I found this firsthand account of a gig worker trapped by the algorithm pretty compelling: https://zerohplovecraft.substack.com/p/the-gig-economy
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by Tossrock 2y ago
It sounds like you're looking for Any Angle pathfinding. The fastest known algorithm for 2D grids is ANYA: https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICAPS/article/view/13609
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by Tossrock 2y ago
Some can. Google owns Waymo and runs Streetview, they're collecting massive amounts of spatial data all the time. It would be harder for the MS/OpenAI centaur.
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by Tossrock 2y ago
Unsong has a pretty novel take on it.
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by Tossrock 2y ago
A funny story: Ambrosia Software was, for many years, THE name in Mac gaming. Their biggest series was the Escape Velocity space sim titles. The final release in the series EV Nova, was popular enough to be released for Windows, as well. Ye
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by Tossrock 2y ago
HDI growth in China is levelling out, and irredentist claims to Taiwan are a foundational piece of the CCP's ideology. The "strategic ambiguity" could be tolerated while Taiwan was relatively unimportant, but now that TSMC is
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by Tossrock 2y ago
He actually does suggest a reason in the book, which is a primordial black hole passing through it.
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by Tossrock 2y ago
The Basic Factual Information presentation is pretty astonishing. There were so many opportunities to stop and reflect on what a bad idea this whole enterprise was. During the prototype phase: "June 2019: OceanGate pilot visually ident
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by Tossrock 2y ago
Roblox is not a game, and indeed makes its money by giving its engine to developers for free, then taking a cut of their earnings.
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by Tossrock 2y ago
The killer app is replacing 80% of white collar employees in 5 to 10 years.
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by Tossrock 2y ago
If you say so. I encourage you to invest your beliefs. But it's worth remembering that millions of people are already paying OpenAI and others for the value their models provide. GPT-4 can write code at least as well as a new college g
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by Tossrock 2y ago
He will direct Microsoft to continue investing in them? He's the CEO, and their investment in OpenAI has already paid dividends in the MSFT stock price. There is absolutely no world in which he voluntarily decides, "Actually, a fe
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by Tossrock 2y ago
If you think Nadella will let OpenAI run out of money, you're dreaming.
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by Tossrock 2y ago
> If I could just list designs somewhere and customers have them printed on demand, either via Amazon or some drop-ship, I could recoup a lot of the design costs so I could spend more time designing things - maybe even make a career out
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by Tossrock 2y ago
You can get on-demand metal printing from Shapeways. Somewhat expensive compared to sendcutsend, but still far below aerospace.

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