WarmWash

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by WarmWash 3mo ago
But not loading ads will save the Internet! Bypassing ads is good!
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Google's most is that people use ad-block and back-door subscriptions. Every competitor dies in the womb because "subscriptions are bs and ads are cancer" is totally normalized. If you want Google to fall, start giving ad-loa
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Ironically it's only really people who heavily ad-block/privacy-protect that get these scam/malware ads. When Google has no profile on you, your view is virtually worthless, so it's only bottom feeders that bid on those
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Retail doesn't really move stocks like Google too much, and institutions might understand Google and it's finances better than Google...i.e. there are no accounting tricks or mysterious losses that can shake institutional analysts
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Unfortunately the litmus test wasn't a vibe check, but a technical check.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Ok now do the other 5990 employees.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Elon cut 80% of twitter staff and...well it's still there. Every tech CEO was watching that closely, and it didn't come out in the workers favor.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
If the executive team is stupid, and the company making bad decisions, you should be actively searching for a different job. I've never worked at a place where it was any secret when things were getting rough. You're not a slave t
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
The breakthroughs would be mostly in optimizations for computing tokens, not as much in expanding parameter count (if anything we want to shrink that).
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
The obvious and primary application will not be on showy millennium problems or long sought conjectures, but on optimizations and breakthroughs surrounding transformers.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Probably why John wasn't ordered to pay $1.5B.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
>So they got fined for… stealing? Correct, 2001 napster style pirating of content. You cannot copy stuff you didn't pay for onto your hard drive. >Also, if I clone Call of Duty, and use their skins, make a similar soundtrack, cal
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
>Anthropic was asked to pay book authors because it trained on pirated downloaded books. No, it was asked to pay book authors because it pirated copies of books and stored them on their hard drives. The ruling had nothing to do with trai
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Training on copyright was ruled to be transformative. Anthropic was just fined for not paying for the pirated books they copied into a training database. Same as anyone else who copied pirated IP onto their hard drive. However, training an
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
She's a witch!
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
I mean if you cut out the bottom 65% and the top 1% (but perhaps even top 5%) of americans, you are left with a group of generally affluent people who are the actual backbone of the US economy. These people work white collar career jobs, ow
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Those gold guys have been decrying the collapse the US economy for 25 years now, so you'll be in good company.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
The infamous 2025 MIT study that found almost all AI pilots in companies were failing, also found that virtually every worker was using AI many times a week if not daily. Turns out people just use their personal AI accounts rather than comp
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Good luck explaining to an exec that the locally hosted Chinese model definitely doesn't have a backdoor or hidden trained-in intentions. Meanwhile the cost/benefit analysis doesn't move much even if you are paying 2x for tok
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
What you are also saying in the same sentence is "I would rather only buy from megacorporations than small players"
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
If the US government was bankrolling OAI and Anthropic, and those models were free, would the situation be better?
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
More like the top ~35%, but it's taboo to talk about that.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
The thing is that you basically cannot explain the math like you can the programming. Tables, algos, and variables are all things people can generally quickly grasp. The construction is abstract but the function is tangible. The math is wor
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
I think you are snagging on thinking this is an observation about difficulty, time-to-mastery, or mental firepower requirements. It's not. It's a plain observation that math exists on mostly it's own path with little to zero
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol compare to > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rees_algebra Most people, especially non-tech technical people, could crash through the
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
There is a lot of verbal commonality between the classic sciences, classic engineering disciplines, and everyday life. I suppose they all share the common substrate of working in/with mother nature all day. A molecular biologist, civil
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Yeah this is pretty much where I am at. Take the phrase from one of the responses "The special fiber is the associated graded ring.....and that the filtration admits sufficiently simple homogeneous lifts of the three generators, then o
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
I know I kicked off this discussion, but I have also bemoaned many times about the anti-car people being quasi religious in their anti-worship of cars. They talk about it like missionaries talk about jesus.
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
Math has some of the most insanely dense and impenetrable nomenclature. I can generally keep my head mostly above water or at least near the surface reading from most STEM fields, perhaps leaning on google/wikipedia a bit, but man, mat
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by WarmWash 3mo ago
This is a theoretical ideal, where we ignore people's desire to own large tracts of land and live in quiet places. A mega-city where all the humans human, and then massive tracts of untouched wilderness shy of any industry that has to

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