WarmWash

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by WarmWash 1mo ago
The sweetheart deals are usually from the state, sometimes the county. Town budgets tend to be so small that ~$20m/yr will have the council falling over themselves to approve it. The problem, from the cases I have looked at, seems to b
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Sure but in my own experience, the cheapest seller often means you are setting yourself up for headache if anything goes wrong. It's easy to envision a parallel story about AI recommending sketchy vendors with no protections.
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
At least in a few examples it looks like it is surfacing the manufacturers page, and then random 3rd parties have it cheaper, which is pretty commmon.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
The outage this morning probably threw a wrench in the launch
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Has anyone managed to roll a life later than ~600CE?
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
I hate to to say it but way to often "outrage" stories like this are written for engagement, not assessment. The boy could have been spotted walking along a highway median, or similar detail that would kind of spoil the outrage ef
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
I swear human brains are programmed to have a "fear bank" of things to be scared of, and an allocation of fear that must be spent on items in the fear bank. As society has weeded out all the things to fear over time, more and more
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
>make and sell touchscreen tills/cash registers Probably 2 or 3, all based in China, that will happily print your company logo on the machines.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
It also depends on how much compute you want to devote to training. If Anthropic is training heavy and compute constrained, users will feel it. I think the whole pentagon thing really cast Anthropic into the spotlight, and their aesthetic i
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
To be fair, the ones thing you can kind of reliably conclude about our universe is that keeping entropy low for as long as possible is a favorable condition. To put that another way, don't die.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Consciousness can only come from meat brains. Otherwise my incessant life long addiction to movies and TV shows has been feeding me lies about human exceptionalism.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
>Who is still using Anthropic seriously Too many people, hence all the friction and cost. It's pretty clear that there is massive unmet demand for AI, and compute cannot keep up. So you can pretty reliably dial in the "free com
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
While his battleship was blown apart and sinking, the captain proclaimed "How is this possible?! Submarines can't swim!!"
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
It's not totally a mystery https://arxiv.org/html/2604.24827v1 The short of it is by using hard facts knowledge that is difficult to compress, and then quizzing models on these facts and calibrating against a bunc
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
It would be catastrohic for any of the big labs if it came out that they were training on what was sold as private. I get this cynical conspiratorial energy, it fits the internet well, but I can assure you most people with even mild busines
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Lost in the news was their update to gemini video analysis yesterday, dramatically cutting tokens (up to 88%!) needed to analyze videos. https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/ge...
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Flash models are on the order of 1/10th the size of Opus models, so some flex in the thinking level is fair.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
AA isn't the only benchmark https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
An yet here we are, on a giant advertisement.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
The cultural internet blip of the 90's/early 00's is never coming back. Its not a framework for a free open internet, it's an anomaly that was born from a convergence of factors that was short lived before the masses sho
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Except for socialising the entire internet age, giving poor people in 3rd world slums the same access to the same platforms as the richest 0.001%. No one likes to acknowledge this, but there is an alternate timeline where only the rich kid
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Reminds me of the FTL neutrinos too, where the scientist where pretty much "hey, something is wrong, can you help us figure it out?" and the general public were the ones screaming "OMG! Physics is dead!" Then when it com
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
I've used Gemini quiet a bit for foraging. It's definitely a "trust, but verify" situation. It's really good at at least getting you in the right lane to verify, rather than having to comb hundreds of pictures. So e
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Googlers and some external workplaces have had 3.5 pro access for a few months now.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
This has been addressed endlessly, for a few years now, and is just as much of a trope as "this benchmark is useless".
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Google has been doing staged roll outs on all their products since forever.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
The benchmark also doesn't include speed. You almost think something has gone wrong when using it because it returns full responses so incredibly fast.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
Latest rumor is that 3.5 pro was struggling to be meaningfully better than flash, since iterations on flash were moving much faster than iterations on pro, likely due to model size (flash is estimated to be in the 200-400B range).
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
When you are a minority you have to be incredibly loud for any chance to sway things your way. Not saying whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, but just the nature of reality.
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by WarmWash 2mo ago
My state did away with bags a few years ago, and you now never see bags blowing around or stuck on trees. It also seems everyone stopped complaining about it once we got over the hump of "remember to bring your bags". So we are ju

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