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by abeppu 6mo ago
I think the "Leave them Behind" section at the end sort of ignores the whole "they will ruthlessly copy your material, and put aggressive extra load on your server while repeatedly stealing your work" dimension. You can
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by abeppu 6mo ago
> Microsoft bought it for OpenAI only, to train Copilot on the vast amount of code. I think this gets the timeline wrong. Microsoft acquired GH in 2018 and started the partnership with OpenAI in summer 2019. I'm sure there was some
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by abeppu 6mo ago
While I agree that we keep reinventing stuff, in CS doesn't the ease of creating isomorphisms between different ways of doing things mean that canonicalization will always be a matter of some community choosing their favorite form, per
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by abeppu 6mo ago
I worked for a startup that used clojure and found it so frustrating because, following the idiomatic style, pathways passed maps around, added keys to maps, etc. For any definition which received some such map, you had to read the whole pa
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by abeppu 6mo ago
Do publishers really have fact-checkers? My understanding was that support for authors is now relatively minimal, even for established authors, and no one really has the time or resources to second-guess everything an author has claimed. I
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Security-by-Design for LLM-Based Code Generation(arxiv.org)
2 points by abeppu 6mo ago|1 comments
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by abeppu 6mo ago
This paper describes finding security related concepts and using them to steer at generation time. While this is an interesting contribution on its own, the approach could also be applied to a range of other concerns -- e.g. can we use this
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by abeppu 7mo ago
ha ok that's fair maybe it needs to be sold with a package of associated tests
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by abeppu 7mo ago
If people want to try untested peptides, I think society should use that as the engine to _test those peptides_. Instead of buying something that's supposed to but may not be the peptide you want, you should pay 50+k% + data and get so
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by abeppu 7mo ago
So I'm actually confused that in the little image of his run in the article it seems he's often making absolute progress in the opposite direction the ship is going for part of each lap. Like, was the ship going unusually slowly?
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by abeppu 7mo ago
In their little algorithm box on Chain Distillation, they have at step 2b some expression that involves multiplying and dividing by `T`, and then they say "where α = 0.5, T = 1.0". I think someone during the copy-editing process t
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by abeppu 7mo ago
I get that the norms lean conservative and that's a good thing. But if someone says you should do a recall and the actual lab tests saying whether your product actually has toxin-producing bacteria haven't finished running yet, I
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by abeppu 7mo ago
I think some of it was just a belief that work you can see being done by a floor of people talking with their mouths and looking at screens in the same room is more real than the slightly less visible conversations in slack while looking at
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by abeppu 7mo ago
> Meanwhile, you're a week behind on that Jira ticket for issuing JSON Web Tokens because there's no actively maintained JWT libraries for Gooby. > I've seen buggy pre-1.0 libraries used for critical production software
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by abeppu 7mo ago
But we have a lot of sources of information already available that do not seem to be incorporated into any kind of top-level number that we grade ourselves on. - when we have an estimate of how many hundreds of billions it costs to rebuild
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by abeppu 7mo ago
Also this isn't only a gap about environmental issues. If you pay X for child daycare and work but only make X+taxes, and have a dumb pointless job, GDP says the economy is at least 2X+tax larger than if you took care of your own chil
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by abeppu 7mo ago
I don't have any deep background in econ, but do we not need to switch from talking about GDP to talking about a version of Net Domestic Product where "net" includes: - changes to the value of natural and ecosystem resources
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by abeppu 7mo ago
https://x.com/Waymo/status/1890083513531084973 Here's a waymo ad from a year ago. In like 10 seconds they repeat "it's driving itself" 3 times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0
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by abeppu 7mo ago
> Moreover is the fact that they're 100% automated a material fact to the consumer? I do think that for a meaningful fraction of first time customers, the choice to try it is about the novelty of it being automated. In SF I do oft
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by abeppu 7mo ago
April 1 is an in interesting choice for a big event that will be news if it goes well and bigger news if it goes badly
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by abeppu 7mo ago
I remember hearing somewhere on this site that medical imaging got pretty good at building systems that recycle helium. Does chip manufacturing not do this or are the losses at their scale are still large enough that you need a substantial
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by abeppu 7mo ago
> That breaks down when there isn't open discussion on campus. Communists were jeered but essentially allowed on campus in the 60s and 70s, even at the height of the cold war. I think that's a misleading telling of the history.
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by abeppu 7mo ago
> Could you share a situation where the behavior is necessary? I am curious if I could work around it with the current feature set. But this kinda isn't about "behavior" of your code; it's about how the compiler (and
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by abeppu 7mo ago
> Instead, Tegmark sees child safety as the pressure point most likely to crack the current impasse. Indeed, the declaration calls for mandatory pre-deployment testing of AI products — particularly chatbots and companion apps aimed at yo
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A roadmap for AI, if anyone will listen(techcrunch.com)
1 points by abeppu 7mo ago|1 comments
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by abeppu 7mo ago
but the experiments it did that "improved" validation BPB in the GH screenshot were all basically hyperparameter changes right? So is this better or worse, either per experiment or per unit time, than hyperparameter tuning techniq
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by abeppu 7mo ago
I think the call for top-down policy makes sense b/c otherwise this is like every other tragedy of the commons situation. Each of those top-level researchers also has to think, "my department has junior faculty trying to build the
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by abeppu 7mo ago
Actually, when in the lifecycle of developing a treatment does anyone have a real idea of what cost will be? Can anyone know this yet? In terms of where _prices_ are set, that negotiation is a function of efficacy relative to other things i
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by abeppu 7mo ago
I've never seen a roadmap planning process that didn't involve some component of asking departments and teams what needs to be done. To the extent you have successful products, it's because you have product managers and engin
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by abeppu 7mo ago
... but you have a staff that can come up with ideas, and now you can say yes to more of them. "Infinite growth" framing is asking a lot, but for most of my career, I've seen teams, departments or companies solicit ideas of w

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