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by abeppu 7mo ago
> i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. Why are companies seeing it purely in terms of "we can work with a smaller team so we must" and
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by abeppu 7mo ago
I am not an accountant or finance professional but the table they refer to has the 2.8B under "current" and the 25B figure under "total". Is it just that of their 2025 taxes, they paid 2.8B during that calendar year and
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by abeppu 7mo ago
I think it's from this: https://itep.org/meta-tax-breaks-trump-mark-zuckerberg/
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by abeppu 8mo ago
I feel like most participants in the thread are on the same page about limiting openclaw's access to anything that matters. But I wonder what things these people approve for Claude code and it's equivalents? Where's the line?
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by abeppu 8mo ago
I don't know what I'm talking about, but isn't the wavelength of the laser pretty limiting to the idea of just slapping a Bayer color filter on? Like, if the laser is IR (partly so they're not visually disrupting all the
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by abeppu 8mo ago
I mean, in this case the government spent thousands because there was a small amount of circumstantial evidence that suggested there was clandestine communication happening during wartime. What was the immediate government spending on Japan
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by abeppu 8mo ago
The cat example is from the section on their block-causal attention mask. I really don't think this fixes the issue. So far as I can see, the block schedule dictates when they sample at each position. It does _not_ change that they bas
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by abeppu 8mo ago
I think the gap is, if they're building hybrids with _forward_ AR and diffusion, they risk giving up the cool part of diffusion which is reasoning back. I may be imposing unreasonable human biases on to this, but I really think it woul
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by abeppu 8mo ago
Early draft yes. But when you write an early draft of prose or code, you leave yourself the ability to insert or remove material in a way that _changes the indexes of the tokens you already put in your draft_. If you write a letter, you may
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by abeppu 8mo ago
I don't work this way, so this is all a hypothetical to me, but the possibility space is larger than _any_ model can handle; models are effectively applying a really complex prior over a giant combinatorial space. I think the idea behi
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by abeppu 8mo ago
I think maybe there are subsets of problems where you can have either a human or a smart LLM write a verifier (e.g. a property-based test?) and a performance measurement and let the dumb models generate candidates iterate on candidates?
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by abeppu 8mo ago
Diffusion model papers are always interesting to read but I always feel like they need some mechanism to insert or delete tokens. In the example in the figure in this post, once it has fixed "British munchkin cats _ _ and ..." you
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by abeppu 8mo ago
I do sometimes wonder -- if the transformers paper wasn't published, what would the industry be like? Would the same ideas have been put together in almost the same way weeks or months later somewhere else?
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by abeppu 8mo ago
I don't speak Mandarin but is this not an issue of style rather than the language itself? English can be courtly or poetic or abstruse but that's a matter of the speaker making a bunch of choices. I can't help but think of &q
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by abeppu 8mo ago
So, just from the contents ... does anything make this especially different from other discrete math books?
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by abeppu 8mo ago
I think the other moat is access to non-public data. If you can train, measure, or make decisions based on specific data that the vibecoder trying to clone you can't get, you can keep ahead.
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by abeppu 8mo ago
But isn't part of the point of this that you want people who are eager to learn about AI and how to use it responsibly? You probably shouldn't want employees who, in their rush to automate tasks or ship AI powered features, will e
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by abeppu 8mo ago
If universities should take on that risk, should they also receive some share of the student's future earnings? Do you want all schools to work like the US military colleges, where is admitted you get free tuition but also are agreed t
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by abeppu 8mo ago
> but the author does advocates from a position of "class privilege": of having access to good lawyers, good doctors, and good schools already, and not feeling the urgency of tools that might extend those things to people who
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by abeppu 8mo ago
> You’d need to be high enough in the org chart; far enough up the pyramid; advanced enough along the career ladder. > To be an AI optimist, I’m guessing you must not be worried about where your next job might come from, or whether yo
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by abeppu 8mo ago
I think "embodied" is a word with decades of past associations in cognitive science and AI and if you're claiming that your model is embodied you should try to back that up with specific evidence. This seems cool but I don&#x
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by abeppu 8mo ago
Ok so obviously this is a security disaster. But also ... is there a hackable consumer EEG device that gets useful data and is as comfortable as a sleep mask (and presumably you're not slathering electrode every time you put on your sl
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by abeppu 8mo ago
> Now, if the boss said "hey, since you're all going to be so much more productive working in the factory, we'll give you all 10x raises" then perhaps you might be more excited about putting down your hammer. ... is n
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by abeppu 8mo ago
But a Democratic administration could install an EPA head that will just roll this back quickly, right? Unless Congress actually passes something, the whole theory of the executive that Trump is pushing cuts both ways ... if we can still ha
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by abeppu 8mo ago
So this is obviously dumb and short-sighted. But also ... why do they need it? - withdrawing the legal scaffolding that allowed the EPA to regulate emissions seems unnecessary if your EPA is already willing to just not actively regulate emi
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by abeppu 8mo ago
It's big, but it's controlled by humans and how society uses it, and to whom the benefits accrue are ultimately political choices. I think this should end with "write a letter to your congressperson and senators because the c
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by abeppu 8mo ago
Or tell you how to use the tools you already have, but sure whatever. The point is, "LLMs that actually do stuff" end up partly looking like expensive logic to decide what to do (like an interpreter) and actually doing it, in term
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by abeppu 8mo ago
I would love to see an llm system oriented around trying to "jit" out fast/cheap combinations of tool invocations from calls. The case where heartbeat calls Opus, where the transformer model itself doesn't know the time
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by abeppu 8mo ago
I haven't tried to follow the math closely but should there not be some concern about the region of convergence? It looks like they don't specifically discuss it. Or is there some reason this isn't a problem in this context?
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by abeppu 8mo ago
It is a mess. I've spent some time trying to convert some academic oss projects and some removed features really force large redesigns. I think rather than funding the stuff on this announcement, I wish they would fund a team of exper

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