altcognito

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by altcognito 1mo ago
The diesel/gas relationship is inverted between the countries, so it actually makes a lot of sense (though not perfectly as both countries use diesel for freight)
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by altcognito 1mo ago
Well, we can rest assured that (completely unrestrained) AI hasn't completely taken over the internet because data centers remain really unpopular (unless of course there is some convoluted rationale they are aiming for some sort of ba
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by altcognito 1mo ago
Would be nice if we had a better benchmark for creativity.
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by altcognito 1mo ago
Funny since no, but I really did like it and for those reasons. Don’t see a lot of post first comment edits anymore, so I’ve got that going for me.
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by altcognito 1mo ago
How do you define intuition?
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by altcognito 1mo ago
We've underestimated how long it is going to take to validate and build into some of the most valuable areas, and probably overestimated how much new CRUD software is needed (or people are willing to pay for) I think there is still a
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by altcognito 1mo ago
They get 66% with the old harness, which is a lot better, but obviously not 100%
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by altcognito 1mo ago
I'm not sure how you call a model AGI without it learning new information at the model level and not introducing nasty surprises (both from adversarial users and unintentional badness) I guess there is fine tuning (and RAG) for those t
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by altcognito 1mo ago
I love your game. It's wonderful and exactly the sort of thing that would showcase something interesting as opposed to just copying what's already out there. It is something I could share with my kids, and exactly the right note o
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by altcognito 1mo ago
> “I think it’s gonna destroy my dreams as a tiny kid,” another said. The child is talking about themselves in the third person? That's a little weird.
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by altcognito 1mo ago
It's a standin for "Prescription", but for more details check wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_prescription (used to be Latin for "Recipe", aka, here's how to make this med
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by altcognito 1mo ago
Nope, not necessarily! That's a good example!
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by altcognito 1mo ago
Neither does a radiologist but yet we trust them to read a CT scan. Your relatives can sue if there is malpractice, but in practice, misreading happens, and nobody goes to jail for that. Everything performs a particular task to the best of
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by altcognito 1mo ago
Sometimes the things that people say, says more about themselves than the thing they said. If the only reason you give advice is predicated on the transactional value of that action, I think you've given up on acting ethically. While t
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by altcognito 1mo ago
Yeah, I think the distinction is just the underlying purpose. If you are doing art for arts sake then just do your thing. (and there is nothing wrong with that) It may even be where you spend the majority of your time if you are lucky enoug
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by altcognito 1mo ago
I think of the three comments that make this point, this one is the most constructive. I still don't think Google is quite the same, but I agree that they share some fundamental problems and should be rejected as a whole.
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by altcognito 1mo ago
There is significant differences in advertising. The things at the bottom of the barrel in advertising are often literally malware.
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by altcognito 1mo ago
> Oh my! Well, from faint 30-years-on recollection, it was the end of '96 so I guess I needed to save up for it. Thanks for the correction! I was just trying to remember what was available -- that was an incredible machine for its t
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by altcognito 1mo ago
> Before I was a Linux type I was a Windows expert, and when I went freelance in 1996, I built myself a fairly serious NT 4 rig: Pentium II 450, 192MB of RAM (I think), and dual Matrox Millennium cards so I could drive dual 14-15 i
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by altcognito 1mo ago
It would look like a very large hard drive and a whatever the form of the cheapest way to train a huge model would be. Useful? I guess without a ton of the RL training sets it may be challenging.
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by altcognito 1mo ago
Open weights are one thing, but honestly, the holy grail would be the original data (and some reasonably cost model by which to train something equivalent). We've kind of reached the age of true industrial sized data. We've been a
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by altcognito 1mo ago
I think it is more likely that it will be intentionally done as there have been news stories to that effect.
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by altcognito 1mo ago
I'm pro LLM generally speaking, but LLMs are the most extreme version of corporatism you can imagine. Taking literal the entirety of human thought and existence, distilling it, and reselling it to you piecemeal with whatever god forsak
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by altcognito 1mo ago
How would it know for certain it was used for a given commit? What if there was no code? What if the approach was different, but some lines were the same? I think some folks think that using an LLM is a shameful act and this is somehow sham
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by altcognito 2mo ago
This article certainly talks a lot about their brand and their approach. Understandable! Giving up model selection is giving up some level of control and understanding. I have no doubts over the long haul what is being said here is true, bu
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by altcognito 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_X
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by altcognito 2mo ago
Oh cool, good thing labor isn't fungible and nobody ever outsources. What a brilliant plan. Lets make sure that we restrict the supply of doctors and medical personell, that's sure to improve care!
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by altcognito 2mo ago
Wait until Musk discovers that without these additional services, people will care even less about what happens there.
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by altcognito 2mo ago
> As late as 2009, I was living without computers and internet. The most tech thingies in everyone home were the radio, the TV, the VCR (not everyone and half of them wasn't working properly) and a dumbphone. The VCR? Hrm. What part
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by altcognito 2mo ago
This is an entirely weird and bizarre conversation. The world today has network effects - specifically because of well, networking. It feels almost ridiculous comparing the impact of things like ENIAC to github because they aren't even

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