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Study Shows Short-Form Video Is Destroying Our Brains(bradstulberg.substack.com)
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Everything about this is so stupid, from the fact that these pills are expected to change population weight so much to the silly napkin math that some analyst has pulled out of their ass to turn it into airline EPS.
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What if the only moat is domains where it’s hard to judge (non superficial) quality? Code generation, you don’t see what’s wrong right away, it’s only later in project lifecycle that you pay for it. Writing looks good to skim, is embarrassi
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it only gleans logic from human language This isn’t really true, at least how I interpret the statement, little if any of the “logic” or appearance of such is learned from language. It’s trained in with reinforcement learning as pat
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No, this describes the common understanding of LLMs and adds little to just calling it AI. The search is the more accurate model when considering their actual capabilities and understanding weaknesses. “Lossy compression of human knowledge”
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I had no idea they still had which I understand to be a “metaverse” division, especially with thousands of people. People there must have realized they were on borrowed time.
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I canceled prime ~8 years ago because where I am, half the stuff I wanted was considered an “add on item” that could only be shipped free if you had > $35 of other stuff, which is a complete scam because you get that without prime. Maybe
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Why wouldn’t you just ask them, and particularly for media like this that has a native language, default to that? I don’t want software to think for me about what I want to see, if I want something different I’ll change it.
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Big tech has changed over the last bit to trying to tell us exactly what and how we should think - or maybe more precisely to see thought as “friction” and want to remove it all together. This is a very minor example in the scheme of things
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Canadian healthcare is horrible, pretty sure public healthcare in the UK is also very bad. It’s not a given that somehow switching to public healthcare will make the US like Finland, Canada is much more likely.
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Government is probably the worst actor to run healthcare facilities. It’s not that different from PE, except with more administrative bloat. I’d be curious to compare US PE run facilities with government run facilities in Canada. There is n
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These should be useful signals to regulators. Regulation is imperfect but somehow we blame companies that take advantage, either of immature or nonexistent regulation (which might be the case here) or of poorly written regulation (e.g. circ
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I don’t buy it. Obviously LLMs have a role and are powerful, but they (and more importantly the people that think they know something because they can prompt an LLM) are more like the kid in 2008 that thinks he knows something because he ha
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You should try doing 1/2 hour of exercise after you get back. It will make you feel way better, especially mentally.
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Re DGX, I’m mostly interested in local inference, it might have been nice to try but it was more expensive for similar performance (or so I think). I do lots of different experiments, synthetic data generation along the lines of Magpie is o
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Just bought a Strix Halo (framework desktop), waffled a long time between that and a Mac Studo but I got tired of waiting for the M5 and don’t really like Apple. I work with ML professionally, almost all in cloud, I just wanted something “o
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People would rather blame external factors and not take responsibility. It’s actually insulting to people who work hard that some people assume they have it easy somehow, like the “must be nice” comment upstream. Not everyone takes the view
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My (Canadian) bank extorted me into installing their app, literally blocking me from doing transfers of my own money without it - I had to install it and take a picture of myself and my ID. After this I was able to switch to sms authenticat
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I don’t know the backstory but Cloudflare arguing for an open internet is super ironic, presumably he means they want the be the one to close it off and are upset that someone else is ruining their monopoly on it.
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I could not find GLM on there, it is one of the best open weight Chinese models now, probably not at the top but seems only a few months behind.
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Tells you everything you need to know, I wish this was mandatory.
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My highlight are During his own Google interview, Jeff Dean was asked the implications if P=NP were true. He said "P = 0 or N = 1." Then, before the interviewer had even finished laughing, Jeff examined Google's public ce
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Many progress bars or other indicators lie, and the incentive is always to make it look good at the beginning, so that’s what we end up seeing most, whether it’s these ad ones (which thankfully I’ve never seen) or installers or especially s
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This seems to be true for writing code generally. Why do something simple when you can show off how complex you can make a project? I keep seeing tools that should be a for loop inside a script that instead are a sprawling project with all
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I don’t think it’s environmentalism, I think that’s unfortunate just the pretense because it gets traction. At least what I’ve found, now with more people working from home, there is more attention paid to intolerably noisy stuff that goes
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Got better
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I heard a story that John Conway decided on the train on the way to university that he was going to turn over a new leaf and be outgoing and talkative, and then was.
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The “sycophantic sugar” part - “that’s exactly right”, “what an insightful observation” etc. is the most outwardly annoying part of the problem but is only part of it. The bigger issue is the real sycophancy, going along with the user’s pre
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This similar thing was posted a few weeks ago, and also apparently two years ago, glaze also from uchicago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46364338 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35224219 We’ve s
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This appears to misunderstand both construction and software development, nail guns and LLMs are not remotely parallel. You’re comparing a deterministic method of quickly installing a fastener with something that nondeterministically design

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