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by andy99 10mo ago
It also means crane in French, both the construction kind and the bird. When I first saw the name I guessed there must be some relationship to cranes.
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by andy99 10mo ago
I’d argue openAI has put their cards on the table and they don’t have anything special, while Anthropic has not. Their valuations come from completely different calculus: Anthropic looks much more like a high potential early startup still g
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by andy99 10mo ago
I’m hoping this isn’t as attractive as it sounds for non-hobbyists because the performance won’t scale well to parallel workloads or even context processing, where parallelism can be better used. Hopefully this makes it really nice for peop
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by andy99 10mo ago
It’s gonna suck if all the good Macs get gobbled up by commercial users.
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by andy99 10mo ago
That team, called TBD Lab (for “to be determined”), was placed in a siloed space next to Mr. Zuckerberg’s office at the center of Meta’s Silicon Valley headquarters, surrounded by glass panels and sequoia trees. Hooli XYZ? Silicon
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by andy99 10mo ago
Being interchangeable is literally why unions are formed. If you have some unique skill set that is valued, a union is unnecessary and would hold you back. If you’re happy being slotted in to whatever the next available position is based on
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by andy99 10mo ago
Curious if this was workers casting off the shackles of their oppression or a luxury option for a group that is already well off?
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by andy99 10mo ago
I tried at some point to sign up for whatever IBMs AI cloud was called. None of the documentation was up to date, when you clicked on things you ended up in circular loops that took you back where you started. Somehow there were several kin
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by andy99 10mo ago
I use OpenAI and Anthropic APIs every day for work. I have never used google Gemini precisely because there seems to be a whole different set of friction involved in getting an account. First I don’t want to tie anything to my google accoun
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by andy99 10mo ago
This post has a score of -311 and nothing but negative comments. It’s pretty clear how hated this is by the community, I’d like to understand SO’s thinking here. Is there some silent majority that wishes for more AI here? Certainly hard to
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by andy99 10mo ago
I haven’t looked at the output yet, but came here to say,LLM grading is crap. They miss things, they ignore instructions, bring in their own views, have no calibration and in general are extremely poorly suited to this task. “Good” LLM as a
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by andy99 10mo ago
Your hiring platform uses cloudflare to introduce huge friction in trying to see the job posting.
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by andy99 10mo ago
This is an unpopular opinion here, I won’t give my theory as to why, but people seem to imagine that drugs being illegal is the main barrier preventing the proletariat from using them and we’d all be rushing to the heroin store the second i
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by andy99 10mo ago
> even though heroin harms and often kills those who consume it I’m going to stop you right there. Basically the whole opioid epidemic is because herion is illegal. We’d have way fewer deaths if we’d provided safe and legal access to it.
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by andy99 10mo ago
Big corporate AI products are all currently stupid bolt-ons that some committee decided solved a problem. When the internet came out, did many legacy companies lead the way with online experiences, figuring out what the real killer apps now
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by andy99 10mo ago
I take the point to be that if a LLM has a coherent world model it’s basing its output on, this jointly improves its general capabilities like usefully resolving ambiguity, and its ability to stick to whatever alignment is imparted as part
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by andy99 10mo ago
Reminds me that there were a number of planes that landed accidentally on the runway of an Air Force base close to Heathrow, apparently because it shared some similar landmarks, some kind of gas tanks the pilots were using as waypoints: ht
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by andy99 10mo ago
You could just play rock paper scissors three times and use the results as bits for d6? Maybe dropping 111 and alternating who is 1? Edit, I realize you’d have to drop 111 and 000 to get 6, not sure what I had in mind in the original, eithe
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by andy99 10mo ago
I’ve reviewed a lot of papers, I don’t consider it the reviewers responsibility to manually verify all citations are real. If there was an unusual citation that was relied on heavily for the basis of the work, one would expect it to be chec
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by andy99 11mo ago
Being dispersed in the environment is not the same as being concentrated into our drinking water supply with each measure resulting in 1ppt contamination of a trillion measures of water.
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by andy99 11mo ago
Is all the Miebo/Evotears that’s manufactured being dumped directly into the drinking water supply?
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by andy99 11mo ago
No it doesn’t. I’m not trying to make a point about vaccines, just that the study is a population study and so shows benefits on average to a population. If the vaccine killed 1/100 people (again I don’t believe this but it’s the inter
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by andy99 11mo ago
See also https://english.elpais.com/society/2025-03-23/why-everything... https://medium.com/knowable/why-everything-looks-the-same-ba...
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by andy99 11mo ago
They are trained to be aligned e.g. to refuse to say certain things, but it’s on some set of inputs asking for the bad thing and some set of outputs refusing to do so, or rewards when it refuses. But there are only so many ways the trainers
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by andy99 11mo ago
The issues with the three laws aside, being able to state rules has no bearing on getting LLMs to follow rules. There’s no shortage of instructions on how to behave, but the principle by which LLMs operate doesn’t have any place for hard ru
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by andy99 11mo ago
This is already in the post Please only post if you are actively filling a position and are committed to responding to applicants.
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by andy99 11mo ago
I agree with everything you wrote, the technology is unbelievable and 6 years ago, maybe even 3.1 years would have been considered magic. A steel man argument for why winter might be coming is all the dumb stuff companies are pushing AI for
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by andy99 11mo ago
I only skimmed the pictures in the article but the ones I saw could have no plausible impact on navigation. They are buried within tiny details that are essentially artistic anyway, there is no impact on accuracy possible.
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by andy99 11mo ago
This is an incredibly tired argument. Look at open source software - MIT/Apache license is of course relying on copyright but the incentive has nothing to do with the government granted monopoly that copyright brings. The main benefici
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by andy99 11mo ago
I couldn’t immediately see the price not adjusted for inflation. If copper has held it’s value better than other proceeds of crime that could still make it more attractive.

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