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by andy99 29d ago
Very cool, after watching a minute it grew on me and I can see why the perspective is useful. My immediate thought is that this is what is would be like to drive in The Spindle in Neuromancer or any similar space environment that’s spinning
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by andy99 29d ago
It was funny to watch this discussion turn from skepticism at the top to then a bunch of proponents moving in and crowding out the rational voices. It feels a bit religious to me, at least unscientific, there are obviously no testable hypot
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by andy99 29d ago
I feel like there would be much more obvious practical differences if it was a real thing. The spectrum as described seems so different from one end to the other that we seemingly have people who can switch reality into a movie of their cho
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by andy99 1mo ago
I’ve see no evidence it’s anything but this. I have no idea if I have it or not or just describe stuff differently. I think this is logically much more likely. It’s a “what does it feel like to be conscious?” or “is my red your red” kind of
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by andy99 1mo ago
> techno zaibatsu Reminded of this discussion from a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49389372 We have the techno-feudalism and dystopia but none of the cool aesthetics from cyber punk or arguably even t
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by andy99 1mo ago
Didn’t we just witness it? Become a critical ecosystem player then get acquired based on the value of that position.
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by andy99 1mo ago
I thin HF holds huge power in how they’ve consolidated all the open models and data, but monopoly feels like a stretch here. They are in reality a fairly small startup with lots of alternatives (all of which are much worse at this point gra
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by andy99 1mo ago
The open weights AI ecosystem is way too concentrated with HF. That said, it was clear they were going to either get bought or aggressively monetized at some point, Nvidia seems like it could be one of the more aligned acquirers. I do worry
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by andy99 1mo ago
Is there reason to believe that outcomes would be better with many small players? Obviously the “blast radius” is bigger when it’s a big company with a huge footprint, but are incidents rarer and quality control better? Completely anecdotal
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by andy99 1mo ago
Maybe I’m interpreting this differently but to me modern LLM+full text search means “agentic” - LLM gets to pick the search terms and iterate on them. The underlying LLM does know synonyms etc, better and more flexibly than an embedding mod
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by andy99 1mo ago
> Qwen3.8-Flash-Next features a 125B-parameter main model, supplemented by an additional 51B N-gram embeddings, with 6B parameters activated per token. Didn’t see this mentioned yet. I wonder what this means for the effective size. It’s
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by andy99 1mo ago
I only see a 1-bit quant posted on unsloth HF and it’s 72.5 GB. Is that what you mean? That’s much bigger than I expected. If you can’t run a 4 bit quant in on Strix Halo it becomes a lot less interesting. https://huggingface.co&
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by andy99 1mo ago
The watermarking is an inextricable part of the token generation, it just using a known pseudo random sequence for the sampling. It’s not a transform that can be applied later.
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by andy99 1mo ago
These things are all pretences to track and control “normal” people anyway though. It’s not really about protecting children or about reducing porn access or whatever, it’s about control. It’s less important that the people that really want
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by andy99 1mo ago
What is the problem with replying instantly? If you can give a reply immediately why wouldn’t you? If it’s low priority work that takes time, sure, but a typical yes/no, I’m available at 5, whatever, why not just send it? If you’ve alr
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by andy99 1mo ago
I wonder how they will use the data. If it was me I’d try to build a simulation of an airline, and then use it as an agent training environment. It really depends on the exact nature of the data what kinds of agents you could train, but may
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by andy99 1mo ago
Savings from back office automation go entirely into administrative bloat. I find it even less likely such efficiency would lead to breakthroughs than I do LLMs becoming super intelligent and doing it themselves, which I don’t find likely a
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by andy99 1mo ago
The big problem with overthinking on a dense model is obviously the speed hit you take. Going from Qwen 35BA3B to 27B for me is about 7-8x slower (should be ~9x?). This makes me a lot less patient for useless thinking tokens. I’d want to co
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by andy99 1mo ago
I should have read that, it’s actually quite reasonable and I don’t really understand the objections in TFA having read it. > One of my fundamental problem with this is that no two synonyms carry the exact same meaning. “He leaped at the
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by andy99 1mo ago
I don’t understand how this works for anything but prose. Is that the point? In any code or structured output, there just isn’t the flexibility, and depending on how the user requests the output be constrained there is even less (“answer on
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by andy99 1mo ago
This is astroturfing it looks like, or reddit style marketing, whatever you call it. A controversial sounding post linking to a company someone is trying to promote. Please join me in flagging.
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More large employers are turning to ICHRA as group costs climb(insurancebusinessmag.com)
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by andy99 1mo ago
worse, both mirror and normal bacteria have taken to wearing tiny chin-covering scarves so there’s no way to even tell which is which at a glance.
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by andy99 1mo ago
As a bonus, you’ve got a story for the “tell me about a time you hacked a non computer system” question on the YC application
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by andy99 1mo ago
What does the demand side look like? I understand why people have these tokens they want to sell, who wants to buy them?
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by andy99 1mo ago
> Software development was one of the last ‘guild fields’ and now we are seeing its industrialisation occur. Doesn’t really support the rest of the argument. If you’re a skeptic and think it’s all hype, there’s nothing to worry about.
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by andy99 1mo ago
Just read the beginning but I feel like there are obvious counter examples. Basically lots of academic environments. I personally (and somewhat sadly) did my best work in grad school, thanks entirely to the environment. All of us in the lab
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by andy99 1mo ago
Think of it as a mad lib, it’s populating a template, and seeing the same template filled over and over gets tiring.
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by andy99 1mo ago
Needs to autoplay a video which when dismissed just moves to another window and continues playing. With sound.
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by andy99 1mo ago
They have to be careful. There’s not a lot that separates the top models anymore. Look at Grok which has almost no market share or credibility because of Musk, Despite being close to the top performance wise they are behind the Chinese mode

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