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by andy99 2mo ago
It’s always been interesting to see how similar output is across ostensibly very different models. I remember testing short story writing in the early days and having the models all choose the same niche topic across e.g GPT, Llama, Phi, Cl
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by andy99 2mo ago
They also don’t appear to consider false positives. Pretty famously, false positives make some other Anthropic products unusable. If you treat them as zero cost it’s easy to drive down miss rate.
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by andy99 2mo ago
People who work with AI all the time should be the most finely tuned in to how sloppy it looks and when to use it and when not.
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by andy99 2mo ago
I think we’re going to see a lot more “product“ focus in the future with deliberate attention paid to these kind of properties. Historically though there are some obvious differences, the focus has been on benchmark maximizing. As that satu
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by andy99 2mo ago
Having spent a good part of the day with it, glimmer reminds me of Rorschach from The Watchmen. No unessential parts of speech, action oriented, brief and to the point. From a token perspective anyway it’s great, and it seems to hold its ow
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by andy99 2mo ago
It’s hard to know in retrospect what was strategy and what was dumb luck. This was in the midst of hysterical calls to limit access by “AI researchers” and safety/ethics types, when very facile takes still has a lot of sway (I think we
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by andy99 2mo ago
It’s “I’m losing so I’ll try something else”. It’s what any rational actor in a market economy would do, and it should be encouraged. “I’m winning so I’ll pull up the ladder behind me” is what we want to avoid.
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by andy99 2mo ago
The gguf is up and works, I don’t know if it’s them or unsloth that’s facilitated this but it’s nice because e.g. Inkling still doesn’t appear to have support in llama.cpp which makes it irrelevant to a class of user. Unfortunately I don’t
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by andy99 2mo ago
> I'm actually going to make a prediction here as well. I think you will soon realize that using LLMs to clarify certain questions or ideas you have will turn out to have frustrations as well. Much more likely that people will belie
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by andy99 2mo ago
> image processing and resampling/resizing C++ code I hadn't touched in 12 years or so. So an unimportant, personal project. People seem to extrapolate being able to do something cool into being able to do useful work, which is
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by andy99 2mo ago
The sycophancy is also a concern, it’s not really an impartial teacher, all its training is to suck up and maximize engagement rather than learning. The incentives are wrong.
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by andy99 2mo ago
What’s the best possible outcome from posting on LinkedIn? I personally think it’s a poor place to “build your brand” - it’s mostly your friends or existing professional acquaintances that see your stuff, and whether you’re looking for a jo
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by andy99 2mo ago
I used to waste lots of time scrolling LinkedIn, I don’t really know why as it was never great but sometimes you learned something interesting. Now I find it the opposite of addictive because of how bad it is. It’s just AI slop, both the co
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by andy99 2mo ago
There aren’t any relevant ones. I think it should be an important goal of these projects (unless there is a clear conflicting goal) to make models people actually talk about and use. There is no question this is true for the Chinese open LL
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Workers speak out against growing screen time surveillance(cbc.ca)
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by andy99 2mo ago
> people skilled in a particular areas often feel they are intellectually fit in other areas This I think is a separate phenomenon, maybe Nobel Disease but there might be a more general term, for example that includes celebrities.
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by andy99 2mo ago
It’s obviously real, at least as used in conversation, whether it meets some rigorous definition I’m sure there’s an out, but we’ve all known these people. With vibe coding they’re everywhere. Is this going to be a modern “begging the quest
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by andy99 2mo ago
The OPs framing is better. Where does anyone say there’s a requirement to share data as demanded because you used a publicly available resource. These companies have created something world changing that everyone uses now, that you can get
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by andy99 2mo ago
I didn’t read it, primarily because of the tulip thing in the title which seems anything but a refreshing take.
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by andy99 2mo ago
> For many sedentary adults, eating less could support healthier aging and possibly a longer life
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by andy99 2mo ago
Benchmarks like the pelican thing are about correlation with “how good the model is”. Better models produce better pelicans. It’s a useful benchmark (aside from being “cute”) because of its simplicity, both in how many output tokens it take
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by andy99 2mo ago
I can’t stand AI overviews in almost all situations. There’s something both untrustworthy about it and also the idea that something is being shoved down my throat, like someone is trying to tell me how to think. Plus it basically spoils any
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by andy99 2mo ago
They talk about partying all night and then going to work on drugs.
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by andy99 2mo ago
When I read things like this I feel like I’ve lived a sheltered life, and am happy about that.
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by andy99 2mo ago
I feel like the arguments being made about sharing the training data are from people who don’t have any experience training ML models and have never worked with weights. The biggest reason I have seen that people want the data is to complai
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by andy99 2mo ago
> obsession with precise terms They’re not really even being precise. The relevant software freedom, from the FSF is [] The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Acce
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by andy99 2mo ago
Or the only thing they do in life is come to the office and then mix life with work so effectively it’s a combination of hanging out with friends, eating free food, and working, but it all goes into the work bucket when claims are made abou
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by andy99 2mo ago
Do you believe it was this edge case he was referring to in making his point?
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by andy99 2mo ago
A lot of people will stop reading or become completely distracted when encountering something so blatantly wrong, and it also indicates the author is willing to say such things. I see some people downplaying it, that’s fine, it’s clearly no
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by andy99 2mo ago
It’s unfortunate - he’s an author, it would have been fine to stick with an authors perspective that LLMs can’t write (which is true), as well as the copyright stuff (which I don’t agree with but he certainly has standing to give an opinion

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