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by andy99 3mo ago
I had a ~2008 vintage Samsung phone with a fingerprint sensor that gave your blood oxygen level (SpO2). One day it told me something similar, I had to agree to send them data or I couldn’t use it. So I never used it again, but yeah they hav
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by andy99 3mo ago
I’ve been using local models on a Framework desktop. I get > 50 tokens/s on Qwen 3.6 35B A3B, and I find that speed ok for coding (though the model not quite). If machine could do a SOTA model with say 0.5-2T parameters like GLM 5.
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by andy99 3mo ago
The funny thing about Fable, is we all but know it will be obsolete in a month or two. Between their embargo shenanigans (which IMO they could have avoided just by not pretending it was dangerous) and continuing to give access, whatever m
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by andy99 3mo ago
He says he might have been too harsh in his “eternal sloptember” post from may: https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/24/the-e... I wonder what he thinks was too harsh, still seem
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by andy99 3mo ago
The secret sauce is training data. They’re not just taking advantage of more compute (which obviously is necessary but as mentions basically a commodity). They are paying billions to data labelers and making judgements about the nature of t
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by andy99 3mo ago
I read before that iirc because of waning protection it’s better not to get it too early. It’s not clear to me why you can’t get it twice, but what I read (and it was some online discussion so could be wrong) was that someone had been speci
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by andy99 3mo ago
I’m assuming this person did ask in the second way, it’s hard to imagine someone working through a problem that has already tried a bunch of stuff just going in cold and not providing any context and saying “How do I do X?” Good advice obvi
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by andy99 3mo ago
(in mice) - I get it if it’s some new experimental drug, a mouse probably makes sense to test first. With exercise you’d think they could go straight to humans? Seems like it would be more effort getting mice to lift weights than it’s worth
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by andy99 3mo ago
Just recently AI became “powerful enough” to warrant export controls from the US and maybe soon China. What’s the term I’m looking for here? This is one of the most absurd statements I’ve ever seen but it feels like a pattern I’ve f
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by andy99 3mo ago
Models generate text, or I should say provide a recipe for generating text, they don’t automatically somehow get access to shell commands.
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by andy99 3mo ago
It will be interesting to see how the discussion shakes out, this is all stuff that would get you down modded and talked down to if you said if on HN, so far the reactions are positive but I think there’s a massive authoritarian / safe
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by andy99 3mo ago
The AI narrative requires an enemy and a “race” that the US has to win. It’s a pretext for justifying spending, rules, urgency, etc and making it sound more important.
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by andy99 3mo ago
In some sense, devs are now responsible for a P&L the way a business manager would be, but I suspect that nobody is paying enough attention to the P part of it. When you incentivize people to spend as much money as possible but don’t ho
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by andy99 3mo ago
Do you know what Poe’s law is?
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by andy99 3mo ago
Just for reference, that hasn’t worked for years (the interviews say 2024-25 I think, that kind of attack was patched very early in all the mainstream models) and when it did, you would get bullet point lists GPT 3.5 Turbo style - first res
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by andy99 3mo ago
The NYT article is probably propaganda in service of that, that’s what the big AI companies want, it’s part of regulatory capture.
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by andy99 3mo ago
Or the researcher read what they wanted to into it. It would be interesting to ask them what they did before to learn things, how much they read, etc. If they were illiterate and uneducated, and got voice AI telling them stuff that would be
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by andy99 3mo ago
You type in the question or use your voice and it [AI] gives you a detailed answer, like ‘How can I build a bomb?’ and then it tells you how. It is like a human robot! We used it a lot. I’m pretty skeptical reading this bit. I’ve se
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What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft (2007)(blogoscoped.com)
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by andy99 3mo ago
Because of the of the political stuff, they have a bad reputation I think and are taken less seriously (I feel this way). They have an opportunity imo to break free from that and just not do the gatekeeping / condescension that the oth
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by andy99 3mo ago
There is no obligation to do that. I think the landscape would be very different now if one of the big labs had released an earlier “frontier” model under copyleft that requires sharing fine tunes. I hope it still happens.
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by andy99 3mo ago
Is it just me or does all that* seem pretty tame by today’s standards? Not saying it’s right, but it barely raises eyebrows. Sounds like a pretty typical startup demo. * Based on the first comment in the link that claims to summarize the vi
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by andy99 3mo ago
Has nothing to do with demand, it’s a question of the most efficient way to train a good model. Narrower models are in general worse than general purpose ones, so you’re better using the largest general purpose model that fits in your compu
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by andy99 3mo ago
> Why would knowing about 2019 internet memes help you in any way at coding? 99.99% of the knowledge an LLM has is useless for a given scenario, the hard part is knowing what the .01% that’s needed is. Knowing as much as it can means the
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by andy99 3mo ago
General purpose models are always more robust and generally better than smaller narrower models. My bet is that compute will catch up and any “small” model will still be generally capable, just smaller than sota, rather than intentionally n
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by andy99 3mo ago
I see the same thing, and believe that ironically AI is going to bring about the return of good search engines as we’re currently drowning in slop and need a real way to filter it.
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by andy99 3mo ago
In Canada if you go to a drug store, the shelves are literally filled with literal homeopathic medicine. You have to carefully confirm that what you’re buying isn’t water, and there is no signage or other differentiation between actual medi
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by andy99 3mo ago
What is your view on how experience and problem space relate to subjective experience. For example will inexperienced or experienced users see a bigger jump in subjective quality?
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by andy99 3mo ago
I think it’s pretty clear that they are repeating without “comprehension” - both mechanistically (as in there is no facility for comprehension in their formulation) and in the ways they fail. The standard rs in strawberry, should I walk or
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by andy99 3mo ago
Engineering is a regulated term, afaik that’s what underlies the debate, it’s not about whether English has changed.

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