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by antonvs 4mo ago
Yeah, for me it's the latter. Until recent years, it was at least possible to defend the US as having some good principles, despite how imperfectly defended or promoted they may have been. That in turn could make it worth defending. No
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by antonvs 4mo ago
> potentially fire-making (battery firmware) computers on wheels Is Tesla any different?
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by antonvs 4mo ago
In the 1990s, web browser SSL encryption was export restricted, classified as a munition because it involved cryptography. That was under Clinton. For all the current admin's insane, ridiculous, corrupt, and criminal flaws, it's n
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by antonvs 4mo ago
Ha. But I guess I was too subtle. Google is likely to care more about addresses in the Bay Area, because if they're wrong, their Tesla or Waymo could drive them into a ditch.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
> how much is just pattern matching and borrowing a solution from memory. It's easy to show that this is not the case. This is a well-known phenomenon in ML, known as generalization - specifically, compositional generalization. See
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by antonvs 4mo ago
> Agentic coding deserves more than a chat box bolted onto VS Code So, Antigravity 2.0 then?
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by antonvs 4mo ago
The difference is the location of the house.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
Look into the book "100 Years of Solitude".
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by antonvs 4mo ago
It's essentially the same concept. Here are some examples: > "The authors discuss two enduring lessons of the Internet revolution: The first is that new technologies do not replace the old. They live side by side." -
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by antonvs 4mo ago
I don't follow football in the slightest, but these have been major media stories. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_FIFA_corruption_case Not saying "you should have heard of it", just giving info.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
> CD-R that would delaminate? What kind of cheap-ass CD-R discs were you buying?
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by antonvs 4mo ago
You should try spending some time in the US, to discover just how irrelevant that is to most USians. It's an eye-opening level of parochialism.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
"Live with" is an idiom which means to accept, tolerate, or come to terms with an unavoidable, difficult, or imperfect situation. We do indeed have to live with the possibility of asteroid impact, nuclear war, etc. That doesn&#x27
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by antonvs 4mo ago
> Hire me (just kidding... unless?) Would you really want to work for one of the world’s most notoriously corrupt organizations?
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by antonvs 4mo ago
> k8s has really sucked up all the oxygen. Because anything else involves making opinionated decisions that will be wrong for many users. People who don’t understand why k8s is so widespread don’t understand all the problems it’s solving
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by antonvs 4mo ago
Please let me know where the rock you've been living under is, it sounds nice.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
Have you ever heard of literature?
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by antonvs 4mo ago
They made a public claim to having produced a useful model, which they published. Turns out they did nothing of the sort. > why do they care? Why does anyone ever care about having their time wasted by fraudulent claims?
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by antonvs 4mo ago
They could do AI work without trying to lie to the entire rest of the world.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
In this case both sets of weights ultimately came from the same model. The Nex model they used is a fine-time of Qwen, which was the other model they used. I'm not an expert in this area, but it's not too hard to see how a merge l
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by antonvs 4mo ago
I'm curious about where you got that idea from. Neither the theory nor the available examples support it. If it did, everyone knowledgeable would be using abliterated models.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
Compared to what?
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by antonvs 4mo ago
The numbers are interesting, I agree, as is the overall post. And as a clickbait headline, "not everyone" makes sense. But, realistically, the NYT obviously isn't talking about, say, the North Sentinelese islanders. Similarly
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by antonvs 4mo ago
I never thought I'd see religious commandments from Dune being quoted as advice in the real world. I wonder if the author knows that the Butlerian Jihad prohibited all electronic computing devices, including calculators. If he wants to
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by antonvs 4mo ago
> the received wisdom was founders ought to keep going until there bank account was empty, in the hope that they may salvage returns for investors. Amusing that they managed to create a business strategy that depends on the sunk cost fal
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by antonvs 4mo ago
The numbers given in the article are actually consistent with what is usually meant by “everyone” in such statements. Sure, it’s not literally everyone. But it’s a very significant percentage, especially given how quick the adoption has bee
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by antonvs 4mo ago
The problem is, what were their other options? They made a ridiculous amount of money on a social network. Where do you go from there? VR and AI were and are attempts to remain relevant, but not every company succeeds in doing that, and Fac
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by antonvs 4mo ago
> (on purpose?) As Upton Sinclair put it, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." That quote is just the tip of the iceberg of Sinclair's work, though. H
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by antonvs 4mo ago
> Instead of simply searching for one of the numerous font-dumps that exist on the Internet On the other hand I enjoy reading about all the things people are recreating with LLMs, since it gives an idea of what's not just possible,
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by antonvs 4mo ago
Do you believe in ethics or morality? If I decide you're having a negative impact on my net worth, can I come to your home and shoot you in the head? It seems we need a remedial class in morality here, where we work up to you understan

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