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by astrange 1y ago
The cost isn't negligible. The OS team at Apple is smaller than you'd think and has a tight schedule that cannot ever miss a ship date. Basically anything that uses anyone's attention has to be important. > there's th
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by astrange 1y ago
You can't hide that. You can't use technical measures to hide from discovery. I think an entire book is a little too large to mask with this method and still end up learning anything.
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by astrange 1y ago
I turned it off because it seemed to only remember previous hallucinations it'd made and bring them up again.
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by astrange 1y ago
How do you make your own children obey? (Meta-question: since they don't do this, why does it turn out not to be a problem?)
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by astrange 1y ago
> What I mean is that the current generation of LLMs don’t understand how concepts relate to one another. They must be able to do this implicitly; otherwise why are their answers related to the questions you ask them, instead of being co
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by astrange 1y ago
> Roughly, actual intelligence needs to maintain a world model in its internal representation This is GOFAI metaphor-based development, which never once produced anything useful. They just sat around saying things like "people have
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by astrange 1y ago
GPT5 and DeepThink both solved it without doing that for me, yes. (DeepThink did wonder if it was supposed to be him afterwards or if it was a trick.)
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by astrange 1y ago
Strange complaint. The guy he's chosen to use for comparisons is making a totally different face in the two photos. And his main issue with skin undertones is because he picked a photographic style he doesn't like. The camera app
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by astrange 1y ago
Apple doesn't randomly fire people. In fact it's quite difficult to get fired for low performance from FAANG because they'd rather just lower your pay until you leave.
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by astrange 1y ago
A payment plan for a phone makes perfect sense if the phone is capital equipment that makes you money.
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by astrange 1y ago
> - multi-spectrum imaging for spectroscopy and FLIR-like cameras to get temperature info in images Restricted by ITAR. You can buy lowres attachments for it on Aliexpress though.
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by astrange 1y ago
Pro photographers aren't professionals because they have expensive cameras, it's because they get paid to deliver professional results. A phone camera can be the most usable camera for a result because it's smaller and fits i
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by astrange 1y ago
It's not difficult to find improvements to LLMs still. Large issues: tokenizers exist, reasoning models are still next-token-prediction instead of having "internal thoughts", RL post-training destroys model calibration Small
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by astrange 1y ago
You don't have to buy a phone every generation and it's not really intended that you do.
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by astrange 1y ago
> shooting for white balance or tone mapping with a color card and calibrated monitor if you care about that level of accuracy You need to do this if you want to see the image at all, and it involves a lot of subjective choices. The obj
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by astrange 1y ago
It's just a private company. They only have power compared to governments in Cyberpunk.
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by astrange 1y ago
If you just want a camera get a mirrorless. They're smaller than DSLRs and easier to adapt lenses to. If you don't care about lenses Fujifilm cameras are probably the most fun to use. (But if you use it rarely it's better to
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by astrange 1y ago
Japan, Taiwan and the Nordic countries have higher iPhone market share than the Anglosphere IIRC.
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by astrange 1y ago
Median American household not person, but yes.
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by astrange 1y ago
The neural engine is used for the built-in LLM that does text summaries etc., just not third party LLMs. And there's an official port of Stable Diffusion to it: https://github.com/apple/ml-stable-diffusion
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by astrange 1y ago
They make external batteries for watches just like they do for phones. Or you can carry a charger and use it with the phone battery.
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by astrange 1y ago
Is it gone? Still there as far as I know. https://support.apple.com/en-us/108320
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by astrange 1y ago
Not sure what you mean by "one" but a watch will work fine without a network connection. It does need to be paired to a phone. It'd make it less useful as a watch though because the time will drift without an NTP server.
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by astrange 1y ago
SPTM isn't a hardware feature, it's basically a hypervisor that manages the page tables and tag memory so that the kernel doesn't own its own tags.
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by astrange 1y ago
It certainly isn't something you can just turn on. I don't know how hardened_malloc works, but one problem is that C malloc() doesn't know the type of memory it's allocating, which is naturally an issue when you need to…
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by astrange 1y ago
Also, all of these security improvements are nearly-free assert()s which catch memory bugs.
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by astrange 1y ago
> In the same way a browser can give the AI the accessibility DOM, Apple could give AIs an easier representation to read and manipulate. Apps already have such an accessibility tree; it's used for VoiceOver and you can use it to wr
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by astrange 1y ago
It uses 100% recycled cobalt. https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/products/iphone/iPhone...
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by astrange 1y ago
If you like using debuggers, don't worry, MTE gives you a lot more chances to use them since it finds a lot more crashes. It doesn't stop you writing to memory though, as long as it's the correct type. PAC may stop you from c
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by astrange 1y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jan/17/two-female-acti...

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