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by astrange 5mo ago
The US doesn't. "Social standing" in this case means if your girlfriend's parents will let you marry her. Not, like, who likes your LinkedIn posts.
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by astrange 5mo ago
> everyone else - namely blue collar and service workers - are doing worse and worse * better and better https://www.nber.org/papers/w31010
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by astrange 5mo ago
Inequality is not "ever increasing". You should resist the urge to say everything is constantly getting worse just because that makes you look more sympathetic to the poor. (A worse issue is that inequality decreasing can mean thi
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by astrange 5mo ago
Depends what you mean by "control". If you don't own a nice house, car, driver etc. but your company just happens to provide it as a perk, then you still have it.
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by astrange 5mo ago
It sounds very AI. Current AIs' ideas of good writing involve weird metaphors, references to sensing things you can't sense, and tricolons.
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by astrange 5mo ago
https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085-19b0-4534-9c90-465b8e29a...
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by astrange 5mo ago
Gemini the chatbot has a very strange personality that intensely overindexes on your user profile and absolutely loves insane mixed metaphors. Its explanations are quite good but they're also hard to understand because it keeps trying
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by astrange 5mo ago
Here's a Fields Medalist commenting who doesn't seem to believe that. https://x.com/wtgowers/status/2057175727271800912
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by astrange 5mo ago
An LLM in a harness with any tools (even a calculator) doesn't just interpolate because it can reach states out of its own distribution.
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by astrange 5mo ago
You can't be as productive as someone in Santa Barbara because they have perfect weather and you don't, so you have SAD.
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by astrange 5mo ago
> Apple has already depreciated vast swathes of 32-bit games that were never updated to support 64-bit x86 or Apple Silicon. They had literally 15 years of warning about this.
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by astrange 5mo ago
Read about:memory then.
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by astrange 5mo ago
It wasn't an "optimization", it's because aging batteries have unstable voltage and the phone was likely to shut down otherwise.
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by astrange 5mo ago
Memory pressure sort-of means something sort-of doesn't. It's certainly possible that critical pressure could cause audio issues, but it could also be impossible to ever notice. More importantly you shouldn't be experiencing
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by astrange 5mo ago
> And this is a company that has the experience and partnerships for producing fabs. Not even they necessarily have the experience to do it! Intel has a policy called "Copy EXACTLY!" for fab construction where they make every i
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by astrange 5mo ago
DRAM fabs are their own well-known specialized process which is covered by the DRAM companies. It doesn't make sense to start a competitor for it.
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by astrange 5mo ago
It's the websites that use that RAM, not the browsers. (Often the ads on the websites.)
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by astrange 5mo ago
Entirely fake. Or rather, the water issue is caused by there being /a construction project/, not because it's a data center.
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by astrange 5mo ago
> The motivation to "cheat" comes from the evaluations giving it a higher score for "cheating." That's what Goodhart's Law is! All evaluations will eventually cause cheating on them.
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by astrange 5mo ago
RSUs. Way simpler taxes.
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by astrange 5mo ago
Because cheating is easier than actually doing work, if you use this to train future models, it's likely you'll end up with cheating instead of actual generalization.
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by astrange 5mo ago
> This is the first approach to activation analysis that I’ve seen that seems like a plausible path to model understanding. I think an issue is that there is no permanent path to model understanding because of Goodhart's law. Models
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by astrange 5mo ago
That shouldn't happen as long as the autoencoder isn't used as an RL reward. It will happen (due to Goodhart's law) if it is. Of course, if you use it to make any decision that can still happen eventually.
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by astrange 5mo ago
I've been very successful so far using Sonnet 4.6 (1M) as the basic model in Claude Code, plus Codex and gemini-review plugins for second/third opinions. (The last one is somewhat busted and hardcoded old gemini versions, I should
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by astrange 5mo ago
ffmpeg also includes many formats with no standards that were reverse-engineered in the first place.
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by astrange 5mo ago
I'm well aware and I know the inventor. The important difference for performance is that a gif isn't 60fps.
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by astrange 5mo ago
It does not contradict it, and also, a gif is not a video.
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by astrange 5mo ago
> If AV2 was vibe coded, there would be no case. …for copyright. Not for anything else. Patents would still apply.
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by astrange 5mo ago
Video codecs just don't need to do dynamic allocations because it's not relevant to the problem. There's still certainly plenty of opportunities for memory bugs because there's a lot of pointer math.
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by astrange 5mo ago
The people who write DSLs for video codec asm, or who claim that it's fine to use intrinsics or X higher-level language and it will still be fast enough to be usable, are simply wrong and have never been able to demonstrate otherwise.

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