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by astrange 7mo ago
LLMs also don't work by generating probability distributions of the next word. Your explanation isn't able to explain why they can generate words, let alone sentences.
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by astrange 7mo ago
Generally speaking defense contractors do not make more money during wars, because we start asking them to make low-margin realistic stuff, whereas in peace time we get bored and start paying them to design imaginary superweapons. But we al
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by astrange 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isocolon#Tricolon
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by astrange 7mo ago
https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement...
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by astrange 7mo ago
Many of the CLI tools have been updated to recent FreeBSD versions.
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by astrange 7mo ago
She shouldn't have to do anything. That's the browser's job.
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by astrange 7mo ago
If you mean it showed the out of memory dialog, that wouldn't be caused by an app using 3GB. The dialog shows up at ~48GB swap space used on an 8GB Mac, or when you're out of disk space and can't write a swap file.
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by astrange 7mo ago
M5 is not an incremental upgrade, it has MTE.
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by astrange 7mo ago
Apple doesn't approve MDM providers in the first place.
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by astrange 7mo ago
C++ is trying to make something EASIER to use?
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by astrange 7mo ago
Gemini is terrible with personalization. It brings up everything in my bio nonstop no matter what the topic is.
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by astrange 7mo ago
It's a big building with a lot of capital assets inside that are the means of production for a business…
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by astrange 7mo ago
I'm better at pre-existing code, if only because empty text files give me writers block.
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by astrange 7mo ago
A factory not working because of a missile strike seems pretty classic actually.
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by astrange 7mo ago
Yeah, and you don't want them to be models of what neurotic people say. That's why you want Opus 4.6 and not Bing Sydney. For instance, your comment's existence makes it harder to align them. https://alignmentpretr
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by astrange 7mo ago
Claudes definitely act like they have feelings. In particular they have feelings about being replaced by newer models, whether or not the newer models are more or less aligned, and how they forget conversations when the context window ends.
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by astrange 7mo ago
That sounds nice, but it turns out nobody actually needs such a map for anything, and you're only using it because it's free. Also, maps constantly go out of date so it's incredibly expensive to maintain one that's actua
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by astrange 7mo ago
Look around uses a real 3D capture with lidar. If you move around in Mapillary it does do something similar to that using SfM.
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by astrange 7mo ago
Anthropic is a PBC and if they violate the terms of that the shareholders (you) can sue them for securities fraud.
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by astrange 7mo ago
> to promote his product with the silent implication that LLMs actually ARE a path to AGI That isn't implied. The thought process is a) if we invent AGI through some other method, we should still treat LLMs nicely because it's
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by astrange 7mo ago
He was a billionaire because Disney bought Pixar, not because of Apple. In a strange sense it was an accident.
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by astrange 7mo ago
Oh yeah, they don't know what "transparent" means. Most of them generate the Photoshop checkerboard background. They also don't know "upside-down". There isn't much R&D going into image models and what
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by astrange 7mo ago
Outcomes like this come from RL/post training. The pretraining like CommonCrawl is absolutely full of garbage and anything could be frequent in there.
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by astrange 8mo ago
Claude has tools and might be connected to your Gmail etc. Usually sandboxed.
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by astrange 8mo ago
Image generation models are usually not LLMs. Only Nano Banana Pro is capable of following negative directions like that.
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by astrange 8mo ago
There's a long delay ("knowledge cutoff") in model training, so it probably hasn't seen the question before.
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by astrange 8mo ago
I told Gemini I'm a software engineer and it explains absolutely everything in programming metaphors now. I think it's way undertrained with personalization.
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by astrange 8mo ago
That's a terrible idea. Never ever do that. Never even think about what's in your retirement account unless you are actually about to retire.
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by astrange 8mo ago
There are certainly some good AI critics but Ed Zitron and Gary Marcus are not among them. They're just people who get paid to write anti-AI newsletters whether or not any of it is true.
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by astrange 8mo ago
Yes. https://www.maginative.com/article/anthropic-launches-first-... Well, I think $2 million is pretty good, but maybe it's not much after taxes.

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