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by astrange 8mo ago
For some of the best models it's also not readable, not really in English, and uncensored. https://x.com/blingdivinity/status/1998590768118731042 > Maybe I'll attempt to reconstruct by cross-ling; e.g
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by astrange 8mo ago
> Its simple, this technology literally cannot create new jobs it simply can cause one engineer (or any worker whos job has to do with computer i/o) to do the work of 3 That is a productivity improvement, which tends to increase em
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by astrange 8mo ago
There does not appear to be a recession. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SAHMREALTIME
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by astrange 8mo ago
I assumed it's because everyone who works at Anthropic is rich and incredibly neurotic.
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by astrange 8mo ago
> Remember, that capitalism is growth at all costs, until the host is dead, aka cancer. "Growth" in economics means trading things more often, not using more resources.
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by astrange 8mo ago
Google and Apple charge 15% for most apps.
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by astrange 8mo ago
All cameras behave this way because of how auto white balance works. Some camera apps are just always in AWB mode. I asked a phone camera engineer about this once and they told me that shooting through windows also causes issues, but I don&
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by astrange 8mo ago
Really depends on the environment. Low light and nighttime are much worse than you might think, anything else isn't so bad. (Try taking a photo of the moon with an iPhone. You can't do it, not even with Halide.) The lenses are als
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by astrange 8mo ago
Those are probably anonymous employee accounts not fans. I don't know if anyone would be enough of a power user fan to tell someone to file a bug report.
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by astrange 8mo ago
Snow Leopard was incredibly buggy on release. Spending time on "tech debt and software performance" adds more bugs because all aggressive changes cause regressions. The reason it worked is that it was a long release cycle with a l
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by astrange 8mo ago
Aren't they all making YouTube videos now? It's basically the best place to get paid for making expert content.
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by astrange 8mo ago
Wirecutter is part of NYTimes and depends on crosswords for income. I haven't always agreed with them and sometimes the articles are clearly wrong because they're several years old, but they're usually good. (I think I last s
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by astrange 8mo ago
No.
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by astrange 8mo ago
I've heard a lot of romance novels are fanfic with the names changed, or at least that's what people say about Twilight and 50 Shades.
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by astrange 8mo ago
You also have hearing, you can move your head and wear sunglasses to avoid glare, etc.
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by astrange 8mo ago
Human drivers don't use fixed cameras. For one thing, they can move their heads. Fun fact, people can see light polarization. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4528539/
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by astrange 8mo ago
"Widely reported in mainstream media" is not a reproducible bug report with logging.
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by astrange 8mo ago
It's a very complicated system. Performance issues are bad but they're not necessarily caused by how the UI looks. You can report an issue by typing applefeedback:// into Safari if you want.
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by astrange 8mo ago
Selling things increases money velocity.
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by astrange 8mo ago
> When you visually simulate things or e.g. simulate how food will taste in your mind as you add different seasonings, you are modeling (part of) the world. Modeling something as an action is not "having a world model". A model
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by astrange 8mo ago
Vouchers are related to turnstiles, which are from Solaris.
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by astrange 8mo ago
There's also priority inheritance (two different systems for it) so that requests originating from users/apps are more important. Swift concurrency is more about structured concurrency than thread pools. A lot of other systems see
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by astrange 8mo ago
You can report a bug by typing applefeedback:// in Safari.
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The welfare classes that the government hands money to are elderly people and children.
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> 2. We don't tax work, we tax income, because actual transactions between people with "skin in the game" are harder to fake. Also because taxing income (or other cash) is disinflationary. Taxing assets is inflationary bec
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by astrange 8mo ago
There's no such thing as a "world model". That is metaphor-driven development from GOFAI, where they'd just make up a concept and assume it existed because they made it up. LLMs are capable of approximating such a thing
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by astrange 8mo ago
You're welcome to try writing a C compiler and standard library doing no research other than reading the spec.
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There are not many more compilers with the specific optimization pass I linked. Also, I don't think you could reuse code from a different compiler unless you used the same IR.
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LLMs do not learn concepts perfectly across programming languages, just as they don't learn concepts perfectly across human languages.
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> What would be more impressive is for it to have made a compiler for a well defined language that isn't very close to a popular language. That doesn't seem difficult as long as you can translate it into a well-known IR. The D

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