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by aubanel 8mo ago
Regulating something they visibly had no clue about, just because they had idle time and paper: Is California trying to speedrun the innovation no man's land of EU?
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by aubanel 8mo ago
> Comments from newly registered accounts on HN are also more likely to mention AI and LLMs -> to be fair there must also be a bias of young incoming ppl on HN being more prone to be starting their career on the hot new tech
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by aubanel 8mo ago
That's a bit harsh! I go to mass every Sunday (in France) and rarely have political stuff. When there, it's most often about abortion or euthanasia (of course in a pro-life (or anti-choice) direction, "you shall not kill&quot
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by aubanel 8mo ago
FYI: Chinese models, to be approved by the regulator, have to go through a harness of questions, which of course include this Tiananmen one, and have to answer certain things. I think that on top of that, the live versions have "safegu
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by aubanel 9mo ago
"well preserved tools" said the ad -> I bought some, surprisingly expensive for a hammer -> it's a mishap and inform piece of wood -> straight to dump
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by aubanel 9mo ago
Yet the carbone intensity of energy production in Germany is among the worst in Europe. And France (nuclear powered, no particular huge investment in a green transition) beats them easily in both price and carbon. https://app.ele
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by aubanel 9mo ago
The success of the Energiewende ? Just take a look at average electricity price and carbon footprint in Germany Vs France. https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/live/fifteen_minutes
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by aubanel 10mo ago
I'd advise you take a look at some of Musk's companies: - Tesla is the top seller of EVs in the US, beating century-old companies. - SpaceX has left public institutions like NASA and ESA in the dust despite their vastly bigger bud
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by aubanel 11mo ago
Ukraine is not and was never part of EU, FWIW
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by aubanel 11mo ago
Other sources indicate that privatization was a huge success! The number of passengers dropped after nationalizations, and exploded after privatisation (despite taxpayer money investment logically dropping) https://commons.wikime
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by aubanel 11mo ago
For Europe, use ECMWF, they provide great data: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts
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by aubanel 1y ago
> If I were to steelman the Sutton perspective, it would be... I don't find it very courteous to say that you're steelmanning someone's argument. Sutton is certainly smart enough to have steelmanned his argument himself. S
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by aubanel 1y ago
Great article! It seems like the whole industry has overfitted to the System designs interviews of FAANG, thus focused on extreme scaling need that few companies actually have.
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by aubanel 1y ago
I love that when I opened this article i already knew some elements, from having read it months ago on HN So now I will remember it a bit better and for longer Hackernews is actually like Anki cards for nerd (and in this case useless) Inter
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by aubanel 1y ago
> hard to disrupt with AI for two reasons: (1) mistakes, hallucinations, etc., aren't acceptable I think AI hallucination rate is already below my own hallucination rate, especially in a boring/unknown domain
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A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors(github.com)
60 points by aubanel 1y ago|10 comments
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by aubanel 1y ago
> "We are hearing from a lot of rightsholders who are very excited for this new kind of "interactive fan fiction" and think this new kind of engagement will accrue a lot of value to them, but want the ability to specify ho
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by aubanel 1y ago
"And I tell you, you may only avoid an effort in the name of a greater one, for you must grow" Antoine de Saint Exupéry (author of The Little Prince), in Citadelle
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by aubanel 1y ago
Thank you, interesting! I don't know that much about Fair use: if I understand well, the key is that the use should be "transformative", right? Am I correct in understanding that: - if the original "This is fine" me
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by aubanel 1y ago
That, and the dragon looking straight out of How to Train Your Dragon - I wonder if they have agreements with the right holders, or if they expect massive lawsuits to create free advertising for their launch.
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by aubanel 1y ago
Giscus is a cool comments management solution vis Github: It lets users auth through Github then posts comments as discussions under your repo. We use it here for instance: https://predibench.com/models
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by aubanel 1y ago
That title looked like clickbait until... Oh well they did actually did it
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Introducing PrediBench – Leaderboard of LLMs Betting on Polymarket(predibench.com)
3 points by aubanel 1y ago|0 comments
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by aubanel 1y ago
The answer to this is just "intermittent" : the higher the share of renewables, the higher the share that you have to make up for when you're at night without wind. This can be done through batteries, water storage, or interc
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Autonomy of AI agents is exploding – why, and what it will change (a lot)(m-ric.com)
1 points by aubanel 1y ago|0 comments
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by aubanel 1y ago
https://archive.ph/AVCuH
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Code a Simple RAG from Scratch(huggingface.co)
2 points by aubanel 1y ago|0 comments
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by aubanel 1y ago
The premise "LLMs have reached a plateau" is false IMO. Here are the metrics by which the author defines this plateau: "limited by their inability to maintain coherent context across sessions, their lack of persistent memory,
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by aubanel 1y ago
From experience, it's much more engineering work on the integrator's side than on OpenAI's. Basically they provide you their new model in advance, but they don't know the specifics of your system, so it's normal tha
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by aubanel 1y ago
- AI competing is "wholly unfair" - "[AI is] far away from being substantially being better than MCTs" ^ pick only one

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