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by bachmeier 4mo ago
Very much dependent on the situation. For many business tasks, local hardware is good enough. But what a lot of folks overlook when saying these things is that (a) workers do more than run AI models on a piece of hardware, (b) significant c
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by bachmeier 4mo ago
Where they are extremely powerful, and it's hard to debate this IMO, is adding comments to the code, writing complete documentation, and constantly updating the readme. The value in actually writing the code is still up for debate (I&#
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by bachmeier 4mo ago
Decades ago, long before anyone had heard of a large language model, I wrote programs that responded to a random event (inside a game) like a death of a friend by outputting statements that the program itself was grieving. LLMs are doing no
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by bachmeier 4mo ago
"There is a real possibility that AI will displace human labor at very large scale." "If AI models are going to be widespread" "we keep finding things that are mysterious, even unsettling. We find structures that mi
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by bachmeier 4mo ago
> Burns through tokens like water. Pretty sure I know what you're saying, but the visual on this one doesn't match the point you're making.
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
What is in the gutters is memories of 2008-2010. That was the last time folks experienced a bad economy. I remember Ed Elson saying something along the lines of "who cares about employment, what matters is inflation". Sure, if you
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
MATLAB competed in the same space with a piece of software called GAUSS. Both had their initial commercial release in 1984. MATLAB eventually went on to dominate most areas, but I had to deal with the pain of writing my dissertation in GAUS
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
> You should check out this thing called open source software Open source actually demonstrates that copyright serves a purpose. There are still customers for non-open software, even when open alternatives exist, so the ability to moneti
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
> Unless you're thinking Alibaba is going to ship chat logs to some government ministry This made me think of a Seinfeld episode: "I didn't know it was possible not to know that."
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I Caught ChatGPT for Finance Making Up a Transaction [video](youtube.com)
2 points by bachmeier 5mo ago|1 comments
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
> All he (or anyone) can do is interpret or analyse poll results, and then surface their findings in a way a larger audience can understand. He (or anybody) can make adjustments to the data. He was challenged to explain why his predictio
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
When pressed before the election, Silver did not explain where Trump's much higher probability of winning came from. He predicted a Trump loss, Trump won, and he claimed victory because he gave Trump a better chance of winning. There&#
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
Who would have guessed that something costing roughly a third as much wouldn't do as well at certain tasks.
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
> Meta for all its billions, doesn't have anything comparable. Maybe nothing released to the public. I don't know that all of their models are public. I think all they really care about is that they aren't relying on one o
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
I'm not much interested in vibe coding (for those who aren't aware that LLMs have other uses). The specific model I've been using with Ollama is hf.co/unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL and it&#x27
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
But Obsidian doesn't even require a few dollars a month for sync. You can use Github or whatever sync service you want. Your data is just a directory of markdown files. That said, I've paid for the sync service for years, but only
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
The data is open and stored in markdown format. Plugins are open source. The core product is not open source, but it's also just an electron app. I've always viewed Obsidian as the inverse of an open core product.
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
Thanks for your work on Zulip and for everything you did to increase its availability to the masses. Your work was important. Congratulations on your new position at Anthropic. I wish you well in this new chapter of your life.
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
Sorry, but your comment isn't really responding to OP's main point. > It can be challenging to find a sense of fulfillment. If you actually get fulfillment from work, then great, continue to work. The critical thing that drives
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
It is indeed ridiculous. People saying they're going to let someone else tell them what to do with their time, energy, and calendar, even if they hate doing it. The only explanation I have is that they have been letting the wrong peopl
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
Reader mode in Firefox is one click to dark text on a white background. Presumably other browsers have the same thing.
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
> and certainly aren’t obligated to provide it for free And I'll stop you here. It's less than obvious that there's no obligation. If you provide a critical service that folks rely on at a price less than your cost, you dr
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
I have to agree. You can keep pulling that logic back another step (and that seems to have been happening for many steps now) to the point that you no longer have the ability to use the computer. This can't be dismissed as "slippe
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
> I sometimes get the impression that many people claiming that local models are as good as frontier models work in "token poor" environments. If you can't build large-scale programs using at least Opus 4.5+ then it's
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
> How, exactly, are they currently conquering the enterprise world with their models? I didn't say they were conquering the enterprise world. I said they are better positioned for the work that will be profitable in the future. Winn
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
Honestly, I think the SEO virus killed that golden goose long before the first AI chat bot. If we still had good search taking us to sane websites, ChatGPT might well have never been a thing. I was posting (including on HN) about the vulner
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
Maybe they've decided they don't want to play the same game as OpenAI and Anthropic? They're much better positioned for the high volume AI work that's likely to be where the money is made, with calls to APIs doing routin
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
> it is cutting jobs to offset its A.I. spending, saying last month that it would slash 10 percent of its work force. > Meta also introduced internal dashboards to track employees’ consumption of “tokens,” a unit of A.I. use that is r
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
> I think we're in a different world from twenty years ago. The upper-middle class kids I know understand that you can get your hands dirty and that a degree isn't a meal ticket to class security anymore. This has always been t
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by bachmeier 5mo ago
> Witness the last two Democratic presidential nominees, Al Gore and John Kerry: one each from Harvard and Yale, both earnest, decent, intelligent men, both utterly incapable of communicating with the larger electorate. And both running

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