bandrami

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by bandrami 6mo ago
"Almost everywhere" is precisely defined, and it is broader than that. E.g. the real numbers are almost everywhere normal, but there are uncountably many non-normal numbers between any two normal reals.
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by bandrami 6mo ago
If you need accuracy, an LLM is not the tool for that use case. LLMs are for when you need plausibility. There are real use cases for that, but journalism is not one of them.
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by bandrami 6mo ago
Emacs's hexl-mode does this, incidentally, though annoyingly by default it makes all faces the same color. I never understood why it defines the faces but then doesn't customize them.
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by bandrami 6mo ago
How I longed for that Power Glove, though in retrospect it's an incredibly stupid interface.
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by bandrami 6mo ago
I had a very limited library. I think it was Pitfall, Combat, Tempest, and Berzerk. Kaboom looks fun though.
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by bandrami 6mo ago
Mine had no stop so it must have been the driving controller (though now I may be mixing up my 2600 with my 7200). Time flies.
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by bandrami 6mo ago
That's so cool. I remember loving this game in the arcade but then being annoyed when I had to also buy a paddle wheel to play it on my 2600, which was then useful for exactly 0 other games.
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by bandrami 6mo ago
No, like every other provider they're just losing money and hoping this will some day magically become profitable
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by bandrami 6mo ago
For the same reason that Amazon operated at a loss for two decades and Uber operated at a loss for a decade and a half. The problem is the free money hose isn't running anymore.
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by bandrami 6mo ago
If my empty plate had a pizza on it it would be a good lunch
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by bandrami 6mo ago
Probably the best roundup is Ed Zitron at https://wheresyoured.at Half the articles are paywalled but the free ones outline the financial situation of the SOTA providers and he has receipts
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by bandrami 6mo ago
Nope. They're losing money on straight inference (you may be thinking of the interview where Dario described a hypothetical company that was positive margin). The only way they can make it look like they're making money on infer
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by bandrami 6mo ago
That's the interesting question, right? Because if this unwinds during a period of external inflation (say, because of a big war and energy shortage) then even the Bernanke would say helicopter money won't work
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by bandrami 6mo ago
"Sell this for less than it cost us" was a viable business plan during the ZIRP era but is not now
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by bandrami 6mo ago
I take it you don't remember 2008
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by bandrami 6mo ago
Making it more affordable would be very bad news for Amazon, who are now counting on $100B in new spending from OpenAI over the next 10 years.
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by bandrami 6mo ago
At the risk of being That Old Guy, this seems like a pretty bad workflow regression from what ctags could do 30 years ago
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by bandrami 6mo ago
If you want LLMs to continue to be offered we have to get to a point where the providers are taking in more money than they are spending hosting them. And we still aren't there (or even close).
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by bandrami 6mo ago
It's the PayPal model of customer service: they'll ban you at any time for any reason or none at all, but if you're very nice they might be willing to have a human look at that decision at some point, but probably not.
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by bandrami 6mo ago
We don't listen to normal intelligence as it is so I have no idea why people think we would listen to super intelligence. It would be one other voice that's ignored in public meetings along with the League of Concerned Renters and
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by bandrami 6mo ago
It's less common than it used to be, but in India it's still kind of normal for newlyweds to live in the groom's parents' kitchen for a while until they get their own place
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by bandrami 6mo ago
If the music isn't important enough to write it's not important enough to put in the game in the first place. Solo game devs can use csound.
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by bandrami 6mo ago
I'm sad DOGE killed the TARP litigation database because there was some wild stuff on it
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by bandrami 6mo ago
The TARP investigations jailed people for that; that was it's main purpose. Taking the funding window required an audit, and people either lied on the audit (and got busted for that) or admitted to illegal lending or valuation on it (a
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by bandrami 6mo ago
TARP still has active IGs; if you know of criminal activity they missed you can report it to them.
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by bandrami 6mo ago
No that's still about a decade out of date. TARP jailed IIRC 30 bank CEOs, it's just the cases took until 2017 or so and the meme had already implanted itself in people's brains. DoJ got so tired of people saying this that th
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by bandrami 6mo ago
If they arrest everyone who does a wash transaction to generate the appearance of revenue there aren't going to be many founders left standing in 2026.
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by bandrami 6mo ago
It's a real problem at this point. People still say "nobody went to jail for the GFC" even though over 200 people did in the US; it's just it took a decade and nobody actually paid attention a decade later when they went
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by bandrami 6mo ago
I remember back in the late 90s we had a war between the ZIP and JAZ drive advocates, but I can't remember what the virtues of each were.
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by bandrami 6mo ago
I keep saying even if there's not current malfeasance, the incentives being set up where the model ultimately determines the token use which determines the model provider's revenue will absolutely overcome any safeguards or good i

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