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by bandrami 3mo ago
We had to move my non-ambulatory[1] father from Mississippi to Virginia a couple of months ago. The vehicle probably didn't have all the staff and equipment of an ambulance but it did have an RN, a crash cart, and some other expensiv
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by bandrami 3mo ago
This is a pendulum I've now seen fully swing twice since I enlisted 30 years ago. "We need more integrated logistics because the teeth can't fight without the tail!" Some years pass "Why do we have all these non-c
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by bandrami 3mo ago
I was very technically impressed with xz, FWIW. Note that the troublesome vector isn't code execution by the LLM, it's instructions to produce vulnerable code
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by bandrami 3mo ago
Did you ever read the paper on how Ken Thompson backdoored the original C compiler?
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by bandrami 3mo ago
My view is that the same people who pulled off xz are putting God knows what in the weights
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by bandrami 3mo ago
> it’s Chinese and backed by god knows who, and no one cares Existentially weary infosec guy voice I promise you some of us care, and the rest of you will realize why in a year or so
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by bandrami 4mo ago
What if it's a domain I just don't want anybody to use?
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by bandrami 4mo ago
> HTML at the time was intended as an application of SGML Worse, it was an extended superset (ha!) of SGML. At least 20 years ago, SGML::Parser would reject some valid HTML documents. That said, it was really easy to type correctly in a
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by bandrami 4mo ago
What were these "troublesome parts"? The whole point of HTML's design is that it's incredibly easy for a human to write correctly.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Inference providers have been getting a firehose of investor cash to keep the chips running (and are looking around very nervously as that firehose starts to sputter).
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Paging Mr. Son. Mr. Son, please pick up line 3.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
All "density" means is that it's a quotient; I use spectral densities daily and that's "count per Hertz" which weirdly enough works out in normal units to be seconds.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
I lost count of the number of times I've seen a junior dev call qsort on an array that is guaranteed to only have a few hundred members at most.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
> Note that whoever you buy from will be able to read all your tokens, so don’t use it for anything confidential/financial. Note that without an enterprise agreement, both OpenAI and Anthropic make no commitments as to what they wil
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by bandrami 4mo ago
> Based on what? Based on the money they're spending on compute being less than the money they're getting from customers.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
No I mean Anthropic has only claimed a profitable quarter based on xAI giving them two months of free compute, and both Anthropic and OpenAI are counting discounted revenue as actual revenue. They haven't found a way to sell inference
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by bandrami 4mo ago
If they had high margins they wouldn't be issuing senior debt with a 18.5% coupon payment (and failing to fully subscribe it), nor would they need Elon to give them two months of free compute in order to appear profitable for a single
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Literally nobody is making money on inference
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Sure, and Anthropic is allowed to cancel the licenses of people doing that, as they do
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by bandrami 4mo ago
The relief available to a licensor for violating a license use restriction is cancellation of the license. And they're free to do that, just like Alibaba is free to pay somebody in Hyderabad $20 to make another one. DMCA can't app
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by bandrami 4mo ago
My long-term prediction for the sector is that frontier models will be so expensive that they will only be available for grant-funded projects at research institutions, like supercomputer clusters were 25 years ago.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
No, it's part of the capability theft. They resell Claude tokens cheaply and then simultaneously log everything for distillation. Even if they take a small loss on the token sales it's much cheaper than the equivalent compute.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
The current case law in the US is that the raw output of an LLM cannot be copyrighted without further meaningful arrangement or alteration by a human author.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Free over-the-air network TV is (generally) copyrighted. The output of LLMs cannot be copyrighted. This isn't a semantic game; it's literally the case that Anthropic cannot seek relief for people duplicating the output of an LLM.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
If it's streaming an uncopyrightable product, absolutely. This isn't even a gray area. I'm curious why you think you cannot re-stream a public domain stream.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Postage stamps have specific legal protection from duplication. The output of an LLM is not itself eligible for any legal IP protection.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
The output of Claude is not eligible for copyright protection. I'm not sure how the analogy of bootlegging DVDs would work, given that.
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by bandrami 4mo ago
Oh wow it must suck to have an LLM creator rip off your IP for their own gain
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by bandrami 4mo ago
I have a proposal to place a small, intelligent demon in every windowsill in the UK...
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by bandrami 4mo ago
More people should read that Ken Thompson piece about backdooring the original C compiler

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