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by bandrami 5mo ago
Well, I mean, just as a legal question I'm not allowed to use Chinese software at work, so yeah that's kind of definitive for me
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by bandrami 5mo ago
Right but Tencent is a massive half-state-controlled holding company so that's not really helpful.
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by bandrami 5mo ago
I think the idea is you sink the pretraining costs once and then you can distill multiple specialized models from that
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by bandrami 5mo ago
> there are always gains from scale This... isn't true though? Complexity increases combinatorially with scale which means at some point you're just pushing a rope
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by bandrami 5mo ago
(And either one is a threat vector)
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by bandrami 5mo ago
I assure you my business's data is not remotely worthless which is why there are pretty strict laws and regulations about what we can do with it
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by bandrami 5mo ago
For the life of me I will never understand the thought process that leads you to say "we don't really know who developed this LLM but I'm going to feed all of my business's data to it"
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by bandrami 5mo ago
Music may be a special case because generative/algorithmic music has been a thing for much longer than AI (in the 2020s sense) has existed. So it's more a question of how/whether it gets integrated into an existing generative
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by bandrami 5mo ago
CIA recruits a lot of square pegs who didn't quite fit in to other parts of government
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by bandrami 5mo ago
Also can the browsers finally acknowledge that allowing websites to request the ability to send desktop notifications was a terrible mistake?
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by bandrami 5mo ago
> Still very valuable You sure about that? Both labs and tech companies have been desperate to show ROI on LLM use and nobody can seem to
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by bandrami 5mo ago
But they incorrectly think "employee adoption of LLMs" is a first-order goal
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by bandrami 5mo ago
Sri Lanka does the OTP too. But then again India does OTPs for literally everything because your entire identity is tied to your SIM card.
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by bandrami 5mo ago
The New Delhi airport has a single pickup location for all Uber rides (which moved recently). Also the Indian government requires separate reporting from Uber depending on whether the rider is using an Indian or foreign credit card to pay.
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by bandrami 5mo ago
Also the "five dollar day" was kind of a marketing gimmick too. Your daily pay was still $2.50, but if you stayed two years, went to church on Sundays, tithed, didn't go to bars, didn't go to union meetings, kept your ho
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by bandrami 5mo ago
The FORMAT directive is Turing-complete. The full spec is here: https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/22_c....
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by bandrami 5mo ago
7/11 has had hot prepared food for decades in the US. Pizza, meat pies, rollers, and those hot dogs
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by bandrami 5mo ago
I mean, they could also just saw open the box or rip it off whatever mounting brackets it's on. At some point you have to acknowledge you're making unauthorized access inconvenient rather than impossible.
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by bandrami 5mo ago
If you were on Usenet before '93 the words still haunt you
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by bandrami 5mo ago
We're already hitting some logistical limits. Even if transformers don't have an inherent capability plateau, we only have so many GPUs and so much power to improve them, and we're finding it very difficult to expand that inf
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by bandrami 5mo ago
Yes, multiple times IIRC (my "they" was more general than a specific agency) CISA, however, was the administration whose head was caught using an unauthorized commercially-hosted LLM for government data a few months ago: https:&#
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by bandrami 5mo ago
Shorting isn't the magic trick people seem to think it is, but yes I'm heavily hedged for OpenAI's IPO failing and taking Oracle down with it
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by bandrami 5mo ago
I take it you weren't alive in 2008 if you say that sarcastically
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by bandrami 5mo ago
Unfortunately the green bars are not just EBITDA, they're before discounts .
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by bandrami 5mo ago
If OpenAI and Anthropic adopted GAAP nobody would be able to invest in them it would be so bad
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by bandrami 5mo ago
Them and Broadcom
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by bandrami 5mo ago
Unfortunately "sensitive" has a specific meaning that they may be being legalistic with. PII, for example, is generally not "sensitive".
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by bandrami 5mo ago
I remember when they leaked a million SF-86s. You know, the form we fill out with a ton of highly personal information so they can decide if we can be trusted with sensitive data.
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by bandrami 5mo ago
Yes to both, though I'm willing to listen to a carveout for HELs on primary residences (particularly if they're for improvements)
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by bandrami 5mo ago
Yes, because it's income and we all know it's income and it should be taxed

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