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by baq 5mo ago
Always has been, IT has been resisting due to (as pointed out in the article) institutional knowledge required, but this is now going away as LLMs can efficiently and accurately write it down and search it. Meta turning ICs into data labele
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by baq 5mo ago
Force multipliers need force to multiply, but also remember force is a vector, so watch out for multiplying in the wrong direction
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by baq 5mo ago
Agents are already getting budgets, what ‘customer obsession’ looks like when you’re marketing and selling to clankers?
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by baq 5mo ago
I’m wailing in sadness here knowing that I can’t ever be you, early forties and reading Pratchett for the first time in my life. Alas. Otherwise no regrets reading him 25 years ago, none at all.
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by baq 5mo ago
How would you know it was out wasn’t vibe coded?
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by baq 5mo ago
wanting to get rich quick is completely rational if you ask me ;)
457.
by baq 5mo ago
at some point you have to accept that the market is actually rational
458.
by baq 5mo ago
turns out plagiarism at scale can solve Erdos problems
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by baq 5mo ago
They’re also capable of performing arbitrary computation when ran in a loop - so they can be made to quite literally interpolate whatever. Philosophers are quite upset, too.
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by baq 5mo ago
Opus and GPT are so different there’s room for both and I wouldn’t be ignoring Gemini even if it isn’t ahem great at coding, since it’s quite obviously very good otherwise. In the times before you also would rather have very smart people
461.
by baq 5mo ago
GitHub confirmed skynet
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by baq 5mo ago
Conjecture: the first AI to successfully manage a McDonald’s will be a Gemini.
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by baq 5mo ago
The optimists believe brains are very special and we’re far from replicating what they do in silicon. The pessimists just see a 20W meat computer.
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by baq 5mo ago
LLMs ingest and output tokens, but they don’t compute with them. They have internal representations of concepts, so they have some capability to work with things which they didn’t see but can map onto what they know. The surprise and the wh
465.
by baq 5mo ago
The test goes like ‘is our universe, or any other universe, required for the axioms to exist’ and I don’t see how ‘yes’ is a defensible answer.
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by baq 5mo ago
And yet nowadays you can restate all of it using just combinations of sets of sets and some logic operators.
467.
by baq 5mo ago
Mathematics can be mostly boiled down to a few sentences with very lengthy possible combinations, so yeah that is not a problem
468.
by baq 5mo ago
A Sienna does everything any SUV does the same or better, as confirmed in the video itself, change my mind?
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by baq 5mo ago
Technically not needing a car or a computer can mean you’re very very rich indeed.
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by baq 5mo ago
banks really like hardware attestation and putting that in laptops and PCs causes serious pushback from people like us here. not an option to not have hardware attestation on mobile - it's been there since day 1, there's nothing t
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by baq 5mo ago
wonder at which level there's a capability state transition? 5%? 1%?
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by baq 5mo ago
paypal goes to great lengths to not be regulated as a bank, right?
473.
by baq 5mo ago
there's the polish BLIK which is basically the same idea and there are probably a dozen more in other countries; need consolidation in this space tbh
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by baq 5mo ago
Flash was a security and battery disaster just like Java applets. Both are dead as browser plugins and good riddance.
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by baq 5mo ago
Demis is on record saying they need small models on edge devices and if it’s on the edge the weights may as well be public officially.
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by baq 5mo ago
For free == with a huge upfront cost of getting a good enough box and running costs of maintaining it and just keeping it powered. By the time it pays off the frontier labs are three generations ahead at least. Compare with on-demand billin
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by baq 5mo ago
GitHub is like democracy - the least worst forge
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by baq 5mo ago
If you want to move fast, you need access. Unfortunately and obviously this allows threat actors to move fast, too. The tradeoff had a different risk profile a year ago, heck a couple weeks ago.
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by baq 5mo ago
The method in the madness is to generate so much on demand slop no one will accidentally find your hate and FUD content anyway.
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by baq 5mo ago
We could be solving fusion power and instead we’re generating videos of birds in space or something. The market is a harsh mistress sometimes.

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