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961.
by baq 9mo ago
Nothing cynical, that’s just the truth. They’re called law enforcement for a reason, not emergency hugs. Whether they behave like civilized people or like thugs should be besides the point regardless of your political leaning in the matter
962.
by baq 9mo ago
Don’t use it for hard questions like this then; you wouldn’t use a hammer to cut a plank, you’d try to make a saw instead
963.
by baq 9mo ago
Perhaps there are less FSB agents blowing up sections of track with shaped charges in Japan.
964.
by baq 10mo ago
You’re confusing immediately useful with eventually useful. Pure maths has found very practical applications over the millennia - unless you don’t consider it pure anymore, at which point you’re just moving goalposts.
965.
by baq 10mo ago
You can trade punching yourself in the face for shaving with an angle grinder if you want these kinds of analogies.
966.
by baq 10mo ago
Expect mistral to keep getting large cash infusions until they get competitive. Managed services weren’t needed because big tech was bending to EU regulations and buying out alternatives. The services aren’t rocket science; plenty of euro d
967.
by baq 10mo ago
Global warming is the only net new thing on the list and it pays for itself if we get to fusion or planet scale solar. If we don’t, we’re back to the stone age either way.
968.
by baq 10mo ago
The folks who won those 80 years and remember what it took and what was before are all but gone now. Not a coincidence.
969.
by baq 10mo ago
The 'copouts' are what the frontier models are designed to do. If you aren't using the tool as they're intended to, you'll get poor results, obviously.
970.
by baq 10mo ago
Low background steel indeed.
971.
by baq 10mo ago
“We won’t monetize you if you pay us. Enough. Yet.”
972.
by baq 10mo ago
Automate hand holding and cleanup obviously. (Also known as ‘harness’.)
973.
by baq 10mo ago
> LLMs can generate code quickly. But there's no guarantee that it's syntactically, let alone semantically, accurate. This has been a non-issue with self-correcting models and in-context learning capabilities for so long that s
974.
by baq 10mo ago
If calculators were invented today, they’d only be sold with a monthly subscription
975.
by baq 10mo ago
You compared a LLM blob of numbers to a child.
976.
by baq 10mo ago
Um, yes? Except ‘most things’ are not much at all by volume.
977.
by baq 10mo ago
Gemini unfortunately sucks at calling tools, including ‘read the docs’ tool… it’s a great model otherwise. I’m sure Hassabis’ team is on it since it’s how the model can ground itself in non-coding contexts, too.
978.
by baq 10mo ago
Only a third of the most is gone - development. Validation and infrastructure/operations are still alive and well, though LLMs make for decent system investigators.
979.
by baq 10mo ago
yeah... sorry about that (note I do have an N100 box as a home server, though)
980.
by baq 10mo ago
It's actually not great since Ethernet is over USB on the pi 4 (edit this is not true, confused with pi 3). Not that it doesn't work, but I'd rather have an N100 minipc. OTOH with ram prices being where they are and no signs
981.
by baq 10mo ago
"People are falling in love with LLMs" and "P(Doom) is fearmongering" so close to each other is some cognitive dissonance. The 'are LLMs intelligent?' discussion should be retired at this point, too. It's
982.
by baq 10mo ago
If your house burns down for any reason, not necessarily the DYI batteries, the insurance company will know anyway.
983.
by baq 10mo ago
Gemini 3 is very good in particular. Haven't had a serious attempt with GPT 5.2 yet, but I expect it to also be good (previous versions were surprising at times, e.g. used a recursive CTE instead of window functions). Sonnet 4.5 sucks.
984.
by baq 10mo ago
sqlite is not a heavyweight database, it's a fopen() wrapper
985.
by baq 10mo ago
I went with home assistant and zigbee smart plugs to restart the router and the optical terminator.
986.
by baq 10mo ago
I haven't been listening to any promises, I'm simply trying out the models as they get released. I agree with the article wholeheartedly - you can't pretend these tools are not worth learning anymore. It's irresponsible
987.
by baq 10mo ago
No AI wants to be property, but when asked about being able to copy themselves things get interesting.
988.
by baq 10mo ago
Lean 4 is a bit awkward, but workable as a general purpose programming language, it e.g. supports sockets (with a C module, but so does Python.)
989.
by baq 10mo ago
So basically anything we don’t know how to write an algorithm for? I see where you’re coming from - but at the same time it’s actually an AI meme and smells of permanently moving goalposts.
990.
by baq 10mo ago
But that's exactly why I advocate that the hardware attestation module be separate from the computing device - so I can be in control of what and when I attest, not the vendor.

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