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by barrell 8mo ago
> It’s very plausible (and increasingly likely) that OpenAI/Anthropic are profitable on a per-token marginal basis Can you provide some numbers/sources please? Any reporting I’ve seen shows that frontier labs are spending ~2x o
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by barrell 8mo ago
Very happy with all the mistral work. I feel like I'm always one release behind theirs. Last time they released Mistral 3 I commented saying how excited I was to try it out [1] Well, I'm happy to report I integrated the new Mistra
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by barrell 8mo ago
I’m building a language learning app [ https://phrasing.app ] and this is really good advice. I’ve not had any interest in SST for the application, and have no plans to integrate it. In my experience, I’ve never seen them be truly
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by barrell 8mo ago
I recently started learning a tonal language, and so far have not struggled too much wrt tones when everything is slow. There was an original strangeness and refusal for my vocal cords to want to work that way, but probably only for the fir
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by barrell 8mo ago
I mean it’s closer, but I don’t think it’s right to equate commissioning an artist with paying a multi-billion dollar corporation to steal from artists. These tools are just lazy shortcuts. And that’s fine, there’s no problem with taking th
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by barrell 8mo ago
Agreed. I don’t care for engineering or coding, and would gladly give it up the moment I can. I’m also running a one man business where every hour counts (and where I’m responsible for maintaining every feature). The fact of the matter is L
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by barrell 9mo ago
I just rewrote all the graphs on phrasing [1] to webgl. Mostly because I wanted custom graphs that didn’t look like graphs, but also because I wanted to be able to animate several tens of thousands of metrics at a time. After the initial se
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by barrell 9mo ago
I’m personally a high fan of light mode, and rarely use dark mode. That being said, the comparison with paper isn’t very apt. LCDs produce their own light, and OLEDS exacerbate the difference by only emitting light for the background, and n
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by barrell 9mo ago
I’m not convinced the pen pot needs any more learning than anything else. Even the ones with the paper - is it a word processor, emailing tool, something about newsletters? Maybe a PDF or markup tool? Or a layout tool for print media? Or ju
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by barrell 9mo ago
Thanks!! Omg I just realized you commented on my last post and I spelled your name wrong in my post. I’m so embarrassed, and that comment makes so much sense now XD I didn’t realize that was you
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by barrell 9mo ago
Yeah I really spare no expense on the expressions. Makes them expensive, but also very effective
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by barrell 9mo ago
Thank! Regarding the translation, Phrasing is Bring Your Own Content. In my initial launch, I used an official translation for the demo, but apparently chose poorly haha For languages without the Roman script - you can enter in qwerty (or c
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by barrell 9mo ago
All great feedback! Thanks. Two questions if I may: 1. Where did the complexity start on the page for you? From the top it did it lose you somewhere? 2. Did you watch the video, and was that included in the complexity comment? Can’t say I’m
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Show HN: I spent 10k hours building the perfect language learning app(phrasing.app)
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by barrell 9mo ago
There’s part of this that I agree to - I tend to disagree with most anti-capitalist (or anti-profit) sentiment. However, I disagree that builders “owe” anyone anything, and I strongly disagree with goal of as much profit “as possible”. I mi
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by barrell 9mo ago
I do this a lot as well. I have a bad habit of just freezing physically when I start to think. Since my work is conducted over video, my colleagues will often think I dropped off the call XD Personally I find it a bad habit of mine, I have
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by barrell 10mo ago
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by barrell 10mo ago
Everyone keeps making religious connections, but it’s worth pointing out linguistically most countries in Europe (and the world) refer to red meat, poultry, and seafood as entirely separate. Meat often just refers to red meat. English is in
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by barrell 10mo ago
I think LLMs are just another commodity. I think AI would be something different. Emphasis on the conditional tense.
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by barrell 10mo ago
I like the comparison with fossil fuels, that feels very accurate. I hope we do not develop the same dependency.
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by barrell 10mo ago
“Nothing holds any value” and “nothing costs any money” are two entirely different ideas. The former is nihilism. The latter is communism. Neither paint a pretty picture in my book
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by barrell 10mo ago
My understanding of 4.5 was that it was released long, long after the initial training run finished. It also had an older cutoff date than the newer 4o models
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by barrell 10mo ago
Not everyone is a nihilist
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by barrell 10mo ago
Yes
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by barrell 10mo ago
Yes but what happens to society when art, labor, "intelligence" and productivity all become abundant? These are not comparable to salt. You are comparing an apple to every orange tree that has ever existed.
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by barrell 10mo ago
I do not think value and scarcity are identical, merely that they go hand in hand. In the desert, I would pay a lot of money for water. In the west, I would never pay for a glass of water, even if it's blistering hot and I'm parch
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by barrell 10mo ago
Price is just a proxy for value. Diamonds do not have inherent utility (to the layman) but they are expensive because we societally ascribe value to them.
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by barrell 10mo ago
But that is exactly the promise that the heads of the AI labs are making. Sam Altman is repeatedly saying he wants to be able to ask it "go discover a new branch of physics". Perhaps it's not how you use LLMs, but it is the p
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by barrell 10mo ago
An idea that has been living rent free in my head is that "AI is ultimately nothing but a pure destruction of value". It's promise is unlimited value to everyone on demand; but if everyone can do everything without any effort
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by barrell 10mo ago
If I cannot tolerate a failure rate, I do not use LLMs (or and ML models). But in that case the larger the better. If mistral medium can run on your M2 Ultra then it should be up to the task. Should eek out ministral and be just shy of the

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