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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
By choosing LLVM you're also taking a serious latency hit, and potentially burning a ton of CPU cycles on optimizations that will never apply. JSC, for instance, implemented LLVM for FTLJIT (which is where many of the JS bits jangling
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
This is a pretty embarrassing showing for Grok. I wouldn't trust xAI models as far as I can throw them, but I am interested in how much of this is deficiencies of the model and how much is their harness just terrible. Not that it makes
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
That would be confusing considering he forced a vote to release the Epstein files.
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
I've read that watermarking should in theory be impossible to detect except by the entity that watermarked it. Which is sensible, and I mostly understand at a high level. But what I don't know and don't understand is what hap
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
Same, doing worse than random chance seems like an interesting signal though, but I'm not sure what it's a signal of.
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
If you're going to essentially pause feature development for years to do it, as a customer I expect something besides some self-congratulatory blog posts.
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
The real issue for me is moving all the mail over. Since the organization is non standard, imap doesn't map cleanly and it all ends up being a huge mess. I'm not looking forward to getting collections and labels and whatever else
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
I have a really hard time getting excited by this. I'm a Hey customer, and it's one of my biggest regrets. DHH promises a lot, then gets sidetracked with killing DEI or spending years migrating off AWS (for all the supposed saving
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
Well it's not a benchmark, and it's not really representative of...anything except volume of research and what gets publicized. This mostly just measures how much testing each company does on models with relaxed guardrails and the
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
It's worth noting that this offloads the KYC/AML component to someone else down the road, but doesn't protect you from possible money laundering risk (e.g., you send USDC to a sanctioned individual who launders it into monero
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations That link shows 3.1 pro listed as deprecated with no replacement model.
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
Can you read something and tell when an author you like wrote it without seeing the attribution? I can. I think most of us could, because people use certain phrases or have a particular style. That doesn't make it bad. AI writing isn&#
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
3 and 3.1 Pro are both marked as deprecated by Google. Even if they're the best Google offers, it would be foolish to choose a model that's explicitly deprecated. It's not a technical problem, it's a commercial one. If G
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
3 Flash never left "preview" status and is listed as deprecated. https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
3 Pro is quickly approaching one year old. There's almost no reason to benchmark it, especially since a new version of Gemini Pro was supposed to be released mid 2026 and hasn't seen the light of day.
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
And soon, I'll be lazy and use an LLM to do the reading for me. Eventually the LLMs will train on the state of the world and decide to be lazy also, and the "writer's" LLM prompt will just be shared with the "reader
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
I would bet that the overwhelming majority of folks trying to use Signal without a phone number are on devices that aren't phones and where the user doesn't want to use their phone. For instance: - Folks running businesses without
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
Because it took off. All of a sudden they captured more customers than they could have imagined they would have, and throwing away the lead they unintentionally gave themselves (in terms of usage and mindshare) would have undone all of that
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
Aurora zero etl was a nightmare for us. Almost any schema changes require a VACUUM FULL for it to continue functioning. On a few occasions, it just stopped running without an obvious explanation, requiring slow and lengthy back and forth th
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
Clickhouse really nailed this with the acquisition of peerdb. I used it with many terabyte databases and I essentially never thought about it. The only thing we really had to watch for was trying to replicate too much at once (because of th
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
A search engine powered by ai? A search engine for ai? A search engine whose corpus covers data about ai?
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that not even a double digit percentage of taxi drivers' careers are ended due to violent attacks. Taxi driver doesn't even appear in the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics top 20 most dangerou
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
That's the thing, though. Tooltips aren't just text. Qt, GTK, and Windows all support some flavor of rich text tooltips, so it's not even an operating system constraint. The simplest solution for this in an accessible way loo
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
The title attribute isn't supportive of accessibility. It also doesn't work on touch screens. From https://www.a11y-collective.com/blog/aria-label-vs-title/ > The content of the title attribute is oft
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
The weights might fit in cache, if you're using a small model. If you wanted to have a 20B+ parameter model, that's just going in RAM. You could put more RAM in the device and pay the perf cost or have a dedicated chip. Most devic
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
Exactly. You can place a patch with some glue over a hole in fabric to achieve the same thing in a traditional garment. Iron-on repair patches are also similar. It's one thing to say "get it wet and leave it in the sun". It&#
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by bastawhiz 2mo ago
It doesn't seem to have the rigidity to be structurally sound for construction.
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by bastawhiz 3mo ago
While he didn't win a Nobel prize, I'm reminded of Dr Henry Heimlich (inventor of the Heimlich maneuver), who went on to become a proponent of malariotherapy: the deliberate infection of people suffering from HIV, Lyme disease, an
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by bastawhiz 3mo ago
Enron committed serious fraud, and not because what they did was made illegal after the fact. Unless I'm missing something, none of the big AI companies have committed serious fraud (or at least, not any that's been revealed).
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by bastawhiz 3mo ago
Then the article should have talked about those things and not pointed at nonsense.

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