ben_w

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by ben_w 8mo ago
> The Pythagoras theorem doesn’t change even if you use an LLM. Indeed. But it does change if you want an answer on a non-Euclidian surface, e.g. big scale things on the surface of Earth where questions like "what's a square?&q
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by ben_w 8mo ago
You're sound. The problem is when you've got a new grad with no fundamentals and 10 year old buzzwords. I've had the unfortunate problem of having worked with someone who was that, except not even a new grad, they'd be
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by ben_w 8mo ago
> It will be when it actually exists. The first electrical motors and lightbulbs absolutely sucked , but the former was still a radical transformation from factories based on a huge steam engine prime mover distributing motive power via
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by ben_w 8mo ago
His reputation did not start out in the current state; if it had, I suspect he would never have been able to hold the importance/monetary power that he currently holds. Changing one's mind about him can take a while. With the bene
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by ben_w 8mo ago
"an election" (what you wrote first time) != "the next election" (what you write now). Next-but-one, perhaps. Although even for the next one, everyone's so weak I'd only put mild odds against them. I don't
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by ben_w 8mo ago
> it’s quite misleading (to readers who don’t follow UK politics) to suggest that there’s any hope of it winning an election. I wish. Brexit was pretty unthinkable even just a few years before the referendum. And now… well, toss-up betwe
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by ben_w 8mo ago
Very important /s there; just yesterday was chatting about how some people take that seriously, even here.
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by ben_w 8mo ago
> Tesla is now worth more than the next nine largest carmakers in the world put together. Six American cities are now served by robotaxis made by Waymo. Understanding why Europe doesn’t have Google is important. Understanding why it does
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by ben_w 8mo ago
There are many forms of power in the world. If you think of geopolitics purely in terms of money, you miss all the others, and then it still costs you money. Which is not to say money doesn't do anything, it does, it's just that o
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by ben_w 8mo ago
Unfortunately, I quite seriously believe that this is what a number of those humanoid robots will end up being used for. It's just gonna be a question of which is easier: hacking the robots directly, or indirectly*, or getting a job as
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by ben_w 8mo ago
> Feel like the canary was when Grokpedia became a project. Giant waste of time while Anthropic/OAI keep surging forward. Really? I assumed that that whole thing was just a very direct `for each article in Wikipedia { article = LLM(
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by ben_w 8mo ago
Mm. Reminds me of something I saw a while back, can't remember enough to search for it though. During the Cold War, there was an easy "US good, USSR bad" pattern for the world to be inspired by, but with the fall of the Sovie
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by ben_w 8mo ago
Not op, but still: I expect Trump to lie because he's a pathological liar, who lies about stuff even when there's no apparent benefit to him to have done so.
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by ben_w 8mo ago
I have heard that the anti-nuclear propaganda is funded by other nuclear states, because of the aforementioned value of reactors (and their scientists and engineers) to weapons programs. I have no idea if that's true, but it sounds ver
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by ben_w 8mo ago
> Nuclear plans have objectively made power generation save and clean. When they were built in the 1960-1990s the were objectively the best and cleanest energy that saved a gigantic amount of lives. Yes indeed. But that wasn't why t
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by ben_w 8mo ago
> That's the thing though, there is interest in "metaverse" style programs. VRChat, the biggest one, got 80k concurrent users last month (all time peak) according to SteamDB. Seems low, but hardware is a limiting factor fo
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by ben_w 8mo ago
> What is the value of the EU if's it not coordinating multi-national scale efforts? Remember the EU is just a fancy self-updating free trade agreement, not a nation. The coordination that the member states have thus far allowed the
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by ben_w 8mo ago
> The PV manufacturers themselves say its 4. You've not cited anything for this so far as I can see, but this claim is obviously false. Reason being, the entire system in my driveway will have paid for itself in one year, including
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by ben_w 8mo ago
> Models today are static, and human brains don't learn or adapt themselves with anything close to backpropagation. While I suspect latter is a real problem (because all mammal brains* are much more example-efficient than all ML), t
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by ben_w 8mo ago
Chernobyl's political nonsense was mostly down to the USSR wanting to deny that anything had, or possibly could, go wrong; if anything, the exclusion zone is the opposite of the western nonsense about nuclear power. It's our uniqu
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by ben_w 8mo ago
Goal-shifting aside, and be that as it may for offshoring, but Neoliberalism was Thatcher, and she was popular in part because the trade unions were seen as too powerful, which in part was because of the then-recent history of the coal mine
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by ben_w 8mo ago
• Rogue-like FPS running in the browser • Dice roller app • Decompiling a trail cam app so that we don't need to use the stupid UI in the stupid app • Woodworking. Not code, actual wood. Taking some pine logs I got from the neighbour&#
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by ben_w 8mo ago
> I would rather wait for official stats before claiming victory. You sure about that? With your recent comment history, you've been claiming victory for your rhetorical position without waiting for "official" stats (what
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by ben_w 8mo ago
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by ben_w 8mo ago
> If only they could harness the power of rain, Ireland would truly be an energy superpower. I know this is in jest, but that's basically "dam up some valley rivers and put a hydroelectric generator on the end", and unfort
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by ben_w 8mo ago
Apart from calling itself "Mecha Hitler" and that time it made every conversation be about "white genocide" in South Africa? There's also Grokipedia, supposedly make by Grok, where I'd point to section 3.6 (&qu
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by ben_w 8mo ago
Even with permission, I recently looked into getting a place built, and found a company offering to build them for "€100,000*", where the asterisk was: this does not include the land itself, land survey to find existing undergroun
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by ben_w 8mo ago
I keep up to date via Two Minute Papers, but I also take note of teams like Corridor Crew: Hollywood are not yet turbo-anything. They may become so, I don't know how resolution and temporal coherency scale, but right now Hollywood&#x
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I think there's two things contributing to YouTube slop, the earlier generations of free model being one, the other is more fundamental: most people using these tools for slop only care about advertising money, they neither know nor ca
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by ben_w 8mo ago
Does it matter what they thought? Anthropic held to a set of T&Cs in a way that had the Pentagon making threats to render Anthropic a supply chain risk, Anthropic either didn't care or thought it was a bluff, it wasn't a bluff

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