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by btown 1y ago
More detail on accomplishments in press release: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2025/pre... Press conference: https://www.youtube.com/live/EajZObplJ8U https:/&
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by btown 1y ago
Some intrepid souls are trying to tackle the global illumination problem! https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02619
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It seems this is focused on on-device computation - as distinct from, say, Cloudflare's definition of the "edge" as a smart CDN with an ability to run arbitrary code and AI models in geographically distributed data centers (
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The problem isn’t the system as implemented; the problem is the very assertion “it is possible to preserve the privacy your constituents want, while running code at scale that can detect Bad Things in every message.” Once that idea appears,
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by btown 1y ago
Not exactly what you’re looking for, but https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson absolutely uses micro-parallel techniques for parsing, and those do need to think about concurrency and how processors handle shared memory
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by btown 1y ago
This. No matter how cool the engineering might have been, from the perspective of what surveillance policies it would have (and very possibly did) inspire/set precedent for… Apple was very much creating the Torment Nexus from “Don’t Cr
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I assume you’re referring to crypto mining, but the mental image of handlebar-mustachioed ore miners gossiping in Vancouver barber shops about how to scam investors with their shaft-digging operations is quite hilarious to think about! Pick
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by btown 1y ago
While I'm sympathetic to the sentiment here, it can be overly simplistic in some common cases. For instance, a newcomer might benefit disproportionately from the first X units of ad spending to "get their name out," relative
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by btown 1y ago
How https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engi... shakes out will be a critical part of this. The loopholes in this "commitment," e.g. allowing Apple to determine unilaterally whether, say,
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by btown 1y ago
My suspicion is that the training set features a lot of code with “positive sentiment” in text and comments around it… but where does one find code with “negative” sentiment, followed by code that is the “corrected” version of that code? In
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by btown 1y ago
Source Available would be a better descriptor, and with its prevalence in game dev I’m surprised it’s not more commonly used in the broader tech community.
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Between a surveillance state where every communication is siphoned up, fed to LLMs, and used to target random people not already under suspicion... and a world where at the very least there needs to be some documented/auditable/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste... says otherwise; while Android variants have allowed other manufacturers to gain footholds, and some even are "de-Google-fied" in terms of se
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by btown 1y ago
Two things could simultaneously be true: (a) trillions of dollars in value will be created/replaced/subsumed by AI solutions, and (b) even with near-universal adoption among knowledge workers, the value captured by the vendors o
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by btown 1y ago
Best of luck! Feel free to ping me, email in bio if you ever want to chat.
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Negative integers seem like a nightmare if somewhere downstream someone has a route like /widgets/(\d+), or if someone is scanning text outputs for IDs with a similar regex. The BigInt expansion seems far less risky IMO.
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> terrible at accessing cells in a spreadsheet from which it's called Are there any companies solving LLM-based interactions with arbitrary messy spreadsheets? Not the nice demo ones with a single consistent table and maybe some cha
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To add a (positive) point of comparison: The concept of multiple named "feeds" with various degrees of "algorithm-ness" to them, including ones largely controlled by the user's explicit signals, is something that Tu
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by btown 1y ago
> The report says the system allows any authorized user to access all applications and data regardless of their clearance level or operational need. As a result, “Any user can potentially access and misuse sensitive” classified informati
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by btown 1y ago
If you're operating e-sports teams and want to build/market a new video livestreaming platform for fans, outside of the walled gardens of YouTube and Twitch and in a cost-efficient manner... bringing on an outspoken and talented e
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by btown 1y ago
I think that what this game tries to convey is that these challenges, while perhaps universally present, have a distinct and punishing effect for a subset of people. I think that it takes an interesting approach at communicating that even s
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How do you compare to Onyx? We've used it for some limited use cases, but one of the real challenges - and one I hope to see a lot of innovation on in the space - was permissioning. I see in another comment that you encourage each user
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by btown 1y ago
All communications are speech in one way, but whether this should be considered equivalent (from a regulatory perspective) to an individual's speech was not apparent to 4 out of 9 Supreme Court justices in the US in 2010 during Citiz
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In general, this point is absolutely correct, and regulatory capture as a mechanism to stifle smaller competitors is shockingly common. But in the case of requiring brokers of political advertising to maintain transparency about the reach
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
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I’d almost switch the order here! In a world with agentic coding agents that can constantly check for type errors from the language server powering the errors/warnings in your IDE, and reconcile them against prose in docstrings… type
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I've often thought that if you want to represent a probabilistic world model, with nodes that represent physical objects in space-time (and planned-future space-time) and our level of certainty about their relationships to one another.
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isinstance only tells you which subclass, not whether that subclass overrides the superclass implementation!
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I think that there's a mindset among younger coders that "if it's not a modern post-AWS cloud provider, servers will take ages to come online and aren't going to give me full access, that's why EC2 exists." And
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There's also the good old use case of "am I dealing with a subclass that overrode the superclass's implementation of the method." How do you distinguish between a superclass that always returns null/noop, vs. a subc

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