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by cheesecakegood 2mo ago
The talk around KL divergence is oversold. People talk about it as if it’s not a benchmark, but at its core it is in the same neighborhood! You get a different KL divergence number on different “calibration datasets”, so in other words it’s
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by cheesecakegood 2mo ago
I wonder if this is enough to push people back onto Luna with their comparative price drop
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by cheesecakegood 2mo ago
Also 6-9pm Pacific I think is (coincidentally) peak so it hits the ‘after work hobbyists’ still, which is I suspect is their current main audience.
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by cheesecakegood 2mo ago
I guess it’s not unexpected per se, but the peak hours are solidly Chinese daytime work hours with an extended lunch break, and hitting a bit of Europe’s morning. But no American peak hours, unless you count after-work hobby coding (6-9 pm
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by cheesecakegood 2mo ago
When I visited the Netherlands, they have a fast food chain you would love called FEBO that basically takes this to the extreme: they have a giant vending machine-like wall with small glass food warmers cabinets displaying burgers, fries, e
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by cheesecakegood 2mo ago
Ah yes, just as there’s famously no such thing as Russian hackers (for example) given effectively total impunity to scam, defraud, blackmail, etc any company, so long as it’s not located in Russia. No direct harm! Oh wait… The thing about y
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by cheesecakegood 2mo ago
Now personally, I don’t believe boycotts work, but I’m not going to be using it in either case. Also I don’t think xAI (or Musk for that matter) actually is ready to handle that degree of scrutiny that thus far they haven’t been exposed to.
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by cheesecakegood 2mo ago
Now, admittedly, I’m not a major voice mode user for any of the apps really but it’s been interesting to see people realize in real time how controlling the length of response is an inherently difficult problem in voice conversations. There
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by cheesecakegood 2mo ago
It’s pretty telling that almost all of the bullet points in the system prompt that was posted for Grok have to do with preventing criminality and CSAM generation. No other provider has this same issue at that scale. The first-order-thinki
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by cheesecakegood 2mo ago
It’s sorta my own fault, yes - I do indeed have Windows 10 on dark mode mostly because I like the dark toolbar and to a lesser extent UI, but notably that’s just because the OS almost never requires extensive reading. Wish Windows let me mi
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by cheesecakegood 2mo ago
The Crandall Printing Museum! Yeah he used to do live demonstrations and everything, to the degree where he would cast a type piece right there in front of you from the liquid metal! Super cool guy, crazy knowledge about even tiny details.
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by cheesecakegood 2mo ago
It’s not 100% bad though, what people often don’t realize is that lighter weight packaging for example has a fairly decent impact on emissions!
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by cheesecakegood 2mo ago
Another dry sarcasm victim. If you check the link, it’s clear they were talking about a supposed contemporary concern about health effects from trains, the implication being that today people are also irrationally afraid of tech. Problem is
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by cheesecakegood 2mo ago
I was able to do something probably few have, which is visit one of those small hole in the wall museums staffed essentially by just a single passionate old guy assembled with his life savings, dedicated to the printing press. Incredible ex
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by cheesecakegood 2mo ago
I'm a certified dark mode hater, so in that light, that's a no-go for me: there seems to be no way to change the theme.
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by cheesecakegood 2mo ago
You mean like Commit Mono does? https://commitmono.com/
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by cheesecakegood 2mo ago
I wonder if OpenAI knew and deliberately price dropped to front-run the news cycle in their favor.
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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
Except quite oddly, virtually no one has collected precise keystroke information or if they have it certainly is not public. I genuinely wonder if such a dataset exists
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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
Given that their chart cost axes are almost always log-scale, I’ve noticed starting with Fable that the Low and Medium effort settings might actually be worth setting as your default.
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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
I find myself in major disagreement here. The nice thing about humans is we always have context and ongoing internal conversations including about ethics. If you recruit a bunch of hackers to take down a country, not only is the pay an orde
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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
You might enjoy “Motel of the Mysteries” then, a large format illustrated paperback that I grew up with, which showed some hilarious conclusions about 1980s ‘culture’ by some future-millennia archaeologists. They conclude for instance that
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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
Interestingly, there was an artist a few years back who (for an unrelated project) had almost 400 people across a range of ages draw a bicycle and 75% of those faced left! So this seems to actually go slightly against the human drawing intu
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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
Similar here. I saw an email wanting the 20 bucks to continue and I outright laughed. There’s no planet on which that plan offers equivalent value to the OpenAI or Anthropic equivalents. They might have success if they tried maybe a 12-15 d
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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
I wouldn’t say “literally” every industry: stuff like clothing, shipbuilding, consumer electronics assembly, certain rare earth raw materials, all we have pretty little participation in. But these are as you point out the exceptions that pr
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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
I knew reddit was in its terminal phase when I started seeing FarmVille-style ads for some stupid reddit homegrown minigame in the top right of new reddit
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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
Or this one as an example of a YouTube programming creator who uses a teleprompter i think quite cleverly as a way to have his eyes centered on the camera/webcam https://youtu.be/IG-H5poJMvY
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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
Conversely, I read a lot of fantasy webnovels, and “discrete” shows up all the time when they mean “discreet” (which is 90% of the time what a normal author wants). It is legitimately my pet peeve.
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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
DENSE_RANK() vs RANK() claims another victim
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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
You can to some extent model a flexible number of conversations in a room in terms of a kind of graph theory: duration, number of participants, correlations or overlap between participants, and so on. The assertion here is that those partic
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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
To be fair, if you pay the repairman, your elevator also goes up :)

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