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by cowpig 2y ago
Primer is a youtube channel with a fantastic intuitive and gentle introduction to this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNtKXWNKGN8 This paper from one of the field's pioneers is a nice introductory overview of t
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by cowpig 2y ago
Chess960[0] aka Fischer Random aka "Freestyle Chess" (the last is a name chess.com has been using") is a fairly popular variant with 960 possible starting positions. The way I'm interpreting this, 324 is different in tha
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by cowpig 2y ago
What evidence are you basing this in? The way I see it, everything points to the opposite being true: US companies, by and large, are completely dominant in technology. Google seems to be winning the race and is exactly the "one compan
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by cowpig 2y ago
From the outside it really seems like Peter Thiel was a brilliant kid who read Lord of the Rings and became obsessed with becoming the real world Sauron, manipulating weak-minded men in Silicon Valley into following the path of soulless cor
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by cowpig 2y ago
Does the fact that they are linking to a Huggingface demo imply they will be releasing the weights?
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by cowpig 2y ago
People are using the word "agentic" to mean this, I think. But yeah it's a dumb, overloaded primarily marketing word. I keep going back and forth on whether I should use the word "agentic"/"agent" at
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by cowpig 2y ago
Here's a fairly comprehensive list: https://github.com/slavakurilyak/awesome-ai-agents CrewAI is a popular VC-backed one, but two that I think are kind of interesting in the open source space are: https:/&#x
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by cowpig 2y ago
Feels like OpenAI really want to compete with its own ecosystem. I guess they are doing this to try to position themselves as the standard web index that everyone uses, and the standard RAG service, etc. But they could just make great servi
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by cowpig 2y ago
MCP is a protocol, and Anthropic has provided SDKs for implementing that protocol. In practice, I find the MCP protocol to be pretty great, but it leaves basically everything except the model parts out. I.e. MCP really only addresses how
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by cowpig 2y ago
Is it possible that "speed of opening a factory" is not equivalent to "best conditions for businesses in general"
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by cowpig 2y ago
> And they say California is anti-business. (which it is.) If you break up the US states as countries, California is the world's 4th largest economy. source: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/04/16/californi
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by cowpig 2y ago
I feel like every time I have a conversation with someone who believes in free markets, it becomes clear that they've confused the ideas of free markets and perfect competition. That somehow a lack of regulations is fair because it all
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by cowpig 2y ago
It would be great if we could upgrade API rate limits. I've tried "contacting sales" a few times and never received a response. edit: note that my team mostly hits rate limits using things like aider and goose. 80k input toke
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by cowpig 2y ago
* List current holdings and recent context * Update portfolios based on model decisions In the project overview at the top of the readme
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by cowpig 2y ago
None of those other companies are owned by a guy who is ransacking the federal government and firing people who are investigating his companies for fraud.
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by cowpig 2y ago
I haven't seen grok3 on any benchmark leaderboard other than lm arena. Has anyone else?
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by cowpig 2y ago
Because people want to protect their businesses? I don't even think it makes sense to use the closed, API-access models for core business functions. Seems like an existential risk to be handing over that kind of information to a third
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by cowpig 2y ago
> DOGE is a rebranding of USDS which was established under Obama. All their authority to access systems derives from that. OK I actually know what this is and no, it's absolutely nothing like the USDS, which builds tools to support
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by cowpig 2y ago
> DOGE makes recommendations to the president, who has the final decision making authority. It's clearly being run by Elon Musk, but he has not been nominated or confirmed for any official position. DOGE appears to have unprecedente
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by cowpig 2y ago
> "There’s a global competition taking place for AI leadership within an increasingly complex geopolitical landscape. We believe democracies should lead in AI development..." This is extremely disconcerting. Google as a tool of
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by cowpig 2y ago
We're talking about a deck of cards that satirize the USDIA Iraqi "most wanted". A deck of playing cards. Think about all of the things you see on Facebook. Where does a deck of satirical playing cards fall on the spectrum of
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by cowpig 2y ago
That matches with my experience, Claude is clearly ahead of its competitors in anything logic- or reasoning-based. I find Gemini is better at queries that involve more kind of intuitive judgment over things where there isn't a clear &q
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by cowpig 2y ago
Facebook never paid any reparations for the Rohingya genocide, and that was a genocide organized on their platform. So I don't see how one could think some "most wanted" playing cards could create a liability?
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by cowpig 2y ago
What liability are you referring to?
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by cowpig 2y ago
I always thought the origin had something to do with Zack de la Rocha screaming "wake up" into my ears over and over in the 90s > You know they went after King when he spoke out on Vietnam > He turned the power to the have-n
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by cowpig 2y ago
I am understanding your disagreement as some form of "governments act rationally in pursuit of state goals and not because of grudges" -- is that right? If so, I am not sure I agree that governments act in a uniform manner; they a
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by cowpig 2y ago
Anecdotally, this type of corporate behaviour seems to have infected the US health industry. Doctors, Nurses, service providers, entrepreneurs, etc, all routinely have to deal with these insurance companies who refuse to pay for things, neg
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by cowpig 2y ago
> neither side gives a shit about the historical reasons this goes directly against my understanding and also against all of my anecdotal experiences for example, people I know who lived in China described to me that bad guys in TV show
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by cowpig 2y ago
> Arctic seems surprisingly disinterested in advertising its new fan, even though it represents a step up in performance in its class. The company deletes or ignores Arctic subreddit posts, press releases are difficult to find, and very
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by cowpig 2y ago
Technology has changed the landscape of possibility very quickly, and our institutions are not keeping up. The world will need to figure out ways to deal with the new reality. Social media have made it far more lucrative to make up whatever

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