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by cwmma 1y ago
Reading this, it seems like the naturalization process which he changed his name during, doesn't really signal that there was a change of names. Like normally if you changed your name (in America) you'd have a wedding certificate
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by cwmma 1y ago
Under Eng it has apparently turned around in the last year or so.
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by cwmma 1y ago
A better thing to say, is that there are no long term labor shortages, in the short term you can have booms where there aren't enough people to fill the jobs but in your example the shortage would last at most 5 years but you'd al
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by cwmma 1y ago
The architecture of the current models where learning is a separate and very expensive process make runaway self improvement seem like something that will require a bunch of breakthroughs in order to happen.
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by cwmma 1y ago
< This is kind of absurd, I have been on busses all over the country, a metro bus, is a metro bus. There are not really differences based on topography or climate. Off the top of my head, road salt, used in the northern areas of America
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by cwmma 1y ago
There are multiple zip codes in my state (Massachusetts) that cover multiple towns some examples include 01002 which is Pelham and much of Amherst, 01027 which is both Easthampton and Westhampton (different towns) etc.
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by cwmma 1y ago
yes but due to reasoning models the same query uses VASTLY more tokens today then a couple years ago
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by cwmma 1y ago
He isn't saying they won't ever come down, he's saying they will not be coming down any time soon due to structural factors he discusses in the article.
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by cwmma 1y ago
That's not a choice by the Guardian, that's the regular normal way of saying fireable in British English
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by cwmma 1y ago
There is actually a really good paper [1] that tracks the origin of the QWERTY keyboard and the specific incremental changes that bring it from mostly alphabetical to QWERTY. 1. https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/server&
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by cwmma 1y ago
I wonder if this is why they tend to have plastic food displays at restaurant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_model
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by cwmma 1y ago
Tangentially related, but there is great paper tracking how the layout of the qwerty keyboard came to be, tracing the slow evolution of it from a two row keyboard with a-m on the top row and z-n on the bottom to what we have today. https:&
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by cwmma 1y ago
A much better date for the fall of Rome the city would probably be 395 when it stopped being the capital and pretty much stopped having any importance. At this point the empire had outgrown the city to such an extent it managed to last a mi
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by cwmma 1y ago
I believe you are thinking of "Supersingular isogeny Diffie–Hellman key exchange" or SIKE which is a post quantum encryption algorithm that was spectacularly broken a couple years ago. The math involves elliptical curves but it&#
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by cwmma 1y ago
For people interested in these kinds of things, there is a very interesting military manual on the internet archives which goes though all the various pre computer pen and paper ciphers and how to crack them. 1. https://archive.o
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by cwmma 1y ago
Probably, currently it's just 15 people that have it, but if you started giving it to more people there would be incredible advantages to any virus that could adapt and viruses mutate fast.
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by cwmma 1y ago
how does it exclude fire, something well known for making more of itself (which seems to be the main criteria in Autopoiesis)
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by cwmma 1y ago
ok so we knew about bacteria, tiny cells that don't have a nucleus, responsible for lots of disease. Bacteria do not look like the bigger cells that have a nucleus, they noticeable differences in how they work. Those big cells do hav
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by cwmma 1y ago
You're over thinking this, their plan is to not be caught.
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by cwmma 1y ago
This is a real problem but I think the author has it backwards. As LLM subscriptions become more expensive simply hiring folks from low income countries becomes a more cost effective solution.
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by cwmma 1y ago
Yeah this article treats it like an either/or situation where monopoly's somehow make it so regulations aren't the issue instead of what most of the monopoly takes say which is that monopoly builders make the situation worse
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by cwmma 1y ago
probably safety issues are a factor, it would be hard to get every one off if something happened at a station. But also it probably wouldn't get you much benefit over having two trains. The main advantage would be the back half would
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by cwmma 1y ago
A while back I saw a comment here that was basically like, we don't need to worry about copyrights because they won't matter once LLMs are able to create an OS from scratch for the cost of tokens. Which is just a batshit insane no
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by cwmma 1y ago
It is not clear at all if Claude will actually be profitable, are there enough people who will actually pay the subsidized costs especially if they end up being a significant fraction of an additional dev's salary.
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by cwmma 1y ago
Nvidia had $35.6 billion in data center revenue vs $2.5 billion "Gaming and AI PC" revenue in the 4th quarter of 2024 so data center stuff stuff is like 93% of it
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by cwmma 1y ago
Depending on where you live your state may actually have one of these, in mine it's in the office of the state Attorney General.
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by cwmma 1y ago
all modern encryption is currently held together by asymmetric encryption that are all based on "believed to be" foundations not "known to be" foundations
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by cwmma 1y ago
There is a very clear pessimist case for the current crop of Large Language Models where: 1. training costs are going to continue to escalate much faster then the models improve. 2. the current paradigm of trained ahead of time token comple
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by cwmma 1y ago
It feels like all the crypto hype but to an even more extreme degree. At least with all the blockchain bullshit you could be confident that all of the breathless announcements about decentralized ledgers for whatever where going to be quie
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by cwmma 1y ago
it looks like a lot of these are from key loggers not from database breaches, so salted hashes, while nice, solve a different problem.

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