datsci_est_2015

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by datsci_est_2015 5d ago
Poor fella doesn’t have a seat. Intriguing design where both pedals are on the same side of the frame. Balancing must be a challenge.
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by datsci_est_2015 5d ago
Network administrators also solved these things, e.g. you can limit what websites a virtual machine is allowed to access. Now, if you’re letting your agents abuse network traffic there becomes a point where you’re criminally liable. Unfortu
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by datsci_est_2015 5d ago
I can’t recreate a shuffling of cards. Combinatorics is basically the study of mathematically generating and quantifying complexity.
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by datsci_est_2015 5d ago
To be fair, after visiting some trade shows recently, a lot of these “parasitic” LLM startups are not very convincing from a business-use case perspective. (They’re not really parasitic, more like a remora attaching itself to a shark, the s
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by datsci_est_2015 5d ago
Why trust any user with access to any terminal? UNIX solved this decades ago. It’s just we’re all learning to be sysadmins for the most creatively destructive and persistent set of users of all time.
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by datsci_est_2015 6d ago
Wow, that quote goes hard. I’m reminded that almost no one beyond a select few knew high up in the military and around the emperor knew how badly the Japanese were defeated at Midway. Paternalistic. Arrogant. Shameful. And deeply engrained
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by datsci_est_2015 8d ago
Maybe the implication is that Warren thinks it’s significantly easier to run a wealth fund than get gold in the Olympics. I would probably agree.
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by datsci_est_2015 8d ago
Well the current leaders of the US Government have demonstrated that they believe that people of certain races, sexual orientations, and genders are less than human - and enthusiastically engage with other leaders who have similar beliefs.
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by datsci_est_2015 8d ago
We could enforce (suggest?) a common format / api at the federal level. Especially if it’s incentivized with funding that more than justifies the cost of maintenance. Similar to how federal interstate funding is only available to state
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by datsci_est_2015 9d ago
You don’t even have to limit it to machine learning, the definition of forecasting is isomorphic to the definition of modeling, which, with the dilution of the term AI, is also isomorphic to the definition of AI. More simply: - forecast
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by datsci_est_2015 9d ago
Bring this energetic criticism onto Warsh, whose speech was nauseatingly political in comparison to his predecessor. Paraphrasing ~ “I’m not data-driven, I’m trend-driven”. Frankly speaking, he sounded like a dumbass who failed his way upwa
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by datsci_est_2015 10d ago
Yes all of my the customers of my accounting software love the ambiguity of how it will react to them processing entries. You’re not saying anything with substance, but I guess that’s not surprising given your stance on LLMs.
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by datsci_est_2015 10d ago
A 6 year old will figure out how to ask you to help them after they get it wrong.
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by datsci_est_2015 10d ago
Maybe watch some HuskIRL videos to temper your expectations. Sure, frontier models providers may alter their harnesses to better target chess, but that’s lipstick on a pig imo. The models themselves are not, in isolation, capable of solving
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by datsci_est_2015 10d ago
Why does a 6 year old not need any of these guardrails? Frontier model’s failure modes are a direct refutation of claims that we’ve reached (or will soon reach) the artificial general intelligence. We may have reached an artificial gene
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by datsci_est_2015 11d ago
Funniest comment I’ve read all day, thanks. Never seen someone make light of a government rendering someone stateless. Especially rich in the context of an apartheid state.
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by datsci_est_2015 11d ago
And yet they still hold immense power to make our lives shittier. It is far easier to destroy a functioning system than it is to build one from the ground up
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by datsci_est_2015 11d ago
The last 10% is probably the most important. It sounds like you have agents doing all the tasks that SaaS would’ve provided in the past. Most people wouldn’t have shelled out for that SaaS though because the subscriptions would eat their ma
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by datsci_est_2015 11d ago
If you have an agent that can run a business, why would I pay you instead of running my own agent that provides the service your business provides? The only niche where that doesn’t work is capital investments. I can’t have an agent that pr
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by datsci_est_2015 11d ago
Maybe very passive businesses which are basically just capital investments with some paper pushing (e.g. real estate slumlord). But these types of businesses don’t really create value as much as seek rent.
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by datsci_est_2015 14d ago
Tell that to the script kiddies with a criminal record for "hacking" into their school's computer systems by entering "username: admin" and "password: password".
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by datsci_est_2015 15d ago
> Your idea that datacenters are racists transitively is woke slop. Your knee jerk reaction to refer to something as “woke slop” belies your privileged distance from anything remotely resembling hardship (I LiVe iN LoUdOuN) and an underd
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by datsci_est_2015 15d ago
Code quality is probably isomorphic to the halting problem, or can be reduced to the halting problem in the simplest case. I.e. it’s intractable.
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by datsci_est_2015 15d ago
So how will separate systems communicate with each other? Or are there no separate systems? That’s the digital singularity I suppose.
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by datsci_est_2015 15d ago
This thread started by referencing grad students, and I can vouch for it from personal experience with physics grad students.
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by datsci_est_2015 15d ago
This is a very insightful dynamic. Probably reinforces that we’ve already surpassed the frontier threshold for LLM usability in software development and can now focus on cost and personalization. To make a comparison, no one is making a bet
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by datsci_est_2015 15d ago
+1 Some people write terrible code. Some people don’t proofread their own code. Some people are writing code in a second (or third!) language and the typos are harder to spot and comments are harder to formulate. It’s a bit like the varianc
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by datsci_est_2015 16d ago
Maybe AI will provide an impetus for change. One can only hope. I’d be willing to pay a few hundred dollars a year to be a part of a professional organization that maintains ethics requirements at this point.
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by datsci_est_2015 16d ago
The opposite of performative action is even worse: nihilism or even active support of atrocities. Too many nihilists in the tech industry with the attitude “if I don’t do it someone else will”, and here we are as a professional class active
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by datsci_est_2015 17d ago
I think the threat to the internet is quite real and not theoretical. Air gapping may become a lot more critical very quickly. We may not be far away from a state where anything connected to the internet (ip-addressable) is considered a vul

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