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by dofm 4mo ago
Which is exactly what makes them a good comparison, IMO. They are arguably smarter than dogs with about two fifths as many neurons. A shorter lifespan, faster breeding and many more threats has made them better. The point I am getting to
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by dofm 4mo ago
You keep talking about white people and black people as if you think these are two separable races with internal characteristic differences. They just aren't.
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by dofm 4mo ago
Biological race does not, indeed, exist. Really at all. Defining it as a many-dimensional spectrum just so you can to continue to use the word "race", now that is torturing semantics. The semantics I am referring to are the sugg
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by dofm 4mo ago
In what ways are white people meaningfully different from black people?
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by dofm 4mo ago
Organising people by the colour of their skin makes exactly as much ontological sense as organising library books by the colour of their cover.
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by dofm 4mo ago
The implication of what you say — that white and black are races — is that indigenous Australians and African Americans are the same "race", because they both have black skin?
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by dofm 4mo ago
Black and white are not races. They are racial discrimination categories. People with black skin are not one identifiable group except "black skin". Which is a heritable trait that affects pigmentation used to create a social dis
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by dofm 4mo ago
> They want to ask the iOS Foundation model (frontier on device intelligence for something small) This is a bit of a straw man, TBH. For one thing, "LLM-in-a-box" doesn't necesssarily imply a device as small as a phone. Fo
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by dofm 4mo ago
The 12B QAT model is really overlooked because the tech industry has been so desperate for the LLM bet to play out to "product market fit" (which means please IPO now) that it has become convinced that coding models are the only t
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by dofm 4mo ago
Races don't exist on any biological level. Racists evidently do. Believing in the false construct of biological race doesn't necessarily make you a racist; it doesn't really even seem to be a precondition anymore. But it was
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by dofm 4mo ago
AGI is a macguffin (or a shaggy dog) for a story told to investors. It has never been plausible on the timescales suggested and it almost certainly will not emerge from LLMs.
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by dofm 4mo ago
> No this will never work. This bet is too early. > Why didn’t OpenAI release a math specific model? Why not a literature specific one? Why do they instead have generic models of different sizes? And how did all labs converge on this?
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by dofm 4mo ago
They cancelled the higher-end M6 models (including the Pro, this time). There will be a basic M6.
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by dofm 4mo ago
But it could get worse for two years yet.
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by dofm 4mo ago
Ultimately I have burned out and I am struggling to put myself back together; I can no longer direct or control my focus at all, I forget tasks and I tire after relatively short periods. It’s non-functional. Do anything you can do to not ge
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by dofm 4mo ago
They may pay top dollar but there's all sorts of evidence that they'd very much like to pay radically fewer top dollars than the unsubsidised, off-plan price. And it's clear neither of the big two can deliver anything close t
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by dofm 4mo ago
The thing is they are inventing new things people will want to do. But for example, "loops", fully hands-off agentic coding etc., seem really unlikely to get much traction because that just isn't how software is designed with
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by dofm 4mo ago
Someone told me that you have to have more expensive plans for people to have the confidence to try your cheap plans, which is sort of upside down at first glance and then you think, oh no, I'm like that. It's true.
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by dofm 4mo ago
Presumably the rationale for the decision to abridge the thinking traces will ensure that they don’t; if this is real (and there’s no good reason to trust that it is yet) then it is the secret sauce.
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by dofm 4mo ago
If you had a tool that would be capable of writing all software better than a human, why would you price it by the word (token)? Why wouldn’t you take a percentage? (This is one of the more interesting questions that came out of Alex Karp’s
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by dofm 4mo ago
The conclusion I have drawn is that the only way I will be part of a team is to hire them or be indispensable on one specific project thing.
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by dofm 4mo ago
Lessons from my failure: - do everything you can to keep burnout at bay - you do, in fact, need a holiday - hyperfocus is not your friend, ever ; if you feel you can’t put it down, you must put it down - never delete emails; the one thing
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by dofm 4mo ago
I have used it to repair torn foil of photographic umbrellas and softboxes, seal light leaks on a repaired darkroom enlarger head, make a reflective pattern for a photo shoot, add a temporary airtight seal on a cracked tube with just two th
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by dofm 4mo ago
And subsequently was AFAIR the only UK builder of x86 NexTStations. Black PCs, basically.
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by dofm 4mo ago
Photographers and cinematographers are like: ohhh let me sit you down and tell you all about my love of blackwrap. Aluminium foil is amazing stuff. Aluminium foil adhesive tape, in particular, is incredibly useful. Being a multi-domain kind
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by dofm 4mo ago
So it was, in fact, designed correctly as an illustration. Either way the context of that comment is "why does XML do this?" when in fact XML, itself, does not . It allows both data and metadata; this is not a flaw, because it
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by dofm 4mo ago
It is weird how IT people either forget, or don't know, that the only reason we have PCs as a standard is that IBM insisted AMD also be able to make the x86 architecture so that they had two possible suppliers. People do like to join c
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by dofm 4mo ago
More than half of British trains do run exactly on time (within the scheduled minute). It's quite high — over 65%. Over 85% arrive within three. It's a bit massaged in some cases e.g. Transpennine, who have only recently been fo
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by dofm 4mo ago
Some evidence that crassness is going to matter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798815
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by dofm 4mo ago
Gauguin, Manet, Rembrandt and Whistler sketches, Weston nudes, Harry Callahan photos, amazing things indeed. People generally seem quite uninterested in preparatory sketches/studies/maquettes by famous artists, which is absolute m

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