dragonwriter

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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
You are, of course, correct about determinism. In the grandparent post I was accepting the previous poster’s somewhat sloppy use of “nondeterministic” because I was focussed on other aspects of the discussion.
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
> The only realistic low-error approach is incremental step-by-step migration using Cursor or similar tools. Correction: AI is not deterministic, the only realistic low-error solution is not a more complex use of non-deterministic AI, bu
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
The penalty for not honoring a DROP “request” is more severe than perjury (and, conversely, there is no penalty at all for not honoring a DMCA notice, the only effect is that you do not benefit from the DMCA safe harbor if you would have
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
> Also let me ask you why we need better and better and models if what we have already can produce good output with 'all the tooling to verify its hypotheses' “Good” isn’t “perfect” and even if it was, the ability to produce pe
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
Love this line in the critical material quoted there: “Writing correctly in STE is not an easy task as it requires a good command of the English language together with a good knowledge of the matter of the writing.” This is simply what is r
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
> Today, humans convert their labor to capital. Capital holders need labor (humans) to acquire more capital. When the price of inference for these robots becomes less than the price of labor then capital holders don’t need labor. Ignorin
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
Mean personal disposable income being comparable to median household income isn't too surprising and doesn't necessarily indicate any error. Mean is much higher than median, individual is much lower than household, disposable is m
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
In finance and VC-funded -startup worshipping circles it is derogatory, because it means you aren't trying to scale like a VC-funded-startup. That space is often confused with “tech”, and obviously overlaps with it, but its not the sa
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
“Didn’t forbid”, if referring to the framers of the Constitution, is a bit of an understatement, given that they created multiple layers of protection to prevent dismantling slavery at the federal level into the future.
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
Franklin also supported universal male suffrage, wrote Pennsulvania’s 1776 constitution which adopted universal male suffrage, and condemned property requirements for the franchise, reportedly arguing: “Today a man owns a jackass worth fif
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
The founding fathers, the framers (a different and later group, though the two overlap and are often conflated) and original states had a variety of (and evolving in some cases between the Founding and the Constitution) opinions on the issu
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
Any data that is consulted in the course of deciding how to use the capabilities of a system are instructions (they are a different and less privileged level of instruction than the set of instructions which provide the capabilities, unle
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by dragonwriter 2mo ago
> Quick version: “abliteration” (basically removing the direction in the model that causes it to refuse) is the go-to method people use to make open models uncensored. Tru-ish (lots of people distinguish between abliteration and uncensor
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by dragonwriter 3mo ago
> if copyright wasn't a thing, there would be much less need to scan any physical media. Because there’d be much less content created in any media to capture in the first place.
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by dragonwriter 3mo ago
> I have seen many economists argue that austerity is the first sign of a country down turning, funnily enough these are usually also the same people that advocate for smaller government to allow the "free market" to do its thi
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by dragonwriter 3mo ago
If the country has to survive and recover rather quickly, not collapse, for your prosecution scenario to be likely and effective against any significant share of the people who caused this.
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by dragonwriter 3mo ago
If it is marketing, the misrepresentation is not that the attack occurred, it is that it was an accident, rather than an intentional consequence of setup and instructions that the attack occurred. Huggingface has nothing to do with that eit
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by dragonwriter 3mo ago
> Is that settled law? It seems to be the fairly consistent approach of trial courts addressing the question under different soecific fact patterns in different contexts; its not “settled law” in the sense of nationally binding precedent
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by dragonwriter 3mo ago
The frontier is a multidimensional space defined by the “best” combination of traits a model can have in multiple dimensions: parameter size [smaller is better], various task metrics, and relative token generation speed on like hardware [fa
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by dragonwriter 3mo ago
> apart from gecko and v8 why dont we have browser engines? You mean apart from Gecko and Blink (v8 is a JS engine, not a browser engine.) But we do, for open source engines we also have WebKit and NetSurf and some others.
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by dragonwriter 3mo ago
Maybe so, but you clearly aren’t a representative sample of corporate decision-makers when it comes to AI (or broader IT) services.
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by dragonwriter 3mo ago
> That's a losing proposition for any token provider The specialized models for targeted verticals being discussed may well not be sold by tokens, but instead be behind the scenes powering dedicated packaged solutions where the cus
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by dragonwriter 3mo ago
Uh, while the sale to the Oracle-led group was government mandated, the use of Oracle Cloud for hosting by the new US TikTok is just self-dealing by the new ownership. Of course, when your “customers” are just self-dealing, that’s also not
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by dragonwriter 3mo ago
Also, even knowing both what will happen and when is a separate thing from having access to capital. You can't really tell that someone posting that hasn't already also taken the biggest leveraged position they can (unless that
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by dragonwriter 3mo ago
Pretty sure Google fits any definition of major model maker that SpaceX does, and had their IPO long before SpaceX. Meta and Microsoft both are also significant makers of GenAI models that are public, though neither has a big tentpole LLM l
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by dragonwriter 3mo ago
Maybe so, but this story is about a phenomenon more related to NorCal’s Silicon Valley than the SoCal porn capital that sometimes gets called by a name that is an intentional mockery of the NorCal one, referencing a common component of b
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by dragonwriter 3mo ago
“Banana republic” is specifically a term referring to countries that are puppets of the United States on behalf of commercial interests (the trope-naming example being Gautemala on behalf of United Fruit Company); in the absence of an imper
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by dragonwriter 3mo ago
Ultimately, as a member of a legislative body, if you don’t like the way the executive bodies charged with inplementing a law are doing so, your choices are: (1) Work with other members of the legislative body to hold the executive accounta
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by dragonwriter 3mo ago
> So what else are you suppose to do? I think it's reasonable to decide that if no one is enforcing the new local law, that it may be the commissioners purview and authority to enforce after exhausting all his options. County commis
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by dragonwriter 3mo ago
> The purpose of a college degree is NOT a job... but the purpose of a college LOAN is 100% a job, and it's very important to differentiate between the two. No, the purpose of a college loan is to enable a student to pay for college

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