empath75

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by empath75 3mo ago
I'm not sure what you expect to find that would completely transform our understanding of the time period. The most likely discoveries are going to be filling in details about things we already knew. This period of time was already p
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by empath75 3mo ago
You don't need SOTA models for all tasks, and being able to do more routine tasks at something like 10% of the cost and 70x speed unlocks LLM use for things that are just unthinkable now (bulk classification tasks, real time speech int
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by empath75 3mo ago
Do you think Apple locks in _current_ prices?
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by empath75 3mo ago
Data centers do not trade on 100x earnings, and if you believe that they should, then there are plenty that don't have rocket ship and social media companies attached to them.
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by empath75 3mo ago
Hypochlolorous acid, otherwise known as "swimming pool water"
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by empath75 3mo ago
The articles have been unclear about this: Does this let attackers unlock a stolen iphone, for example, or is this just about jailbreaking a phone that you own and control.
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by empath75 4mo ago
> This isn't AI...It's a behavior tree. Calling every decision-making system "AI" is like calling a flowchart a neural network. What you're describing is a behavior tree: predefined logic, predefined responses, n
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by empath75 4mo ago
It's not "easier", it just forces a more guess-efficient strategy.
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by empath75 4mo ago
We had 3 kids, one with an epidural and induced labor and the other 2 were natural child birth, no medication at all, and my wife much preferred the natural child birth -- all of them at at a hospital "birthing center", with a fiv
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by empath75 4mo ago
They were originally sold at a loss, then became per-unit profitable at some point, and now they might be eating a loss on them again. But they lock in hardware prices years in advance.
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by empath75 4mo ago
This is why Apple locks in supplier prices years in advance.
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by empath75 4mo ago
The IPO price for SpaceX was _delusional_. The price now is delusional. Especially since it's so dependent on the US government for revenue and he's done everything possible to irritate the party that's about to take over t
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by empath75 4mo ago
Statements like this are just totally detached from reality. AI products are incredibly popular, even amongst people who say they dislike “AI”. Maybe that acronym is tainted, but the technology isn’t going anywhere.
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by empath75 4mo ago
Yeah, but there aren't ones that will give you the _entire stack_ in less than a second from a glance at the side of the deck.
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by empath75 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_Merer among many others.
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by empath75 4mo ago
> We've forgotten how to build pyramids. Luxor in Vegas is way more complicated than the egyptian pyramids were.
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by empath75 4mo ago
the wild thing about this is that _we have contemporaneous records of how they were built_. They know the names of architects and managers. There's no mystery to it at all.
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by empath75 4mo ago
There are actually "marked" decks you can buy that come with an iphone app that tell you exactly where every card on the deck is by looking at the side.
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by empath75 4mo ago
Yeah, a "perfect" shuffle is known as a faro shuffle and it's the basis of a lot of magic tricks, but it's a weird looking shuffle and it sort of ruins the tricks once you can recognize it.
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by empath75 4mo ago
I demo'd an automated agent platform here and showed it doing PRs, and the CEO asked me what i'd do for a living after this did all my work for me, and I said, "What do you think that you do that an agent can't do?"
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by empath75 4mo ago
> the tone makes it seem like founding a startup is something you wake up one morning and just decide to do instead of, say, going to the park. I'm not sure it's a crazy idea when you can run a whole revenue generating company
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by empath75 4mo ago
Photographs made technical skill at recreating reality with paint less relevant, while making point of view, staging, etc, more important. You can absolutely create a photograph that is art, but a camera is not an artist, the person holdin
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by empath75 4mo ago
I think what people find beautiful in math is largely something that enables the mathematics (or physics) to be translated to something that they can think about intuitively, and what people can handle in an intuitive way is largely an arti
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by empath75 4mo ago
> We have been aggressively and enthusiastically automating away software engineering for the entire history of the computer industry. I used to work at an overnight NOC many years ago, and I literally learned bash and python just to sav
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by empath75 4mo ago
The Uber analogy is not a good one. Uber is constrained by the cost of cars, fuel and drivers, which do not go down over time. That's it's floor. It can't charge less than that and be profitable. The cost of chips and inf
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by empath75 4mo ago
And how did they get to Constantinople?
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by empath75 4mo ago
There's no good guys in this situation. The Byzantine Empire spent 1000 years doing the same kind of shit to other people. The little people, of course, suffered tremendously for it.
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by empath75 4mo ago
Claude A) reads the documentation and B) needs the documentation C) can write the documentation quickly. None of which is true for your and your coworkers, at least not consistently.
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by empath75 4mo ago
Well, I was emailing specific people who were working on very closely related things, and had recently published papers about it and I had very small, concrete questions about their results and not much about my question, except for context
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by empath75 4mo ago
> I'd be very cautious about "AI psychosis" here, or at the very least becoming a "crank". I've read too many stories of people convincing themselves they're on the verge of some great discovery to not

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