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571.
by fastball 1y ago
But you need to remember that the social/political leanings of the people performing the RL are only going to go in one direction. As an example, there might be a lot of racist rhetoric in the raw training corpus, but there will also b
572.
by fastball 1y ago
That is kinda what I mean. People use language in racist ways, but the language itself is not racist. Because racism, sexism, etc is happening (and because some statistical realities are seen as "problematic"), in the RL step th
573.
by fastball 1y ago
Sure if you ask them to one-shot it with no other tools available. But LLMs can write code. Which also means they can write code to perform a statistical analysis.
574.
by fastball 1y ago
Yes and no. I don't think the language is what has encoded the bias. I'd assume the bias is actually coming in the Reinforcement Learning step, where these models have been RL'd to be "politically correct" rather th
575.
by fastball 1y ago
Imo it is less about locking anyone in (in this case) and more about what Python actually enables: exceedingly fast prototyping and iteration. Turns out the ability to ship fast and iterate is actually more useful that performance, esp in a
576.
by fastball 1y ago
Still easier than cashing out from a platform that doesn't support your country at all.
577.
by fastball 1y ago
Fair enough. I'm going off my experience with cookie banners, and how that whole thing seemed like a great idea at the time but turned out to mostly be an incredible annoyance. In the same way, I don't think I'd enjoy a cance
578.
by fastball 1y ago
Yes, I am happy with this flow and this is the flow on 90% of subscribed services I use.
579.
by fastball 1y ago
If this suggested policy isn't based on consumer need, what is it based on?
580.
by fastball 1y ago
Do you actually want there to be a big "Cancel" button in the top right corner of every subscribed service? I personally don't want that. Click to cancel? Sure. But perfectly symmetrical is not something I need and in many ca
581.
by fastball 1y ago
Sounds like an incredible vector of regulatory capture for Big Tech.
582.
by fastball 1y ago
Cursor bought Supermaven last year.
583.
by fastball 1y ago
The emphasis is indeed on "without trust" – as far as I can tell this project is unable to verify whether the decentralized training nodes are contributing productively. Without the ability to validate that training compute is hea
584.
by fastball 1y ago
For the agentic stuff I think every solution can be hit or miss. I've tried claude code, aider, cline, cursor, zed, roo, windsurf, etc. To me it is more about using the right models for the job, which is also constantly in flux because
585.
by fastball 1y ago
Agreed, that is what often happens. But after seeing this pattern before, that does not mean the solution going forward is to yell "hey everyone there is a gun" and hope management gets to it before the person with malicious inten
586.
by fastball 1y ago
Sure, we can run with your analogy. So you make everyone aware that the stab vests are faulty. One of the people you make aware of this fact is a thief with a knife, who previously wasn't gonna take the risk on robbing anyone, since he
587.
by fastball 1y ago
You are shopping at a store along with some other customers. When entering the store, you notice that an employee of the store has left a large knife outside, under a trashcan. A shady character is wandering around the store, looking for so
588.
by fastball 1y ago
Increasing the chance of a bad actor actually doing something with a vulnerability seems bad, actually. You're effectively shifting responsibility to consumers, who are probably not going to see a CVE for one of the dozens of softwar
589.
by fastball 1y ago
That is a confusing way to look at it. Python is slow, C is fast. If your python code is calling functions that were not written in Python (even if it is indirectly thru a library you are using), that is not "pure python".
590.
by fastball 1y ago
It is the sixth alpha release. They haven't yet released a stable version – this is their sixth alpha release before that. What am I missing here?
591.
by fastball 1y ago
If companies have too much influence, that can be changed. In the mean time, investors in oil companies are not "responsible" for warming – our consumption is.
592.
by fastball 1y ago
You have this backwards. People invest in these companies because they are growing. They are growing because consumers (you and me) are, year over year, consuming more and more fossil fuels and their byproducts. Investment doesn't driv
593.
by fastball 1y ago
Yep this "study" is drivel. To provide a scenario that takes this argument to its logical conclusion: if one person owned 100% of the only oil & gas company in the world, and all 8 billion people on earth used that oil & g
594.
by fastball 1y ago
Seems like an arbitrary distinction. I'd say Chain-of-Thought has massively improved LLM output. Is that "incremental"? Why is that more incremental than the move from GPT-2 to GPT-3? Sure you can say that this is when LLMs f
595.
by fastball 1y ago
Can you define "real empathy"?
596.
by fastball 1y ago
I'm not arguing with you (as there is no real substance to your comments with which to argue), I'm merely confused about your series of non-sequiturs. Bringing up Mullenweg under a blog post made by not the CEO of a different co
597.
by fastball 1y ago
I'm not really sure what your point is. Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka antirez and the author of this blog post) has never been the CTO or CEO of Redis Ltd. He didn't start it and only briefly worked there (relative to how long it ha
598.
by fastball 1y ago
Seems clear to me that Claude 3.7 suffers from overfitting, probably due to Anthropic seeing that 3.5 was a smash hit in the LLM coding space and deciding their North star for 3.7 should be coding benchmarks (which, like all benchmarks, do
599.
by fastball 1y ago
Why the change yesterday? Were there developments happening in Valkey that made you feel like a switch would be worthwhile?
600.
by fastball 1y ago
antirez is not the CEO of Redis.

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