fnordpiglet

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by fnordpiglet 4mo ago
Great rabbit hole but the flaw is the bulb might not be obvious but the book would be on a network scan someone suspected electronic dead drops.
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by fnordpiglet 4mo ago
I more suspect he is not just a better programmer but has a two orders of magnitude smaller ego.
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by fnordpiglet 4mo ago
There are also now drones with long spooling wires. Regardless, autonomous or not, connectivity to home is important. I would note that a lot of drones are quite large too - small airplanes. They can carry more than enough hardware for auto
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by fnordpiglet 4mo ago
Ultimately we agree but for slightly different reasons. My assertion is there are no experts because there can’t be as not enough time passed for expertise to form. Further the rate of change is such that by time someone becomes an expert i
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by fnordpiglet 4mo ago
You don’t need to load the compute onto the platform for autonomy, planning can be done remotely just like with human guidance. The latency is the same.
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by fnordpiglet 4mo ago
It’s hard to take seriously a statement like this that’s grounded in “the last three years” when trends have tended to play out over decades. The fact the goal posts have moved from thousands to hundreds to decades to single digit years for
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by fnordpiglet 4mo ago
I’ll wager $5 semiconductor companies are issuing stock to fund capital investment because that’s what you do when these things happen.
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by fnordpiglet 4mo ago
No actually there’s a large body of quashed research over these decades that went against the prevailing hypothesis. It’s one of the key examples of how peer review fails to consider novel approaches in the face of consensus even if consens
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by fnordpiglet 4mo ago
This is on the edge of treatments - but everything is more expensive. Primary care, bandaids at the clinic, everything. Even then the advanced cares profitability is extraordinary. There are many examples but take Benlysta. It was developed
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by fnordpiglet 4mo ago
No technology will make it cheaper for YOU, just improve margins for the chain of fleecing between provider and insurance. Demand for healthcare is inelastic like water or air, so they can charge whatever they want and you pay or die. AI wi
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by fnordpiglet 4mo ago
I will say they do negotiate it if it’s excessive. I have negotiated flat rates on both public and DC egress due to scale and architecture and they were open to it.
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by fnordpiglet 4mo ago
There’s no back peddle once you’ve demonetized by fiat for being too big. Once you doo it you prove you will do it again for the very reason the bubble is inflating. It’s a binary one way door and it’s already happened. It’s like killing t
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by fnordpiglet 4mo ago
Options and futures don’t wait and a lot of stuff trades 24x7. You can do your puts right now, and banks and market makers will meet you now if you’re big enough. The landing for Main Street will be more of a horrible traffic accident that
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by fnordpiglet 4mo ago
39 times is the charm I guess?
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by fnordpiglet 4mo ago
I think it’s more like “there goes the semiconductor boom predicated on monetization of ever larger models.” Once the IS government acts out of capricious fiat because a model becomes “too good” and they demonetize it, the entire shell gam
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by fnordpiglet 4mo ago
Thanks, Obama! (Ok gotta spend my upvote points somewhere)
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by fnordpiglet 4mo ago
On the question of language models and periphery tooling - Open weight models are disruptive to the business models of closed model businesses. An incentive is if your business is built around X but model training is helpful to you, but you
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by fnordpiglet 4mo ago
Cloud providers are commodity, and egress pricing is partially cost following because they have to pay peering to their interconnect points for WAN. Internal networks are not charged within the account because the economics of the VPC overl
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by fnordpiglet 4mo ago
My understanding is it’s the earliest known alphabet but not the ancestor to all alphabetic languages as there are Asian and other alphabetic languages that are not derived from western or Arabic alphabets. Specifically Greek and Latin alph
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by fnordpiglet 4mo ago
I think strands and agentcore don’t have a ton of overlap but I have found agentcore makes running strands frameworks pretty easy and relatively inexpensive. I like strands in that it’s the most mature (IMO) that isn’t specific to a model p
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by fnordpiglet 5mo ago
I’ve got a custom ultra high performance streaming semantic search I exposed as a tool and the RL bias in Claude is almost insurmountable without copious and consistent steering. Codex will follow instructions and use the tools I ask it to
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by fnordpiglet 5mo ago
I’ve used codex code optimized for a few projects and it’s unsettling how fast it is. It’s hard to think fast enough to keep up with it. Mental fatigue was a real challenge because the decisions that required my input were rapid fire and le
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by fnordpiglet 5mo ago
The people paid to be there aren’t your friends. They’re nominally “coworkers,” which is not a social relationship but a transactional one. The fact we’ve as a society replaced human social interaction with people acting a work persona for
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by fnordpiglet 5mo ago
And look what else that podcast has brought us.
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by fnordpiglet 5mo ago
That’s if you believe what’s magical is the computer is actually literally thinking and is a little human stuffed in a box. What’s magical is we’ve cracked NLP -and- abductive reasoning on a Turing machine. For those who have the capacity
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by fnordpiglet 5mo ago
I apologize but I don’t understand this metric - you’re saying Trump would have gotten the majority if republicans who didn’t vote for him had voted for him ? That’s some serious squinting and if you do that I’ll just take everyone who vot
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by fnordpiglet 5mo ago
These matter about getting the first job you get, at which point what you learned begins to dominate the rest of your career and life. The connections you made at school matter less and less as your connections in your career dominate, and
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by fnordpiglet 5mo ago
LLMS didn’t invent cheating just made it easier. When you cheat you’re the one who cheats yourself because the point of an education is to learn, not complete the assignments and get high marks on tests alone. No one benefits and no one oth
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by fnordpiglet 5mo ago
However it’s disingenuous to say the inference is on the next token because it’s actually not, it’s in the models parameter space across a set of nonlinear activation functions then effectively projected into the token. The idea its predict
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by fnordpiglet 5mo ago
The will of the plurality you mean? He didn’t win a majority of the votes. He is the legitimately elected office holder; but it was not the will of the people, it was the outcome of this particularly electoral process. Many American electo

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