griomnib

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by griomnib 2y ago
It’s just not possible. You can do a lot with nondeterministic systems, they have value - but oranges and apples. They need to coexist.
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by griomnib 2y ago
Totally agree.
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by griomnib 2y ago
But they can never be. RAG gets you somewhere, but it’s still a pile of RNGs under a trenchcoat.
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by griomnib 2y ago
I think when it’s good it’s pretty good. But knowing when it is good is still hard, as I can’t trust it more than an LLM. But with an LLM I have a simple chat window, not a bag of rabid SVPs fighting to be on the SERP page.
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by griomnib 2y ago
I find people who use it in a derogatory don’t do much actual thinking to start with. The literal origin of its use in social justice realms was to put an emphasis and value on critical thinking. By pondering the nature of society one can b
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by griomnib 2y ago
Google was originally fairly egalitarian, OpenAI never was, and never will be. For better or worse.
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by griomnib 2y ago
LLM are non deterministic by nature.
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by griomnib 2y ago
Funny thing is you can train a small BERT model to detect queries that are in categories that aren’t ready for AI “answers” with like .00000001% of the energy of an LLM.
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by griomnib 2y ago
They have something Google never had: a paid tier. There are plenty of revenue models aside from ads.
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by griomnib 2y ago
The biggest reason SEO is profitable is because low quality sites run display ads. That is the lifeblood, and intrinsic motivation, for these sites to even exist. Google operates the largest display ads network. They literally *pay* websit
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by griomnib 2y ago
No they’ve been acquiring layers upon layers of middle management for a decade. That’s the core issue, and they’ve also pissed off a non-zero percentage of top talent by ditching what still existed of Google culture and going full “Corporat
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by griomnib 2y ago
SD will also generate what I tell it, unlike the corporate models that have all kinds of “safeguards”.
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by griomnib 2y ago
Or, using Occams Razor; Sundar is a shit CEO and is playing catchup with a company largely fueled by innovations created at Google but never brought to market because it would eat into ads revenue. That, or they have a secret super human in
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by griomnib 2y ago
They already did it, and I’m guessing they were using some of the various YouTube down loaders Google has been going after.
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by griomnib 2y ago
“Won” what exactly? I have no issues running stable diffusion locally. Since Llama3.3 came out it is my first stop for coding questions, and I’m only using closed models when llama3.3 has trouble. I think it’s fairly clear that between ope
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by griomnib 2y ago
Sure seems like this is happening more frequently, eg with the Boeing guy. So it’s reasonable to ask why. If you look at Aaron Schwartz for example you see they don’t have to assassinate you, they just have so many lawyers, making so many t
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by griomnib 2y ago
It appears “solid”, but the only test of a backup system is disaster recovery and I’ve had to attempt to get files from Time Machine drives before and it is hell. iCloud Drive is also a bit iffy, it does a lot of weird shit with file meta d
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by griomnib 2y ago
Apple’s built-in backup solution is called Time Machine. It was dogshit when it launched a decade ago, never got more reliable despite many OS releases, and is still largely dogshit. The author of the blog makes an application that is very
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by griomnib 2y ago
Realistically the FTC doesn’t have the staffing or expertise to act on much at all. They can offer “rules” of questionable value post-Chevron, but even in areas like COPPA where they have clear statutory authority, and widespread lawbreakin
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by griomnib 2y ago
Depends if you count violating data protection law is a crime or not.
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by griomnib 2y ago
Queers always lead the way, without queers bluesky never would have taken off
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by griomnib 2y ago
“I realized I had spent too much time on startups and not enough on building relationships. So I decided the only way to fix it was another start up.” Huh?
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by griomnib 2y ago
Hey now, that microservice happens to violate data protection law in 40 jurisdictions per second, that’s basically a criminal mastermind.
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by griomnib 2y ago
Oh, if they had YC backing I’m sure half the people here would be sending in job applications.
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by griomnib 2y ago
They aren’t software, Blender foundation likely has exclusive use in that domain. I’m guessing if it was litigated it would come up, but that they’d prevail.
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by griomnib 2y ago
Ok I tried literally last week on Pixel 7a and it didn’t work. What model do you have? Maybe it requires a phone that can do on-device models?
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by griomnib 2y ago
And where is the ship headed if they are no longer supporting the open web? Publishers are being squeezed and going under, or replacing humans with hallucinated genai slop. It’s like we’re taking the private equity model of extracting value
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by griomnib 2y ago
Latency is a huge factor in performance, and local models often have a huge edge. Especially on mobile devices that could be offline entirely.
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by griomnib 2y ago
And yet these new models still haven’t reached feature parity with Google Assistant, which can turn my flashlight on, but with all the power of burning down a rainforest, Gemini still cannot interact with my actual phone.
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by griomnib 2y ago
The competition is human drivers.

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