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by gwd 1y ago
I initially had the same reaction to the MIT license; but it sort of looks like the GPL (or AGPL) wouldn't have really prevented this behavior. Microsoft (it sounds like) is making the code available; they've just extended and re
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by gwd 1y ago
> Does it matter what license you use if they actively ignore the terms in the license you did chose? If they're breaking the license, go talk to a lawyer. You might start by approaching the SFLC [1] (although I haven't heard
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by gwd 1y ago
So my brother doesn't code for a living, but has done a fair amount of personal coding, and also gotten into the habit of watching live-coding sessions on YouTube. Recently he's gotten involved in my project a bit, and so we&#x27
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by gwd 2y ago
That has nothing to do with it. They made the same demands of Colombia, who agreed to their demands; the result was just more demands. This is about exercising power and establishing dominance, not about Israel.
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by gwd 2y ago
Actually that thread has an interesting theory: "... o-series models are often prompted with previous messages without having access to the relevant reasoning. When asked questions that rely on their internal reasoning for previous ste
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by gwd 2y ago
I can't figure out why the hue and cry wasn't raised until the very last minute. Did they not know a month ago that they were running out of time? Is it standard practice for the government not to say they're going to exten
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by gwd 2y ago
He mentions the lack of generics; I wonder how he'd make his own channel++ library now that generics are well-established.
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by gwd 2y ago
Linux works because network effects pressure everyone to upstream their changes. There's no such upstreaming possible with the open-weight models, and new sets of base weights can only be generated with millions of dollars of compute.
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by gwd 2y ago
> Add to the above that Gemini 2.5, compared to models of its category, is fast and cheap—I mean, they're giving away free access! A large player with massive existing streams giving away a product in a new market to undercut new en
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by gwd 2y ago
It's `myapp.localhost` (without the port number). It's more useful because it's easier to allocate and remember a unique name than a unique port number.
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by gwd 2y ago
Really? When I was a freshman in the 90's, I had a friend whose problem was that every other person in the class had (like me) already been programming for years. He transferred to a different engineering discipline and graduated wit
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by gwd 2y ago
> If I needed more I'd probably use the API. The API gets overloaded and you get blocked out as well; yesterday I had to go look up a bunch of bash runes on stackoverflow because Claude's API was busy in the one day a year* I h
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by gwd 2y ago
Skeptical and cynical are not the same thing.
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by gwd 2y ago
Diplomacy is a game with the following properties: 1. It's not possible to eliminate someone else without another player's help, particularly early in the game 2. There can be only one winner So "temporary alliances" whi
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by gwd 2y ago
> LLMs don't approximate human thought, though. ...Please, I'm begging you, go read some papers and watch some videos about machine learning and how LLMs actually work. I know how LLMs work; so let me beg you in return, listen
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by gwd 2y ago
> Each word/token is chosen as that which is statistically most likely to follow the previous. The best way to predict the weather is to have a model which approximates the weather. The best way to predict the results of a physics
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by gwd 2y ago
Was interested to find that the Claudes did the most betraying, and were betrayed very little; somewhat surprising given its boy-scout exterior. (Then again, apparently the president of the local Diplomacy Society attends my church; I disco
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by gwd 2y ago
> E. LLMs only do multi-paragraph autocomplete; they are and always will be incapable of actual thinking. FWIW, this guy thinks E is true, and that he has a better direction to head in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETZ
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by gwd 2y ago
Or perhaps: “The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.” ― Edsger W. Dijkstra, in https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx&#x
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by gwd 2y ago
Well, one theory is that Trump wants individual companies to come to him and beg for exemptions to the tariffs. This would consolidate his power: Nobody would dare to do anything that would oppose him, for fear of having their "tariff
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by gwd 2y ago
> We have multi-paragraph autocomplete that's matching existing texts more and more closely. OK, I think I see where you're coming from. It sounds like what you're saying is: E. LLMs only do multi-paragraph autocomplete;
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by gwd 2y ago
> Someday we will have a machine simulate a cat, then the village idiot... This isn't how LLMs work. I think you misunderstood that argument. The simulate the brain thing isn't a "start from the beginning" argument,
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by gwd 2y ago
I don't think those are actually showing different things. The OpenAI paper is about the LLM planning to itself to hack something; but when they use training to suppress this "hacking" self-talk, it still hacks the reward fu
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by gwd 2y ago
One more thing, just in general: Some people are complaining that some languages work better than others. This seems to be a common issue now with the availability of AI (both voice recognition and LLMs): there's a temptation to expan
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by gwd 2y ago
> Vance runs, Trump as VP on the ticket, Vance resigns after winning and voila. I dunno man; Vance is ambitious, but doesn't seem like such a sycophant. I'd say there'd be a non-negligible chance that instead of resigning
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by gwd 2y ago
I love having real sentences -- so much more engaging than the random things made up by Duolingo! What are your long-term plans with this? I'd love at some point to be able to combine something like this with an algorithm I'm wor
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by gwd 2y ago
> Not in the slightest. You know, it's this kind of comment on USENET forums which prompted the creation of StackOverflow. It's not curious and adds nothing to the discussion. I like Go and use it extensively; and I like havin
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by gwd 2y ago
And if the book was about how such a "virus" might work, the author could have brought that up. But since the book is actually exploring how different cultures or people groups might react to the same event, going down that road
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by gwd 2y ago
It's a spectrum, with costs and benefits at each level. I lock my front door even though I don't have bars on my windows; I prefer Golang, where doing a basic compile will catch a fair number of errors and testing will catch the
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by gwd 2y ago
> That's what the New function does, isn't it? But that's only run when the pool needs to allocate more space. What GP seems to expect is that sync.Pool() would always return a zeroed structure, just as Golang allocatio

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