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by jaccola 4mo ago
It can’t even write a passable novel… if you know of a great LLM-authored novel I should read please point me to it and I’ll take your recommendation!
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by jaccola 5mo ago
> apple's hardware lead & overall design philosophy is falling apart What?? Could someone tell me where I can buy hardware as good as a MBP? Genuinely I’d love this, it would be like Christmas had come early!
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by jaccola 5mo ago
I do the same! I’d guess one reason is that there has been no iPad/App Store/YouTube invented for dogs… I have a gut feeling there will be negative consequences for how much time developing minds spend consuming but in the absence
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by jaccola 5mo ago
Maybe a nit: LLMs do not and cannot cite their sources (at least scraped sources for the purpose of training) It’s kind of the harness that is doing the citing (or providing the context for the model to). But an LLM sans search can reproduc
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by jaccola 5mo ago
What? If I want to read Harry Potter or watch The Matrix an AI cannot produce something equally as good for me. So I need to pay those people, or break the law. For lots of online knowledge/blogs I guess it is true but even here I ofte
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by jaccola 5mo ago
This is how the drug industry already works. I don’t think there’s any evidence “AI” (LLM) is capable of producing valid drug modifications.
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by jaccola 5mo ago
Copying was prohibitively expensive.
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by jaccola 5mo ago
Mistiming is equivalent to being wrong. And Musk is good at keeping valuations high! So who knows when it will tank.
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by jaccola 5mo ago
I mean he is basically an influencer at this point? I guess this is a marketing play and we will be hearing more from him than ever.
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by jaccola 5mo ago
Yes, my statement was loose. The blob doesn’t really have a position since it is theoretically an infinite distribution in 3 space. It has a mean, and that mean doesn’t have to lie on the surface, consider the case where the mean is deep in
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by jaccola 5mo ago
Lots of translucent blobs composited to produce the appearance of a strawberry. There is no mesh or model. The visual surface of the strawberry could be made up of blobs spaced far apart physically and not where the surface appears to be. T
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by jaccola 5mo ago
My friend and I went to play poker this weekend. Demis Hassabis was there. I whispered to him “what the hell, that’s Demis Hassabis”! My friend had no idea who he was. My friend doesn’t work in tech but he’s in his late 20s and we are both
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by jaccola 5mo ago
The obvious pushback to all of the slop is: coding was never hard. Learning resources were abundant and free. If these people had a burning desire to build things prior to LLMs and couldn’t put in the effort to learn to build them (which is
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by jaccola 5mo ago
I set up a hook that reviews every commit and highlights potential bugs (async) and writes to a report to a dir. Then I have a script that summarises that I usually run before pushing or at end of day. Works quite well for both improving my
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by jaccola 5mo ago
52/4 = 13
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by jaccola 5mo ago
The counter argument is that the free market also allows lots of money to be made on anti-obesity drugs which incentivises them to be researched. Maybe we wouldn’t have had GLP-1 (at all or as quickly) without the huge market that is the US
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by jaccola 5mo ago
Can usually sniff them out because their comments are long and give lots of (vague) examples.
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by jaccola 5mo ago
It’s a disadvantage for sure but not usually a blocker. They often have security questionnaires you can complete instead. Or, as part of signing with them, you can promise to get SOC2 by x date (which will hopefully be easier with the funds
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by jaccola 5mo ago
Yeah I don’t know what’s true when reading about LLMs. Same with comments here on hacker news. So much money on the line it’s clear they would seed communities with marketing shills (and some people are just tribal). Same since they own Bun
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by jaccola 5mo ago
Maybe you replied to the wrong comment? Peasants under a feudal lord couldn’t work elsewhere. If an engineer was fired from SpaceX they’d have another job before the end of the month… and if they didn’t then they wouldn’t starve to death be
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by jaccola 5mo ago
The vast majority of those 13k workers are highly skilled and in very high demand. They could work elsewhere or start their own company. In addition, they are far better educated and have more welfare options than anyone living under a feud
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by jaccola 5mo ago
This seems like one of those things that is usable infrequently enough to be forgotten/poorly developed/never used. (Even before accounting for the actual failure rate of the LLM which will be none-zero). Perhaps a text box and fi
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by jaccola 5mo ago
“But they’ve added RL so…!!!” You are obviously right and I see examples of it everywhere. E.g I asked Claude opus 4.7 (the latest/greatest) the other day “is a Rimworld year 60 days?”. The reply (paraphrased) “No, a Rimworld year is 4
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by jaccola 5mo ago
Ironically one of the few comments in this thread that isn’t necessarily the gamblers fallacy! The chance anyone involved saw or heard about the first one was near zero, now they’ve seen this one the chance they see another is still near ze
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by jaccola 5mo ago
The chance of him winning the lottery is identical to before, however the reward if he wins is slightly greater. He would win the lottery money + he gets to tell people who don’t understand independence this incredible story!
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by jaccola 5mo ago
The company website linked in the article is broken https://www.dottxt.ai/ on (mobile and desktop) Safari. Looks like your cert doesn’t cover the www subdomain.
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by jaccola 5mo ago
Indeed, the same meditation that originated the phrase ‘no man is an island’. Though, of course, the better version is “Ask not for whom the timer ticks. It ticks for thee”
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by jaccola 5mo ago
250k would be a steal! More like $20M+
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by jaccola 5mo ago
To be fair, this should probably be covered by basic physics/maybe cooking classes. “You can’t determine the calories in food by looking at it” isn’t really ML specific.
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by jaccola 5mo ago
Indeed, I think any reasonable human might say “A few hundred calories but without measuring the ingredients I might be way off”. I think LLMs could get there, I don’t see anything stopping that. Though they have been notoriously bad at thi

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