jamienk

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by jamienk 6d ago
This is very interesting: it is a lot like the GLP (pun intended) solution: it doesn't try to "cure" the symptom, it just piggybacks onto the existing facts-on-the-ground and tries to make things better from there. I'm n
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by jamienk 6d ago
But politics is when people who feel differently try to do something about it
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by jamienk 6d ago
Or what about: the photographer tries to hide so that they don't contaminate the real-life that they are watching, but then the person sort of hears a small sound from the photographer's direction -- they don't actually SEE t
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by jamienk 6d ago
This is so good. I think this is what Hegel meant by the "absolute" - not some final God's-eye view that he's often caricatured for, but the fact that every objective "substance" is and will always be wrought b
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by jamienk 6d ago
We. Are. FUCKED. THIS is where the regulation needs to start.
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by jamienk 6d ago
Let's imagine that a model is pulled from HF by order of the new overlords or because of some other kind of censorship. Wouldn't the question of it having a Free license or not potentially become a complex legal issue? But if the
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by jamienk 6d ago
Can you explain this a bit to a non-expert? I haven't wrapped my mind around this
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by jamienk 7d ago
When we sing, draw, speak, play, we are not attacking the soul of someone else! Culture has always had a kind of violence to it, but not FROM the THIEF: you HAVE to speak the language that was already made; you have to understand and partic
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by jamienk 7d ago
Hasn't this crossed over into being a philosophical question? You want to attest to reality or provenance. But then you start making lists of "acceptable" changes: file format; compression; color-correction; size; taking &quo
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by jamienk 7d ago
"can't be used as evidence" << the whole field is only a few yrs old and is based on academic maths from decades ago. A lot of progress is in harnesses and distillation and weird research that requires creativity. The &
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by jamienk 7d ago
"...are both considered Open Source" << Free Software (GPL) is the O.G. - it's like saying "George Washington is considered to be an American President" or "The Beatles are considered to be a pop/roc
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by jamienk 7d ago
Why do we ("society") need the "frontier" companies at all? Their business goal has settled on trying to CONFUSE the shit out of us so that we don't understand the big pictures about various aspects of AI. THANK YOU
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by jamienk 9d ago
Would like: * Local web page interface or even browser UI element (since extension needed anyway) * Ability to add notes to history * Flag if bookmarked, allow filtering "bookmarks only" * Keep old versions of pages * Human-readab
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by jamienk 9d ago
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342916 Can I add NOTES about pages? This might be a good spot to do that...? Maybe the interface can be in a web page instead of terminal? Before Google took off there was a vibr
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by jamienk 12d ago
1) I don't think "frontier model" is a term of art, it is a marketing term. I have an M1 MacBook Pro. What do you have? Always the "frontier model" laptop? Do you always order the most expensive "frontier menu
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by jamienk 13d ago
I think it is not just liability, it is dawning on us that we can run powerful models locally and this is the start of a Cloud-backlash. The AI gods have tried to make it seem like they are not just running their programs in the cloud, but
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by jamienk 13d ago
https://hugovergnes.github.io/little-lm-3-8b/ << less than $1k for a 4B model Remember how DeepSeek v.whatever cost ~$5m Stable Diffusion 1.5 was reportedly $70k in compute.
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by jamienk 13d ago
Is this "compute is a moat" true though? Why are the economics so obfuscated? Where can we see how much money it costs to TRAIN various models. https://hugovergnes.github.io/little-lm-3-8b/ The training and c
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by jamienk 13d ago
There ARE other options: network effects and lock-in. These tried and true techniques (mastered by FB and M$) have not yet been taken up by the AIers. I do not think they will rely solely on the push for regulations, so they will soon be do
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by jamienk 16d ago
ChatGPT accesses my IP address and geo-locates me. Claude code now asks if it can have my browser cookies. Next they will take my address book. They might scan my whole computer. Etc etc. These are pretty low-tech, normal techniques. We can
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by jamienk 16d ago
I think OpenAI and Anthropic are slowly feeling the pressure to GET SOME $$ or a plan for some $$ — they need to somehow generate some NETWORK EFFECTS and LOCK-IN. Without that there's no stability: selling ad hoc one-offs is much much
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by jamienk 27d ago
There are misplaced verbal emphasis and non-emphasis. And unfortunately these happen at the crucial moments. Makes it very hard to follow.
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by jamienk 27d ago
This is different from the final output? I thought all traversals of the chain of language are through these mathematical means. You could tokenize the word "good" to resolve to only represent 'the opposite of "bad"
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by jamienk 28d ago
Genuine Q about word optimization/token density: If we create a stripped-down vocabulary with greater token density to use less resources and to resolve ambiguities earlier in the semantic process, aren't we creating NEWSPEAK and
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by jamienk 1mo ago
The writing reminded me of the SAT test reading section. Impossible to focus.
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by jamienk 3mo ago
"Right to repair" isn't some kind of little negotiated contract fiddling. A company can't agree to a 5-year right to repair. Right to repair is a normal freedom, like speech, like using everyday objects you buy or make,
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by jamienk 5mo ago
A few things I note: "The family faces immediate FINANCIAL without any legal recourse" WTF? That's not just a flinch, it's some sort of violent tick. The list of "slurs" very conspicuously doesn't include
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by jamienk 1y ago
How does this specifically work? Wouldn't any decision about what training data to use be part of a "technique" in this sense? When Stable Diffusion didn't train on porn. OTOH if the majority of your data is "bad&qu