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by jonplackett 2mo ago
Can anyone explain why the body doesn’t just naturally make lots of These broadly neutralising antibodies? It seems like they’d be so useful - so there must be a good reason there aren’t lots of them normally?
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
The reality of this is a lot less exciting than the headline implies.
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
That graph basically shows China is 6 months behind. So yeah it’s not as good now, but it 6 months it will be.
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
There’s an article from yesterday I think it was stratchery where they say it’s also because the Chinese open source models are better because they don’t have to play by the no-distilling rules that the western models have to honour.
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
I just gave the day dream / pay bills image to ChatGPT and Gemini pro and they both could only tell me the pay bills text (shown with the thin lines)
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
If you push that ditch analogy though. Yeah we no longer dig ditches manually - but we also then all got overweight and weak because people aren’t doing any physical labour anymore. (Most people anyway) And diggers absolutely do have a mono
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
The thing is - is it a self fulfilling prophecy? We already know junior hiring an are down. And how many people are now excited to learn to code compared to 5years ago? How many of those excited people are ACTUALLY learning to code and not
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
Prediction: in 2027 a coding agent will read this as inspiration for why it should code.
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
What is the car’s reaction if you just block the camera. Will it still drive?
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
What do you think is the answer then? Why does it think that? I just thought it’s interesting that it constantly uses that as a justification but they don’t explain where that justification comes from.
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
Question: how does Fable _know_ it’s ‘just a simulation’? Is that specified or does it always just assume it isn’t really being put in charge of things for real?
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
We got another 6 months, meatbags.
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
This reminds me of ‘The Jules Test’. Popularised (hyper locally) by my friend Jules. When renting a flat, simply head straight to the bathroom and flush the toilet. If the toilet flush is good, the flat is fine.
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
Someone explain how the HN algorithm has put this on the front page
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
Yeah, I was waiting for the punchline, but it never came
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
So many websites are like this. Amazon is one of them - why make it so hard to zoom in on an image?
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
Ok so have you just accepted that you don’t know what any of the internals of the software do anymore? Do you go try work it out later, or do you just accept that this isn’t what software development means anymore? Do you have to send your
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
I thought this was how everyone who can actually code uses AI for anything that’s actually important. Am I wrong? Are you guys just YOLOing everything these days?
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
Wanna come do my monthly deep clean?
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
$8000 up front + $100 a month Assuming it lasts maybe 4 years that’s $61 a week. So you could just hire a human cleaner to come once a week and have them do a way better job. Or if you prefer to compare to the subscription price of $450 a m
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
Bearing in mind even competent human cleaners often do a mediocre job tidying up I cannot possibly see how this robot could even begin to be useful.
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
Businesses don’t care how much sun you get
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
Seems to be mostly full of people hurling racist abuse - this should surprise no one.
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
It’s funny that at just the phrase ‘Long Wave’ my mind jumps back the “long wave radio Atlantic 252”. I miss the days of jingles.
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by jonplackett 3mo ago
Wouldn’t that just help the American labs anyway though? Or do they assume they’ve actually already figured this stuff out and kept it secret?
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by jonplackett 4mo ago
Yeah agreed. Would be good to know the number of replies at least
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by jonplackett 4mo ago
Weird that it’s the Neo that is affected why it famously has hardly any ram.
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by jonplackett 4mo ago
How can there be any moat for AI ever, if you can just steal a model by talking to it?
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by jonplackett 4mo ago
This is actually a great answer
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by jonplackett 4mo ago
I thought the whole point was that it doesn’t need to be pointed at the problem. That’s a much easier problem to solve. Also you eliminate 10000 false positives.

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