kybernetikos

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by kybernetikos 6mo ago
It's hard for me to know for sure, but to me it felt like the fact that none of the firefoxOS phones were targetted as devices developers would themselves want to use as their main phone was a big misstep in strategy.
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by kybernetikos 6mo ago
I've still got a firefox OS phone in a drawer somewhere. I was disappointed it got discontinued like so many other mozilla projects.
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by kybernetikos 6mo ago
I used S2 to make https://wherewords.id/ It was very pleasant to work with - I spent by far the majority of the project time on the wordlist.
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by kybernetikos 6mo ago
I think maybe a better analogy would be "the ladder I'm standing at the top of has some faulty rungs near the bottom. I'll set it on fire." There are lots of things where tearing the system down and starting from scratc
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by kybernetikos 6mo ago
All systems have problems. What's your evidence that the system in the US is overall net negative? Pretty much the entire rest of the world would have loved to have a scentific system as good as that in the USA. The research output fr
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by kybernetikos 6mo ago
Maybe I need to spell out the step that connects them - how will those companies afford to keep "iterating forward at the frontier" when they probably have a huge crash in their income coming from competition with good enough, but
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by kybernetikos 6mo ago
If you can get something almost as capable for a fiftieth of the price, in most cases you'll do that. You might still send a few tokens to the more expensive option for the exceptional, difficult cases, but that's maybe 10% of the
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by kybernetikos 6mo ago
I think 'average' is creating a bad intuition here. In order to accurately predict the next word in a human generated text, you need a model of the big picture of what is being said. You need a model of what is real and what is n
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by kybernetikos 6mo ago
They are a mathematical function that has been found during a search that was designed to find functions that produce the same output as conscious beings writing meaningful works.
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by kybernetikos 6mo ago
A human in school might try to minimise the difference between their grades and the best possible grades. If they're a poor student they might start using more advanced vocabulary, sometimes with an inadequate grasp of when it is appro
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by kybernetikos 6mo ago
Neural networks are universal approximators. The function being approximated in an LLM is the mental process required to write like a human. Thinking of it as an averaging devoid of meaning is not really correct.
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by kybernetikos 6mo ago
My previous phone was refurbished and was great in all ways except for battery life. I have now bought a new phone that I wouldn't have bought if batteries were replaceable. Having said that, I do like having waterproof phones, and I e
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by kybernetikos 7mo ago
It's surprisingly rare for fonts to be careful to distinguish not just Il1| but also 0O 2Z "'' 5S B8. I typically set my system font to something that does, like Atkinson hyperlegible.
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by kybernetikos 7mo ago
He wasn't particularly scathing about it - in the article it's presented as a decent solution to a difficult problem, just that in his opinion too much was paid for it - but that being so it should have stayed in place.
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by kybernetikos 7mo ago
There's a lot of cargo culting, but it's inevitable in a situation like this where the truth is model dependent and changing the whole time and people have created companies on the premise they can teach you how to use ai well.
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by kybernetikos 7mo ago
I don't want to give the impression that I don't find the whole direction of travel concerning, because I do, but as I understand it, the requirement is that the system administrator assigns ages to the users on their system. That
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by kybernetikos 7mo ago
I don't even fully understand what people are suggesting instead. That we use CLI tools for everything? There are lots of things I do and tools I use that cli would be very inefficient for interacting with.
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by kybernetikos 7mo ago
I assume that this is dependent on app, and it's quite possible that your approach is best in some cases. In my case I started with something somewhat like Playwright, and claude had a habit of interacting with the app more directly th
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by kybernetikos 7mo ago
I understand that in earth based data centers, 30-40% of the power is spent on cooling. That's in facilities that can cool using conduction and convection to the outside environment. I don't have any experience in this area, but i
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by kybernetikos 7mo ago
I've just been discovering this pattern too. It's made a huge difference. Trying to get Claude to remote control an app for testing via the various other means was miserable and unreliable. I got it to build an MCP server into th
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by kybernetikos 7mo ago
> you need humans to run datacenters. As far as I can tell from random articles online, it seems that as a rule of thumb, you need about 6 humans +1.5 humans per megawatt - and that's just for running the datacenter part, different
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by kybernetikos 7mo ago
Everything relating to a datacentre that you can do in space you can do more easily on earth, regardless of 10,000x inference growth or supply chain or production or starship or silicon. I just don't think you can be cost competitive
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by kybernetikos 7mo ago
It's hard for an uprising of poor people to shut it off. It's the ideal place to run your CEO / President simulations. I say this tongue in cheek, but in all seriousness, I can't really think of any other benefit, and I
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by kybernetikos 7mo ago
I don't think you should call your agents Eve. There's going to be a lot of examples in the training data of someone called Eve shifting the blame (from the book of Genesis on!) and acting deceptively (from cryptography research).
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by kybernetikos 8mo ago
What about Dark Star? Humans strapped to an AI bomb that they have to persuade not to kill them all.
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by kybernetikos 8mo ago
I recently got junie to code me up an MCP for accessing my calibre library. https://www.npmjs.com/package/access-calibre My standard test for that was "Who ends up with Bilbo's buttons?"
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by kybernetikos 8mo ago
Gpt3.5 as used in the first commercially available chat gpt is believed to be hundreds of billions of parameters. There are now models I can run on my phone that feel like they have similar levels of capability. Phones are never going to ru
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by kybernetikos 8mo ago
It seems that all of the comparisons with computational systems are either not really true (the supposed sharp distinction between hardware and software depends on whether you're considering the system as a software engineer, a firmwar
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by kybernetikos 8mo ago
None of the descriptive points of what it means to be a biological organism really seem germaine to the core question of consciousness, which as far as I'm concerned is the inner experience. Every month, the thesis seems more certain t
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by kybernetikos 9mo ago
> Then I spent time in Asia The worst show I've seen for this was american - mythbusters.

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