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by levocardia 6mo ago
Depends a lot on the task demands. "Got 95% of the way to designing a successful drug" and "Got 100% of the way" is a huge difference in terms of value, and that small bump in intelligence would justify a few orders of m
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by levocardia 6mo ago
Honestly that was the cherry on top for me -- the employee confident enough to just decide "this is my work computer, I need it to do work, I can't do work with my hands being irritated, so I will sand down the edge." Pure go
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by levocardia 6mo ago
>Kinship societies are actively hostile to economic growth, because economic growth undermines the basis of kinship: that is why kinship societies demand constant, visible sacrifices of wealth—funerals being the most spectacular—that mak
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by levocardia 6mo ago
Sure there is a solution, you are just looking at it the wrong way. Make non-AI images provably unaltered with signed keys from the device (e.g. the camera) that took it.
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by levocardia 6mo ago
You can tell the author went deep into reddit because they fell for the wool meme. Sorry but synthetics (for anything active) are far better: lighter, warmer, better at dealing with moisture. One pattern I noticed that was missing: the cla
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by levocardia 6mo ago
Interesting: my Occam's Razor test is "$100B sitting around untouched, how can that be?" Well, simplest answer is that satoshi is dead.
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by levocardia 6mo ago
Yeah this one seems absolutely insane, how many Satoshi Nakamotos are there in the world? It's very plausible to see the name on a mailbox (or meet the person) and think "that'd be a cool handle." And it's so wildly
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by levocardia 6mo ago
Anthropic had their mythos post (and model) basically ready a few weeks ago, as evidenced by the blog content leaks. Also I highly doubt they just threw together a 250-page PDF model card in a "rush."
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by levocardia 6mo ago
Funny contrast with Anthropic. Ant does a "hero run," gets a model much more powerful than they expect. Meta does a hero run, gets a model much more mediocre than they expect. Read into this what you will, I guess?
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by levocardia 6mo ago
CSS with a linear gradient background would be even smaller :)
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by levocardia 6mo ago
Oh you mean literally the thing in AI2027 that gets everyone killed? Wonderful.
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by levocardia 6mo ago
Some of it might be market-signaling to the broader energy industry: "hey would you PLEASE build more power plants and power lines? Look at all this money we have, we will pay for it!"
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by levocardia 6mo ago
Butterick's is a wonderful resource despite the site itself being a little bit of a UI/UX pain (the invisible left/right page turn zones always get me), and as long as you ignore a few of his strange quirks (like the mentione
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by levocardia 6mo ago
I also share something of an "efficient market hypothesis" with regards to Claude Code. Given that Anthropic is basically a hothouse of geniuses recursively dogfooding their own product, the market pressure to make the vanilla set
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by levocardia 6mo ago
Typos and minor grammatical errors within a well-reasoned piece are aesthetic now, means you didn't run it through an LLM...
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by levocardia 6mo ago
Pangram's explicit pitch is extremely low false positives, accepting that a higher rate of false negatives is acceptable.
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by levocardia 7mo ago
My sense is that a powerful enough AI would have the sense to think something like "ah, this sounds like a video game! Let me code up an interactive GUI, test it for myself, then use it to solve these puzzles..." and essentially s
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by levocardia 7mo ago
My reaction as well -- I have a few dozen public repos of 100% human-written code, most are 0 stars!
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by levocardia 7mo ago
Evidence: trust me bro. Really, where is the actual evidence that models are "collapsing" from too much AI-generated training material? Evals are up, subjective perception of model usefulness is up (for me, certainly), and if anyt
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by levocardia 7mo ago
In this very post you can see why: the dplyr code is just so much more readable. Like a lot of python, dplyr reads almost like pseudocode: take this dataset, select the columns that start with "bill", then filter so that bill_leng
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by levocardia 7mo ago
It's missing the most important CLI flag! (--dangerously-skip-permissions)
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by levocardia 7mo ago
It doesn't matter if they are unprofitable at full usage, as long as there are enough users (like me!) who barely ever max out but still pay the $100/month. The people who love Claude Code enough to max out the 20x plan every day,
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by levocardia 7mo ago
Also, commercial insurers are essentially cross-subsidizing Medicare: the higher revenue from commercial insurers is partly why Medicare can be paid less. Similar dynamics exist with drug prices: the high US cost is a cross-subsidy to oth
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by levocardia 7mo ago
To be fair to SSI, they were very explicit about their plan: "we are going to take money and not release anything until we one-shot superintelligence." If you invested in that you knew what you were getting yourself into!
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by levocardia 7mo ago
"product market fit is when people are ripping the product out of your hands and everything is breaking constantly" - seems bullish to me
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by levocardia 7mo ago
Also, decision trees (but not their boosted or bagged variants) are easy (well, easy-ish) to port manually to an edge device that needs to run inference. Small vanilla NNs are as well, but many other popular "classical" ML algorit
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by levocardia 7mo ago
One of the ML textbooks (ESL maybe?) I read described decision trees as (paraphrasing) "really great - they are interpretable, fast to fit, work on lots of different types of data and outcomes, insensitive to scaling and distributional
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by levocardia 7mo ago
You, using normal Claude under the consumer ToS, cannot use it to make weapons, kill people, spy on adversaries, etc. The Pentagon, using War Claude, under their currently-existing contract, can use it to make weapons and spy on (foreign) a
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by levocardia 7mo ago
Right - for the same reasons a Waymo is safer than a human-driven car, an autonomous fighter drone will ultimately be deadlier than a human-flown fighter jet. I would like to forestall that day as long as possible but saying "no autono
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by levocardia 8mo ago
Butterick says you should never, ever justify text without hyphenation https://practicaltypography.com/justified-text.html

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