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logicchains
2mo ago
>Meanwhile, Microsoft: "Copilot!" The difference is nobody expects anything better from Microsoft. Teams didn't exactly set the bar high.
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2mo ago
They also have the money, the hardware and the talent to be the best cloud infrastructure provider, yet they're still far behind AWS (for good reason, as anyone who's dealt with their customer service will understand).
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2mo ago
It's not a ML talent problem. You don't need to be a genius deep learning researcher to think "Hey, maybe if we massively throttle and degrade the quality of our model while still charging the same price, that might drive peo
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2mo ago
>But it also indirectly cheats their peers who are being surpassed by the cheating students (at least in school). Similarly for cheating in interviews. This doesn't happen if they're only assessed based on well-invigilated on-p
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2mo ago
Go back to the old approach where degrees/credentials are conferred based on discussion/debate with the professors and an on-paper exam at end of year, with no attendance or classes required. Then just have the professors provide
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logicchains
2mo ago
Talk about moving the goalposts. Pray tell, exactly what must an LLM do before you're willing to consider it AI? Be specific, otherwise you're just woo-mongering.
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logicchains
2mo ago
>This seems to be the end of the road for LLM's. There's only so much accuracy on a highly non-linear space you can get from a regression. It's just inadequate benchmarks. Anyone who has used Fable for anything particularl
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2mo ago
>Beef is already too expensive for most people. Americans are probably the exception but I can assure you that most Europeans do not have beef heavy diets. Beef is too expensive for many Europeans because GDP per capita/standards of
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2mo ago
There's tens of millions of well-armed Americans who'd rather die fighting then let anyone take away their right to eat red meat, so good luck trying.
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2mo ago
>Agricultural reform or innovation is certainly an avenue to explore; but this strange obsession with "stop eating red meat" is a bit too much. Most of the people pushing it are doing so because they believe it's immoral t
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2mo ago
Realistically it means trying to start a small business of some sort, because AI is hugely advantageous to business owners and disadvantageous to workers. And it's something AIs can't do unless they get legal personhood, which may
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2mo ago
For really hard problems (maths) it's far far worse than Fable 5, not even as good as Sol 4.6. Current benchmarks are inadequate as they fail to capture how much worse Opus 5 is than Fable 5.
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2mo ago
As another Australian I'm glad to see it. I remember as a kid watching a neighbour's dog of many years being dragged away to the slaughter by a council worker as the old women pleaded for it to be spared, just because it wasn'
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2mo ago
Haskell was created in 1990, five years after C++.
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2mo ago
You can literally read their thoughts if you run an open model, they look like pretty human thoughts to me, albeit a neurotic human.
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2mo ago
>Meaning a big impact on homes – you know, the things people and families live in, in order to survive. Maybe those people should pay their tradespeople better then. Everybody's all "workers should be paid more" until they
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2mo ago
>You can recognize the utility of something while acknowledging that, on the whole, it'd be better if it didn't exist. There's a word for that: hypocrisy.
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2mo ago
It will harm it even more by not subjecting it to competition, so it becomes bloated and uncompetitive like the US car and shipbuilding industries.
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2mo ago
Golang's reason for existence is pretty much compilation speed.
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2mo ago
Sounds like a challenge.
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2mo ago
Math is the opposite of a canary because it's possible to generate infinite amounts of synthetic training data for it, unlike almost every other kind of knowledge work where correctness depends on external input.
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2mo ago
Have you heard of https://cakeml.org/ ? It's a self-hosting formally verified compiler.
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logicchains
2mo ago
Your handwritten one has a major performance bug: found := false for _, v := range s { if v == needle { found = true break } } Do you see it? It copies the v into a local variable, wh
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2mo ago
The human body is an extremely complex system. Simulating it completely accuracy would require a computer many orders of magnitude more powerful than anything currently existing, so the only way to know if a treatment doesn't produce a
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2mo ago
It's only a matter of time until it or something like it catches on as a replacement for Telegram's "People/Groups Nearby" feature that France forced it to remove.
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2mo ago
It could be deliberate. Like Wechat's Chinese name is "Weixin", which is a pun on "for sex" in Mandarin (for which its "people nearby" feature originally saw heavy usage). As a decentralized social network
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2mo ago
Find out on expertsexchange.com
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Fable is better for some really hard tasks, the same way it's better than GPT 5.6 Sol, because it's a bigger model.
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2mo ago
The Indian government is pretty serious about cracking down violently on peaceful protesters: https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/07/23/india-excessive-force-us...
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2mo ago
For context, there are currently mass protests against the Indian government which the government is violently suppressing. It also just cut off the internet in a major city to stop the protesters communicating, so this ban is probably to t
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