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by loudmax 6mo ago
I was thinking the same thing. The stuff ASML does to produce a light at exactly the right wavelength is bananas. Making of stream of molten tin, and shooting each droplet with a laser, twice! Then bouncing the light through a series of sup
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by loudmax 6mo ago
Let's say we take Anthropic's security and alignment claims at face value, and they have models that are really good at uncovering bugs and exploiting software. What should Anthropic do in this case? Anthropic could immediately
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by loudmax 7mo ago
Charlie Sykes, a founder of the Bulwark podcast, has a story about it here: https://charliesykes.substack.com/p/a-vivid-snapshot-of-trum... Some highlights include a $580 million dollar bet on oil futures 15 minutes be
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by loudmax 7mo ago
My Prius Prime has been fantastic for me. It has about a 25 mile charge, which is just enough to get me to work and back. That range is a significant caveat. If your round trip commute (or one way commute, if you can charge at work) is ou
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by loudmax 7mo ago
> In an area entirely filled to the brim with the "evil" Trump supporters Hanlon's Razor applies: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".
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by loudmax 7mo ago
Plenty of people with kids are voting to block new housing. It's not that they don't want their kids to be able to afford to pay rent. They're just not making the basic connection between supply and demand. This just happened
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by loudmax 7mo ago
> It is a great plan. Let's be real here. Nothing this administration ever does is planned.
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by loudmax 7mo ago
For normal, day to day use, examples in documentation is absolute gold. As a practical matter, that's how we human learn to do things. Perhaps surprisingly, even AI benefits from examples. Children don't learn to speak a languag
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by loudmax 7mo ago
A man passes his X chromosome (inherited from his mother) to any daughters. Any female offspring of a neanderthal father and a homo sapiens mother would have a neanderthal X chromosome and a sapiens X chromosome. If it's true that th
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by loudmax 7mo ago
All of Google's advantages in AI are despite Sundar Pichai's leadership, not because of it.
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by loudmax 7mo ago
The mental gymnastics people are performing in order to convince themselves that this isn't the most corrupt administration the US has seen in modern history is staggering. If a fraction of the level of skepticism these people applied
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by loudmax 8mo ago
It really depends what kind of time frame we're talking about. As far as today's models, these are best understood as tools to be used as humans. They're only replacements for humans insofar as individual developers can accom
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by loudmax 8mo ago
This is the correct way to handle a former president who tries to mount an anti-democratic insurrection.
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by loudmax 8mo ago
It's not relevant to coding, but we need to be very clear eyed about how these models will be used in practice. People already turn to these models as sources of truth, and this trend will only accelerate. This isn't a reason no
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by loudmax 8mo ago
If you mean that they're benchmaxing these models, then that's disappointing. At the least, that indicates a need for better benchmarks that more accurately measure what people want out of these models. Designing benchmarks that c
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by loudmax 8mo ago
I can't tell whether the words to Fela Kuti's "Water No Get Enemy" are profound or trite. But I can declare with 100% confidence that this song *rocks*! Go check it out.
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by loudmax 8mo ago
This paper indicates that we should probably be less fearful of Terminator style accidental or emergent AI-misalignment. At least, as far as the existing auto-regressive LLM architecture is concerned. We may want to revisit these concerns
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by loudmax 8mo ago
This M1E3 Abrams tank prototype is a hybrid: https://insideevs.com/news/784805/abrams-m1e3-hybrid-tank-vi... It turns out that if you aren't deluded by culture war superficialities, energy efficiency is an a
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by loudmax 8mo ago
Under the current administration, the US is in the process of throttling long term economic growth, cutting itself off from its traditional allies, and pulling back as a global power. China's Communist Party has the most to gain from
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by loudmax 8mo ago
As a US citizen, I'm proud of Minnesotans for standing up for American values.
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by loudmax 8mo ago
Arguably, that's the point. For post-truth politicians, the objective isn't to present a narrative as objectively factual, but to bring the entire notion of factual objectivity into question. It's not "This is the truth
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by loudmax 9mo ago
The GenAI providers will certainly explore advertisement revenue. They're not doing much of it yet because they're trying to gain market share while they figure out what what pain threshold of advertising their users will tolerat
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by loudmax 9mo ago
AI might be accelerating the trend, but there's been a populist revolt against institutions for over a decade. It's been happening long before ChatGPT, and this isn't just in Europe and the US. The erosion of trust in governm
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by loudmax 9mo ago
It depends on the context. If you're with a small organization and you're interacting with the project early in the development, it could well be your duty to explain your misgivings and why you think they should do things differ
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by loudmax 9mo ago
AI may never be able to replace the best tech writers, or even pretty good tech writers. But today's AI might do better than the average tech writer. AI might be able to generate reasonably usable, if mediocre, technical documentati
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by loudmax 9mo ago
No. That is excessively cynical. Even GW Bush and the neocons really thought toppling Hussein would benefit Iraqis more than just Americans. That invasion turned out to be a complete disaster that probably benefited Islamist radicals mor
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by loudmax 9mo ago
Today, we take the term "open source" for granted, but this wasn't always the case. There wasn't a single, universally accepted term to describe software that was freely shareable. "Free software" was one of
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by loudmax 9mo ago
For manufacturing in the US to be economically competitive on the global stage (or even on the domestic stage), the actual work will mostly be performed by robots, not by humans. This will bring back profits, but not a lot of jobs. In the
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by loudmax 9mo ago
The "US plan," is driven by the executive office. That is to say, the by the US president. Insofar as there is any plan, the current officeholder's priorities are to project the appearance of personal power on television. I
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by loudmax 10mo ago
I don't find your mother's reaction bizarre. When people are told that some behavior they've been doing for years is bad for reasons X,Y,Z, it's typical to be defensive and skeptical. The fact that your mother really d

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