magicalist

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by magicalist 1mo ago
> wound up working in ads or finance Because there's lots and lots of money in that and there's not in funding pure math. It sounds like your problem is with the people holding the purse strings.
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by magicalist 1mo ago
> "Here is a picture of the dish, make it look nicer and use that as a reference" That's not a function of improvement in models, though, which was the question. You could literally do that today, no need to wait for mod
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by magicalist 1mo ago
> In other words, the "right" people need to solve it: the mathematicians who made it their job and not the people working to push AI models forward? This is not at all what he said? I'm not sure how you got this from an
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by magicalist 1mo ago
Surprised to see someone on HN arguing against open science. Seems like the opposite of the lessons we should learn from Newton and Gauss, actually, hoarding results for decades at the expense of progress. (the Pythagorean thing isn't
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by magicalist 1mo ago
> Soldiers rarely know the history of war, and war historians are rarely soldiers. I mean, besides the empty platitude that we have no reason to assume applies here, we can easily search and find Tao commenting on the history and phil
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by magicalist 1mo ago
> Then will we continue to see the slop accusations? If it doesn't look like the food you're about to purchase, yes? Why is this even a question in this context.
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by magicalist 1mo ago
I mean, I actively advocate for better fuel efficiency standards but also haven't entirely eliminated red meat from my diet. If I'm discussing fuel efficiency standards and you call me hypocritical, even if I granted that, it does
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by magicalist 1mo ago
> If this is true he should release the actual emails these were statements while on a call, and at least the career comment Bubeck has admitted to while doing damage control ("I deeply apologize for this extremely poor choice of
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by magicalist 1mo ago
> identify any of their de-identified data that came from their usage of ChatGPT "de-identified" seems more of a euphemism than normal in this context, given the very unique work they were doing.
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by magicalist 1mo ago
> Buried under the drama is the fact that OpenAI is claiming that an internal model they’ve been training for less than two weeks is more than twice as capable in mathematics as Astra. Is this buried under the drama or are the major Op
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by magicalist 1mo ago
That's playing RuneScape though? Unless the connection is just that these are both RuneScape related?
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by magicalist 1mo ago
I believe that means the v8 sandbox, not a renderer sandbox, based on the v8CTF reference.
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by magicalist 1mo ago
> “We found the scapegoat, blame that guy!” Yeah, that's not what an scapegoat is.
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by magicalist 1mo ago
> You could script this in with a time database, illustrations, and appropriate harness, tests, and editing passes. Yes, and I could script a truly marvelous proof if this textarea were but a little larger :) Hand waving doesn't c
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by magicalist 1mo ago
> I suggest you to give a look to the MCP protocol for hardware that is being proposed by Anthropic. The hardware will be the next harness of LLMs, they will be able to operate machines to reinforce their theories. Yeah, that's ca
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by magicalist 2mo ago
> Uhhh… how would literally any finite number of humans actually read and comprehend the log outputs of even a single agent, never mind hundreds or thousands of them interacting with each other over weeks across disparate systems I mea
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by magicalist 2mo ago
> This is the case with all complex system failures. There were always obvious fixes that could’ve prevented it. From this writeup and the Black Hat talk I'd really disagree. That would be like saying my hospital getting ransomwar
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by magicalist 2mo ago
> Those turned out to be inadequate against proto-GPT-6 agents This is nonsense. Gross negligence in the sandbox and system aside, humans literally noticed the agents in action doing what they should not be able to do in their sandbox
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by magicalist 2mo ago
> See current situation where the Carpenters' Union in California is pushing hard against an initiative that would make it much easier to build more housing in the state because it would also reduce requirements for union labor If
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by magicalist 2mo ago
> Since the current NVL72 are still at the ~15%/yr failure rate it's not clear your new data center is going to have half it's compute in 3 years This would be a stupidly bad failure rate, basically the worst business de
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by magicalist 2mo ago
> As much as I enjoy rust, there is no reason why a c++ library can’t be optimised to match the rust implementation. I don't think anyone is claiming that. I took the GP's point as what was desired was a "safe, performan
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by magicalist 2mo ago
> The RWE paid 1.26 billion to acquire the lease on offshore wind. Payment is a refund. The Trump administration told them it could continue to make the process drag out for more years as it has been or they could spend the money on fo
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by magicalist 2mo ago
> Meanwhile Nvidia just announced a space-optimized Vera Rubin designed with SpaceX designed for orbital datacenters. well, no, they announced the concept of a space-optimized Vera Rubin designed with SpaceX: > NVIDIA and SpaceXA
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by magicalist 2mo ago
Not sure what you're arguing here (we shouldn't even try?), but even going fatalistic, that's still fully compatible with "Treat models as untrusted and potentially compromised/hostile and proceed accordingly".
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by magicalist 2mo ago
> what if they know they are in a sandbox and that they should fail the test in order to escape in the future. What if they're able to find hardware exploits and commandeer nearby access points across an air gap? What if they hack
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by magicalist 2mo ago
When Amazon gets to run an offgrid power plant for a new data centre that's permitted to release more co2 than any other single power plant in the US[1], you'll pardon me for wondering what the rush is and why it becomes literally
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by magicalist 2mo ago
Like this one: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/article-abstrac... > Among patients undergoing cancer surgery, waiting times to initiation of first-course therapy have steadily increased since 2012
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by magicalist 2mo ago
Indeed: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/us-wait-times-for-can...
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by magicalist 2mo ago
> Maybe I'm overly cynical, but I think charities exist to exist. They don't have a strong incentive to actually deliver on their mission. Everyone at the org may be fully bought it and obviously want to cure cancer, but as an
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by magicalist 2mo ago
> Wasn't LLaMA or Llama 2 the first ever open weight LLM through a leak No > and weren't there speculations that Zuckerberg himself might be involved in it and no. Meta legal was issuing DMCA notices within days (so, ple

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