maxbond

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by maxbond 4mo ago
What's burned me before is iterating over hash maps. B-tree maps (or hash maps that are guaranteed to iterate in insertion order, or any fixed order) are your friend.
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by maxbond 4mo ago
It definitely wasn't causation, the causation flows the other way (criminalizing a proxy for a political belief as an end run around the first amendment).
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by maxbond 4mo ago
Yeah, I agree. It works as an argument for why science can't rely on wealthy benefactors, not for understanding what is possible with a given budget at a given point in time. And biology and chemistry are good counterexamples where cap
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by maxbond 4mo ago
That sounds like excellent grounds for suspicious but I don't know what you mean. We were talking about Peter Higgs for example. I don't think Peter Higgs could have self funded CERN. I don't think a thousand Peter Higgs coul
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by maxbond 4mo ago
What you're describing is (pre-)training. Distillation requires richer labels, the probability distribution over tokens (it would be logits rather than probabilities but that's not important). From a chat transcript you can only u
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by maxbond 4mo ago
"Featureful" doesn't imply "feature complete". They appear to release minor versions all the time. https://curl.se/docs/releases.html If you dig into them you'll see there's lots of f
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by maxbond 4mo ago
All of the low hanging fruit that could be discovered by self-funded gentlemen scientists has been picked. That doesn't scale to a supercollider or a large RCT. Funding at the whims of rich benefactors is very susceptible to petty poli
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by maxbond 4mo ago
That's a tree, but the rest of that comment is the forest.
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by maxbond 4mo ago
Why are you interpreting clear communication of a window of downtime with 2 weeks notice as a "lack of cooperation"? That's what cooperation looks like. It's not explicit but my read was that they're not even taking
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by maxbond 4mo ago
To be honest I don't think my account is in 100% good standing, but I can't say for certain. There's definitely some dead comments on my account that are deserved and I think there are some small limitations that are or have
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by maxbond 4mo ago
Hmm. Interesting. If it was [dead], probably a false positive from a naughty comment filter; if it was [flagged][dead], difficult to say, potentially even an accident, or maybe people didn't like the joke. Given the non-negative karma,
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by maxbond 4mo ago
I don't know what a next generation CAPTCHA should look like, but I know anything game-shaped will be a trivial target for RLVR. That's like trying to beat Stockfish. That ship has sailed.
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by maxbond 4mo ago
It's massive and complex codebase. From the looks of it, pretty much what you'd expect, lots of chores, work on the test suite, keeping docs up to date, bug fixes. I didn't see any new features on my light skim but I'm s
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by maxbond 4mo ago
Atlas shrugged, but only for a month. I kid, it's well deserved. I do worry about their contract work loophole - if people disclose vulnerabilities publicly, their clients may pressure them to ship a fix anyway.
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by maxbond 4mo ago
Again, while I respect that that is your view of sincerity, I don't agree, and I'm not talking about lying, which is obviously inappropriate. Framing is not the same as lying (though taken to an extreme it becomes a lie of omissio
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by maxbond 4mo ago
What I'm telling you is that it isn't an issue of integrity, and that only makes sense from a false premise - that the strictest, most blunt response is what is truest, what is being asked for, or a reflection of your alignment wi
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by maxbond 4mo ago
That's fucked up. If those are your values, that's all well and good, but you can't expect someone else to make the same decision. Job interviews are a performance where you demonstrate you understand what professional expect
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by maxbond 4mo ago
I don't think having trouble knowing how to tailor your message to your audience because of limited information implies it isn't truthful. Answers to jobb interview questions are usually very manicured and rehearsed but I don&#x27
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by maxbond 4mo ago
> Then someone points out that it has no anus and doesn’t need to breathe. But bodily functions? Harumph, why would a true duck need that? Alternatively, your priors about ducks may be wrong.
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by maxbond 4mo ago
What makes that more likely than that people at the DoD are alarmed (with or without good justification) at Fable's capabilities plus finding a jailbreak (or what they interpret as a jailbreak while Anthropic seems to dispute the reque
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by maxbond 4mo ago
Sonnet 4.6 didn't have a problem responding to a prompt containing the first one. Some light searching surfaced a claim this stopped working very recently (May 2026). Perhaps related to the Fable rollout.
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by maxbond 4mo ago
I like to say that every moderation primitive is a denial of service primitive and vice versa. ("Moderation" not being intended to imply it's good or legitimate. You can substitute "censorship" and it's the sam
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by maxbond 4mo ago
I think they meant more "it can be extrapolated or interpolated" or "it can be high variance and 'creative' or it can be low variance and 'reliable/correct/likely'". If you want to see somet
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by maxbond 4mo ago
The ad-supported alternative suffers from the same principle-agent problem. What's to stop an ad-supported model from declining to refer you to products that would be better for your use case but who's vendors haven't paid th
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by maxbond 4mo ago
Is it possible someone on the team published a blog post about why it wasn't possible? Or that otherwise the AI learned from your 5 years of effort? Some of the code made it on GitHub or something? It's totally plausible that it d
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by maxbond 4mo ago
> I pointed out the parallel in both statements. I can't do more than that. You mean these statements? No one cares about teapots in space either (Russel). Teapots are not compelling. I guess you did but that's pr
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by maxbond 4mo ago
I don't think I was quite as patient as I should have been, but I do appreciate it.
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by maxbond 4mo ago
> It directly parallels your argument. Much like Russel argued that the burden of proof of God's existence is on theists, the burden to establish this parallel is on you as the person forwarding the argument. I don't see any re
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by maxbond 4mo ago
It's beside the point and so I only note it out of interest, but the Chinese writing system doesn't use an alphabet (or a syllabary like Japanese kana), it's logography.
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by maxbond 4mo ago
> Is Russel’s Teapot a bad argument in the God debate? What's the relevance? If the argument made here are was a good argument, it wouldn't matter if Russell's argument was bad. We could construct a bad argument using redu

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