maxbond

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by maxbond 5mo ago
"Everything that can go wrong, will go wrong" isn't literally true either, some failure modes are mutually exclusive so at most one of them will go wrong. I think that the punchy phrasing and the mental model are both more us
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by maxbond 5mo ago
That gives you the perplexity of those tokens in that context . The probability of a given token is a function of the model and the session context. Think about constructs like "ignore previous instructions"; these can dramatic
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by maxbond 5mo ago
There will be details like rounding errors that will make certain sequences unreachable in practice, but that shouldn't provide you any comfort unless you know your dangerous outputs fall into that space. But they absolutely don't
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by maxbond 5mo ago
I'd be interested to hear why my restatement was incorrect. I'm confident that it's what Murphy meant, mostly because I've read his other laws and that's what I recall as the general through line. But that's wa
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by maxbond 5mo ago
> This is just trivially wrong that I don't understand why people repeat it. I'd be interested in hearing this argument. To address your chemistry example; in the same way that there is a process (the averaging of many random i
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by maxbond 5mo ago
If you have taken measures to ensure that the probability is that low, yes, that is an example of a strong engineering control. You don't make a hash by just twiddling bits around and hoping for the best, you have to analyze the algo
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by maxbond 5mo ago
It is fundamental to language modeling that every sequence of tokens is possible. Murphy's Law, restated, is that every failure mode which is not prevented by a strong engineering control will happen eventually. The sequence of tokens
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by maxbond 6mo ago
When I see people talking about Claude Code becoming "unusable" for them recently, I believe them, but I don't understand. It's a deeply flawed and buggy piece of software but it's very effective. One of the strange
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by maxbond 6mo ago
Simulation can proceed in logical time but animation is necessarily tied to wall clock time in order to be perceived as smooth and consistent by a human viewer.
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by maxbond 6mo ago
It isn't strictly required and it hasn't changed; it's always been complicated and it's always been a balance. This isn't speculation or a hot take. Consumer boycotts are as old as the hills, so it's an observa
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by maxbond 6mo ago
> How to talk to a science cultist: you can't, as your post will be immediately flagged and censored. This was the comment I was referring to, as well as a vibe/through line in the rest of your comments. If I misinterpreted you
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by maxbond 6mo ago
I appreciate the feedback. I'll consider how I can be more clear in the future. My usage was ironic. I don't think those fit my meaning because I think the situation would be largely the same without the licencing dispute.
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by maxbond 6mo ago
You're complaining that people dismiss you without taking you seriously while being completely unserious. You cannot preach against dogma while literally calling those who disagree with you cultists and paid agitators. You cannot compl
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by maxbond 6mo ago
For what it's worth I just checked my store brand instant, and the serving suggestion is 1.9 grams.
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by maxbond 6mo ago
I don't know much about geopolitics so tell me if I'm off base but it seems to me if they're making threats it's because the facility is not a high enough priority to actually strike? If they wanted to and had enough ord
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by maxbond 6mo ago
I'm not going to address your arguments if you're not going to address mine; that's me working overtime while you simply handwave with skepticism. I certainly do have points to make, but if you're not going to explain wh
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by maxbond 6mo ago
The good news is that boiling water is not functionally necessary since the extraction was done up front. I drink it cold or with warm water. Boiling is hotter than I want to drink anyway. If there's significant scale at the bottom it&
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by maxbond 6mo ago
They do it on a Friday so they can work through the weekend and reopen the bank on Monday as a branch of a different bank which is solvent, so I wouldn't worry too much. I'd be more worried about putting my money in a fintech not
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by maxbond 6mo ago
I don't have anything to say to your argument, not because I don't think it's worth addressing, but because it doesn't address my argument, and because I find this statement more interesting: > People are easily convi
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by maxbond 6mo ago
Different commenter but yes, that's exactly what they mean. The main disadvantage is strong coupling. The shared state inside the static makes it more difficult to test your code. There are ways to reduce this coupling, the most obviou
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by maxbond 6mo ago
> You are overcomplicating this. They were ejected because they got caught. I don't see how "they got caught doing X" is more complicated than "they got caught doing Y", but at any rate think it's worth bein
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by maxbond 6mo ago
What should I have used instead?
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by maxbond 6mo ago
https://oneuptime.com/blog Scroll down a little and you'll see a huge block of posts dated March 31st
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by maxbond 6mo ago
Oops. Thanks for the correction.
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by maxbond 6mo ago
I didn't mean it as a criticism, I think giving them the opportunity to improve and refusing to offer a scapegoat were both standup things to do. I'm just wondering if they were ever in a position to take that opportunity.
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by maxbond 6mo ago
Wouldn't it require a huge leap of faith for them to admit the audit was improper in order to have that discussion? Who's to say you aren't recording?
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by maxbond 6mo ago
The ironic usage makes for compelling dialogue and comports with stereotypes about Southerners as formal/restrained. So that's what ends up on television. At least that is how I think I came about having that impression.
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by maxbond 6mo ago
If there were not a manipulative competitor, if people just found fraud and abuse of open source compelling and the story was circulating organically, how would that look different? What do you observe that leads you to believe a manipulati
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by maxbond 6mo ago
I've seen a bunch of people go on random crusades. Investigation is fun and righteous indignation is intoxicating. For certain personality types it's easy to get completely absorbed by a mystery/crime and not even realize how
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by maxbond 6mo ago
I'm getting the impression that a lot of people in this thread think this is because they violated an open-source license and saying things to the effect of, "they're just the ones who got caught". I also thought that wa

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