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811.
by mpalmer 2y ago
Yeah I agree, something like that. Honestly though I think it's more than that, I like building "toys" that are fun to use (and help with productive work). I don't think anyone's hiring toymakers, I might need to go
812.
by mpalmer 2y ago
Very good post. A lot of it rings true with my own experience and it seems like you've found a lot of good ways to work with what you've got, instead of around or through it. I also like "addressing the pain" - a bit to
813.
by mpalmer 2y ago
In my experience it's always challenging for people who struggle with focus and motivation to have conversations about it with people who don't have those issues, even when everyone involved means well. Unless someone has experien
814.
by mpalmer 2y ago
Using the unqualified word "freedom" has an ambiguity that political actors exploit. Freedom to do something is entirely separate to "free to live in a world where ___". To be honest, I feel the latter sense of the word
815.
by mpalmer 2y ago
That is some heavy-duty foil in your hat there. Even allowing for the ridiculously massive technical leap from 1 to 2 and then 2 to 3, it doesn't make much sense. For one thing, if states are determined to enforce individual emissions
816.
by mpalmer 2y ago
Would love to know the ratio of marketing spend to R&D on this thing.
817.
by mpalmer 2y ago
You can almost see the (slightly) richer information hidden behind this lazy LLM summary they are passing off as a blog post.
818.
by mpalmer 2y ago
For me it's become a signal the person making the claim is unserious.
819.
by mpalmer 2y ago
> People have different values and ideas, which means those words may mean something entirely different to someone else, to how you interpret them. You have more or less restated my point, and incorrectly assumed that I don't know
820.
by mpalmer 2y ago
This post is titled as though the content is newsy and not just the Cake homepage.
821.
by mpalmer 2y ago
Like politics, I find that extremism and absolutism in software usually leads to less inclusion and less freedom for everyone involved, not more. Look at the effects of the policy, not just the intention. The unintended targets of the restr
822.
by mpalmer 2y ago
Cool project, just wish it wasn't AGPL.
823.
by mpalmer 2y ago
I don't celebrate the loss of good jobs, but I can't say I'm unhappy about a refocus on producing "fewer, better" titles.
824.
by mpalmer 2y ago
I question the logic of excluding Chromium users from reading one's writing about de-googling. Sorry, I'm not switching browsers to receive this particular brilliance.
825.
by mpalmer 2y ago
That'd be nice. Local models are absolutely improving but I believe there's going to be a capability plateau for generalized language models regardless of where they're hosted.
826.
by mpalmer 2y ago
Not a single word about user privacy, which is more than a little ridiculous. Even if you agree with the author, it is impossible that all of these impressive capabilities that depend on recording everything about your life will exist witho
827.
by mpalmer 2y ago
And yet the blog post still got it wrong: > Now you move forward with what the team calls Round 1. Keep going through Hamlet, adding new words as you go. If you come to a word that’s already on your list, flip a coin again. If it’s tails
828.
by mpalmer 2y ago
Just because the acronym is right there on the ground doesn't mean you have to pick it up. There's already a pretty famous Raft in computing.
829.
by mpalmer 2y ago
Not so great a leap; every part of your comment implies you think they made a strange decision going the route of using someone's pet project.
830.
by mpalmer 2y ago
"Why Rust cannot replace C++ for me, a C++ fan"
831.
by mpalmer 3y ago
Oh yeah absolutely, I'll just stop sharing my opinion of one of the most highly trafficked websites in the world.
832.
by mpalmer 3y ago
It's true and it's no mystery to me, just tragic and irritating.
833.
by mpalmer 3y ago
Ah, you think I don't know that? I mute and look away every time.
834.
by mpalmer 3y ago
You're absolutely right, all of my complaints are about ads. I could also complain about the incentives Youtube gives creators to make phenomenally irritating thumbnails, video structures (everything is 20 goddam minutes long now), the
835.
by mpalmer 3y ago
What has Google done to make YouTube better in the last five years? I can name several things its made a lot worse: Chromecast "at-rest" screen now looks like a DVR from hell, showing only clickbait-y revenue-driven Youtube crap a
836.
by mpalmer 3y ago
Because the US government doesn't have effectively total control over those companies the way China has over Bytedance. Is that not apparent to you?
837.
by mpalmer 3y ago
Why does this work? No one really understands what goes on in the tangled mess of weights that is an LLM, but clearly there is some mechanism that allows it to home in on what the user wants, as evidenced by the content in the contex
838.
by mpalmer 3y ago
Without the swift promise of decades in prison, what prevents the "next SBF" from committing similar crimes and causing similar damage? > Everyone has only 1 life Doesn't that make imprisonment (the ultimate time penalty)
839.
by mpalmer 3y ago
I was going to bring up Jonny Greenwood's great score for There Will Be Blood and then remembered it was released nearly two decades ago. Still, a tremendous modern score that adds immeasurably to the end result. I think quite a lot ab
840.
by mpalmer 3y ago
Unless humans themselves were tested on a benchmark, the benchmark data doesn't help us compare the model to human performance. Of all the SWEs out there that draw a salary, how many do you think would improve on this 14% unassisted fi

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