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by mrandish 2mo ago
> Hard to think of a modern institution as corrupt as fifa. <Formula 1 has joined the chat>
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by mrandish 2mo ago
I went through the same on my 10-inch Android tablet. The key is just sticking with it long enough to get it set up for your needs and prefs. I'm glad I did because it's really great. While the docs are quite good, if you get stuc
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by mrandish 2mo ago
Anthropic's ToS restricts the DoW from using their models for 1. Fully autonomous weapons systems, and 2. Mass domestic surveillance. There is no carve-out regarding who the autonomous weapons systems would be used against.
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by mrandish 2mo ago
> This has serious First Amendment ramifications. Also, the 5th and 9th amendments. For the government to sustain a blanket prohibition on any U.S. citizen even possessing what amounts to a broad, economically significant technology will
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by mrandish 2mo ago
> you can very likely be faced with charges of obstruction of justice or even perjury. If they can't compel you to enter a password (courts have ruled passwords are 'speech' and the government can't compel or constrai
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by mrandish 2mo ago
It's worth adding that distillation is not a violation of whatever valid copyright interests a model maker may have (if any). The US Copyright Office has already said AI model-generated output by itself isn't copyrightable. Unle
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by mrandish 2mo ago
IANAL but I think while lying to some questions might lead to obstruction charges, not answering is simply exercising the right to remain silent.
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by mrandish 2mo ago
Looks a bit like Thunderbird 2. I approve.
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by mrandish 3mo ago
Hyphen: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2010 But there's also hyphen-minus: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+002D , and a search for 'hyphen' returns a bunch of ot
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by mrandish 3mo ago
> an unaligned model Beyond certain obvious 'third-rails' even experts have reasonable disagreements on what 'aligned' means. > everyone integrates it into their business Few large corporations would sole-source in
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by mrandish 3mo ago
I mean wisdom of crowds, super-forecasters, calibration and pre-registration are useful tools that can result in better predictions, turning it into online gambling is where it went sideways.
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by mrandish 3mo ago
> That's why some computer mags started introducing tools to type in programs without ambiguities. Yes, typing long magazine listings was already laborious but then you had the extra challenge of figuring out why it wouldn't ru
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by mrandish 3mo ago
The day they kill off old.reddit.com is the last time I'll visit Reddit (after >15 years, >7,000 comments & >70,000 karma). Old.reddit, the Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES), custom userstyle CSS and uBlock make Reddit tolera
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by mrandish 3mo ago
For sure. I got to know John after meeting him in our respective roles as 'journalist writing about startup' and 'young startup entrepreneur'. As we got to know one another well enough to hang out after trade show hours,
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by mrandish 3mo ago
There have definitely been times when all I really wanted was just access to the same search term-based FAQ portal their frontline tech support had in front of them (because their online FAQ was worthless). But the majority of times I actua
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by mrandish 3mo ago
Don't modern clipboard managers like Ditto already solve this issue because they have non-destructive clipboard history that's instantly viewable and searchable? They also open up the entire feature space because they can have mul
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by mrandish 3mo ago
I had many lovely dinners with John back in the 90s (he loved Chez Panisse). While his public persona could occasionally be curmudgeonly, in person he was a warm-hearted, passionate computing enthusiast.
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by mrandish 3mo ago
> cheap chinese batteries, EVs, and drones? The banning or effective banning through tariffs of products like EVs is a pretty dumb economic strategy that rarely works out in the long-run.
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by mrandish 3mo ago
How was K3 trained on data distilled from Fable when Fable was only publicly available in the last two weeks before K3 was released? The timing just doesn't work.
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by mrandish 3mo ago
$1.5 billion fine for downloading 7 million books from LibGen and other pirate torrents. That's also the case where the judge ruled that training AI models on books could qualify as fair use, but storing millions of pirated works in a
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by mrandish 3mo ago
I often use Gemini free web chat because it's generally quite good at web search-related questions (apparently it has direct token-level access to the Google Search index) but I noticed in the last two weeks output quality of 3.5 Flash
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by mrandish 3mo ago
> a lack of innovation This is a recreation of a retro classic but in terms of new flagship hardware synthesizers there isn't much innovation because music synthesis because the gating factor is DSP and a well-configured modern lapt
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by mrandish 3mo ago
I agree with you about the tech-adjacent rationalist/EA community in the bay area (especially since around 2010). While that community originally coalesced around reason and evidence-based skepticism, those are uncontroversial ideas th
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by mrandish 3mo ago
> It's common for games to have an intentional designed aesthetic ... to create specific emotional impacts and effects. And before games this was true of movies and before that photos and paintings. A master cinematographer can spen
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by mrandish 3mo ago
There may be confusion between 'product tech' and 'development tooling'. It's entirely plausible most of the startups that are A: building AI tech, B: early stage, and C: raising from top Sand Hill Road VCs, are cur
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by mrandish 3mo ago
I have a 1080ti currently not plugged in. More info please.
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by mrandish 3mo ago
This looks very cool. In a similar vein, there's https://www.nand2tetris.org/ .
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by mrandish 3mo ago
I started 3 years later than you on a 4K Radio Shack computer running a 6809 8-bit CPU. I can still remember quite a few opcodes and a few months ago helped some on retrocomputing.stackexchange.com find a rather tricky 6809 assembly languag
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by mrandish 3mo ago
Google bought DeepMind and their other major AI acquisitions. Public companies make corporate venture investments for very different reasons than LP-backed VCs. They do early-stage investments to search for emerging players they can buy as
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by mrandish 3mo ago
> releasing them for 'free' is a powerful geopolitical weapon... I agree that, currently, the Chinese govt is not only allowing but tacitly encouraging open weight model releases. However, I don't see it as an attack. I th

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