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by mrandish 3mo ago
The company was VC-funded as a search engine but by the time they made significant investments in AI (DeepMind etc) they'd been a publicly held company earning multiple billions a year from advertising for a decade.
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by mrandish 3mo ago
I've been out of the valley (circular) loop for a bit so I'd never heard of Corgi. OMFG...
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by mrandish 3mo ago
The nuking of Los Angeles was a combination of physical models and 3D rendered shots. This close integration between physical models and 3D as well as using procedural techniques for the detonation was quite novel at the time. It was enable
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by mrandish 3mo ago
> OMG no I really never want to go back to that level of frustration getting an agent to do what I want it to do. While it probably won't matter enough to change your mind, remember that you've gotten better at extracting value
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by mrandish 3mo ago
Models can be so sensitive that even prompting "Number section headings" would cause it to stop using its normal bullet point formatting anywhere. But then adding some variant of "...but don't stop using bullets as you n
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by mrandish 3mo ago
Over hours of experimentation with various LLMs, I've found virtually any system prompt can cause unintended skewing of the model's output. Even just 5 to 8 short, direct words about length, tone or formatting can cause subtle yet
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by mrandish 3mo ago
We didn't give our kid her own phone until a few months past her 13th birthday. She was at a private elementary school since kindergarten and her class was small and mostly had the same kids from K-8, so the parents got to know each ot
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by mrandish 3mo ago
> My job has changed from designing and writing code to designing code, describing the design to an LLM, reviewing code the LLM produces As a long-time engineering manager, PM and, eventually, product owner my response is, "Congrat
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by mrandish 3mo ago
Yeah, I added that because someone else posted the wording of an Anthropic disclosure saying they'll keep your data for two years and security data for 7 years.
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by mrandish 3mo ago
I've spent a lot of time in the EU working with tech companies, have a lot of friends there in tech companies and am on the board of a Swiss company at the moment. While it's true the average corporate worker generally has more pr
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by mrandish 3mo ago
> A “classical liberal” today would be mistaken as a “conservative” by a progressive since they don’t espouse their same views about gender, race... It's worth pointing out that 'classical liberalism' came from John Locke,
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by mrandish 3mo ago
The key is understanding that accounting is driving the policy. 'Unlimited PTO' really means 'uncounted PTO' because for most public companies in the U.S., once PTO is counted, the salary value of each vacation day becom
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by mrandish 3mo ago
They're saying they didn't include the benchmark which errantly leaked into the training data.
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by mrandish 3mo ago
> Tried to really sanitize my prompts And in doing so, you probably got your account and prompt flagged for 'attempted jailbreaking' (apparently, such scores are remembered for up to 7 years).
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by mrandish 3mo ago
That's interesting. I assumed that the OP's attempts to fix the prompt looked like jailbreaking attempts and got the account auto-flagged into hair-trigger 'classifier jail'. Of course, a bad actor would swap accounts, s
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by mrandish 3mo ago
The first rejection and subsequent modifications trying to adjust the prompt to pass the classifier might have gotten the account flagged so the classifier is now set to 'hair trigger'. While I'm not aware of Anthropic admitt
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by mrandish 3mo ago
I think the better Greenspan quote is from one of his earlier congressional testimony sessions: "Since becoming a central banker, I have learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderst
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by mrandish 3mo ago
> would only ever move the speed up down to speeds that are divisable by 5. I have a seething hatred for UX that forces every setting to be in nonsensical chunks for no reason. Bad designers somehow think that it's "simpler&quo
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by mrandish 3mo ago
> It's from a culture that says more alarms = safer. It's the same culture in which product teams default install a background task that runs at every logon and checks for updates multiple times a day (for a program I used tw
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by mrandish 3mo ago
Like red light cameras, this is one of those genuinely good ideas that is likely to end up being much less effective than it could have been for two reasons: 1. The regulators who implement it will set the detection times and thresholds sho
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by mrandish 3mo ago
> Would the inner circle members of CCP leadership realistically face the same prosecution and sentencing Almost certainly. But it's not simple to understand because four things are simultaneously true: 1. Corruption is a serious pr
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by mrandish 3mo ago
> China is just not good at team sports One thing we know is important for a country to be globally competitive in team athletics is having pervasive grass roots youth leagues developing talent from an early age. My sense is the Chinese
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by mrandish 3mo ago
MSFT is radically restructuring the entire XBox business. That's not a scenario where unionization is going to preserve jobs in the long-run and this is just the first cut. They've said many more layoffs will be coming over the
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by mrandish 3mo ago
> battery operated electronics ... burning your house down Unless it's high-power LiPo or Li-Ion, that's extremely unlikely.
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by mrandish 3mo ago
> Phil's strategy made sense on paper It was a risky bet that became even higher risk when MSFT spent ~$80 billion dollars rolling up game studios near the peak of the historic COVID gaming bubble. They bet it would greatly increase
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by mrandish 3mo ago
> very few people switched from Windows 98 to Windows 2000 I was one of them. I went from ME to 2k and it was definitely a big step up.
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by mrandish 3mo ago
It turns out which scanline counts as "first" depends on whether we're talking about SMPTE 170M (analog composite video) or Rec. 601 (digital composite video). Per the specifications, in 170M there are half lines but in Rec 6
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by mrandish 3mo ago
I've heard the new JIT in this emulator can now exceed the speed of a 1.25GHz EV68CB processor ES45 for single core/thread.
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by mrandish 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaServer#Tsunami_family
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by mrandish 3mo ago
FYI, I've visited and enjoyed your site previously and can't connect now. It's not due to ublock. Neither Firefox nor Edge can access it due to: Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to sto

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