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by nikcub 2y ago
love chuck because the third act would be sam eating his own head while realising AGI was created to delete itself and taking away everything that is his
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by nikcub 2y ago
There are online vendors who will lease out their AdX accounts. The industry is rife with fraud.
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by nikcub 2y ago
Difficult to see how these two stories aren't related. OpenAI has been one of the most insane business stories in years. I can't wait to read a full book about it that isn't written by either Walter Isaacson or Michael Lewis.
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by nikcub 2y ago
might as well do the full list: https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/blob/main/rob... cloudflare have a button for this: https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence
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by nikcub 2y ago
pgvectorscale from the timescaledb team introduces StreamingDiskANN indexes and compression to pgvector: https://github.com/timescale/pgvectorscale the sales blurb: > On a benchmark dataset of 50 million Cohere embe
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by nikcub 2y ago
Pete Judo's channel on YouTube has been covering this since the beginning, and other cases: https://www.youtube.com/@PeteJudo1
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by nikcub 2y ago
Markdown seems to work best with LLMs and RAGs (easier to tokenise) - I'd just concatenate all docs into a single markdown file.
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by nikcub 2y ago
> As an anecdote, I had an easier time using Cursor + Claude to build the app in FastAPI and Next.js, and a harder time with FastHTML and SvelteKit. Since FastHTML is barely a couple weeks old (at the time of writing), its code and docs
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by nikcub 2y ago
This is the same method published in the BBS/FTP distributed Jolly Rodger's Cookbook in the early 90s.
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by nikcub 2y ago
Doubt either next administration will do better for Tesla than Biden's up to $7500 EV tax credit and 100% import duty on Chinese EVs
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AI and the value of privacy-preserving tools to distinguish who is real online(arxiv.org)
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by nikcub 2y ago
Recently helped somebody who accidentally left dockerd open to the internet with no auth. It was hacked, backdoored and running a crypto miner within hours. Only detected when the hosting company emailed him days later because the worm was
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by nikcub 2y ago
Technically, they could do it - I believe Microsoft tried in the distant past. Problem is as soon as they restrict ring 0 to first-party only it would raise competition and antitrust issues and be seen as Microsoft favoring it's own so
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by nikcub 2y ago
you value your time at $0?
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by nikcub 2y ago
> I don't see appreciable movement in their stock at all. That's because there is zero accountability for these breaches and even with a civil case you're looking at pennies per user as compensation. Better to do that than
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by nikcub 2y ago
1password has support for a custom domain. I bought an old generic webmail provider domain that is now defunkt and use that. I also use random name aliases on each signup. Even if you aggregate multiple breaches I doubt anybody would link i
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by nikcub 2y ago
Interview with him just a few weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOWP_laIXAs (ps. that entire channel is brilliant)
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by nikcub 2y ago
Most of the top LLM already do this very well. It's because they've been trained on web data, and also because they're being used for precisely this task internally to grab data. The complicated ops of scraping is running hea
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by nikcub 2y ago
The EU are almost certainly going to push this onto Apple too once they realise the big tech co's are going to use their browser and phone distribution to push their new LLM based assistant products to market
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by nikcub 2y ago
Twitter thread on rabbit's founder and his previous involvement with NFTs that he scrubbed: https://twitter.com/Andyparackal/status/1785676408280498655
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by nikcub 2y ago
Same on twitter. My timeline is full of this story yet it isn't in trending.
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by nikcub 2y ago
Related Roger Ver was also indicted and arrested today: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/early-bitcoin-investor-charge... The real crime there was selling 131k Bitcoin at ~$800 in order to back Bitcoin Cash. That&#x
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by nikcub 2y ago
llama3 on groq is just stunning in its accuracy and output performance. I've already switched out some gpt4-turbo calls with it.
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by nikcub 2y ago
They were just blending in with all the other regular corruption in East Europe
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by nikcub 2y ago
Just a tip - consent shouldn't be a mode, it should be the default. Might want to re-think how you market the idea because done correctly, it is a powerful feature.
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by nikcub 3y ago
If you switch the site to Australia[0] you'll notice they don't do this - it's because by consumer law they're not allowed to, and you have to quote the "drive away price" You can't even deduct the various
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by nikcub 3y ago
The employees rapidly and effectively formed a quasi-union to grant themselves a very powerful seat at the table.
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by nikcub 3y ago
In terms of the LLM's, it was abandoned after GPT-2 when they realised the dangers of what was coming with GPT 3/3.5. Better to paywall access to and monitor it than open-source it and let it loose on the world. ie. the original m
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by nikcub 3y ago
> He dropped out of college after just a year so did gdb and he's a superstar
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by nikcub 3y ago
It will _definitely_ become a book (hopefully not by Michael Lewis) and a film. I have non-tech friends who are casual ChatGPT users, and some who aren't - who are glued to this story.

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