nobodyandproud

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by nobodyandproud 20d ago
They had nine years and more money than god to build redundancy in an unstable region.
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by nobodyandproud 23d ago
Right now, only a few labs have the resources to run frontier-level capabilities or large, open-weight LLMs that are effectively frontier. Better attention can be given to open-weight LLMs that can be run locally and to help defend against
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by nobodyandproud 24d ago
I think both can be true: AI development must be slowed, but also question the motives of those in the lead given the stark benefits it gives those in the lead. I'll get down-voted again by those who have a stake in this race, but I be
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by nobodyandproud 1mo ago
This entire premise assumes that we can afford the factory machine. Long term, can we? If not, what do we do once we’re addicted to the new process and it’s impossible to get out and from?
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by nobodyandproud 1mo ago
Before my time, but I believe SSN was and probably still is controversial in my circle. I definitely recall rumblings about it even 30 years ago. But while cash is printed (physical currency): Not having an SSN becomes a major impediment bu
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by nobodyandproud 1mo ago
This is why I was always happier as a worker bee, over being responsible for an entire team or org. You outlined the root cause: “our development team simply does not have experience with building, testing, shipping, and maintaining APIs, w
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by nobodyandproud 1mo ago
At some point and for some tasks, predictability is important if not critical. I’d rather use a tool where I know the limitations, over a tool where the limitations and strengths keep changing. This way I know where in the process I ought t
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by nobodyandproud 1mo ago
I grew up in that tradition, so I can shed some light: The fear of a national ID isn’t just about tracking and privacy, but that an individual cannot participate in society or survive if the government decides to revoke the id. Meaning, I c
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by nobodyandproud 1mo ago
Interesting downvote.
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by nobodyandproud 1mo ago
This is the distinguishing angle Apple can take with AI. Local inference solves so many of the privacy and inconsistency problems with these frontier subscriptions.
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by nobodyandproud 1mo ago
This reminds me of the story of Noah in Bible school. The huge swath of people are incentivized to pretend nothing is wrong, and the vast majority can’t do anything about it so also pretend nothing is wrong.
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by nobodyandproud 1mo ago
My entire family was affected. We didn’t report it but the impact was felt. We also stopped buying lettuce.
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by nobodyandproud 2mo ago
Also legislate transparent negotiated pricing for medications and procedures for each insurance plan, as well as rejection rates for medications and procedures. Oh yes, and patient/coverage drop rates
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by nobodyandproud 2mo ago
They were testable, no?
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by nobodyandproud 2mo ago
We Americans call it grit.
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by nobodyandproud 2mo ago
Interesting! It looks like MIT, Swarthmore, and Wellesley are the well-known ones so it has precedent. While I still think it's a disservice to the student, I'd be curious to hear from those that lived through this: Both those tha
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by nobodyandproud 2mo ago
You must've heard the viral claims that the brain doesn't fully develop until 26? Nevermind that actual findings like https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260218031606.h... and https:&#x2F
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by nobodyandproud 2mo ago
In the sciences and engineering, many of the major-related 101s are important filter classes. It sounds harsh but it’s an important reality check for the student.
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by nobodyandproud 2mo ago
Quite a bit. As a student: Grades are one of the clearest signals on whether you're a good fit for a major or topic you're interested in, you need more work, or you need to trim down the number of classes. Not providing that clear
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by nobodyandproud 2mo ago
U of M. is doing no favors to its students. While it's a different environment, that's part of growing up. Once you're on your own nobody coddles you and it can be brutal.
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by nobodyandproud 2mo ago
In the US the problem starts in late middle school/early high school. For whatever reason, not having a remedial high school and not giving teachers the authority to push underperforming students to such high schools causes problems.
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by nobodyandproud 2mo ago
What should be concerning to Westernized nations is that as decent stewards like Google fails; the information pipeline into our culture and minds still remain. i.e., it's not just the collective memory going away, but what will easily
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by nobodyandproud 2mo ago
Not the OP. But posting from a low-use, 10 month old alt handle (?) doesn't really gesture good faith.
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by nobodyandproud 2mo ago
I agree. However, AI companies have managed to make publishers and copyright owners saints by comparison.
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by nobodyandproud 2mo ago
> Because uploads to PyPI are not atomic. They’re now capped within a 14 day window, but it would be extremely confusing to users to have the “release” hash of their dependencies change repeatedly. Aren’t releases versioned, using semant
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by nobodyandproud 2mo ago
It’s not. Steel manning the OP (which at face value seems to be the most reasonable interpretation) they’re wondering why an entire release isn’t hash pinned. The response is that there is hash pinning but only at the constituent levels. Wh
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by nobodyandproud 2mo ago
I feel you’re quibbling over semantics here. In concept why can’t the full set of files in a release be a single, one-way hash value, with both adding or releasing changing the hash value?
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by nobodyandproud 3mo ago
I’ve seen layoffs tied-to and to make up for AI spending. So the headline at least is inaccurate. That said, the savvier firms are looking to eliminate the army of low-quality, and “cheaper” contractors and consultants. The idiotic ones are
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by nobodyandproud 3mo ago
People pay a premium for hand-made over factory-made. It’s too early to make a conclusion but its an interesting hypothesis.
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by nobodyandproud 3mo ago
Size isn’t an excuse. If there’s no real accountability then it’s a very real and negative problem.

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