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by nomel 9mo ago
People are being given what they flock to. Again, what's the alternative outcome? What does the implementation look like to you? How is the prevention of dopamine driven content generation and willing consumption enforced? How do you
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by nomel 9mo ago
> not in starvation range is ~$160k/year That highly depends on your definition of "need" and where you live. If you're in a city with ludicrous cost of living, like San Fransisco, then sure. But, that's also why
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by nomel 9mo ago
I'm a bit confused. What's the alternative outcome? We're talking about humans here, most of which have an IQ below 100! For any social thing, more humans literally means more dumb. The only way around it is silos/migr
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by nomel 9mo ago
I'm using the dictionary definition of expect here, which is compatible with what you're saying.
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by nomel 9mo ago
> This just hit a building Please be specific on what you mean by "just"? From the article: > Amazon told CBS Texas that it’s investigating the cause of the crash that happened Wednesday afternoon. Did it hit a bird? Did the
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by nomel 9mo ago
the current legal definition of property does not include the air above. it's what allows them, and airplanes, to fly over.
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by nomel 9mo ago
> you can't expect the old C code to follow the rules of the new versions of the language Well, to be pedantic, the entire point of the C standard, and the standard body, is that you should expect it to work, as long as you'r
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by nomel 9mo ago
I think your perspective is an instantaneous one, which is fine, because that's where facts about behaviors of systems (that are swapped out every few months) must come from. Since we can't know the performance of architectures
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by nomel 9mo ago
I tell my colleagues we're in the instantaneous peak of the AI developer relationship, especially for code monkeys. We're still valued, still paid really well, and our jobs will get easier and easier probably for the next 5-10 y
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by nomel 9mo ago
> All disagreements with that are either made in bad faith or deeply ignorant. Declaring an opinion and then making discussion about it impossible isn't a useful way to communicate or reason about things.
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by nomel 9mo ago
The negativity around the lack of perfection for something that was literal fiction fiction just some years ago is amazing.
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by nomel 9mo ago
Yes, but you have the problem that a good portion of that is going to be AI generated. But, I naively assume most orgs would opt out. I know some orgs have a proxy in place that will prevent certain proprietary code from passing through!
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by nomel 9mo ago
I would claim that LLMs desperately need proprietary code in their training, before we see any big gains in quality. There's some incredible source available code out there. Statistically, I think there's a LOT more not so great
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by nomel 9mo ago
If you're getting on along with 4.5, then that suggests you didn't actually need the large context window, for your use. If that's true, what's the clear tell that it's working well? Am I misunderstanding? Did they
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by nomel 9mo ago
> we speak the truth I get what you're saying, but you're ignoring intent here. They're, literally, using the wrong word, without meaning to. In their language they have multiple "yes" that mean very different th
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by nomel 9mo ago
Has a "N million context window" spec ever been meaningful? Very old, very terrible, models "supported" 1M context window, but would lose track after two small paragraphs of context into a conversation (looking at you ea
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by nomel 9mo ago
New idea generation? Understanding of new/sparse/not-statistically-significant concepts in the context window? I think both being the same problem of not having runtime tuning. When we connect previously disparate concepts, like w
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by nomel 9mo ago
Whenever I see this, I make the (almost always correct) assumption that the SOTA models had an advantage, with the alternative explanation being a complete lack of awareness of the state of AI (which is very very rare for a tool like this).
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by nomel 9mo ago
> and inefficient Well acttshually, it's 100% efficient. If you put 1W in, you will get exactly one watt out, steady state. The resulting steady state temperature would be close to watts * steady state thermal resistance of the sy
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by nomel 9mo ago
I can only see that as being the case if you weren't aware of it. Otherwise, the awareness would be explicit intent to fail on malformed input , which seems like just as much as an encapsulation? But, that's a great example! Th
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by nomel 9mo ago
Hardware engineering, where an inappropriate yes can mean massive amounts of time and money wasted, making it a very low context environment, by necessity.
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by nomel 9mo ago
This isn't fair, because it's misunderstanding the problem. It's not that they're lying, it's that, in their culture, the meaning of yes is something different, meaning "I hear you" rather than "I u
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by nomel 9mo ago
Working with a Chinese vendors is an adversarial first relationship, where 差不多 is deeeeep in the culture (and, from my experience, tends to survive trips across the ocean). There are professional communication/training courses for wo
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by nomel 9mo ago
I knew the Real ID requirements wouldn't be enforced, at least here in California, about a year before, after I saw the requirements: California can't enforce it because it would prevent too many undocumented people from flying. A
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by nomel 9mo ago
> and the maintainers don't care. I'm not sure that's fair. I think better proof of this would be a rejected PR rather than a neglected bug report. This is Linux, after all. Problems found with specific hardware are almos
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by nomel 9mo ago
This matches my "ideal" way of writing software, which is something close to "reverse waterfall". Start with the non-negotiable truths at the lowest level, then work your way up towards the goal, which is sufficiently de
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by nomel 9mo ago
> "ok install systemd..." and now... it just goes. I believe it's `systemctl list-unit-files` to see all the config that's executed, included by the distro, and then if you want to see the whole hierarchy `systemd-ana
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by nomel 9mo ago
5 and 6 sounds like good candidates for a bug reports/PR, if there's not already some "right" way to do it.
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by nomel 9mo ago
The word "failure" was never used. But, they are technically correct. The language is defined as by CPython: it is the standard!!! None of the others fully meet that standard, which includes quirks! It's knows trade offs
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by nomel 9mo ago
First sentence of the wiki page [1]: > Swift is a high-level general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language created by Chris Lattner in 2010 for Apple Inc. and maintained by the open-source community . As the article rep

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