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by noosphr 6mo ago
Yet again: Transformers are fundamentally quadratic. If they can do a task that takes 1 unit of computation for 1 dollar they will cost 100 dollars for a 10 unit task and 10,000 for a 100 unit task. Project costs from Claude Code bear this
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by noosphr 6mo ago
This is reaching "you won't always have a calculator" levels of cope.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
Because cars took over the streets from pedestrians between 1900 and 1930 and no one noticed. Hopefully when petrol hits $10 a gallon in the next few months more of the world will think about banning cars from high density areas.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
Apart from pedestrians.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
In the same way that numeracy skills were in the blast radius of the Colossus. People seriously underestimate how underpowered and tiny llms are for the tasks they need to solve. A trillion parameter model can't tell the difference bet
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by noosphr 6mo ago
Worse than private email.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
Not me, but then most people are allergic to paying $10 a month. I figure an email is worth a beer.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
Well for starters he might try and conquer Greenland.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
lol
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by noosphr 6mo ago
Putin is a Russian moderate. Anyone who pays attention to Russian politics prays for his good health and long life.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
And the other 100 weren't and didn't.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
If you consider what assemblers and compilers do programming, sure. But men didn't kick them out, technology did. Von Numan famously forbid the Eniac from ever being used for assembly when you had a perfectly cheap secretary pool to do
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by noosphr 6mo ago
In the 80s, 90s and 00s that's what they thought about coding. Then when the salaries got good every pretended to have always been a nerd and really into everything nerd. With the result that they kicked all the nerds out.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
So is food poisoning. Time to ban cooking.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
we wrote like that because each message was a single sentence if you wanted more than one sentence you sent one then wrote the other it's painful to read longform the victorians didn't give up on punctuation and regular english ju
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by noosphr 6mo ago
The only technologies that are commercialised quickly today are the ones that can be commercialised quickly. The ones that can't won't be for decades yet. In short, if a tech takes 40 years to be commercialised it would have been
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by noosphr 6mo ago
The GPL3 can be put behind a server and no one will ever see the source code because there is never any distribution. Only the AGPL is remotely close to forcing hyper-scalars to release the source code of what they provide.
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by noosphr 7mo ago
>Re-licensing public domain work as GPL/LGPL is almost certainly a copyright violation Remember kids never get your legal advice from hn comments.
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by noosphr 7mo ago
Tab complete does not produce copyrightable material either. Yet we don't require software to be written in nano.
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by noosphr 7mo ago
Screens are still stuck at <150 ppi, unless you go for an 8k screen.
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by noosphr 7mo ago
I for one can't wait for open Ai to buy them and reroute every git commit to chatgpt.
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by noosphr 7mo ago
Probably more reasonable. I'm not sure why xorg exists if their sole purpose is to kill x. As per the many posts by their developers.
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by noosphr 7mo ago
Large enough is usually between 5 to 10% of the advertised context.
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by noosphr 7mo ago
If given A and not B llms often just output B after the context window gets large enough. It's enough of a problem that it's in my private benchmarks for all new models.
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by noosphr 7mo ago
>Prior to the industrial revolution, the natural world was nearly infinitely abundant. We simply weren't efficient enough to fully exploit it. The mammoths disagree.
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by noosphr 7mo ago
Like being killed if they said they want regime change.
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by noosphr 7mo ago
This is the counter argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres Here's hoping the regime is destabilised enough to topple by itself.
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by noosphr 7mo ago
I suppose months is better than weeks. The world's still not recovered from the last such tech used by millions of developers.
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by noosphr 7mo ago
I don't think anyone who used Claude code on the terminal had anything good to say about it. It was people using it through vs code that had a good time.
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by noosphr 7mo ago
On the contrary the average person in 1969 also thought that the moon missions were a waste of time and money: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02659... This thread is pretty much h

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