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by oofbey 7mo ago
I think that’s half right. We are absolutely horrendous to natives around here. But that’s not why Greenpeace got involved, nor why most of the left cares about this issue. If the pipeline was going through Disneyland I think you’d still se
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by oofbey 7mo ago
Oil is a global commodity. Its price is set across all supply sources. Restricting its movement from Canada to the US doesn’t actually change the price much at all. It just makes the supply more vulnerable to disruption. That dirty shale oi
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by oofbey 7mo ago
I think climate change is a massive and real problem. And that we need to wean ourselves off fossil fuels quickly. But I would actually be very happy to see Greenpeace fold as a result of this. I think they’ve been on the wrong side of many
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by oofbey 7mo ago
I find this docs page fairly hilarious. Complaining about how the rest of the world is in the stone ages, and that is why ghostty doesn’t work with it. For me, a terminal program that requires me to muck with every machine I log into to get
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by oofbey 7mo ago
Most humans like external validation. Having other people use what they've built is a common metric of validation in open source software. Economically, these metrics can be used as credentials for things like job applications or con
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by oofbey 7mo ago
The confusing thing here is that there are two distributions involved here. There's the distribution over the vocabulary (possible values of each token) and the distribution over the sequence of tokens in each document. Here, the KL D
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by oofbey 8mo ago
What does it mean to say that “99.9% KL divergence” is some number like 3? In AI research and math, KL divergence is a pseudo-distance metric from one distribution to another. (Not technically a distance between two distributions because i
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by oofbey 8mo ago
But I bet you they still acted like they were the smartest people in the room, right? Charming isn’t it?
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by oofbey 8mo ago
Well it would get vastly more popular if it was officially endorsed. Do you want lots of people using it?
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by oofbey 8mo ago
AGPL licensed. An interesting choice. Author really doesn’t want Wolfram to use it??
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by oofbey 8mo ago
lol. True. I guess the difference is “things that matter to technological progress” move too fast to keep up.
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by oofbey 8mo ago
Welcome to the singularity, now in progress. One of its defining features is that things move too fast for people to keep up.
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by oofbey 8mo ago
Ex googler here. It is based on Google’s fundamental disdain of customers. Googlers are repeatedly told by management that they are the smartest people in the world and that their time is too valuable to spend on silly things like helping c
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by oofbey 8mo ago
This is exactly what I want for data, but doesn’t seem to draw any conclusions yet. Thanks!
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by oofbey 8mo ago
I’ve often suspected these models of getting dumber when the service is under high load. But I’ve never seen actually measured results or proof. Anybody know of real published data here?
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by oofbey 8mo ago
I have a hard time reading beyond factual lies like: > On the cost front, deploying modern models demands massive engineering and capital: room-sized supercomputers consuming hundreds of kilowatts… This is just wrong. The largest models
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by oofbey 8mo ago
Personally I can’t stand GPT’s personality. So full of itself. Patronizing. Won’t admit mistakes. Just reeks of Silicon Valley bravado.
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by oofbey 8mo ago
I don’t think SV is hyping Claw are they? Claw is all open source and indy. SV would much rather you use some YC service which does one thing Claw does, or use the LLM’s own dedicated 1P agent framework.
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by oofbey 8mo ago
Their SECURITY cred is fantastic. Privacy, not so much. How many hundreds of millions have they been fined for “incognito mode” in chrome being a blatant lie?
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by oofbey 8mo ago
They were behind. Way behind. But they caught up.
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by oofbey 8mo ago
No. Just because you can use crypto for something doesn’t mean you should. In fact you almost never should.
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by oofbey 8mo ago
You know what nobody misses? Good assembly code. Those were the days.
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by oofbey 8mo ago
Just want to say Kudos to you and the team. This is a brilliantly conceived chunk of functionality that IMHO hits exactly a sweet spot I didn’t realize was missing. I’m working on a chat bot system now and definitely plan to incorporate Mon
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by oofbey 8mo ago
The amount of techno jargon marketing speak in this readme is impressive. I’m pretty well versed in most things computers, but it took me a long time to figure out what the heck this thing is good for. Leave it to Microsoft to try to renam
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by oofbey 8mo ago
Yours is a valid approach. But you always gotta wonder if there’s some way around it. Starting with runtime that has ways of accessing every aspect of your system - there are a lot of ways an attacker might try to defeat the blocks you put
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by oofbey 8mo ago
So do the complementary sequences naturally bind to their neighbors? So you just mix the “pages” in a soup for a while until they all find their friends. And then the custom enzyme (or what is it) just slices off the three way junctions? Re
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by oofbey 8mo ago
They have a nice simple explanation. But the biochemistry of it I’m guessing is anything but simple. I’ve never heard of three way junctions in DNA before. I wonder how new those are. And designing the molecules to do the matching and splic
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by oofbey 8mo ago
Intuitively I agree some kind of selective amplification should be able to correct for the mistakes. But I think it will be complicated. Because the filtering process needs to be much more complex. It can’t just chemically match to a known
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by oofbey 8mo ago
AFAICT it really is just a preference for terminal vs IDE. The terminal folks often believe terminal is intrinsically better and say things like “you’re still using an IDE.” Yegge makes this quite explicit in his gastown manifesto. I been u
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by oofbey 8mo ago
While I think the use of the term “terrorist” is unwarranted, I do think deflock is seeking political change. The decision to use flock is a government policy choice, right?

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