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by pishpash 3mo ago
That's exactly what they are doing. Out of all the civilian applications that AI capabilities have, why has this surfaced as a priority for demonstration? Probably because of money.
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by pishpash 3mo ago
Why? The "one device" can be something portable like a Yubikey-like USB key, or for that matter, a smart phone, because people are already forced to use phones to do authentication codes, so it is kind of assumed a phone is always
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by pishpash 3mo ago
It should have never been a cloud password manager play. It should be hardware device only, and tied to the device. One passkey on each hardware device.
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by pishpash 3mo ago
Uh, if you set up a passkey it becomes the default almost always. Then on another device it'll pop up looking for it and look like login failure and you need to "try another way". That's alarming to anyone, not to mentio
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by pishpash 3mo ago
How many PM's have they got? Each one justifies his or her existence.
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by pishpash 3mo ago
Reading this is like reading "this is like WiFi but for RJ11 nerds" while holding a dialup modem.
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by pishpash 3mo ago
Lots of ways. Selling author signings, talks, authorized copies, subscriptions/merch, sponsorships. How do newfangled "content creators" fund their work? We already live in this world. Maybe not all creative works are deservi
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by pishpash 3mo ago
If you buy the movie you most definitely have a copy that some machine made and you can keep it forever.
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by pishpash 3mo ago
Does buying the book not count? Why in perpetuity? Even patents expire after 17 years.
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by pishpash 3mo ago
Maybe a continuous evaluation process, why is there anything to train?
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by pishpash 3mo ago
An cross of SoT (source of truth) and SotA (state of the art). SotA looks weird, admittedly.
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by pishpash 3mo ago
The past cannot contain all information about the future, or there is some superdeterminism going on, by definition.
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by pishpash 3mo ago
Which naturally begs the question whether the excess returns in finance (outside of services provided for liquidity matching, risk transformation, etc.) is not just exploiting inside information of one kind or another. If you have inside in
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by pishpash 3mo ago
Unless disconnected from the world, or very thinly coupled, most processes become hard to predict in a generalizable way for this reason.
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by pishpash 3mo ago
That's a bit of a vacuous statement. Stationarity makes sample statistics meaningful due to the LLN, sure, but almost nothing is stationary (and even if something is, there is no way to know anyway, you can only assume). If you conditi
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by pishpash 3mo ago
Maybe AI is deflationary, in the right hands.
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by pishpash 3mo ago
No they don't. Are OpenAI and Anthropic charging at cost, or wish to? No.
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by pishpash 3mo ago
More basically, production cost matters only if inference is priced at commodity prices. That's not what VC's signed up for, which is rent-seeking.
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by pishpash 3mo ago
I don't think tens of hours are necessary. There was a very good public talk by a mathematician from first principles that even a child can understand, all the way up to the Riemann hypothesis, in 50 minutes. I wish it was online. It w
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by pishpash 3mo ago
Well, OpenAI was "not for profit" and still has "open" in the name. It's the age of transparent doublespeak.
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by pishpash 3mo ago
It's the AI frontier ethos. "I get mine." That's the culture now. Speaking of which, it happened before, too, in the 1970's with personal computer software.
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by pishpash 3mo ago
Most textbooks are bad too. It's worth looking at some sample content to find the good ones.
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by pishpash 3mo ago
The types who do ugly proofs, when they write code, produce spaghetti code. It's the same thought process going into how to approach something.
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by pishpash 3mo ago
That's what it was, wasn't it? You checked out some files and that locked them against other changes, then when you were done you checked in.
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by pishpash 3mo ago
What's likely to happen though, is human idiomatic writing will degrade to AI level and the two will converge. Just like nowadays it is harder to tell if some (human) non-native English speaker wrote some English text online whereas 20
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by pishpash 3mo ago
3dfx and nVidia even put Matrox out of business. The 1990's were a true competitive paradise up and down the stack, not like today.
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by pishpash 3mo ago
Macintosh and SGI (+AIX, various Unix) were in fact a common combination used as desktop and backend server respectively in many 1990's scientific labs including biology labs.
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by pishpash 3mo ago
That's some idealistic nostalgia. Software is generally poorly built today, and it's evidently not big enough a problem to fix.
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by pishpash 3mo ago
Sometimes this is exaggerated. How do people view slide rules, telegraphs, and gramophones, or other historical artifacts from a further generation ago? They aren't that strange, and neither should rotary phone or film be to the curren
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by pishpash 3mo ago
So far every single one has popped. The record isn't particularly good for "this time is different".

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