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by program_whiz 3mo ago
Isn't the question at hand whether its bad for mathematics if "prove the circle has area 3" devolves into 500 lines of inscrutable lean code, vs just having `pi r^2 == 3`? Sure they both "proved" it true/false
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by program_whiz 3mo ago
Its an inevitable state of any market system (especially if regulated). Eventually it will become more profitable to use the gains of capital to buy protection from regulators, instead of investing in ever smaller business improvements. Us
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by program_whiz 3mo ago
"approaching" is doing some work there. $30K today will get you 90-144GB usable VRAM with solid system RAM and disk and CPU. A single B200 chip at 180GB is $40K. Unfortunately that is nowhere close to being able to run a 750B p
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by program_whiz 4mo ago
What's crazy is the prompt must be something like "pro-AI but still believable and measured", since its "fixed my iOS app albeit with back and forth". Interesting, they know the HN crowd for sure.
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by program_whiz 4mo ago
hey that's perfectly understandable, and yeah, definitely there is a group that wants you to "do the work for them". I was reacting more to a kind of question/chat shaming I've seen -- where engineers act like they
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by program_whiz 4mo ago
honestly a sad state. Obviously there is a reasonable threshold, but trying not to speak to anyone until you've done a ton of work / research when they know the answer is just sad. Like what's wrong with asking a question?
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by program_whiz 5mo ago
I think he meant "show me a true linked list / node graph in rust that isn't unsafe". The reason being its not possible using c-style pointer following (or without just putting everything auto-pointers). What you'
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by program_whiz 5mo ago
Yeah the usual mott and bailey. Monday -- AI is taking over the world, tremble in fear! Tuesday -- sure it did a boneheaded thing, its just a tool, no better than an intern, actually its _your_ fault, all the data in the entire world isn&
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by program_whiz 5mo ago
Depends, if you wrote a detailed confession with material non public facts, a jury can hear it and weigh the evidence.
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by program_whiz 6mo ago
Yeah I think there are two definitions of determinism people are using which is causing confusion. In a strict sense, LLMs can be deterministic meaning same input can generate same output (or as close as desired to same output). However,
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by program_whiz 6mo ago
Kind of crazy they are posting statuses to reddit. Thought the complaints about "why not status page and email?" are very valid -- seems kind of unprofessional. If I'm paying $200 per month per user for a service, an email
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by program_whiz 7mo ago
Photoshop is a good example -- not that I agree with everything in the app, but just to design all the interactions properly in photoshop would take hundreds of hours (not to mention testing and figuring out the edges). If your goal is a 1
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by program_whiz 7mo ago
In this case, I see the author's point. The DJ isn't being advertised as "a narrow tool to select some random pop tunes". If an average person is told this is AI, has a full text interface and responds with "sure
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by program_whiz 7mo ago
There's a simple solution. If a medical malpractice happens, law suit against the LLM company. If their license is revoked as part of that finding, unfortunately that applies to the "doctor" (e.g. ChatGPT). Same for self-dr
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by program_whiz 7mo ago
they can be continuously updated, assuming you re-run representative samples of the training set through them continuously. Unlike a mammal brain which preserves the function of neurons unless they activate in a situation which causes a tr
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by program_whiz 7mo ago
I think one major draw to human-like for factors is the reuse of existing ecosystems and tools. If you have human-like grasping, you can reuse tools and utensils for human hands, otherwise, you need custom attachments. If you have human-l
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by program_whiz 7mo ago
Wrote this elsewhere, but I think its worth thinking about a scenario like the book "daemon", rather than a "super-intelligence explosion" type scenario (which may be more like curing the cold or fusion than building a f
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by program_whiz 7mo ago
The book daemon explored an interesting concept. It explored the idea that an AI could dominate and cause problems, not through super-intelligence, but through simple mechanisms that already exist. Like the executive who deleted all her em
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by program_whiz 7mo ago
I think people find it interesting because it calls into question underlying assumptions about the tool. What would you say the tool is for? Programming? It seems like the tool's creators are claiming its function is "replace hum
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by program_whiz 7mo ago
Not sure if that's true, what are your reasons for believing that? Are you saying we couldn't have invented the machines we used if we took safety measures along the way (e.g. having guards on machines that chopped of arms and le
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by program_whiz 7mo ago
Humans can't develop safety until there is enough blood in the streets. Only issue with AI is that threshold may come at a point where its too far gone to recover. But humans can't put in seatbelts until we're losing 40k peo
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by program_whiz 7mo ago
Is it possible to construct an ID using some kind of centralized observable phenomena? Due to how time and distance distinguish things, would they always be unique? Like only one person will ever simultaneously observe stars in certain po
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Copy-left open-source license for AI code use
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by program_whiz 7mo ago
This is a smart play. Models aren't going to be a moat, performance is too easy to replicate and all the big players (and even OSS) are following quickly behind. The only moat that will be stable is having something with network effe
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by program_whiz 7mo ago
It will only in the same way computers and machines that automated past work such as farming and textiles has created lots of free time for today's workers.
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by program_whiz 7mo ago
Not the GP, but I've noticed that because if you don't anticipate how you might need to mutate or share state in the future, you can have a "footgun" that forces large-scale code changes for relatively small "featur
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
The models are differentiable, they are trained with backprop. You can easily just run it in reverse to get the input that produces near certainty of producing the output. For a given sequence length, you can create a new optimzation that
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
interestingly, with the Guthrie disappearance, her camera had been disabled with no subscription, but they were still able to "find the footage" that was being stored on backend servers. Whoops... Looks like it just always recor
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
Sorry man, that's rough. Best wishes to you. Definitely agree there are some things you lose, but for me at least, when I have multiple days of time away (e.g. some trip or something) its refreshing momentarily, but then I remember h
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by program_whiz 8mo ago
Just want to chime in, for anyone else reading this: I can say I used to think this way. Having kids is 100% the best thing, would never trade them for anything, including all of the above and a 5x raise and early retirement. Absolutely no

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