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by qgin 1y ago
Artificial General Pelicanness
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by qgin 1y ago
Your brain needs a loss function just as much as a model does.
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by qgin 1y ago
From simonw's blog: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2025/claude-sonnet-4...
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by qgin 1y ago
That’s true, but models have been getting more efficient over time as well.
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by qgin 1y ago
There is a real possibility that local, free models keep trailing a few years behind the frontier. If that does happen, then the math for building out all this capacity is that you need to make a profit in that window. Can they recoup a tri
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by qgin 1y ago
Absolutely, there is room for price shopping for a subset of medical treatments. https://surgerycenterok.com is a well-known cash-pay surgery center. If you look through the procedure list, you can see the types of things that l
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by qgin 1y ago
I have a $6500 deductible. I definitely care what things cost because my insurance almost never actually helps pay for anything unless I have an unbelievably bad year. The problem is that literally nobody can tell me how much anything is go
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by qgin 1y ago
Can we bring this back?
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by qgin 1y ago
I alternate forgetting with disbelief or feeling almost indignant. "This is so unlike them! They've never just DIED before. They've always gotten through everything." But that is a thing about death. You only do it once.
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by qgin 1y ago
I don't think it was pre-recorded exactly, but I do think they built something for the demo that responded to specific spoken phrases with specific scripted responses. I think that's why he kept saying exactly "what do I do f
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by qgin 1y ago
I do wish they didn't make it bounce and jiggle so much. It changes the whole thing from looking like glass to looking like a gelatinous blob.
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by qgin 1y ago
This is wild. I spend most of each day helping my 75+ and disabled parents. I've stayed extremely up to date with my covid shots because I want to reduce the chance that I pass anything to them, either through just not getting infected
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by qgin 1y ago
It's at least a contender
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by qgin 1y ago
Even with no new laws, most countries still have non-automatic decisions to be made just as part of the structure.
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by qgin 1y ago
Does the Nano Banana naming imply the existence of Regular Banana or even Mega Banana?
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by qgin 1y ago
It's just for registrations that are associated with EU based iCloud accounts.
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by qgin 1y ago
I love Claude's memory implementation, but I turned memory off in ChatGPT. I use ChatGPT for too many disparate things and it was weird when it was making associations across things that aren't actually associated in my life.
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by qgin 1y ago
I think it depends on the application. Employees tend to not be free in the 21st century at least.
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by qgin 1y ago
We're likely 5-10 years out from a world where tappy-tap computer keyboard jobs are in a death spiral and caregiving jobs are one of the only fields untouched by automation.
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by qgin 1y ago
I don't understand how many other developed countries are able to avoid the supposedly unavoidable perils of social services, but we act like this is a wild experiment that has never been tried anywhere in the world aside from the USSR
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by qgin 1y ago
Just look at this distinguished gentleman https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Fi...
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by qgin 1y ago
AI doesn't have to replace human jobs as they exist today 1:1. In many situations, the work is not indivisible. If AI can handle 80% of the work, then a company can let AI handle that 80%, fire 80% of their people, and consolidate the
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by qgin 1y ago
If you can turn off whatever news you’re consuming and not ever notice any effect in your life or in the life of anyone you know that would make you think “wow, something must have happened”, then you’re just consuming that news as entertai
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by qgin 1y ago
Am I taking crazy pills? I love Next.js. What React partial SSR solution is better?
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by qgin 1y ago
Social shaming is a big way humans deal with unchangeable things. They impose a cost for anyone expressing a desire for that thing to be different. And it makes sense, really. You can't have a functioning society if everyone is running
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by qgin 1y ago
New research reveals horse-drawn wagon engineering gains slowing, travel at speeds beyond 12mph unlikely.
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by qgin 1y ago
When you have general anesthesia, you experience nothing, not even the vague sense of time passing like when sleeping, it's just an edit in time. You basically don't exist when you're under general anesthesia. If a little pro
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by qgin 1y ago
Or is that message the first challenge of the test...
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I still maintain that we're not just a simulation, we're a screensaver on the computer of some extradimensional office worker who has been out of office for their version of a weekend.
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by qgin 1y ago
The reason Meetup worked was years of collecting contact info of people interested in specific topics and then blasting all of them when a new group started in a location. If 1% of people responded, that was still a decent turnout. This is

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