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by resters 1y ago
I think the "advertising" was the billions spent on what were effectively anti-brown ads to help sell the Iraq/Afghan wars. Meanwhile in the 2000s the GSEs did not disclose their financials bc if they had perhaps the people
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by resters 1y ago
As the US slowly becomes N. Korea...
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by resters 1y ago
Tokenization as a form of preprocessing has the problems the authors mention. But it is also a useful way to think about data vs metadata and moving beyond text/image io into other domains. Ultimately we need symbolic representations o
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by resters 1y ago
You're generalizing that all self-proclaimed rationalists are hypocrites and heavily biased? I mean, regardless of whether or not that is true, what is the point of making such a broad generalization? Strange!
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by resters 1y ago
Not meaning to be too direct, but you are misinterpreting a lot about rationalists. In my view, rationalists are often "Bayesian" in that they are constantly looking for updates to their model. Consider that the default approach
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by resters 1y ago
Interesting, that's what I thought it meant, but didn't realize it was a term of art.
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by resters 1y ago
what is people parsing?
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by resters 1y ago
Right! We are in a sense lucky to be getting access to actual state-of-the-art models. Soon the actual model may be kept internal and the customers will get "good enough for solid ROI" distilled versions that can be hosted profit
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by resters 1y ago
HP had been making bad decision after bad decision for a while long before this happened. HP laptops were a joke and loaded with bloatware, etc. There was clearly nobody who cared about the user experience at all. It made Apple's job
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by resters 1y ago
Models are used for actual tasks where predictable behavior is a benefit. Models are also used on cutting-edge tasks where smarter/better outputs are highly valued. Some applications value speed and so a new, smaller/cheaper mode
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by resters 1y ago
It's probably optimized in some way, but if the optimizations degrade performance, let's hope it is reflected in various benchmarks. One alternative hypothesis is that it's the same model, but in the early days they make it
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by resters 1y ago
Serious HEMP protectors are tested to MIL-STD-188-125 or IEC 61000-2-10
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by resters 1y ago
Communications equipment is not designed to withstand lightning strikes. Lightning protection is meant to prevent the tower from melting or the building from burning down, not to protect a receiver!
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by resters 1y ago
Thank you for articulating this. I think it's what a lot of his supporters think is happening. What perplexes me are the following: 1) Is "The Art of the Deal" respected among actual business leaders and negotiators as a sub
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by resters 1y ago
The last thing Trump's tariffs could be described as is targeted industrial policy. They are intentionally a sledge-hammer. They are intentionally emotional. Intentionally full of jingoistic rhetoric and victimhood rhetoric. Sadly ther
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by resters 1y ago
Tariffs and other ideas associated with economic nationalism place politics ahead of the economic freedom of citizens. They declare that economic activity is something that must be stewarded and managed by politicians, and that citizens are
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by resters 1y ago
my impression is that Claude 4 is absolutely superb and now i consider it the best reasoning model. Claude Code is also significantly better than OpenAI codex at this time. Very impressive!
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Starlink being evaluated to enhance GPS PNT capabilities(insidegnss.com)
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by resters 1y ago
Now that the US is no longer cooperative with other nations who are "taking advantage" of us, we should probably not expect to see the same level of international cooperation on GNSS as we have seen to date.
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by resters 1y ago
> Thanks - this does help contextualize the $3B acquisition. Agreed. My initial reaction to the $3B acquisition was similar to yours. Seeing this announcement made me rethink it a bit.
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by resters 1y ago
A few points that are getting overlooked: - OpenAI is buying WindSurf and probably did diligence on these models before it decided to invest. - WindSurf may have collected valuable data from it users that is helpful in training a coding-foc
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by resters 1y ago
> "we can't afford to wait" True, but how long does it take to build something similar? I see it as a defensive move, probably good for the industry to let some people with innovative ideas in AI cash out now so they can
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by resters 1y ago
openAI models are good at solid, fluent academic style prose. DeepSeek R1 can sound fresh and can use more "voices" that feel authentic to the reader. Grok-3 is close behind. Writing good prose is a far different skill than comi
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by resters 1y ago
Fair point, but how much billable legal work requires that caliber of skill? I'd argue that 80% of it could probably be done with an o3 or o4 caliber model with some safeguards built into the pipeline and perhaps a bit of specialized
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by resters 1y ago
While malpractice insurance exists for human docs and lawyers, there is not really any difference between an ai-powered lawyer drawing up a contract, an ai-powered doc reviewing a chart and recommending next steps, and a self-driving car ma
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by resters 1y ago
> developers turn out to be the actual profit-driver niche for LLMs AI is definitely huge for anyone writing code, though one can imagine a model like o3 completely replacing 90% of white collar jobs that involve reading, writing and ana
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by resters 1y ago
- A $3B signal that OpenAI is unable to do product - AI assisted coding is mostly about managing the context and knowing what to put in the context to avoid confusion and dumb mistakes, it's not about the UI. - This signals that OpenAI
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by resters 1y ago
I've noticed that the people who initially grok programming language syntax are often better at learning new symbolic systems, but I think this is actually due to a persistent type I error their brains make that is OK for early learnin
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by resters 1y ago
There is not and has never been any trace of free speech or free market "ideology" from Trump. Perhaps as a talking point but never in any policy or action. Trump is the anti-libertarian, severely authoritarian and moving things t
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by resters 1y ago
China’s approach to funding BYD is meant to replace much of the capital it might raise in freer markets, providing subsidies, tax breaks, and preferential policies to offset limited access to liquid equity and debt markets. This support, to

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