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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
No, it’s not the only important thing. The complaints about it should tell you that. People care about provenance a lot. Whether it’s a drawing my daughter did of her mother, a Picasso napkin sketch, a worn 1960s Stratocaster, or an blog es
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
“… the kind of thing AI can’t produce”. Many similar claims have not aged well. We’re deep into ‘no true Scotsman’ territory.
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
Ironically, the way to change this is by voting. One election at a time, we can trend towards the better or worse.
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
Same can be achieved with a tiger.
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
I was using Linux for work while Linus was still in Europe. All the large US tech companies are also global. Cuts both ways.
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
With exceptions. Linux being the most obvious example.
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
Drones can’t either.
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
We spend upwards of $15B a year globally on cancer research. About half of that is funded by government and charities, half by pharmaceutical companies. If spending billions was the main trick, we’d know it already.
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
Sorry you both experienced that. We did too. We relax ‘do no harm’ quite a bit when the alternative is certain death. People like to try stuff in order to hang on to hope. Towards the end I became convinced that she made the wrong choice to
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
I’m pretty sure non-human tigers have been killing humans for ages.
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
The last-millennium solution to me-only installs is to put stuff in $HOME/bin, $HOME/lib, and $HOME/etc, and put those in the appropriate paths. Build the package with e.g. CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME. At some point I switched
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
Right. The novelty is the cost.
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
We've had loitering munitions that choose their own target autonomously for a long time, for example anti-tank weapons that climb up after being released from a plane or helicopter then sit on a parachute until spotting one or more tan
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
'I never liked writing tests' is not the same as 'I don't write tests'.
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
Parent said "I'd really like to know a solution that doesn't have at least some part of the amount of code that scales with N." You're arguing the inverse: that at least some parts of the code are independent of N.
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
Chrome still has a way to go until Zawinski's Law is satisfied natively . http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
I don’t know those things about myself so they can’t be necessary.
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
Honest question: what's a candidate for better? The search needs to be really good, as that was always a strong point for Gmail.
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
You do pay for healthcare, from the taxes on that salary.
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
What’s it a coincidence with?
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
I hate it too. But watching untrained people nervously fidget with their hands or stand like stiffs has its own cringe. A few of the keynote people kinda forgot how to walk normally on camera. It happens to me.
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
Oh yes. Execs are ‘super excited’ about everything. There is no dynamic range at all. They appear to have no opinions and no judgement because their opinion is always that everything is awesome. When the audience knows that stuff is either
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
I guess orders of magnitude ain’t what they used to be.
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
Yep, I misunderstood your point. Thanks for your patience. In my defense, the 'general purpose system' has a lot of model-inference-specific hardware. But not LLM-specific hardware. If there's an M5 Ultra it'll be intere
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
Yep, but Apple products don’t spend most of their time running huge models. They are running lots of little ones all the time, using hardware designed for that.
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
You might not want to make a sword out of iron if steel is available, but understanding the relationship between iron and steel is broadly valuable.
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
The M5 has 16 dedicated ‘Neural Engine’ cores and a ‘Neural accelerator’ in each of its conventional GPU cores. It’s been pretty special-purpose juiced for inference.
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
It’s completely technically possible to have cloud services where customer data is opaque to the provider. Some of Apple’s services are like this already, for example. I think there’s a sweet spot currently with munging your data blindly on
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
From memory about 0.5M in 1980 and about 3M in 2025.
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by robotresearcher 4mo ago
Some British universities are dying. They expanded university capacity more than was sustainable. Now it'll retract. It's a crisis for the people involved, but not for society as a whole.

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