runarberg

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by runarberg 3mo ago
As I see it, one party is comprised of fascist plutocrats, and the other party is comprised of their enablers. In dictatorships the latter is called controlled opposition , I don‘t know what the latter is called in a democracy, but in abse
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by runarberg 3mo ago
AI companies sell access to their models, via subscriptions and ads. Public libraries don‘t sell anything. Also authors and publishers get payed for having their books in the library (how and how much varies by country). Authors and publish
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by runarberg 3mo ago
I am glad you get to have fun while people you will never meet and live in Sweden or Virginia have to suffer higher electricity prices. But we all get to enjoy the warmer climate together. But at least you can enjoy your self having the pla
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by runarberg 3mo ago
These are rectangles with some fill and strokes, textboxes lines and arrows. If the text has already been written, and the author has a clear idea of the flow all it takes are some a dozen or so points and click, and setting a couple of fil
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by runarberg 3mo ago
This is not a strong use case. I could have made this in Microsoft word when I was 13 years old. Why on earth would you let an LLM do this when it would take you 10 min to do this in Figma or Inkscape or even just Word
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by runarberg 3mo ago
If you are learning the guitar and are interested in music theory (or meta-learning), one resource I cannot recommend enough is Absolutely Understand Guitar by Scotty West[1]. These are old video lectures from 1999 which have since been u
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by runarberg 3mo ago
I started learning the guitar exactly 22 days ago and I came to the same conclusion. I know enough about music theory, notation, sound modulation and even the cognitive science of hearing* that I knew such a system existed and that I could
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by runarberg 3mo ago
If people need to generate good-ish SVG why not simply use a specialized model for a much better result and for far cheaper and quicker? Why do LLMs need to be able to do this as well, but worse, slower and more expensive?
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by runarberg 3mo ago
Thanks. It did take me a bit to design it, I also save it for last before the 1.0 release last year. I am not aware of any other AsciiMath dialects which have explicit tensor notation so I am a bit proud of it. I did borrow many ideas from
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by runarberg 3mo ago
I am not aware of any revolutions where an international solidarity of the working classes overthrew their capitalist exploiters. I am aware of a couple of national solidarity movements which overthrew a monarchy (France; Russia) and a dict
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by runarberg 3mo ago
And I believe a socialist revolution in international solidarity of the working classes against our exploiters the capitalist owning class would address both problems as well (and more), but in the meantime I’ll be happy whenever I spot poe
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by runarberg 3mo ago
All your examples used little to no human created data and a very simple success criteria. LLMs on the other hand take massive amount of human created data (like almost all the human created data there is) and their success criteria is how
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by runarberg 3mo ago
For those of is living in and near Seattle (and as of recently San Fransisco) KEXP is still on the air and is still amazing as ever (if not even more so).
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by runarberg 3mo ago
It is in fact very common: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1753056000&dateRange=custom&... In particular those of us rooting for the collapse of AI were complaining about this speech a year ago as well: https:&#x2F
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by runarberg 3mo ago
That is simply not technologically possible. You are speaking in science fiction here. You cannot train a neural network on existing things and then by some magic have the model be better then the training data. The laws of statistics prohi
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by runarberg 3mo ago
People were saying the exact same thing exactly a year ago. “Last years models were no good, but this year we can do anything; so what about next years models?” the people said in July of 2025. Well... Now we have next years models, and p
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by runarberg 3mo ago
And his dealings with American tropes is much more like how Shakespeare dealt with English tropes: War of the Roses, Julius Cesar, dissident woman, Scottish ghosts, Greek forest ferries, Moorish commanders, Jewish moneylenders, Henry VIII e
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by runarberg 3mo ago
> It rests on a staunch unwillingness to even consider the possibility that a computational process encode intelligence and reasoning. You are absolutely right, but it may surprise you that I consider that a feature, not a bug. I firmly
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by runarberg 3mo ago
I think you were right to call out the category error produced by OP in TFA, however I think you are committing a similar error when assuming links between self determination and intelligence. I see no reason for such a link to exist. I thi
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by runarberg 3mo ago
> because our reward function involves reproducing in a competitive environment This is an extremely reductive way to look at human existence. So much so that I read this with Richard Dawkins voice in my head. Our existence is far richer
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by runarberg 3mo ago
This no news for people who study philosophy, as it was known since the 1980s when John Searle described the Chinese room thought experiment. Even Turing him self did envision the Turing test as something to pass as intelligence, but rather
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by runarberg 3mo ago
You are being overly obtuse. LLMs is also a technology of the 1990s with many minor breakthroughs this century and finally a major breakthrough this decade. And these breakthroughs were all about finding novel algorithms to apply to the mod
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by runarberg 3mo ago
mRNA vaccines takes the first place for sure, and by a wide margin. But also advancements in lithium ion batteries and solar cell technology. We also finally generated electricity with fusion power this century, traveled to Pluto and set up
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by runarberg 3mo ago
Speaking of record stores, my last trip to Easy Street in Seattle my vinyl purchases had 0/3 download codes in the sleeves. Luckily all the albums were for sale as digital albums on Bandcamp and I could buy a second copy there for fair
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by runarberg 3mo ago
I think me and you use Bandcamp in totally different ways, and this is why you see a problem where I don‘t. I am not judging btw (unlike your parent) just pointing out the differences. My primary (and now only) use case of Bandcamp is as a
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by runarberg 3mo ago
Taking your logic to its conclusion fishes (or descendants of fish) regularly recite Shakespeare. However there is a major flaw in your logic. Fishes (or their descendants) reciting Shakespeare is part of natural history. AI making quality
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by runarberg 3mo ago
> I'm not bothered by a fish's inability to quote Shakespeare. But I am bothered when they put a pencil in the mouth of a fish and tell us that this is the future of literature, that this qualifies as playwright, and that theat
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by runarberg 3mo ago
This is such a bad argument: a) You are allowed to dislike cheap stuff, in fact it is common in western culture to dislike art where it is obvious that the artist cheaped out. b) Never in the history of western art critique has there been a
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by runarberg 3mo ago
Does Bandcamp still do their Bandcamp weekly and their regular article? Personally I never signed up for any streaming service (apart from Bandcamp; but I don‘t use their suggestion algorithm) so I can’t judge what is good or bad about it.
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by runarberg 3mo ago
I am pointing out (what I think is) a logical fallacy you made earlier. This what your parent said: > The worst about the SpaceX IPO is Nasdaq changing their inclusion rules for the Nasdaq 100. And you replied with: > It would be s

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