sangnoir

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by sangnoir 3y ago
> What do you think the NSA is storing in that datacenter in Utah? A buffer with several-days-worth of the entire internet's traffic for post-hoc decryption/analysis/filtering on interesting bits. All that tapped backbone&
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> Content you’re allowed and capable of scraping on the Internet is such a small amount of data, not sure why people are acting otherwise YMMV depending on the value of "you" and your budget. If you're Google, Amazon or ev
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by sangnoir 3y ago
So someone could hypothetically perform a Microsoft-Tay-style attack against OpenAI models using an infinite Potemkin subdomians generated on the fly on a $20 VPS? One could hypothetically use GenAI to create the biased pages with repeate
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by sangnoir 3y ago
There are fewer than 10 links on each domain, how did GPTBot find out about the 1.8M unique sites? By crawling the sites it's not supposed to crawl, ignoring robots.txt. "disallow: /" doesn't mean "you may pe
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> Want to use more than 128GB of memory? Too bad, your $10B chip doesn’t support that. Which is probably why Meta is also buying the biggest Nvidia datacenter cards by the shipload. There is no need to run inference for a small model - s
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Why wouldn't phishing fall under trust and safety? Perhaps not primarily - but it's definitely a trust and safety event.
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> he fired a huge number of the staff and the site is still running, so how was that assumption not proven correct ? Why would you expect the website to stop running though? Keeping a site running with a smaller crew is easy amd baked in
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> I don't understand the social structure inside a software company where this kind of thing can go from some intern's 3am idea to production This is what happens when you "cut the fat" and are left with an adversely-
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by sangnoir 3y ago
So who's buying all the MI300s? Groq seems to be fine with AMD.
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> we're not magic either We pretty much are compared to present-day neural architectures. How many simulated neurons and synapses are in the largest architectures, and how do those numbers compare to humans?
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> While they claim E2E encryption, I seriously doubt they would offer this service entirely for free with having some backdoor or potential MITM breach that they likely tucked away in the ToS given the wide use of it it most of the World
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> But what is the value that they can derive from user data? What, are the pictures and videos of people from the global south somehow not good enough to train AI due to their economic situation?
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> If I want a model to generate a fun pic of me at the beach and instead it makes a nude photo, that's completely different What if someone else's idea of a fun pic at the beach is a nude photo? Is it only censorship when the w
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> ...specially in open models. > Saying it again: If a business releases a model, we have a right to demand that it is useful for us because we're the business' costumers Open models == free == no customers. For open foundat
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by sangnoir 3y ago
How do you support your livelihood, if it involves products or services, kindly share your sales funnel.
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> You don't need a PR campaign to oust Sundar. I think 7 out of 10 Googlers would agree that Sundar is uninspiring Do Google RSUs come with voting rights? If not, then Googlers don't get much of a say on when/how Sundar is
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> its hardware isn't really ideal for AI shenanigans FWIW, I was in the same boat as you and decided to start cheap, old game machines can handle AI shenanigans just fine wirh the right GPU. I use a 2017 workstation (Zen1) and an Nv
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by sangnoir 3y ago
So I take it you endorse the Amazon-backed fork? Amazon too strives to be self-sufficient, and has moved on from Redis because the factors are no longer conducive to its goals.
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Forgive me for going meta: Your "Socratic method" falls short when you ignore obvious context. You assumed the liat of reasons I stated was exhaustive, I clarified in my reply that it wasn't and then after another back-and-f
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> What I was asking was by your logic, 22 is less protective of society than 102, which makes me question the validity of "it protects society" reasoning The answer to all variations of your underlying question in your post is
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> Naturally, by this logic I have to ask: why not 32 years? 52? 102? Because the sentencing judge applied the guidelines provided by law as written by legislature, considered case-law, the specifics of this case and applied their profess
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by sangnoir 3y ago
It will also give the enablers of criminality pause. If the mastermind gets 20-25, they'll realize they are risking 2-5 year sentences with zero upside just for "following orders" or negligently turning a blind eye to malfeas
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by sangnoir 3y ago
The difference is society gets 12 additional years of safety which it wouldn't get otherwise. Ostensibly.
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by sangnoir 3y ago
I remember the JPCOA and egging on the Trump administration to break the agreement and the subsequent escalations.
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Despite both being MoEs, thr architectures are different. DBRX has double the number of experts in the pool (16 vs 8 for Mixtral), and doubles the active experts (4 vs 2)
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by sangnoir 3y ago
> Fun? No Maybe not for you. If I had a medical emergency, I wouldn't want to be attended to by a mopey physician - no matter how dire my circumstances. The same goes for therapists and first responders. Yes, those people don't
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by sangnoir 3y ago
To double down: chattel slavery, the expansion west by conquest, a civil war, the Chinese Exclusion Act, Jim Crow and Japanese internment camps are not the ingredients of a cohesive society. The fault lines in American society were not impo
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Perhaps America was a uniquely divided society from the very beginning? Either that, or foreign influence operations have been a multigenerational affairs - which year or decade could one say America was not divided?
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by sangnoir 3y ago
*was. Tesla's keel the bottom of their demand pool a few quarters ago and are no longer selling evey car made. The 2 levers at their disposal to boost sales are price cuts and marketing (ads), and they've already started on the fo
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by sangnoir 3y ago
Seeing high-albedo LEO satellites in orbit is easy with under a dark sky. I remember seeing individual satellites all the time while camping as a child, I'd see at least 2 per minute, all traveling in the same direction. This was bef

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