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by sfink 2mo ago
At Mozilla, we had a set of whiteboard tags we could set on bugs, like "[crash]" or "[compat]" or "[leave-open]". That last was used when there were multiple patches attached to the bug, and we wanted to land o
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by sfink 2mo ago
Just be thankful that we don't share the penchant for giving credit to discoverers. Imagine calling a cache a "Murphy/Steinman/Sokolov structure" (made-up names). I mean, we do for some things, especially algorith
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by sfink 2mo ago
> For better or worse millions of Americans voted for the guy doing the deportations. Uh, the idea of democracy is not that voting reveals universal preferences or something. It is ok to disagree with whoever gets elected, and continue w
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by sfink 2mo ago
The main answer would probably be: because he worked for Google Deep Mind as opposed to Google in general, so the killerbot and mass profiling concerns were immediately relevant to him and his work. Your comment seems to be whataboutism. Th
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by sfink 3mo ago
The weaknesses can be multiplicative as well. One division bleeding capex can drag down all the rest, no matter how well they might be doing. And the P/E ratio on all of them is riding unrealistic expectations, which can actually be fi
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by sfink 3mo ago
> Prohibiting a user of your software from modifying it and using it to run their business goes against both freedoms 0 and 1. Then it's good that it allows both modification and using it to run a business? > This “users are obli
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by sfink 3mo ago
> they failed to address that these labs are creating a public good as well. Who's to say that this "theft" is larger than the production of public goods that these labs give to the public in the first place. Those aren&#x
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by sfink 3mo ago
> It's been said a thousand times but the ability to produce copyrighted material is not copyright infringement. Aside from fair use, yes it is. > If I draw The Simpsons on a piece of paper - whether or not I used AI to create it
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by sfink 3mo ago
That's pretty much the reaction I had, except that I do find the argument compelling that AI is damaging the ecosystem it feeds upon. I think Google's AI results are probably the prime example here. Those results are often quite g
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by sfink 3mo ago
That's a fascinating link, and it sounds like what I'm talking about is what's called "engineer's blue" in the link. But I think it would be vastly more difficult to grind two massive stone blocks against each
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by sfink 3mo ago
(I know nothing about this subject, feel free to ignore me.) My dentist is pretty good at doing this too, by putting marking paper between my teeth and having me bite down. I wonder if a similar technique could be used: Have the blocks clos
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by sfink 3mo ago
If it were the FBI, it wouldn't be "To Kill a Mockingbird", it would be "Amateur Forgery, volume XVII: Passports" or something. Well, or something similar that wasn't already illegal. > I really don't s
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by sfink 3mo ago
I think the point was that it's difficult to notice in the first place, not that it would be hard to find once you know you're looking for something. You don't have a black WiFi router with antennae dangling down from the cei
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by sfink 3mo ago
You may be overthinking this. "Banned" in this case means that the usual person or people who choose what books to include are being overridden by a party with more clout. From the perspective of a school librarian, for example, b
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by sfink 3mo ago
In general, because it's a flag that says to do things in an incorrect but faster way. It's like -ffast-math. The applications for which it's intended don't do anything where the incorrectness matters. Some random applic
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by sfink 4mo ago
I largely think that we engineers are to blame for LoC being still perceived as an asset rather than a liability. We are proud of stuff we create, but it turns out that you can't describe how "big" something is without some m
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by sfink 4mo ago
"RSS lies. Your process might not be using that memory. The allocator might be hoarding it." Interesting writeup, but: No, anonymous AI author. Your process is using that memory, for its allocator. Features like lower-latency al
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by sfink 4mo ago
Dammit. For a long time, I was blissfully clueless about AI writing style. But I recently read something that screamed en-SLOP, and now I can't unsee it anywhere. It hit me immediately with this article. I want to go back to being dumb
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by sfink 4mo ago
My post wasn't written in a way to make friends, but: > I've since rewritten nearly 100% of the prose in the analysis with my own, more inflammatory and verbose style. I also intentionally left in my natural mispellings and typ
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by sfink 4mo ago
Wow. I am pretty insensitive to AI writing. I have never commented before about something sounding like AI, because mostly I don't notice. But this was so over the top that I spent the whole article trying to decide whether it was an
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by sfink 4mo ago
Wha? Why didn't they use Q=K=V for that?
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by sfink 4mo ago
This was pretty directly addressed in the article: not doing it would only mean they'd fall behind whoever would. This is not peace time in the AI race. Whether you agree with that argument is another question.
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by sfink 4mo ago
The decision wasn't specifically to drop a standard bar. It was to drop the existing bars because they have become heavily gamed and are far more reliable indicators of your family's resources than your ability or likelihood of su
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by sfink 4mo ago
Is flunking kids the right reaction to catching them cheating? If it was before LLMs, is it still? I would love to be able to hold the line and throw the book at anyone who cheats, but after the dam has burst does it still help to try to ho
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by sfink 4mo ago
I doubt that's the bottleneck. UCB's acceptance rate is not high (<5% for CS). They have way more people who want to get in -- qualified kids, too! -- than they can fit. They'd need to burn through that backlog before it s
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by sfink 4mo ago
Good point. I'm inclined to think it's because of a quality threshold in chatbots.
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by sfink 4mo ago
Not if kids are prepping for the test in a way that results in real gains. Which seems likely, especially in the age of AI: "should I actually study math or just use ChatGPT to pass this course?" One semester of coasting through m
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by sfink 4mo ago
I disagree with you, for the very reason you give: > Then again, maybe someone will just make a LLM that’s built to turn poor English... into excellent English That's already been done, for some (pretty weird) definition of "ex
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by sfink 4mo ago
Yes, that's fair, and you are right. I guess I was using hyperbole to contrast with the naive and common "I'm great at basketball so obviously I'll be really good at baseball" mentality. The skills are not unrelated
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A Structure-Aware Fuzzing Experiment(fitzgen.com)
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