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by sharkjacobs 1y ago
My impression is that Sonnet and Haiku 4.5 are the same "base models" as Sonnet and Haiku 4, the improvements are from fine tuning on data generated by Opus. I'm a user who follows the space but doesn't actually develop
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by sharkjacobs 1y ago
It doesn't feel like the wikipedia thing is a good counterpoint. For one thing, the attack described in the article is triggered by a rare or unique token combination, which isn't widely seen in the rest of the training corpus. It
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by sharkjacobs 1y ago
I mean, they seem to address that pretty directly in the post > Two years ago, I wouldn’t have bothered with the rewrite, let alone creating the script in the first place. The friction was too high. Now, small utility scripts like this a
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by sharkjacobs 1y ago
How do you feel about - Oracle specifically - massive dystopian tech companies more generally - free speech - Israel - punitive use of mental health services
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by sharkjacobs 1y ago
Indignation is anger plus self righteousness. Social media companies get the best return on content which is both shocking and serves their confirmation bias. "This thing you already hate is just as bad as you already thought." I
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by sharkjacobs 1y ago
It's a rude response from someone whose public persona is famously rude and abrasive. It's also worth considering the difference between publishing 10000 words to an audience of subscribers, and sending 10000 words unsolicited to
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What are the numbers then?
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by sharkjacobs 1y ago
> It should feel like an extension of the book and not a separate chat instance. So like footnotes? Or more like Socrates suddenly goes off on an anachronistic 1200 word discursion, in the middle of Phaedrus, about Freudian interpretatio
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by sharkjacobs 1y ago
I made a little hobbyist app for myself, and I think it's pretty nice and occasionally think about polishing it up and releasing it. And the first reason I don't is because I'm not interested in promoting it, and it's pr
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by sharkjacobs 1y ago
This whole business model of trying to shave off or arbitrage a fraction of the money going to OpenAI and Anthropic just sucks. And it seems precarious. There's no honest way to resell tokens at a profit, and everyone knows it.
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by sharkjacobs 1y ago
Casino Royale isn't cited as an example of golden age English detective fiction, the article suggests that books like Casino Royale, "with twists at every turn" and "overt depictions of sex and violence" were part o
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by sharkjacobs 1y ago
I like the look of the Oakleys better than the Raybans. I get why they want to make their glasses look like Rayban Wayfarers, because they're the most neutral inconspicuous glasses frame style of the last 25 years, but, IMO, they misse
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by sharkjacobs 1y ago
O and 0 are very similar in lots of typefaces. And I and l and 1. Even u and v. Your brain's pretty good at figuring it out. Context helps a lot.
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"Hate speech" isn't just hateful speech, it's a specific term with a specific meaning. Being a nazi isn't an inherent characteristic of a person, it's an affiliation or ideology that they consciously choose.
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by sharkjacobs 1y ago
> On June 23, 2025, the Court rendered its Order on Fair Use, Dkt. 231, granting Anthropic’s motion for summary judgment in part and denying its motion in part. The Court reached different conclusions regarding different sources of train
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by sharkjacobs 1y ago
tl;dr: Wordsworth humbly urges lawmakers to pass a bill (extending duration of copyright to the greater of 42 years or authors lifetime plus 7 years). No argument or case for or against copyright is articulated
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I don't know of any examples which match what you're describing, except for some things which were captivating train wrecks, and I don't think they accomplished what the speaker was trying to do very well. Do you have any exa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundere
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The upgrade from GPT3.5 to GPT4 was like going from a Razr to an iPhone, just a staggering leap forward. Everything since then has been successive iPhone releases (complete with the big product release announcements and front page HN post).
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> there are alternative LLMs and services that both outperform and are a fraction of OpenAI's pricing Like what? Deepseek?
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I think you're very correct to identify the gulf between what the average MedPath headline reader understands "biological age" to mean, and the very specific chemical tags being measured and reported
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Presumably it is in the narrow context of the study, since they need something they can consistently measure and compare > The researchers used epigenetic clocks to assess biological aging - sophisticated tools that identify patterns of
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Making a space invaders game is not representative of normal engineering because you're reproducing an existing game with well known specs and requirements. There are probably hundreds of thousands of words describing and discussing Sp
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I was always fascinated by the detail that Odysseus plows his own fields, and what that means about being King of an island in mythological Greece
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That's a big discount
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- higher editorial standards and gatekeeping meant print media was generally of higher quality than internet publications - print publications built reputations of spans of time that the internet still hasn't existed for, earning great
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The "conspiracy" part of "conspiracy theories" is that other people are deliberately and knowingly concealing the truth for their own ends. - "The moon landing is faked" : the conspiracy is the media camp
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What's the advantage of seeing an original piece of art over a serviceable replica? Especially in the case where the "original" is a print, one of dozens. Obviously "serviceable" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here
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I see your prices page lists the average cost per million tokens. Is that because you are using the formula you describe, which depends on hardware time and throughput? > API Price ≈ (Hourly Hardware Cost / Throughput in Tokens pe
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Of course not. But the thrust of the article is that contrary to conventional wisdom, we shouldn't expect llm models to continue getting more efficient, and so its worthwhile to explore other options for cost savings in inference, such

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