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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
Chrome is spyware to begin with; they know if you’re a bot out of the gate. Captcha is redundant to the deeper spying Google does at this point. Likewise captcha is useless against multimodal LLM available to anybody, many of which can be r
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
Rational smart people would think so; but the group in charge at Google now just sees something that doesn’t have ads on it and kills it. They hit OSS hard in first round of layoffs. But as people who only understand money they give HF a pi
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
Google is terrified of open source AI and the only thing the people in charge understand is how to manipulate people with money, they lack other ideas or methods. So yeah, that would explain it.
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
Literally wrote an Ollama wrapper class last week. Doh!
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
The way this always works is the law says “X”, then various parties come up with self serving interpretations of what “X” means, if they don’t mutually align they may go to a judge to figure out who’s definition of “X” will prevail. It’s a
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
Eh, we know from the DoJ trial Google is already sending trucks full of cash down to Cupertino every day for search defaults. This may just add a little extra overhead on the next “protection” payment.
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
I’ll keep that in mind. Thanks. (Also, FWIW my revenue is diversified enough that I can weather some storms in one area or another.)
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
Therein lies the rub, but if you are turning a small, but real profit, and you then need a cash infusion you’ll retain far more control if you already have proved you can make money.
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
If you don’t maybe you shouldn't be starting a business in the first place. The number of “zero interest rate” business that’s still need to be culled is too damn high.
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
Bootstrapping a business with my savings to retain full control is both the wisest and hardest thing I’ve done. I don’t understand why people are so quick to start giving up control out of the gate for software companies. Servers are cheap,
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
Well in the Ai/ML era maybe “models or gtfo” is better. Training data is just common crawl for half these LMs.
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
I’m failing to see how this isn’t just “hey look at my sitemap”!
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
Hey now, Google is going to use these technologies to fire their own employees to save costs for the next quarterly earnings call! Of course building products for actual users is no longer a “thing”, but think of the stock price.
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
“PoC or GTFO” as they say.
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
Well, I do want to know more about how it works. Anything important I will teach myself, it’s just hard to justify the time investment during work hours when the robot does it. Which I think is also important: these tools save time, but wi
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
I do a lot of model tuning and I’m almost ashamed to say I tell GPT what performance I’m aiming for and have it generate the hyper parameters (as in just literally give me a code block). Then I see what works, tell GPT, and try again. I’m d
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
I’m old enough to have learned that the secret to success is much less knowing the tool of the moment than picking the right tool for a job. The right tool may in fact be the new one, and LLM do open a lot of doors with zero shot capabiliti
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
I’m aware, I left the academic world in no small part that I refused to write papers that weren’t worth reading. A high quality, but short, CV is a career ender these days. I’m happier now though!
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
Nothing would benefit the scientific enterprise more than explicitly publishing papers about failed experiments. How much public money, time, and careers have been wasted chasing something that is already known not to work?
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
Distributed systems can get very big.
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
(+20ns x # calls made) can be significant if you’re dealing with billions of executions though. If nothing else a search/replace for “dict()” to “{}” could yield an aggregate performance bump with basically zero refactoring cost. Also
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
Phenomenal performance.
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
Google played both sides and lost. They took a cut of all the SEO trash display ads, and all revenue from the search ads. It seemed like a great way to make endless cash, but they double dipped and ended up breaking the web by hyper incenti
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
Isn’t there just an “IT guy” they can send over?
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
This was borne out in lawsuits. The YouTube tech wasn’t better, GVideo was superior but disnt have the same buzz or content, it was the pirated content Google wanted. The emails are public record.
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
100% - Google IS SRE. My favorite group of people to work with when I was there, a true honor, just amazing infra. But the people “leading” the place are trash.
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
And Apple forked WebKit from KDE!
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
That boat has sailed. Everybody knows the score or has their head in the sand.
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
"Anger is a gift"
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by sjwhevvvvvsj 3y ago
They bought the companies; that’s very literally not stealing.

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