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by snewman 2y ago
Presumably Anthropic / Claude, OpenAI / GPT, Google DeepMind / Gemini.
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by snewman 2y ago
This seems clear and authoritative. The one thing I can't wrap my head around: why didn't he say this when the story of Sam getting fired first circulated? Why didn't Sam ask him to clarify the record sooner? It would have be
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by snewman 2y ago
Edit to add: feel free to email me (address is in my profile) if you'd like to discuss this with someone in private. I've co-founded multiple startups, but don't have any experience with a bad situation like this, so could gi
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by snewman 2y ago
For the use case we're discussing here, of terminating an entire service, the soft delete would typically be needed only at some high level, such as on the access list for the service. The impact on performance, etc. should be minimal.
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by snewman 2y ago
My point is that if they had this problem in their VMware support, they might have a similar problem in one of their other services. But they didn't check (or at least they didn't claim credit for having checked, which likely mean
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by snewman 2y ago
Given the level of impact that this incident caused, I am surprised that the remediations did not go deeper. They ensured that the same problem could not happen again in the same way, but that's all. So some equivalent glitch somewhere
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by snewman 2y ago
A company with a high P/E is by definition not making much money for its shareholders, relative to the size of their investment. Unless you mean that the share price may appreciate. That's absolutely a thing, but it's a dange
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by snewman 2y ago
You could merge these data structures as well. If the two instances to be merged are not at the same "round", take the one that's at an earlier round and advance it (by discarding half the entries at random) by the difference
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by snewman 2y ago
I think this is unlikely. There has never (in the visible fossil record) been a mutation that suddenly made tigers an order of magnitude stronger and faster, or humans an order of magnitude more intelligent. It's been a long time (if e
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by snewman 2y ago
Guessing: perhaps this means, if someone needs credit for shepherding an improvement to search quality into production, here is a set of known improvements waiting for someone to take ownership.
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by snewman 2y ago
Yes, very strong T-1000 vibes – the way it keeps reversing "front" and "back" almost feels like a deliberate reference to that moment in Terminator 2.
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by snewman 3y ago
Concur. Zookeeper was absolutely inspired by Chubby, and this story fits in every detail with how things worked at Google back in the day. (Source: I was at Google from 2006 - 2010. Also, I believe the origins of Zookeeper are a matter of p
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by snewman 3y ago
This does not seem to be correct. I asked Kagi "does kagi build its own index". From the first result (on help.kagi.com): > Kagi Search includes anonymized requests to traditional search indexes including Brave, as well our own
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by snewman 3y ago
This is not strong evidence. While, ideally, the behavior you describe should not happen, there are many reasons it could arise. (Bugs, font sizing comes out differently at printer resolution, paper size is different than on-screen page siz
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by snewman 3y ago
I don't understand your points here. It does seem that Google Docs is using the browser to measure and render individual units of text. But that is very much not the same thing as layout: deciding how much text fits onto a line, how ma
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by snewman 3y ago
What is your source for the planet only being able to support one billion people? That's a very bold statement, given that we are currently at eight billion and have fairly clear technological pathways to sustainability. Of course sust
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by snewman 3y ago
(author here) Of course LLMs are not people. But human metaphors can (sometimes!) be useful in understanding, explaining, and even enhancing their behavior. For instance, techniques such as Chain-of-Thought prompting explicitly apply techni
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Why Are LLMs So Gullible?(amistrongeryet.substack.com)
49 points by snewman 3y ago|101 comments
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by snewman 3y ago
There are definitely artifacts. Go to the 9th video in the first batch, the one of the guy sitting on a cloud reading a book. Watch the book; the pages are flapping in the wind in an extremely strange way.
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by snewman 3y ago
Honest question: of what possible use could Sora be for Hollywood? The results are amazing, but if the current crop of text-to-image tools is any guide, it will be easy to create things that look cool but essentially impossible to create so
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by snewman 3y ago
My understanding here is shallow, but I think you are correct. Here's a simple exercise to help your intuition: open your hand up flat, and hold it facing your mouth, a few inches away. Blow, and you can easily feel the air pressing on
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by snewman 3y ago
Tossing another anecdote onto the pile, I just searched "Adidas shoes". The first four hits are not for Adidas shoes, after that they all are. All four of those non-Adidas hits are "Sponsored" results, but that's no
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by snewman 3y ago
Well, moving away from "efficiency" can take you toward redundancy, but it doesn't have to. Some waste is just wasteful. It's important not to oversimplify, otherwise you wind up with counterproductive memes like "t
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by snewman 3y ago
I had a personal brush with Feynman with regards to this experiment. Circa 1986, I read Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman and became mildly obsessed with the fact that Feynman doesn't present the result of the sprinkler experime
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by snewman 3y ago
My understanding, and I've read a fair amount on the subject, is that geography for pumped storage is actually pretty limited compared to the eventual need. Do you have a source for it being plentiful? Promising alternatives to mitigat
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by snewman 3y ago
Holy cow. How did the fire start, and where was it initially spreading that went up so fast?
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by snewman 3y ago
That's generally where methane comes from today, but in time it may come from captured CO₂, e.g. see https://terraformindustries.com/ (disclaimer: I am a minor investor).
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Climate and AI(climateer.substack.com)
2 points by snewman 3y ago|0 comments
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by snewman 3y ago
I'm personally devoting my career to AI safety, on a volunteer basis, because I think it's is legitimately of high importance. (See my blog, e.g. https://amistrongeryet.substack.com/p/implications-of-agi , if
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by snewman 3y ago
LLMs can't do just about any extended, context-dependent task, which is why they're far away from being drop-in replacements for people. Absolutely they're doing more than just regurgitating training data, but there's a

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