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by somewhereoutth 8mo ago
No. When there is low prevalence of a condition, but a non-zero false positive rate of a test, the false positives generated by universal testing can in fact be a net dis-benefit (worry, invasive further procedures, etc) to the patient popu
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by somewhereoutth 8mo ago
"Hell is other people's code" Not sure why we'd want a tool that generates so much of this for us.
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by somewhereoutth 8mo ago
Infinite scrolling combined with the algorithmic feed is the real nasty. Feeds should be heavily regulated, effectively they are a (personalized!) broadcast, and maybe the same strictures should apply. Definitely they should be transparent
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by somewhereoutth 8mo ago
> based on multiple public statements from people like Dario > clear picture of the finances of these companies Since they are not publicly traded companies, presumably there is no legal duty for the officers to be clear or even hones
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by somewhereoutth 8mo ago
Sorry - if a model costs (say) 20B to train, lasts 12 months before it becomes obsolete, generates 2B/month revenue, but with 1B/month inference costs, then it has lost 8B. Or are you suggesting that in fact each model comes out a
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by somewhereoutth 8mo ago
Apple was built on a product manager shouting at engineers until they got it right.
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by somewhereoutth 8mo ago
"we don't want your electric car, we want your car, but electric!"
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by somewhereoutth 8mo ago
Indeed. And this burden of a top heavy population pyramid is a major reason for not having [more] kids - a vicious circle, which, if left to continue, will result in humanity simply evaporating. A pretty depressing place, with whole towns a
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by somewhereoutth 8mo ago
However a lot of the modern world is carried by 'pride of workmanship' - and not just by those who 'make'. It's an extension of the 'planting trees' parable, to care about things even though you are not im
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by somewhereoutth 8mo ago
However if the 'non determinism and inaccuracy' of LLMs is more pathogenic than that of humans, then we have a problem. Pathogenesis is inherently a system level effect, so it may take a little time (and money!) to become eviden
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by somewhereoutth 8mo ago
specifically to keep up with the Soviet Union. Sputnik 'concentrated a lot of minds' as they say.
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by somewhereoutth 8mo ago
I suspect a lot of this is due to large amounts of liquidity sloshing around looking for returns. We are still dealing with the consequences of the ZIRP (Zero Interest Rate Policy) and QE (Quantitative Easing) where money to support the eco
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by somewhereoutth 8mo ago
The cowling is its own structural support, so needs to be strong all around, otherwise it would fail on the other side and you'd get blade+cowling approaching the fuselage at high velocity.
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by somewhereoutth 8mo ago
I think it is the stators fixed to the engine nacelle, judging by the article image.
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by somewhereoutth 8mo ago
In other news: https://fortune.com/2026/01/29/100-percent-of-code-at-anthro...
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by somewhereoutth 8mo ago
'ability to reason' implies that LLMs are building a semantic model from their training data, whereas the simplest explanation for their behavior is that they are building a syntactic model (see Plato's Cave). Thus withou
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by somewhereoutth 8mo ago
without training new models, existing models will become more and more out of date, until they are no longer useful - regardless of how cheap inference is. Training new models is part of the cost basis, and can't be hand waved away.
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by somewhereoutth 8mo ago
LLMs will stop being trained, as that enormous upfront investment will have been found to not produce the required return. People will continue to use the existing models for inference, not least as the (now bankrupt) LLM labs attempt to sq
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by somewhereoutth 9mo ago
Features : Quality : Timeline Choose 2. For example a large feature set can be made quickly, but it will be of poor quality. Note that cost is somewhat orthogonal, throwing money at a problem does not necessarily improve the tradeoff, indee
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by somewhereoutth 9mo ago
> Investors were briefly spooked last July when an M.I.T. study suggested that almost none of this is useful to businesses. Corporations had poured tens of billions of dollars into A.I., yet only one in 20 projects had succeeded, the stu
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by somewhereoutth 9mo ago
If your product interface is with humans, you test it firstly with devs, then QA, then your customers. Devs are a bit leaky for bugs/non-conformance, so if you skip the QA, then your customer is exposed. For some industries this is fin
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by somewhereoutth 9mo ago
depends if the cost of training can be recouped (with profit) from the proceeds of usage. Plenty of inventions prove themselves to be uneconomic.
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by somewhereoutth 9mo ago
However, as you point out, anti-AI people are pushing back against hype, not indulging in hype themselves - not least as nobody is trying to sell 'not-AI'. I for one look forward to the next AI winter, which I hope will be long,
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by somewhereoutth 9mo ago
I feel that this article (like many other endeavors) has been derailed by the whole AI thing. Let's ignore that part. The major point is that yes both clay and code are mediums for expression and they have advantages and drawbacks -
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by somewhereoutth 9mo ago
As it should be. However this practice has become deeply culturally ingrained, whether through religion or other custom, so it is going to be a hard slog to eradicate it worldwide.
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by somewhereoutth 9mo ago
Rain radar is something I'm always looking at online, it's easy to fast forward from an hour back and see whats about to hit you. I think that would make a great single purpose mobile app - automatically knows where the sources of
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by somewhereoutth 9mo ago
It is a common trope that tech people have a good understanding of computers, but a bad understanding of people. I see no evidence here to dispel that trope.
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by somewhereoutth 9mo ago
The best way to understand a loan is as the right to a future income stream (principal repayments and interest). The original debtor (the person/entity taking out the loan) establishes the credibility of that future income stream (base
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by somewhereoutth 9mo ago
I've often said (at least half jokingly) - C for systems programming, Javascript for everything else! This artical makes the case for C as a low level language, I then offer Javascript as a functional-ish language for manipulating doma
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by somewhereoutth 9mo ago
Well, absent further interventions - possibly even a real invasion! - there is no reason for the current regime in Venezuela to change its policy very much (aside from beefing up its air defense maybe)

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