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by sowbug 8mo ago
Thanks! (I see the Trained Weights results now, thanks.)
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by sowbug 8mo ago
I ask this question as someone who can't do much more than confirm that your blog post is written in English by someone who knows math. Does this result suggest that if we had N clever humans manually building an LLM, they might come u
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by sowbug 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem
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by sowbug 8mo ago
You don't understand the politics if you keep asking about the red herring of technical limitations. Anthropic could have said "you can use our technology for anything but faster-than-light travel." The military administratio
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by sowbug 8mo ago
They don't. They want to punish a company for expressing values that introduce friction to the whims of the current administration.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
It's same reason this administration recently tried to indict six Congresspersons for urging military members to resist "illegal orders." They want to demonize anyone who isn't blindly loyal to their side.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Silicon Valley ain't cheap.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
That's a perfectly fine belief to have. I might even agree with you. But you're not really advancing a discussion thread about a company's strong ideals by pointing out some past behavior that you don't like. This is esp
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Saying an entity has values doesn't mean the entity agrees with every single one of your values.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Docker won't contain it. If it has access to your email, it can hire someone from TaskRabbit to migrate it onto a new computer it ordered from Amazon.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Just for you, I went back and checked the numbers. $33K list price 4K delivery 3K sales tax 8.5K onsite assembly 1K building application and permit So that's $49.5K for what in my mind was a $30K prefab office. Then a basic wood frame
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by sowbug 8mo ago
(We have descended into one of the deeper circles of grammar hell. I will remind you that you're free to leave at any time.) Yes, exactly. English grammar actually doesn't require the "and" to end a list (leaving it out
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by sowbug 8mo ago
At least one person in the support thread paid for a year and appears to have had it all forfeited, not refunded. If you're OK with that, then I urge you to reconsider. There is a big difference between contract, civil, and criminal la
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by sowbug 8mo ago
This is only half a thought. The current wave of AI agents is diminishing the value of identity as a DDOS or content-moderation signal. The formula until now included bot = bad, but unless your service wants to exclude everyone using OpenCl
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by sowbug 8mo ago
A trademark sets your brand apart from competitors. If your competitors are other brands of mushrooms, then "Mushroom" is too broad. But if you're trying to distinguish yourself from other brands of packaging, it might work.
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The first two of the three are adjectives, each connected to the subject by the one "is," and the third is a verb phrase not using the "is." Ideally they'd be all adjectives using the "is," or all phrases
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by sowbug 8mo ago
We are in violent agreement about that point. Where we seem to disagree is that I don't think they're entitled to also keep the customer's annual subscription payment when they've decided they want out of the contract.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Of course. That's why I personally don't use an ad blocker. I just close the tab if it's too annoying.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
The facts are straightforward, even without analogies. But since we're using them... You are at the grocery store, checking out. The total comes to $250. You pay, but then remember you had a coupon. You present it to the cashier, who c
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by sowbug 8mo ago
But when they paste support replies using terms like "suspension," "violation of the Google Terms of Service," and "zero-tolerance," it sounds like someone's close to losing access to their family photos.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Businesses do not have an entitlement to profit. Suspending customers for using a fairly expensive subscription plan -- especially forfeiting an annual prepayment for a day or two of coloring outside the lines -- sure does make Google appea
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by sowbug 8mo ago
There's no rude way to call an API. As more of human communication and commerce gets refactored into cold agentic interactions, the issue of reputation just vanishes. But there's more than shifting etiquette standards at stake. Ev
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by sowbug 8mo ago
One advantage of AI-generated copy is it generally doesn't make mistakes like this. The only mistake I've noticed, besides inexplicably lapsing into Chinese mid-sentence, is parallel construction errors, like "This product is
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Yes and no. It was approved under the California state rules fast-tracking ADUs, but the thing I bought didn't have plumbing or sewer. Had I known I would be in for that much time and money, I'd have chosen something with a bathro
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by sowbug 8mo ago
I bought a prefab backyard office after the pandemic for about $30K. I love it, even after the final price came to about $80K. We figured out that overhead power lines would prevent it from being lifted in by a crane, so we decided to have
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Sounds like a sad story, but hard to know what went wrong. Did a safe design collide with regulations that weren't written with modular housing in mind? Did the modularity cause normal approval processes to happen out of order, allowin
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Re-read Brave New World . Deltas and Epsilons have their place, even if Alphas and Betas got smarter overnight. Roof! Roof!
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by sowbug 8mo ago
The top comment on Friday's discussion does some math on die size. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47086634 Since model size determines die size, and die size has absolute limits as well as a correlation with yiel
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FPGAs aren't very power-efficient. You could do it, but the numbers wouldn't add up for anything but prototyping.
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Bake in a Genius Bar employee, trained on your model's hardware, whose entire reason for existence is to fix your computer when it breaks. If it takes an extra 50 cents of die space but saves Apple a dollar of support costs over the li

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