sterlind

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by sterlind 4mo ago
I don't think the issue with robotics is a data gap. maybe somewhat, but the real issues are that: - RL is extraordinarily sample-inefficient. - distribution shift/catastrophic forgetting aren't solved. only off-policy learni
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by sterlind 4mo ago
is it replacing CBL-Mariner as the utility distro for WSL?
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by sterlind 4mo ago
two reasons: 1. Anthropic is an AI company. they want to get to AGI before anyone else ~~so they can lock the doors behind them~~ to ensure the supremacy of an aligned AGI that serves humankind. RSI unlocks the most value for them. 2. doing
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by sterlind 4mo ago
out of curiosity, what do you do with them? what's your use case for large DNA?
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by sterlind 4mo ago
what is a B model vs. a Q model? what do these letters mean?
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by sterlind 5mo ago
from which perspective is it not freedom?
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by sterlind 5mo ago
the succinct argument: I don't want arguably the most important invention in human history to be gatekept by a small handful of oligarchs. I don't trust Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk to act in my best interests. Closed mo
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by sterlind 5mo ago
alternatively, it turns out the voice to text ended up picking up on dialog from a movie the suspect was watching, and he opens the door to a SWAT team thinking that's his pizza being delivered.
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by sterlind 5mo ago
OpenAI seems marginally better. they did release gpt-oss-120b, which was decent at the time. but certainly not much better, and they seemed even more on board with fully disabling guardrails for Uncle Sam than Anthropic was. then again, r
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by sterlind 5mo ago
3D2A. I support repealing the machine gun ban. (and I don't even own a gun.)
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by sterlind 5mo ago
I loathe Anthropic. many companies don't contribute to open-source, but for one to be actively hostile to open-source, to the degree they're lobbying the government to ban it, is uniquely evil. at least these gatekeepers call th
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by sterlind 5mo ago
first off, thank you for your service. second, would it be possible to make RFP appear as an extension like uBO, where it suggests sites to allow-list, or hints that the page might be broken and asks if you want to disable RFP? I'm mor
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by sterlind 5mo ago
the toolmakers and merchants aren't inherently amoral, though. if you're making kitchen knives to sell at Crate & Barrel you probably sleep soundly. if you're filing down shivs to sell to street gangs, they're probab
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by sterlind 5mo ago
I'd like to donate with Monero, despite my misgivings about the privacy guarantees of RingCT, because I support the spirit of both projects. but I don't want to raise a red flag to my banking institutions or government. what'
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by sterlind 5mo ago
> As a cis man, I'll say that it likely is borne of hatred, but more so, as a tool to rile the masses to be angry enough to vote for whoever feeds that hate. certainly a lot of it is, but I think there truly are people with sincere
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by sterlind 5mo ago
right. politicians love to sow hatred. it's easier to promise to make the constituents' enemies suffer than to promise to make their consituents' lives better. plus the polarization leads to safer votes ("I don't ag
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by sterlind 5mo ago
selectively going after the bad people - violent criminals and the like - seems like a good start. CBP/HSI is currently driven by a quota system, to my knowledge. quotas incentivize going after the most law-abiding people because they&
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by sterlind 5mo ago
hate feels good. when you really hate someone (or a group of people) your hatred feels justified. no wonder "FAFO" has become such a popular acronym of late. not that everyone (or even most people) believe what they're feelin
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by sterlind 5mo ago
the CIA is literally tasked with breaking (other countries') laws. tradecraft is a very similar skillset to being an effective criminal. think about it: shell companies, lockpicks, bribes, theft, blackmail, hacking, forgery. two kinds
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by sterlind 5mo ago
eh. the shady people are supposed to be the assets; the handlers are supposed to be squeaky clean (on paper, at least.) but yeah, I imagine that a job which requires keeping secrets and breaking laws tends to attract people who keep secrets
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by sterlind 5mo ago
you do you, but I've had only good luck with WSLg. my main gripe with it is that it could be doing more. internally (part of?) WSLg uses the RDP protocol, which natively supports audio forwarding, USB passthru and smart cards. yet no
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by sterlind 5mo ago
Scott Alexander's 2014 essay, Meditations on Moloch, explains why we ended up in this rat king of human misery rather than a utopia. I recommend it: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-mo
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by sterlind 5mo ago
why not? I have A Modest Proposal: 1. convince CEOs to create digital twins of themselves with OpenClaw, with voice cloning and deepfakes to handle Zoom meetings. convince CEO to encourage their directs to do the same. 2. convince VCs to do
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by sterlind 5mo ago
a literal lack of self-awareness, even. I imagine if you asked it what process was using the port, it'd think and realize it was its own, but that kind of reflexive self-awareness (the unprompted kind) is missing. the weaker models wil
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by sterlind 5mo ago
it's not the size of the chip, it's the motion of the digitalocean.
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by sterlind 5mo ago
accepting AGPL means you're vowing to publish derivative work. if you aren't legally allowed to publish that work, you violated its terms. the Court may not order you to publish to cure the violation, if you lack the rights to do
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by sterlind 5mo ago
the `rand() < 0.1` bit rings lamentably true.
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by sterlind 5mo ago
what's behind the price increase? low-end FPGAs still seem dirt cheap. is the pricey bit the actual radio module that they drive?
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by sterlind 5mo ago
maybe I'm blind, but it looks like there's no radio! like there's wifi and bluetooth, sure, but I don't see NFC or RFID or sub-1ghz radio, at all. imo the flipper always needed to be a software-defined transciever, with
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by sterlind 5mo ago
an automated way, as part of a tree-based harness. I haven't published the code yet but should hopefully be able to soon!

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