stormfather

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by stormfather 2y ago
You're very welcome to! Please do. You can reach out to notpricedinyet@gmail.com
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by stormfather 2y ago
Can you give me examples of services you think DOGE will cut that the economy depends on? Genuinely asking. I assume we have different mental models of what will go away. When I think of spending cuts, I think of: USAID (23B), that rural fi
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by stormfather 2y ago
I am more cynical. Congress is controlled by lobbyists which are controlled by oligarchs. Voters are controlled by the media which is controlled by oligarchs. I don't see us raising taxes significantly. Wishful thinking. I also think w
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by stormfather 2y ago
Ok so let's raise taxes on the wealthy. I think that's great and am in total agreement. How long do you think we should wait for Congress to significantly raise taxes on the rich? How confident are you that will ever happen? Have
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by stormfather 2y ago
Do you see a popular mandate for raising taxes materializing? Do you see Congress enacting that? I don't. Like you said, you're not the first to think of it, but it never happens. As imperfect as DOGE is, its the only measure I ca
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by stormfather 2y ago
Say what you want, but if we don't drastically cut spending, our way of life will collapse. It would be nice if Congress itself would reign in spending and downsize the government, but everyone knows that has a 0% chance of happening.
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by stormfather 2y ago
Awesome! I write LLM powered scrapers and stuff all the time and one of the biggest pain points is HTML is full of so much crap that isn't meaningful and overwhelms the context. And being a data science guy idk how to solve this.
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by stormfather 2y ago
> As well as an algorithm for efficiently converting/compressing large html pages into a semantic format. For the love of humanity please open source this. This seems tremendously useful by itself.
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by stormfather 2y ago
Who cares? It's a name. Let's talk about how he wants to move all the Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan.
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by stormfather 2y ago
Google is clearly catching up. Have you tried the recent Gemini models? Have you tried deep research? Google is like a ship that is hard to turn around but also hard to stop once in motion.
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by stormfather 2y ago
I wasn't clear. Model weights aren't changing at inference time. I meant at inference time the model will output a sequence of thoughts and actions to perform tasks given to it by the user. For instance, to answer a question it wi
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by stormfather 2y ago
Google is silently catching up fast with Gemini. They're also pursuing next gen architectures like Titan. But most importantly, the frontier of AI capabilities is shifting towards using RL at inference (thinking) time to perform tasks.
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by stormfather 2y ago
Layman here. Isn't the big speed penalty in digital electronics the clock speed of the transistors changing state? Not the actual signal going down the wire from gate to gate?
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by stormfather 2y ago
How does Kagi Ultimate compare to Perplexity?
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by stormfather 2y ago
I made an objective test for prompting hacks last year. I asked gpt-4-1106-preview to draw a bounding box around some text in an image and prodded in various ways to see what moved the box closer. Offering a tip did in fact help lol so that
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by stormfather 2y ago
I see why it gets a lot of flak too. People are becoming increasingly neurotic and fragile, and coupled with that we are increasingly unable to fluidly deal with differences this creates as they arise. We're talking about playing a boa
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by stormfather 2y ago
Sorry, what? Not wanting someone to poison themselves is an expression of love
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by stormfather 2y ago
Not necessarily. Say you can make 20% a year with your system. That's very respectable. But unless you have a large account already (1M?), you will make more by providing this knowledge to others.
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by stormfather 2y ago
What brought you there?
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by stormfather 2y ago
Excuse? You must not follow chess too closely. He is the undisputed GOAT. He is clearly bored - he plays atrocious opening moves these days just to get an interesting game. He's so good he transcended the need to keep proving it. Excus
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by stormfather 2y ago
Or testing our own response. If we want to test what China's response might be, both public and military, but its too provocative to try, we might try it on ourselves.
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by stormfather 2y ago
I agree! It's a shame you're being downvoted just for expressing your opinion. Come on HN, downvoting is not for expressing disagreement... And yeah. People saying this was exciting chess are lemmings. It was absolutely not. It wa
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by stormfather 2y ago
Absolutely. It would be AMAZING if no prep was possible. Memorizing engine lines 20 deep is nothing to be proud of.
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by stormfather 2y ago
He's also not really the world champion. The world champion just got bored of winning so hard.
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by stormfather 2y ago
And they have the absolutely massive advantage of being able to associate content with queries that led to it, and know which piece of content was selected by the user. That surely can be used in some way to give them a leg up with both cho
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by stormfather 2y ago
I think they will though, I think the enormous corpus of video data and the supercluster that powers self driving development are the machine vision analog of internet scale text data that gave rise to LLMs. We'll see the same moment f
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by stormfather 2y ago
I would guess the plan is to have the foundational machine vision tech that becomes the core of robotics sensors. Not just Optimus but every robot arm in a factory, robot mule, etc. I don't think everything will have LIDAR if its prove
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by stormfather 2y ago
Also he wants to reuse the foundational machine vision tech in Optimus bot, which probably won't have lidar.
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by stormfather 2y ago
Yeah exactly. Shooting hundreds of bullets with your bullets. And each bullet you need to shoot breaks into smaller bullets upon re-entry that start randomly maneuvering. Hit to kill is just not practical against a peer firing hundreds of I
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by stormfather 2y ago
I bet there are nuclear tipped interceptors too, though that wouldn't be public. Its a lot easier to destroy the incoming missile if your margin of error is a few miles versus a few meters. Not to mention it would blot out all the mult

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