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by stymaar 2mo ago
Nope, not LLM, and yes it's just the textbook example and that's why the LLM says the same thing (it's as if you were surprised someone explained distributed systems using Byzantine generals and the LLMs did the same).
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by stymaar 2mo ago
> -dispatch costs are high because policy choices have created a physical reality that drives high constraints. You don't seem to understand what's driving the so-called re-dispatch costs in Germany so let me explain: when ther
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by stymaar 2mo ago
> This is anti-scientific woo. This is hilarious coming from someone defending a concept that assumes neither thermodynamics nor Maxwell's laws exist. > Both theoretically When making preposterous hypothesis you can prove literal
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by stymaar 2mo ago
Unfortunately, the article misses the forest for the tree: it points the shortcomings of one particular electricity market model, but never acknowledge that the whole endeavor is doomed to fail: the way electricity works physically (coupled
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by stymaar 2mo ago
All your base are belong to us .
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by stymaar 2mo ago
WDYM? It used an encoder-decoder transformer model long before 2023 (and also long before decoder-only transformers à la GPT became the new standard). Most people seem to believe LLM only describe these decoder-only architectures, but the t
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by stymaar 2mo ago
Aren't most autocorrect transformer-based?
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by stymaar 2mo ago
Thanks Apple for inflicting the Safari monopoly to all iOS users.
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by stymaar 2mo ago
> Expert execution is deterministic (pure matmul). Isn't that only true in theory but wrong in practice due to floating points?
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by stymaar 2mo ago
If he wanted to “retire” he never had to wor in the first place, he could have hired someone to take his jobs while still keeping his equity. But being the CEO of a well-known startup has a lot of status benefits compared to just being ri
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by stymaar 2mo ago
Largely solved in “it only happens 2% of the times now”. Don't worry, you only have a 2% chance of having you bank account drained any time an attacker tries their chance.
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by stymaar 2mo ago
Sounds like “according John McAfee the threat of malware has been largely solved”. Edit: it's way worse than that: the actual figures says that Mythos “only” falls for prompt injection 2.6% of the times. Maybe for an ML engineer used t
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by stymaar 2mo ago
The key point is that scarcity isn't where price comes from. Price always comes from the fact that the producer seeks to recoup their upfront costs. If additional demand is there at the same price, suppliers of pretty much any good c
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by stymaar 2mo ago
And it stayed bad for almost a century (it only started to normalized after the Communes were massacred, in 1871[1]) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaine_sanglante
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by stymaar 2mo ago
What makes my four years old “generally intelligent” is that she'll make most of these mistake exactly once.
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by stymaar 2mo ago
> Are you saying it doesn't suggest unstable features when using a stable toolchain? That was not my experience before I started using nightly. Oh really? I've never used any Jetbrain product so I don't know but if it&#x27
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by stymaar 2mo ago
It's not about scams, it's about commercial telemarketing calls. Scams have been heavily hit in January when the French regulator mandated the telcos to implement a complete block of spoofed phone numbers (it's not an actual
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by stymaar 2mo ago
That I spend too much time reading history books? I know, but old habits die hard.
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by stymaar 2mo ago
> If resources are not scarce in industrial civilisation, why do you suppose people pay for them? Like most people I used to pay for a Windows license key, do you think that I had to pay for it because license keys are scarce? > Why i
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by stymaar 2mo ago
> It's been annoying to me as an end user that so many basic things require nightly It used to be the case a decade ago, but now I wouldn't agree that any "basic" things require nightly (I wouldn't call portable
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by stymaar 2mo ago
Looks like we have a /r/localllama dweller here.
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by stymaar 2mo ago
> Fella has read the article Their argument doesn't show that at all though, they make an argument against an age bias when the article explicitly says age is being controlled for. > Figure 1 suggests that we'd probably expe
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by stymaar 2mo ago
> I guess countryside France is still only 2 hours from Paris or Marseille Not at all, it's more like 6 hours if you're in a somewhat remote place, but most taxi trips are way smaller than that even in rural area anyway. > N
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by stymaar 2mo ago
> There weren't a lot of taxis outside of major cities What? In my country at least (France), taxis have been a thing even in the countryside for as long as cars existed (or rather, as long as the telephone has). And I'd be ver
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by stymaar 2mo ago
It pains me to see such a low-effort contrarian comment at the top: as stated in TFA taxi drivers are below other profession when controlling for age, and there are multiple professions with lower life expectancy that still have significant
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by stymaar 2mo ago
> They may have prioritized growth, Prioritizing growth ? When OpenAI had saturated the market by year one and has only been losing market share for the past 18 months! Again that's basically assuming Sam Altman is a complex idiot.
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by stymaar 2mo ago
The key problem is social media feed boosting “engagement”. Balanced, well thought comments don't bring much engagement so they end up being ignored by the algorithm while outrageously stupid takes generate a lot of (negative) engageme
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by stymaar 2mo ago
It's funny because > Take away the huge R&D and they become hugely profitable with a robust ad business like Google Search. Is refuted by the sentence that comes immediately before : > They have a billion weekly active users,
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by stymaar 2mo ago
> The real natural law is scarcity. That's the biggest myth of economics. It wasn't even true the pre-modern world except occasionally (famines were a real thing, but they were still kinda infrequent), and it's pretty much
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by stymaar 2mo ago
From the very link your HN submission points to: > Research and Development: $19.18 billion. Loss from Operations: $20.92 billion OpenAI isn't profitable even if you discount R&D entirely. Google search on the other hand has had

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