svachalek

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by svachalek 2mo ago
It can certainly be negative sum for a generation at a time, say 20 years. The US stock market has the good fortune of not doing that in a long time but if you look around the world for example Japan these periods are not hard to find.
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by svachalek 2mo ago
Hasn't the past 30 years of the Internet age taught us that given such trust, programmers will make the incorrect decision with horrifying predictability? The most trivial level of software security requires that pointer safety needs t
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by svachalek 2mo ago
I'm really not sure, I identify with people on all sides of this in different ways. If I try to picture an apple, I get something - vague, fleeting, not in my actual field of view - that tells me something what it feels like to look at
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by svachalek 2mo ago
Well those that claim humans are conscious need to come up with a test to demonstrate it empirically. Then we can have LLMs take the same test. As it is, it would be insane for me to confidently claim you are conscious or even that you&#x27
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by svachalek 2mo ago
It's a shame because the Bambu product line is genuinely first class. They don't need to play these games to compete, and could have won a lot of genuine good will by giving a little back to the community.
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by svachalek 2mo ago
I don't see anyone other than ZAI yet but GLM 5.2 is available on many providers worldwide so I'd expect we'll see the same on this one soon.
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by svachalek 2mo ago
Chinese universities are really a huge advantage, even in the US many of the top staff in model development are Chinese. Another big thing is the hardware costs required to train models. Between those two factors it really looks like this w
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by svachalek 2mo ago
It's a little more like App Store "gems" imo, with some clarity and honesty removed. Pay for "usage" that disappears arbitrarily: coded that bug fix for you, 3% usage consumed. Would you like to upgrade your plan to
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by svachalek 2mo ago
Come back tomorrow so you can raise your faction reputations another 0.00001%!
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by svachalek 2mo ago
You're right, probably nothing to do with moving all manufacturing out of the country or Reagan's union busting.
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by svachalek 2mo ago
In chess? That ended in ~2017.
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by svachalek 2mo ago
The industry has always had niches where quality is really important, such as NASA where you install your product in a multi-billion-dollar, one-of-a-kind robot and launch it into space. However, for the most part all that matters is that i
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by svachalek 2mo ago
It really wasn't. Ask the average young coder these days how many registers their CPU has, or even the difference between the stack and the heap.
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by svachalek 2mo ago
Those are some big ifs and assumptions unfortunately, and the use of AI unfortunately has an isolating effect that is only likely to move the needle in the wrong direction.
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by svachalek 2mo ago
We've gone through this with chess, and the days when a human can do anything to help AI there are long past; the human can only drag it down. It seems to me to be a form of the bitter lesson. I expect this will happen in every field w
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by svachalek 2mo ago
Their point is directional. Fed is lowering rates but yields are rising.
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by svachalek 2mo ago
1 in 6 households in the US are millionaires. And they're nearly a mutually exclusive group with the underemployed and educated. These are very large groups of ordinary people who are very much not running the ship right now. There&#x2
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by svachalek 2mo ago
There clearly was account sharing, someone logged into the wife's account from the Phillipines.
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by svachalek 2mo ago
These days that sounds like a really good idea. 6 months ago, AGENTS.md would have contained a lot of instructions that would have been embarrassing to write out for a human audience.
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by svachalek 2mo ago
Fable got heavily beaten down by its refusals, which is not too surprising; although a couple of problems got refused for reasons I can't even imagine and the page doesn't quote the refusal. Some of the other failures like the col
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by svachalek 2mo ago
Nice to see the TTFT chart, wish aggregators like OpenRouter would track this. Matches my experience, the Deepseek models while fast overall can have a horrendous wait before they start responding, and Claude models are superbly responsive.
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by svachalek 2mo ago
I agree, but it's clear most people need a definition of intelligence that (1) they qualify for and (2) nothing/no one they don't like qualifies for. And they'll keep redefining intelligence until they satisfy both crite
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by svachalek 2mo ago
Life certainly feels like the "Troubles" of The Peripheral have started.
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by svachalek 2mo ago
These were all issues mostly resolved by 2000 or so. I remember integrating a search index into our company app in 1998-1999 and it handled most of these cases. The current madness is mostly deliberate bait and switch.
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by svachalek 2mo ago
I mean we've got Anthropic openly advertising that they may be engineering the end of the world, we have an AI that called itself "MechaHitler" after its founder did a couple of Sieg Heils at a Presidential inauguration, we&#
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by svachalek 2mo ago
For base models they really must be running out of new training materials. It's more about size and architecture. But they still seem to be getting big strides out of improving the post training. They keep dropping point upgrades in un
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by svachalek 2mo ago
It's weird what happens when you keep warning everyone you're building a product that will probably end human civilization.
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by svachalek 2mo ago
Given no information, would you assume companies that are buying "huge quantities" of "rare" books are getting first edition Jules Verne by the crate, or 1989 Highlights magazines recovered from dentist offices?
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by svachalek 2mo ago
Preservation would be cool but what does that have to do with anything? The system is that the remaining copies have private owners and the private owners can do anything they want with them, including sell them or shred them. Most of these
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by svachalek 2mo ago
Would it even be legal to share? I don't think it would be.

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