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by svara 4mo ago
When searching Fastly it seems to match "fast".
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by svara 4mo ago
I think one positive thing that might come of this is for AI to act as a sort of counterweight to the fragmentation of reality into different filter bubbles. It might be difficult to make models that have useful, high intelligence, but also
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by svara 4mo ago
I'm legit pretty excited about applying AI to accelerate biological and medical discovery. It's already happening right now, still in relatively mundane ways, but there's so much to do.
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by svara 4mo ago
Okay but if I understand correctly what you did, you measured the performance with automatically rewritten prompts on Fable vs. original on Opus? This might be where the difference in performance that you saw came from.
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by svara 4mo ago
While I can only peripherally relate to the specifics of your story, I think it beautifully illustrates how interesting and mind expanding it is to spend time in different cultural contexts, and that different cultures can very much co-exis
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by svara 4mo ago
The things is, this is almost certainly what's happening. You can (could, maybe they 'fixed' it by now) get sota LLMs to reproduce entire novels near verbatim. The idea of giving it parallel texts of those novels in different
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by svara 4mo ago
Unfortunately useless if you do anything related to biology. It doesn't try to flag dangerous queries, it just flags queries as biology-related wholesale. It's absurd. To see how far the filter goes I asked it "Are trees a
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by svara 4mo ago
This is strange to me, did you really ask like this and which model did you use? I just tried your no. 1 and 3 verbatim and Opus gave fine answers; no. 6 I've done in the past with no issues. The other ones we can't really replica
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by svara 4mo ago
Chess and proofs only work as comparisons to the extent that you can find parts of your job that share their key property: A solution is sought to a problem that can be stated with relatively little information. What prompt would someone ha
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by svara 4mo ago
I had the same thought recently, I've had it happen to myself. I've been working on something relatively large and greenfield recently. A big chunk of my time is spent thinking about the hard parts. The raw information processing
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by svara 5mo ago
Word on HN is that you're either paying more money than you expected for temporal's managed solution or taking on substantial ops burden ultimately running their very heavy system yourself. I wouldn't know, I've not done
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by svara 5mo ago
I agree with most of what you're saying, but I think the point I was trying to make wasn't as high-flying as you and others understood it. I'd pay a premium for even just a model that's 20% better, no ASI required, and I
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by svara 5mo ago
There's still a lot of room for the best models to get better at coding . Your argument rests on the "for marginal gains" part but it's really not clear that the gains are marginal in the foreseeable future.
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by svara 5mo ago
The desktop client used to be just terrible. Has that changed? The Dropbox client does have its issues but it's really amazing at... Syncing files. I use it pretty creatively with large numbers of files and large volumes and it just wo
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by svara 5mo ago
So they finally have become AskJeeves? On a more serious note, the on demand UI chrome could actually be cool UX, curious to try that out. I see no change to look and feel so far, has this rolled out to anyone yet?
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Content Credentials(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by svara 5mo ago|0 comments
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by svara 5mo ago
I think something like this will need to become ubiquitous, widely supported in software and understood by lay people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Credentials
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by svara 5mo ago
I don't think the question of whether subjective phenomena are casual has any bearing on whether there's a 'hard problem' and I also don't think the term 'hard problem' is used like that by others. Whether
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by svara 5mo ago
There's nothing wrong with that chain. This is what some philosophers would call the 'easy ' problem of consciousness, to distinguish it from the 'hard' problem, which is the next step: How do you get from a physica
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by svara 5mo ago
> My experience is that I'm conscious, and math cannot result in consciousness, therefore consciousness is a separate thing." Question: who says math cannot result in consciousness? Do you have empirical proof of that? A lot of
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The jobs apocalypse: a (very) short history(economist.com)
3 points by svara 5mo ago|0 comments
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by svara 5mo ago
I use Claude Code quite a bit and quite enjoy it, so I'm a bit confused by how often it's mentioned that you should have CLAUDE.md. I mean: If there was something you could add to the prompt to consistently increase performance wh
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by svara 5mo ago
> but when 'anyone can be anything' it creates hyper competition, anxiety Not sure if you intended this but this is basically exactly Byung-Chul Han's point in The Burnout Society.
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by svara 5mo ago
That's probably the submitter's friends voting.
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by svara 5mo ago
Isn't the most likely explanation here that they needed to show in their earnings call how their bet on becoming AI infrastructure is leading to high revenue growth expectations, and that isn't happening (yet)? The stock is curren
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by svara 6mo ago
I mostly agree with you, I think what you're implying is correct on average, but I'm probably not the only one to whom HN is more addictive than Instagram, Tiktok and all the other classic social media apps. They get boring much
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by svara 6mo ago
Do we know if this is another post training fine tune or based on a much larger new pretraining run (which I believe they were calling 'Spud' internally)? The large price bump might indicate the latter.
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by svara 6mo ago
This is correct in the sense that, if you were to build a zero emissions energy system from scratch with today's technology, your conclusion would be that you'd eventually have to do this. But in much of the world, setting up PV i
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by svara 7mo ago
The issue is it will follow your instructions . It's sycophancy one step removed.
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by svara 7mo ago
Yeah, and if you ask it to be critical specifically to get a different perspective or just to avoid this bias, it'll go over the top in the opposite direction. This is imo currently the top chatbot failure mode. The insidious thing is

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