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by svieira 5mo ago
The wild thing is how much faster it is to load. I'd almost forgotten how fast Google's default search used to be. Thank you!
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by svieira 5mo ago
> The measure of our success is whether what we do enables people to understand and think more clearly and effectively about mathematics. I just wanted to highlight this very correct human-centric thought about the purpose of intellect
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by svieira 5mo ago
> you're just a next action generator controlled by trillions of cells and subconscious dna-based behavior. With moral agency and the ability to learn (even if we presume you are correct, which I don't think you are).
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by svieira 5mo ago
And the fact that a transformer model can't distinguish between the two in the context of the sentence given is a point against the general nature of the intelligence.
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by svieira 5mo ago
Now that they've broken the ability to trust video, they're looking to build it back, as long as you're allowed to use the tools: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/identifying-a... (and
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by svieira 5mo ago
Anthropic was talking about this as a "oh nifty, look at this" back in 2024: https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude The fact that steering one of these things is trivial nowadays and the vectors
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by svieira 5mo ago
The problem is that it amazingly easy to bias the weights and the actual size of the bias is tiny . So maintaining a per-user ad biased profile is cheap and profitable. I doubt that "paying directly" will keep out the ad me
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by svieira 5mo ago
> Religions’ primary purpose is to facilitate tribal bonds That's what religion does , but so does "working in Silicon Valley for a tech company". What religion is is another matter entirely. https://www.new
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by svieira 5mo ago
> The kind that has incentives for companies to appeal to consumers, and consumers that have money to spend on goods and services. Note that this presumes a functioning market (free or otherwise). The company store knows it is the only
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by svieira 5mo ago
We actually have a constant in our codebase to mark such bugs. You found one? Put it inside an: if (PREFER_EXISTING_BUGS_TO_NEW_ONES) { theOldBehavior(); } else { theNewBehavior(); } Then, if we ever go to do a v2 of the thin
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by svieira 5mo ago
Yes, but what _percentage_ are they? Or is this the XKCD optimization graph all over again?
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by svieira 5mo ago
This you? https://june.kim/speedrunning-open-source > tinygrad I picked on purpose. geohot narrates rejections in public, and a narrated rejection is data; a silent close is noise. Thirteen PRs, one merged, twelve closed
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by svieira 5mo ago
> 50x the velocity :blinks: You are producing in a week what used to take you a year?
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by svieira 5mo ago
> Finding duplicated stacks using different libraries, or even the same library, is becoming more and more common. Even our debugging tools, our tracing grow fragmented. Same - literally found a re-build of a library feature for use wit
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by svieira 5mo ago
> In advertising and marketing, WPP used AlphaEvolve to refine AI model components, navigating complex, high-dimensional campaign data and achieving 10% accuracy gains over their competitive manual model optimizations. Ah good, we'r
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by svieira 5mo ago
What did you use to fill the time you aren't doing feature development in with? Or are you all now working 20 hour work weeks?
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by svieira 6mo ago
> teaching better than most humans Ah, so now we get to the "ed tech" question. What is teaching? Is there a human element to it, and if so, what is it? Or is it something completely inhuman? Or do we need to clarify what m
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by svieira 6mo ago
Jesus says, "I am the way and the truth and the life". And to Thomas He says _first_ (two verses earlier), "Put in thy finger hither, and see my hands; and bring hither thy hand, and put it into my side; and be not faithless
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by svieira 6mo ago
Congratulations on retiring!
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by svieira 6mo ago
> But let me give you a very serious warning. Be careful how you ask me to do anything outré, to imitate the man in the pantomime, and to sit on my hat. Because I am a man whose soul has been emptied of all pleasures but folly. And for t
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by svieira 6mo ago
Auberon Quinn, is that you?
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by svieira 6mo ago
https://www.vaticanobservatory.org/resources/galileo/histori... You are one of today's lucky 10K! That's the short version. The LONG version is https://bedejournal.blogspot.com/2009/
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by svieira 6mo ago
And when these AI companies are slurping up $30 trillion of the annual wages ... where does it re-enter the human economy? Or does it just disappear into NVIDIA and never come out again?
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by svieira 6mo ago
I went through one the other day which was a nest of Go code which boiled down to a 10 line shell script.
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by svieira 6mo ago
> I certainly wouldn't want a non-clause enabled developer on my team now. You only want to work with people who are hip with the North Pole?
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by svieira 6mo ago
> I delivered more work that I was less confident about, making me more miserable in the process Don't leave the kicker out of the story
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by svieira 6mo ago
Every single crew member of the Endurance was selected based on Shackleton's vibes on them, sometimes before they even said anything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Exped...
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by svieira 6mo ago
Fides quaerens intellectum (faith seeking understanding) is almost literally a millennium old at this point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fides_quaerens_intellectum (and much older if you take it back to Saint John&#x2
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by svieira 6mo ago
Doesn't "irreducible complexity" here mean "it wouldn't function in any reduced form", e. g. "it would not be possible to build this up in tiny parts useful for other things and then have those things tran
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by svieira 6mo ago
> I was becoming the kind of consumer we used to love. Think about smoking, think about Starrs, light a Starr. Light a Starr, think about Popsie, get a squirt. Get a squirt, think about Crunchies, buy a box. Buy a box, think about smokin

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