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by tacitusarc 7mo ago
One proposed strategy to try and deal with this. https://freeasinweekend.org/
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by tacitusarc 7mo ago
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by tacitusarc 7mo ago
Imagine, if you would, that the strict libertarians had much more influence in shaping the country. So much so that the roads are toll roads, the parks require a fee, and almost no libraries exist because the ROI just isn’t there. Furthermo
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by tacitusarc 7mo ago
Having been in both roles, I believe it is important that each side of the “1” give the other a little grace. When you are going from “1” to stable, there is some breathing room because you have a 1 that works, mostly. Sort of. Dealing with
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by tacitusarc 8mo ago
Perhaps in keeping with age-old internet behaviors, it completely fails to recognize sarcasm.
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by tacitusarc 8mo ago
I would be willing to bet money they used AI to scrape and curate the comments. The justifications have that feeling of knowledge the sentiment is negative coupled with a lack of understanding about its accuracy.
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by tacitusarc 8mo ago
I would characterize a lot of the behavior of politicians as despicable, antisocial, and un-American. The short answer to your question is that the Democratic establishment in general and Harris in particular repeatedly lied throughout the
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by tacitusarc 8mo ago
Sort of a meta-observation, but consistently folks on the left have that take and then are confused when they lose. “If only all those idiots on the right and in the center could see they should vote for the bumbling but well-intentioned ca
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by tacitusarc 8mo ago
5.2 thinking also told me to walk. o3, interestingly: Drive. Even though it’s only 50 m, the car itself has to be at the wash bay—otherwise the staff or machines can’t clean it. Rolling or pushing the vehicle that distance isn’t practical o
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by tacitusarc 10mo ago
There is something ironic about the “reject cookies” option not working on that site.
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by tacitusarc 10mo ago
I agree with the author that there is a sense of hypocritical outrage in Pike’s post. My viewpoint is similar. Google has done many negative things, and at this point it can easily be argued they have caused net harm. By choosing to remain
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by tacitusarc 10mo ago
Nah just yell “switcheroo!” then grab her outfit and suddenly you're the waitress and she’s the diner with a meal to enjoy.
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by tacitusarc 10mo ago
I think physics has felt pretty incomplete since the confirmation of qm non-locality in the 60s.
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by tacitusarc 10mo ago
It did make a noticeable difference
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by tacitusarc 10mo ago
There are others as well but NVidia is aggressive when it comes to punishing companies willing to buy non-NVidia products. As a result, they prefer to remain under the radar, at least until they have enough market leverage to be more widely
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by tacitusarc 10mo ago
I have not tried it in Codex CLI, I’ll give that a shot and see if it changes things.
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by tacitusarc 10mo ago
I am using it in Zed.
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by tacitusarc 10mo ago
My problem with the OpenAI models (GPT5.2 in particular) recently is an extreme aversion to doing more than the smallest step in a task before asking for using input. Even if I explicitly instruct it to continue without input until the task
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by tacitusarc 10mo ago
OK that’s what I figured you meant. FWIW, MoE as a term of art means something different, what I described. It’s internal to a single model, part of the logit generation process.
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by tacitusarc 10mo ago
I think maybe you mean something else when you say MoE. I interpret that as “Mixture of Experts” which is a model type where there is a routing matrix applied per layer to sort of generate the matmul executed on that layer. The experts are
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by tacitusarc 10mo ago
It’s actually more complicated than that now. You don’t get that kind of refusal purely from MoE. OpenAI models use a fine-tuned model on a token-based system, where every interaction is wrapped as a “tool call” with some source attached, a
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by tacitusarc 10mo ago
It’s not that it’s not in the context, it’s that it was injected so far back that it is deemed not so important when determining the next token.
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by tacitusarc 10mo ago
This hits on a pet peeve of mine: representing the past as dull and colorless, because we mostly have access to b&w or sepia photos from the time. I’m not saying that the overall point isn’t true, just that juxtaposing photos propagates
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by tacitusarc 10mo ago
“In transit encryption”
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by tacitusarc 10mo ago
My experience of DEI was as ideological cover to offshore jobs to India. While the executive team performed sweeping layoffs to push up the stock price and increase their own compensation, they paid lip service to DEI as if engaged in a kar
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by tacitusarc 11mo ago
I think the line from Abundance is apt- something like, “We’re paying Equinox prices but getting Planet Fitness”
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by tacitusarc 11mo ago
I just finished Mathematica by David Bessis and I wish this information was presented in the way he talks about math: using words and imagery to explain what is happening, and only using the equations to prove the words are true. I just hav
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by tacitusarc 11mo ago
> AI systems exist to reinforce and strengthen existing structures of power and violence. They are the wet dream of capitalists and fascists. I… what…?
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by tacitusarc 11mo ago
This is a fantastic analogy for ideological preferences.
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by tacitusarc 11mo ago
> In reality though, I was not-so-subtly trying to suggest that if something is necessary for the public good (curing diseases) but a bad business model, then perhaps Capitalism itself is the wrong vehicle for that segment of industry an

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