thatjoeoverthr

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by thatjoeoverthr 3mo ago
This more-or-less ended with 3D. The N64, mid-90s, had a novel 3D accelerator (heavily programmable, a kind of a proto-GPU). Its successor went with ATI. The Dreamcast had a PowerVR, which you could buy for your PC, and early iPhones had as
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by thatjoeoverthr 3mo ago
The PS3 is one of a handful of systems that actually had a special processor. The NES and Genesis had common desktop CPUs. The PS1, 2 and N64 had MIPS processors which were in heavy use in workstations. GC, Wii, Xbox 360 had PowerPC. What w
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by thatjoeoverthr 3mo ago
Thanks. The other guy asked if the IQ deniers are “in the room with us right now”.
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by thatjoeoverthr 3mo ago
Cue the IQ denier deniers
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by thatjoeoverthr 4mo ago
Recently I have the SEO guy governing the mostly static, public site with Claude Code. He loves it but you would never imagine the level of mental illness Claude comes up with. If it were an employee I’d literally throw him out the front do
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by thatjoeoverthr 4mo ago
This strand of philosowank is just there to promote the idea you need to kill for the greater good. The only trolly problem that matters is brake maintenance.
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by thatjoeoverthr 4mo ago
Unwise design. “It talks, CSRs talk, it’s the same thing”. The fact CSRs talk is incidental. Nobody contacts support to talk. Customer service is a kind of “exception handler” for that which you failed to automate. If your system exists, wo
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by thatjoeoverthr 4mo ago
Last time I was in Germany I saw what appeared to be homeless children
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by thatjoeoverthr 4mo ago
So he’s redundant. You call Uber Eats and you don’t pay a salary for that.
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by thatjoeoverthr 4mo ago
We have social media-like systems going arguably Compuserve and the like, as well as games. There's a matter of "refinement", like how some older people describe the change of drugs over the decades. TikTok, Twitter and many
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by thatjoeoverthr 5mo ago
Is there a reason this was done with such a large sampling when you can read the logits one-shot? I did this for an article, like so: https://joecooper.me/blog/gptprimer/food.webp https://joecooper.me&#
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by thatjoeoverthr 5mo ago
No mercy to brain slugs.
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by thatjoeoverthr 6mo ago
It's threatening to "unwind" the entire digital sector back to 1990. Online shopping damaged, job interviews done in person, essays by hand, exams proctored. Cover letters obsolete. There could be a "cognitive waterline&
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by thatjoeoverthr 6mo ago
Link suppression is contested. Nikita says they're not deboosted. This guy tested it, found evidence they're no longer deboosted: https://x.com/phl43/status/2041893735827460446?s=20 Nikita says they were
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by thatjoeoverthr 7mo ago
I've been calling them "meat condoms". In the workplace, it's one or two warnings before completely ejecting them. On social media, instant block.
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by thatjoeoverthr 7mo ago
IIRC III was also 6th gen microarchitecture. Pentium IV was the 7th.
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by thatjoeoverthr 7mo ago
You can easily deny this upside. Your playing field isn't level because instead of grammatical mistakes, you have the online equivalent of talking like a used car salesman.
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by thatjoeoverthr 7mo ago
The em dash is famous but I've noticed since (I think) December every hustler suddenly at once started using drama dots. Like... That. Rhetorical ellipsis. Like you see in a 12 year old's fanfic. I know one of the AIs had a style
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by thatjoeoverthr 8mo ago
While that's true, the tokenizer is half the problem. The important fault demonstrated is it doesn't _know_ it can't see the letters, and won't express this unless it has been trained or instructed to. "I can't
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by thatjoeoverthr 8mo ago
It's surprisingly difficult, and the "obvious" techniques (just do embeddings) don't really work. I wrote about it and did benchmarks here: https://joecooper.me/blog/redundancy/
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by thatjoeoverthr 8mo ago
Speaking directly, if I catch the scent of ChatGPT, it's over. People put out AI text, primarily, to run hustles. So its writing style is a kind of internet version of "talking like a used car salesman". With some people that
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by thatjoeoverthr 9mo ago
Kessler problems require Kessler solutions
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by thatjoeoverthr 9mo ago
You're stretching it. It's more like if you train your dog to start the car and accelerate, open the door and turn your back. Everything an AI does is downstream of deliberate, albeit imperfect, training. You know this, you rig it
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by thatjoeoverthr 9mo ago
Incredible moment when you have to ward off Windows, macOS and iPhone updates like a bouncer. I’ve gone over the years from Visual Studio fanboy to writing everything in vi, entirely due to software decay. Our culture and economy can no lon
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by thatjoeoverthr 9mo ago
If you do want a numeric scale, ask for a binary (e.g. true / false) and read the log probs.
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by thatjoeoverthr 10mo ago
“Any time saved by (their) AI prompting gets consumed by verification overhead, …” This When I receive a PR, of course it’s natural an AI is involved. The mortal sin is the rubber stamp. If they haven’t read their own PR, I only have so man
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by thatjoeoverthr 10mo ago
I'm learning just now how old MATLAB is. Wow!
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by thatjoeoverthr 10mo ago
Of course I could in C. Intel and Nvidia are both offering both C and Fortran compilers, so I was looking at both. I know C well but I decided to not look at it as a presumed default. When I used C like this in the past, the intrinsics were
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by thatjoeoverthr 10mo ago
True! I just wanted to highlight it. (I had to do this at an interface because the ABI doesn’t pass the shape.)
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by thatjoeoverthr 10mo ago
Yes! QBasic also, IIRC.

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