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by torginus 13d ago
> 1) Google wants the most money, so they don't care to let dodgy ads thru. They have literally destroyed their own reputation, and all the reputations of legitimate products that might appear along these scams. Do you think anyone
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by torginus 13d ago
These ads are uncanny valley right now. But imagine, in a year or two, they'll dial it in, and it'll be indistinguishable from actual TV ads.
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by torginus 13d ago
Tangential, but one of the concerns I have about these 'smart' cars is they have an expiration deadline. There's an exceedingly common type of failure I have seen myself in industrial electronics and (has happened with Tesla
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by torginus 13d ago
I think this might have to do with broader market conditions. It seems that the Fed is likely to raise bond rates, which would make borrowing more expensive and slow investments (as well as devaluing any potential IPO) on its own. A rate hi
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by torginus 13d ago
Do platform holders have a say in this? I'm sure if I submitted an app that on the iOS app store that mimicked a system warning that tried to scare people into giving me access, it would not pass the review process. If instead I decide
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by torginus 13d ago
Just a thought experiment: considering training seems to be 'fair use', I wonder if they trained a tiny model to retain key info from your prompts, would mean that this would still constitute fair use, and allow them to legally cl
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by torginus 13d ago
With the recent Navier-Stokes controversy, I think there's a credible suspicion that all your IP you run through these models will end up in these companies' possession. OpenAI themselves has admitted a weak version of this (that
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by torginus 13d ago
When I bought my M1 Macbook, I had a firsthand experience with how well binary translation worked. It was almost perfect with one MAJOR exception - anything that used JIT - so stuff like Electron apps or Java stuff (IntelliJ-based IDEs). Wh
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by torginus 13d ago
Money is not real. Just like how I could borrow $100 from you, and you could borrow $100 from me, and we'd be $200 in debt in total, I could buy 10% of shares in your company for $1m and you could buy 10% shares in mine, we'd hav
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by torginus 14d ago
>In my opinion, WebAssembly just needs to be better than what it replaced (asm.js) to be called a success story. That would be only true if WASM was meant as a transitionary technology. But it has been with us for more than a decade, and
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by torginus 14d ago
There is no end to the stupid nowadays. I remember OpenAI tweeting to about heads of state asking ChatGPT on policy decisions. There were stories about young hackers using Discord to coordinate attacks. Multiple military installations and a
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by torginus 14d ago
Even if you own it, you'll need the Chinese to run it for you and provide you with spares.
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by torginus 15d ago
As an EE, I can say that code written by EEs might be frightening, but electronics built by coders is often shocking.
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by torginus 15d ago
If you are very smart, and/or have an incredibly high tolerance for pain/repetition, you can solve amazingly complex issues, with awful code. Both of these statements are true for physicists
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by torginus 15d ago
> I have people who have limited experience with software pushing out layers and layers of abstracted code that’s fairly sophisticated but often misguided in intent who will say what they’re doing is correct, with conviction. Oh my god,
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by torginus 15d ago
If this rolls out, does it mean they'll lift the ban on 'M for Mature' content?
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by torginus 15d ago
I think they are combating distillation and token resellers (there's a nonzero overlap)
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by torginus 15d ago
Tbh, most people in the West would know that concept as the red queen's race from Alice in Wonderland.
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by torginus 15d ago
What I love about the Chinese is how incredibly aware and self-reflective they are about the wheel of suffering they are building for themselves.
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by torginus 15d ago
Rant - CPUs have a cache hierarchy for a reason. We can use smart caches and speculative execution to fetch only the pieces of memory that actually are necessary for computation. Large parts of the computing infra support this - like RAM,
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by torginus 16d ago
I don't think this is a real dilemma - people hell bent on avoiding work can get by without shipping a single line of code for years.
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by torginus 16d ago
I am sure if you ran a factory that worked with highly dangerous chemicals, safety mitigations that are basically 'we promise we're really trying our best, but shit happens' would not be acceptable. And thankfully, those peop
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by torginus 16d ago
I always talk to models using grugspeak, like 'where getcontext used' I felt a bit bad about it, then I learned yday that model's internal thinking traces are also like this
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by torginus 16d ago
Just branch to the first instruction, and let it take it from there. The shackles exist but in your mind.
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by torginus 16d ago
By the way, am I ignorant of modern mathematics? I love the thrill of a good puzzle, but I'd say a lot of solving these kinds of intellectual challenges is mostly for the mental thrill, rather than advancing humanity. It's self-se
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by torginus 16d ago
I am kind of saddened by technology in general that we need LLMs to deal with it in the first place. It used to be that you compiled an executable, copied it onto the target computer and it worked. Then came servers, where you had to open s
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by torginus 16d ago
The reason I have hope is that Apple is the only company with a serious Tablet OS. When you unfold this, essentially you have an iPad Mini. The screen real estate is bigger than the numbers indicate, as the more square a display is, the lar
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by torginus 16d ago
Like one of the things I hate about frontend development - and admire people who do this professionally - is the stupid and arbitrary rules browsers impose on you. 'You may only play audio if such and such conditions are met. However t
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by torginus 17d ago
Some people here have remarked previously that while reduced precision doesn't show up in quick prompts, it does severely impact these models' ability to perform long running tasks - to the point that running these big models with
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by torginus 17d ago
It's basically for people who want an iPhone and iPad, but in a device that's worse than both, while being more expensive than just buying one of each.

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