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by ttul 2y ago
Hopefully he gets some rest. I bumped into him in the airport once and he said something to the effect of, “I’m very tired, but I’m not about to stop now. This is the opportunity of a lifetime and I’m not going to get it a second time.”
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by ttul 2y ago
This was my thought. Literally everything inside a neural network is a “latent space”. Straight from the embeddings that you use to map categorical features in the first layer. Latent space is where the magic literally happens.
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by ttul 2y ago
I think mailbox hosting is a special use case. The primary cost is storage and bandwidth and you can indeed do better on storage and bandwidth than what Amazon offers. That being said, if Fastmail asked Amazon for special pricing to make th
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by ttul 2y ago
This works even at $1M/mo AWS spend. As you scale, the discounts get better. You get into the range of special pricing where they will make it work against your P&L. If you’re venture funded, they have a special arm that can do bac
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by ttul 2y ago
My firm belief after building a service at scale (tens of millions of end users, > 100K tps) is that AWS is unbeatable. We don’t even think about building our own infrastructure. There’s no way we could ever make it reliable enough, secu
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by ttul 2y ago
From Apple’s perspective, if someone uses the FindMy APIs to provide a commercial service that diminishes the privacy offered by Apple’s official apps, they would likely send a C&D letter. But for hobby projects, it’s not worth clamping
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by ttul 2y ago
I think this will be a thing one day, where photos are digitally watermarked by the camera sensor in a non-repudiable manner.
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That’s hilarious. I bet if you reach out to Microsoft, they will give you that domain. There’s no way they’re using the trademark anymore.
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Unrelated: During the dot-com boom, there was a company called nCompass Labs that developed one of the first content management systems ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCompass_Labs_Inc ). Microsoft bought them in 2001.
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by ttul 2y ago
What blows my mind is the fact that the jet emanating from M87 is thousands of lightyears across. This means you could live out your life on a planet orbiting a star near the jet and probably wouldn't notice anything out of the ordinar
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by ttul 2y ago
Gemini 1206 is the new hotness in my books. I've moved my day to day LLM needs over to Google's tab for the first time. I'm not sure what they changed, but it deserves a good look. Claude 3.5-Sonnet (New) is fantastic as well
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by ttul 2y ago
Yes, there have been notable CFAA prosecutions involving spamming activities. One significant case involved Power Ventures, which faced prosecution for both CFAA and CAN-SPAM violations. The company was sued by Facebook for sending promotio
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I’m not implying that. I’m hopeful they’ll take down their handbook so that others don’t follow in their footsteps. I also wish for their business to cease operating.
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I receive at least 10 a day.
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Deliberately circumventing email security controls, automation detection, and abuse prevention systems of email service providers constitutes a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1030 (the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act). When done as part of a busines
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by ttul 2y ago
Think of it like this: the final softmax layer is like being forced to pick a single word as your next prediction, while the hidden layer contains all the reasoning and understanding that led to that decision. It's similar to how a hum
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It’s so funny how you can basically tickle the model and it laughs.
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by ttul 2y ago
Correct. And although the final layer outputs a softmax of the token probabilities, the model by that point surely has a rich understanding of more than just the next token it wants to predict.
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by ttul 2y ago
Indeed, I would not be surprised if OpenAI one day admits that the `o1` model uses the last hidden layer (or some other intermediate layer) to feed the "thought process" that you can watch as it "thinks" about the answer
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by ttul 2y ago
I've been looking into using the last hidden layer of an off-the-shelf LLM to help my company with a classification task. The last hidden layer is obviously super rich in semantic information because it has to somehow tell the next lay
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by ttul 2y ago
The study was evaluating human-produced testosterone, not exogenous testosterone supplementation. If you take testosterone, it has been shown to increase sexual desire and is an approved treatment for sexual desire disorders. This is not wh
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by ttul 2y ago
The $200 plan is for people who would pay $200 for a bottle of vodka even though the $20 bottle is molecularly identical.
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by ttul 2y ago
Ugh, don’t remind me of the lost decade or so during which the local taxi lobby captured the regulators and prevented the entry of Uber. It wasn’t until the provincial government was about to be blown away anyhow that they cashed in their c
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by ttul 2y ago
I had to dive deep into this to gain an intuition for it. Basically diffusion models work by de-noising a noise sample step by step until the result is something that looks like the training data (like an image of a frog). To train a diffus
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Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms is an ingenious legal innovation. Section 7 guarantees that everyone, “has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the
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My friend works for a big telco and is the guy fixing this problem for them. They have amazing powers of deception when they need it. New numbers can be conjured up at any time.
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I worked as an intern in the sound department at a video game company in 1997/1998. We had a full recording studio in house around the corner from my desk. One day, a drummer came in to lay down some drum’n’bass tracks for a game. So y
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by ttul 2y ago
This is not a wild take at all. Every major corporation in the US is currently sucking up to Trump because his presidency will be entirely transactional and without regard to the constitutional purpose of the office. If you scratch his back
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Something tells me he will never work for Microsoft. Even though they would probably love to employ him.
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I suppose the Microsoft researchers default to 4o because the models are free in their environment…

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