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by usef- 4mo ago
They claim to not be training to the benchmarks at all. It'll be interesting to see how it stacks up in actual use.
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by usef- 4mo ago
Yes, because you're not designing the cow. Progress on rocketry (and reusability) is not completed, btw, there's a lot still to improve.
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by usef- 4mo ago
Do we apply a bar this high for any other company/job/business? Saving gov/tax money aka "billing NASA 1/20th what SLS does" doesn't count as worth it to you? Reusing rockets reliably rather than "thr
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by usef- 4mo ago
Studies are suggesting cognitive impairment for long-term users: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/cognitive-effects-of-lon... ? (That's not technically Alzheimer's, but it's believable someone worrying
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by usef- 5mo ago
And yet some people doubt Anthropic's commitment to AI safety
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by usef- 5mo ago
Testing is a broader term covering multiple things, up to and including the decision of when you have enough confidence in the system to declare it stable. The test pass rate was an early bar for merging into dev, not release. The translati
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by usef- 5mo ago
Feel free to point out where my logic is wrong. It sounds like you think they've made a stable release already? None of the new code is sent to users yet. It's a direct translation without relying on major AI decisions. I'm h
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by usef- 5mo ago
I suspect this thread won't go anywhere. Something that's experimental can receive further changes and then no longer be considered experimental.
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by usef- 5mo ago
Who did they mislead? A few days later it was no longer experimental and it became the main dev branch as they decided it would be the way forward for development (see the blog post on why). No stable release has been declared yet. Here was
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by usef- 5mo ago
To be fair, if I wrote a book it would be because I saw a gap in current books' coverage or quality. I don't think anyone chooses to be a professor for the money.
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by usef- 5mo ago
Has the team announced that they're breaking backwards compatibility, or that testing will be reduced?
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by usef- 5mo ago
In software engineering the word has also long meant "a decision not made purely on technical terms"
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by usef- 5mo ago
This isn't a wait and see approach, this is proactively removing it
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by usef- 5mo ago
That post is mentioned at the bottom of what I linked. He has a full post response here: https://blog.andymasley.com/p/to-be-clear-i-do-understand-ho...
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by usef- 5mo ago
This might come down to when you expect plateau to happen. You could have said similar about transistor density many decades ago. (I'm not denying it could happen next year for all we know. But we simply don't know, and from what
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by usef- 5mo ago
This was debunked: https://blog.andymasley.com/p/contra-benn-jordan-data-center...
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by usef- 5mo ago
With modern controllers the main joystick/thumbstick is on the left side. People are using both hands for fine control in different circumstances.
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by usef- 5mo ago
You do need some kind of understanding to correctly know what's coming next
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by usef- 5mo ago
Google search is not typically counted as consumer "AI usage" in the reports I've seen. They're comparing chat implementations.
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by usef- 5mo ago
Exhausting the CPU and memory? I'm genuinely curious how he gets such a different experience to me. Startup is definitely slower than vim though, but it's something that happens only once for me, then it stays open all day (unlike
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by usef- 5mo ago
Is "text autocomplete" supposed to be an insult? To text auto-complete a physicist I would have to understand physics as well as them. To text-autocomplete your words I would need to model your brain.
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by usef- 5mo ago
I sure hope you're not mocking the classic "Microwave cooking for one" book! The mallard reaction is very possible in microwaves, but they use microwave-specific crockery. I think the vision was possibly killed by people not
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by usef- 5mo ago
I've never understood why something being so old is an excuse to spoil. Many people weren't old enough to be alive when it was last a cultural icon and may not have heard about it until this thread.
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by usef- 6mo ago
This isn't the first system bug that primarily was visible due to headspace: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/12/02/ios-11-1-2-date-bug-cra... In 2017 it was an endless crash loop caused by any app with lo
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by usef- 6mo ago
A stock Fedora install has more UI consistency and cleanliness than Windows these days. Non-technical people are easier to please in this regard than moderate-technical people: a good browser and safe, gui "app store" are enough.
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by usef- 6mo ago
Isn't it the banks/apps that are choosing not to support the phone, not Apple?
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by usef- 6mo ago
Software security updates seem to be the limit to phone life, not batteries (the latter of which I've had replaced at Apple stores). Apple still seems to have the longest support for security updates.
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by usef- 6mo ago
If this were true, we're essentially saying that no one tried to scan vulnerabilities using existing models, despite vulnerabilities being extremely lucrative and a large professional industry. Vulnerability research has been one of th
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by usef- 6mo ago
Also see the Dario interview with Dwarkesh: > If every year we predict exactly what the demand is going to be, we’ll be profitable every year. Because spending 50% of your compute on research, roughly, plus a gross margin that’s higher t
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by usef- 6mo ago
The proverbial "50B" is investment in next year's model. The current model cost under "30B", and therefore "is profitable". It is a bet on scaling, yes, but that's been common throughout the industry

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