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by vessenes 5mo ago
The tech isn't the big news. It's the process opportunity for governments. That said, I did really like what they reported on a use case of Gemini -- they got a bunch of people to video every single process in the old systems, and
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by vessenes 5mo ago
I just typed two single hyphens from my iOS device. One: - two: — Edit: when I edit this comment they have been merged in the form so I speculate this is an iOS keyboard feature.
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by vessenes 5mo ago
Nice. A Redhat Mother’s Day set would be amazing. I didn’t screenshot much in that era, and had a catastrophic data loss in 1998 or so that was a real bummer; Usenet, emails, IRC logs. Even then it hurt, but today, ouch.
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by vessenes 5mo ago
Publish a Demo -> acquihire for anthropic/oAI/GOOG/META stock and cash is an understandable economic model. In this case, I feel like they built more than would be needed though — and I hope they deploy something useful, I
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by vessenes 5mo ago
I agree that full duplex is the amazing bit. For instance, the three engineers shouting trivia questions while a timer is running — that’s extremely novel as far as I can tell. I’d like to believe from the demos that this ability to wait ki
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by vessenes 5mo ago
That was true 10 years ago. It’s most definitely not true now. The arms race is very real.
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by vessenes 5mo ago
Yes, ouch. But, also, surely someone is working on getting cantering, galloping, etc implemented? To your point the biggest innovation might be better seating.
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by vessenes 5mo ago
Amazing walk through memory lane, and super useful. One big omission though - starting in the early 1990s, we should be seeing some Linux desktops in there, but I didn’t see any through 1995 or so when I stopped browsing. Also, Irix would b
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by vessenes 5mo ago
Think of this like a car company having a racing program — building stuff like this will pay dividends elsewhere in the company; from product design to production chain. Example - boy, does that gait look uncomfortable to sit through. I can
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by vessenes 5mo ago
These videos are worth a watch. There are tons of impressive moments, but they had me at the very first one where a woman says: "I'm going to tell you a story," and then pauses for a long, luxurious sip from a cup of coffee,
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by vessenes 5mo ago
Thanks Dan, much appreciated!
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by vessenes 5mo ago
My apologies. I’m out of the edit window, so I can’t remove it, but I tried!
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by vessenes 5mo ago
This was the most interesting line in the essay to me as well — I flashed back to quitting an academic math career instantly; the way I thought about it at 19 or 20 was that I didn’t think I could be world class at it. (Rightly). The next t
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by vessenes 5mo ago
Yes. But quantity has a quality all its own, as they say — derivatives have gone through at least a few step functions where they have become more important and more useful as their usage grows. I’d call that advancement. Maybe just to be c
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by vessenes 5mo ago
Sic transit gloria - obviously. But I don’t that think it’s quite so obvious that model quality / growth / usefulness is definitively and obviously not more like data or money flows than it is like some other process.
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by vessenes 5mo ago
Boy I loved this write up, and really loved Sylvie’s, which gives a peek into the economic side of this white hat hacking — prepping, safety, wondering who you trust, preparing to claim as many bug bounties as possible. I was struck by the
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by vessenes 5mo ago
I don’t love the tone here, but I do think you get at a key question in mathematical philosophy. Mathematicians have engaged, vigorously, on this very philosophical question for centuries - is math discovered truth, or is it more akin to
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by vessenes 5mo ago
There are advancements that do not follow s curves - consider for instance total data transmitted over all networks, or financial derivatives volumes. I think a better question for AI is “is it more like a network effect, liquidity effect,
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by vessenes 6mo ago
Thanks. I found the DPO test very interesting where they intentionally twiddled the dataset to create 'noise'. That would I think back your concern. But on the other hand a method that allows noisier data in or does better with da
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by vessenes 6mo ago
Thanks for the link - I did not see a GitHub. So, your thoughts on the paper?
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by vessenes 6mo ago
Thanks for responding! I think I'd strongly, strongly prefer a version of this game where my opponent and I got the same letters, sequenced. Compare to a normal Scrabble game - you need a lot of words played to get over draw variance (
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by vessenes 6mo ago
So, this is either the paper of the year, or ... definitely not the paper of the year. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.01172 is the current version. The money graphs are page 8 and on where they show (some weirdly thick) li
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by vessenes 6mo ago
Are opponents autopets-style opponents (e.g. recorded and replayed so you don’t have to wait?) I’m confused about a lot of things about the game; I guess most particularly the letter draws — do I and my opponents get the exact same sequence
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by vessenes 6mo ago
Monerites - what’s the state of play for fpga mining? I did not see anything in the light documentation of RandomX that looked like it was tuned to be “awkward” for a good sized fpga.
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by vessenes 6mo ago
Buying calls before a credible buyout pitch is a pretty standard strategy -- good leverage, what's laughable here?
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by vessenes 6mo ago
Very sweet story. Next, invite that guy and his girlfriend and maybe someone else over to your place, or out to do something. Reciprocation matters a lot.
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by vessenes 6mo ago
Yes. That is, it is if you imagine a magically good self attention mechanism that could decide what in the context to attend to at any one moment. Then it would be like working with a polymath that has incredible memory. Or bringing in that
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by vessenes 6mo ago
Context is the vector of tokens (numbers) that goes into the first layers of the neural network. When you train, you teach the model to, among other things ‘self attend’ to the input vector, ultimately projecting that vector into a large em
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by vessenes 6mo ago
Agreed that Marvin would find this (and everything about Earth) ridiculous. I propose this would make sense in the animal kingdom though; large, lumbering fatty walks along. It has big claws, but … it doesn’t look like it can be bothered to
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by vessenes 6mo ago
With the approval of the board of directors (in most cases), a company can simply create new shares and give them to whomever they like. I would guess that this information will bother you. If it helps, because many public company executive

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