whiplash451

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by whiplash451 5mo ago
Gmail has become unbearably slow over the past year. What used to be instantaneous (like, opening an email) now takes seconds . Google, what happened to you?
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by whiplash451 5mo ago
> it costs around 27$ a year per user for Meta to run the business And a lot of this is probably spent maintaining the ad machine
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by whiplash451 5mo ago
Maybe because distilling small models from bigger ones that you control gives you better small models than fine-tuning from bigger models you don't control? (I am not claiming it is the case, but stating this as an assumption)
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by whiplash451 5mo ago
Companies don’t care about it but governments certainly do. Over the past 150 years, the work week dropped from 70+ to 35h in France. Granted that’s a long time horizon but still.
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by whiplash451 5mo ago
The point is that we should be directing our energy in a direction that’s net useful for human kind which should translate into growth. Dropbox is not one of those because there are many viable alternatives.
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by whiplash451 5mo ago
You are also reminded of the same dichotomy when you (the renter) get a letter from your landlord asking you to leave the premises you’ve liked a lot for the past few years.
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by whiplash451 5mo ago
This is already a solved problem for the class of customers they are going after.
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by whiplash451 5mo ago
> low in extraversion and agreeableness I don’t know that these are awesome features for an engineer. There’s a big unsaid cost to this in my experience
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by whiplash451 5mo ago
Opus 4.7 went through a major degradation a few weeks ago (way more hallucinations and rabbit holes than usual). Anthropic fixed it. Give it another shot.
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by whiplash451 5mo ago
You can’t build “working with amazing people”. At least not in a short amount of time. I bet that this was a significant part of the decision for Andrej.
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by whiplash451 5mo ago
> a UI that makes claude code accessible Isn’t that literally Claude’s web UI?
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by whiplash451 5mo ago
Neat. Would you add the option to normalize the elo over time (e.g update the model used as an anchor for the elo computation) so the diff between labs is more visible?
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by whiplash451 5mo ago
It depends what you use as an anchor. If the anchor is a fixed model, you’re right. If the anchor is updated to a better model over time, then the elo of historical models degrades, right?
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by whiplash451 5mo ago
You can violate the MIT license by forgetting to preserve it. Apparently this was the case here.
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by whiplash451 6mo ago
What do imperfect, biased and expensive human doctors add to the « liability and ethics » question exactly?
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by whiplash451 6mo ago
How is that related?
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by whiplash451 6mo ago
If Waymo is going to license the software, it can be tremendously useful, in particular given the variety of uber vehicles
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by whiplash451 6mo ago
Waymo might very well be missing specific kinds of data (e.g more incidents/accidents, near-collisions etc) Also, Uber’s data might be useful for eval, not training (e.g « here is how Waymo would behave vs human drivers therefore it is
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by whiplash451 6mo ago
Probably both vision and dexterity, and the first mistake we make as roboticists/engineers might be to distinguish the two like they're separate problems to solve or that a solution exists where the two live a separate life. http
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by whiplash451 6mo ago
That's how it begins.
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by whiplash451 6mo ago
To some extent, does it matter? If models are able to pull and join information that already existed in pieces but humankind never discovered by itself, doesn’t this count towards progress anyways?
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by whiplash451 6mo ago
You could take the same issue with all productivity changes that came before AI (typewriters, laptops, etc)
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by whiplash451 6mo ago
Because constantly switching between full attention and degraded attention (which the FSD promises) is more tiring that staying on full attention continuously.
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by whiplash451 6mo ago
This sounds awesome. Have you checked how it fares against trainline? A quick demo would be very nice.
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by whiplash451 6mo ago
My guess is that in such low memory regimes, program length is very loosely correlated with bug rate. If anything, if you try to cram a ton of complexity into a few kb of memory, the likelihood of introducing bugs becomes very high.
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by whiplash451 7mo ago
> Nobody even directly dies People almost directly start dying if data centers go down. Not in the minutes, but within days definitely
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by whiplash451 7mo ago
Were human organizations (not individuals) any good at the latter anyway?
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by whiplash451 7mo ago
It makes sense for such a huge amount to be "committed", not sitting idle in a bank somewhere.
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by whiplash451 7mo ago
Worse. You’re being steered along a circle
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by whiplash451 7mo ago
It’s worse than this. A company offering “private” smart glasses could slip into FB mode on its own or get acquired. So it’s a hard no from any company really.

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