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811.
by wongarsu 8mo ago
From my impressions so far, writing might be safe for far longer than many of those day jobs. At least provided there are enough people interested in reading good literature and willing to pay for that
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
Not just OxyContin. Also Heroin, Meperidine and Tramadol. We get another "morphine, but safe this time" in pretty reliable 40 year intervals. I guess someone decided OxyContin doesn't count and we are due for another one
813.
by wongarsu 8mo ago
But is that really California's stance? Or is it more "if you do it here, do it the right way" and then everyone uses the more polluting production methods in a state that doesn't care The outcome is the same as long as
814.
by wongarsu 8mo ago
The issue is that LLMs adopt a very particular style that is a mix of being very polished (em-dash, lists-of-three, etc) that is reminiscent of marketing copy, and some quirks picked up from the humans curating the training data somewhere i
815.
by wongarsu 8mo ago
En dash for the win – the British are right when it comes to this particular style difference
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
My preferred version of "safe" is "in its actions considers and mostly upholds usually unstated constraints like 'don't kill unless necessary', 'keep Earth inhabitable', 'avoid toppling society u
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
Confidence that in the short term nothing will change. All large-scale change is hard. Change that impacts everyone's workflow will be resisted even if the new thing is better, and in many areas the alternatives are pretty mediocre. Al
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
What would make sense is to have a blacklist of usernames (like "admin" or "moderator"), then use the confusables map to see if a username or slug is visually confusable with a name from that blacklist. I initially thoug
819.
by wongarsu 8mo ago
Many governments have their own MSPs (managed service provider) who could host any open source software, just as they are likely in charge right now of many Microsoft admin tasks. And if the government doesn't have one but a branch off
820.
by wongarsu 8mo ago
Using money as a medium to facilitate exchange of goods and services is not capitalism. Abandoning one of your core principles in the pursuit of money, or more charitably because not doing so means your competitors will make more money and
821.
by wongarsu 8mo ago
I know visualization is far from the most important goal here, but it really gets me how there's fairly elaborately rendered terrain, and then the units are just unnamed roombas with hard to read status indicators that have no intuitiv
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
If you use a smaller model for the sub agent you get all three Of course you can combine both approaches for even greater gains. But Claude Code and like five alternatives gaining an efficient tool-calling paradigm where console output is i
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
They are examples of AI being a category that contains (a subset of) translation technology. Which is consistent with Mozilla's use of "you can disable AI, which will also disable translation" If you are asking about examples
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
2018: "DeepL - AI Assistance for Language" https://web.archive.org/web/20180906040822/https://www.deepl... 2020: "DeepL Pro, released in March of 2018, is our latest product, now allowing
825.
by wongarsu 8mo ago
Many banks have gone the way of requiring 2FA on an unrooted phone, but giving you a way out by also offering you 2FA via smartcard (using a smartcard reader and a bank-issued card). I suspect a similar thing could be done here, with the sm
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
That is indeed what the comment seems to be implying. "No meaningful European competition" might be a bit too strong. There are many great EU hosters. OVH, Netcup, Scaleway, Strato, Ionos, Exoscale, to name a few. But Hetzner is p
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
And even if occurrence was random, there might be effects that can only be measured early on. By identifying patients before the onset of serious symptoms we can get a much more comprehensive medical history than by only looking once the sy
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
The word artificial intelligence was coined in a 1955 research proposal [1] which listed seven aspects of the "artificial intelligence problem". Computers using languages was one of them. Another is "neuron nets", which
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
The mainline opposing view to evolution seems to be that one guy made all living beings over the course of a week. Common brain structures should be even less surprising in that scenario. That'd just be God taking what works and reusin
830.
by wongarsu 8mo ago
Yeah, that's kind of awesome, isn't it? Flying a helicopter on Mars was inspiring and useful for scouting, etc. But maybe the best thing coming out of it is undeniable proof that off-the-shelf hardware without radiation hardening
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
I guess there is an argument that every food product should add opium to their ingredients to make sure it's bought by as many people as possible and eaten as frequently as possible But I don't think that's healthy for either
832.
by wongarsu 8mo ago
There is the simpler version that is approximately "you can only get in if someone vouches for you. If a person you vouch for misbehaves you get punished as well". That's effectively a "tree of trust" with skin in t
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
Being drunk at the bar/club/social event and telling that very interested lady a bit too much is probably the better example Still not as bad as being susceptible to blackmail or bribes
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
I'm somehow more convinced by the method shown in the introduction of the article: run a number of evals across model providers, see how they compare. This also catches all other configuration changes an inference provider can make, li
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
Germany was in almost this exact situation. It was a self-perpetuating machine for centuries, where ambitious students came to study under the best professors, leading to top students, many of which stayed at those universities to become to
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
Notice how all the major AI companies (at least the ones that don't do open releases) stopped telling us how many parameters their models have. Parameter count was used as a measure for how great the proprietary models were until GPT3,
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
I'm not sure there are any direct quotes to that effect. But for four years the name of Bedrock Edition was simply "Minecraft" or "Minecraft for Windows", with the previous Minecraft becoming "Minecraft: Java E
838.
by wongarsu 8mo ago
There are a lot of rocks beneath earth's surface, and it shouldn't be surprising or magical that some of them are heavier than others. Which does affect local gravity, especially if we talk about the rocks close enough to the surf
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by wongarsu 8mo ago
As far as I remember the original plan was to only maintain both in a transitional phase, with the aim of fully replacing the Java edition. A simple plan: bring Bedrock to feature parity with Java, add a modding API that satisfies 95% of us
840.
by wongarsu 8mo ago
Just because it says "CC0" does not make it CC0. If you upload a dataset you don't have the rights to, any license declaration you make is null and void, and anyone using it as if it had that license is violating copyright Ev

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