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by xpct 3mo ago
So, you can't use it for coding, can't use it for 'sensitive' information in chemistry/biology. It follows that it's likely bad for medicine and adjacent topics too. What can you use it for? To run a breadth
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by xpct 3mo ago
I don't think OP argued for any type of relentless work.
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by xpct 3mo ago
> checking out emotionally and spiritually just means more life lived What exactly about checking out makes it 'more living'? I sense a false dichotomy here
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by xpct 3mo ago
Has a16z already boasted about this investment, or is that podcast episode coming out later this year?
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by xpct 3mo ago
I wasn't working with anything sensitive, but it really does feel like it sometimes condenses even something low like three bullet points to two. IMO, they were quite good with checklists even a year ago, and tried to tick off each one
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by xpct 3mo ago
> Generally speaking, we know how the level of abstraction that we were born with works I'd say it's generally true that the majority of jobs of an era deal with a similar level of abstraction, and that's why most people s
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by xpct 3mo ago
> audit all the data and code that is associated For a while now there has been very little incentive for providing these alongside the paper, and I don't see why exactly 'AI' would change this. I could even see how making
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by xpct 3mo ago
I'm actually quite excited for when (if) the models get good enough to start replicating compsci papers. I'd love it if there was a system which calculated a reproducibility score per-lab or per-researcher, which I could look up a
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by xpct 3mo ago
I've been largely disappointed how much the Claude models ignore custom instructions, and sometimes even prompts on the chat interface. It sometimes feels like talking to a wall, or as if there was a third person in the chatroom whose
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by xpct 3mo ago
Thank you for sharing the link. It's fascinating that the models can only do 10-20% on the hard subset, and I wonder why that is so. The fact that they can only get 30-40% out of the fp8 GEMM seems unintuitive to me, I would've ex
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by xpct 3mo ago
To my knowledge there's still talent left in London, even after the wage stagnation.
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by xpct 3mo ago
I wouldn't be as sure that engineers won't be needed, whereas welders will.
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by xpct 3mo ago
I admire your persistence and hope your efforts pay off!
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by xpct 3mo ago
Agreed, I haven't yet internalized them not remembering feedback from a couple days ago, which humans typically would. The process of remembering to update the context isn't entirely natural to me to this day.
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by xpct 3mo ago
Would you fault those who've had outstanding 20+ year programming careers for not anticipating the change?
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by xpct 3mo ago
I've always thought that I could retrain myself multiple times in my life, and wouldn't suffer too much because of it. But the paths that I would've taken have changed as well: for example, I wouldn't feel as confident r
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by xpct 3mo ago
I think if change was fast it'd be less painful. Dragging this out is what makes it so. LLMs being as unreliable as they are, and being gaslit about model capabilities every other week burns you out fast.
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by xpct 3mo ago
> CAPTCHA proves you're human has it ever?
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by xpct 3mo ago
Frankly, this year has shown that what's remaining of Open Source will be used for license laundering, and at a great scale. If you don't have a community backing you, there's almost no incentive remaining to start new OSS pr
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by xpct 4mo ago
What type of work are we talking about here?
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by xpct 4mo ago
I used to think I'll be into coding for the long haul, contributing to open source, and working on multi-year side projects. Nearly all of that passion vanished this year, and I've been struggling to replace it. I know I'm mu
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by xpct 4mo ago
I'd say this goes for more than gambling. Since digitalization, we've removed a lot of friction from depraved behavior, and regulation hasn't caught up to it yet.
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by xpct 4mo ago
Since ublock stopped working on twitch, I've learned that all ads they show for me are localized gambling ads, and it's sickening.
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by xpct 4mo ago
I very much dislike the idea of teaching the robot to play Civilization and expect those skills to transfer to their advisory nature. If anything, I'd almost prefer a leader who hasn't played Civilization in their life. Goes witho
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by xpct 4mo ago
The following come to mind: - either the problem is hard, or labs have no incentive to fix it for their main users - being able to tell that something is LLM-generated, is good - could be that structure is an emergent property as models g
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by xpct 4mo ago
I don't like the reframing of 'learning from mistakes' from a human-like, near instantaneous feedback loop, to a year-long process of retraining on many traces collected from user data. They're different concepts and we
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by xpct 4mo ago
Lack of accountability is the cause here. People don't think before hitting the 'Publish' button. Their managers let them off the hook because the culture still allows making egregious mistakes, as long as there's an LLM
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by xpct 4mo ago
Well thank you for your service. I thought about trying out Codex after the disaster that is Claude Code. I'll be fine without either one on my machine
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by xpct 4mo ago
I'm not sure if that's true. I don't really get stressed or anxious, and from the few times I tried to put myself into stress mode I've performed much worse.
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by xpct 4mo ago
2017 is a bit early to refer to them as LLMs. I'm not sure when exactly we started to refer to LMs as 'large', but I don't think it was before GPT2 (2019). That said, from the NLP work I've done, it was much more in

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