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by yifanl 1y ago
Same reason why we aren't looking for innovative ways of using sugary soft drinks as a building material. Just because there's a non-zero chance we could come up with something isn't compelling enough by itself.
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by yifanl 1y ago
The bubble narrative has been ongoing for a while, but as I understand it, the extremely disappointing response to GPT-5 has spilled things over.
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by yifanl 1y ago
capitalism.
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by yifanl 1y ago
So we should allow apple to have monopoly power in every industry because otherwise it'd be annoying to buy separate devices.
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by yifanl 1y ago
Why were you never considering them for your blood oxygen measurement needs?
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by yifanl 1y ago
It's funny. Which is subjective, but if it fits for you, it's arguably more useful than Claude.
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by yifanl 1y ago
They have the user count from the dev, 2 million daily users shouldn't be generating billions of requests unless a good portion of them are botting.
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by yifanl 1y ago
Keeping in mind, turning off typo corrections would also drive more queries and higher quality clicks.
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by yifanl 1y ago
This is a post framed in medias res, from the perspective of the developer, as portrayed by themselves, asking an LLM to construct the post that they post immediately afterwards. I'm unsure if the post is actually created by Gemini or
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by yifanl 1y ago
Aside, but I've come to believe that the insistence of looking for steelmen explanations instead of engaging with reality as it's happening is not a positive trait.
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by yifanl 1y ago
Tom from the pub says that it does.
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by yifanl 1y ago
If I wasn't familiar with the latest in computer tech, I would also assume LLMs never make mistakes, after hearing such excited praise for them over the last 3 years.
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by yifanl 1y ago
So this is essentially monkey-patching every variation of fetch/library fetch and doing math on the reported token counts? It's an... intrusive solution. Glad to hear it works for you though.
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by yifanl 1y ago
Sharing Netflix passwords was literally a common enough phonomena that it purt of Netflix's advertising, that's a very unique case that I don't expect to be happening for Anthropic.
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by yifanl 1y ago
The problem is as follows: There is a subset of the population that tends to trust things you say, and this subset is fairly large. The solution is that we need to make it so that the majority no longer trusts anything people say. There wil
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by yifanl 1y ago
It's propaganda if you disagree, and normal if you agree.
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If you're from the future, please let us know and we can alert the relevant authorities to ~~disect~~ help you.
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by yifanl 1y ago
It starts with the understanding that there's no such thing as a national politician whose every policy will align with your interests, unless you are the politician in question.
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by yifanl 1y ago
Yes, but generally speaking, those who lack wealth are not in positions of power, and therefore we can ignore them.
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by yifanl 1y ago
Because it feels bad to know you didn't make the cut because you were unlucky since there's nothing you could have done better. Sufficient preparation can mitigate low scores, they can't mitigate bad luck. :s/preparation
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by yifanl 1y ago
Because industry moves faster than policy.
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by yifanl 1y ago
Oh well in the case, we should just wait and see and die.
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by yifanl 1y ago
You need nerds to build something at a baseline competency that you can sell it, then you need to be the greasiest salesman ever to sell it harder once you've gotten a foothold. People genuinely do not care about product quality, doubl
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by yifanl 1y ago
Here's a third sentence fragment: These benchmarks are not.
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by yifanl 1y ago
No, but they're rather limited in ways to reimburse you or offer "justice". Putting the Thunderbird team in jail doesn't help you out. Hell, what if the offending commit was 2 decades ago by someone who's cut off al
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by yifanl 1y ago
Likely not what you're thinking of, but there's a lot of variant modes in the Minesveeper advent calendars: https://heptaveegesimal.com/2022/minesveeper-zero/
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by yifanl 1y ago
It's not criminal, but you're entitled to a full refund of Thunderbird in the event it happens.
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by yifanl 1y ago
So as someone who's not written Javascript in a decade, this on the face of it seems wrong to me: Your example correct answer to "Write a function that returns the sum of two parameters" is function myFunction(example)
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by yifanl 1y ago
Doing so in a manner that generates a sufficient amount of profit really does. And doing so without being caught for market manipulation might require genius that surpasses the human limit.
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The difference is mostly that people with this mindset were less empowered to enact upon it. But we've democratized fraud now.

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