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by yourapostasy 8mo ago
Even as the field evolves, the phoning home telemetry of closed models creates a centralized intelligence monopoly. If open source atrophies, we lose the public square of architectural and design reasoning, the decision graph that is often
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by yourapostasy 8mo ago
We're probably close enough to a future with the technology and engineering able to implement it, to justify designing 48-bit perceptual bit depth standards. Optimistically presuming breakthroughs enabling in vivo biological upgrades
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by yourapostasy 8mo ago
> LLMs are merely copying these decisions. This I strongly suspect is the crux of the boundaries of their current usefulness. Without accompanying legibility/visibility into the lineage of those decisions, LLM's will be unabl
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by yourapostasy 8mo ago
The challenge not addressed with this line of reasoning is the required sheer scale of output validation on the backend of LLM-generated code. Human hand-developed code was no great shakes at the validation front either, but the scale diffe
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by yourapostasy 9mo ago
In the enterprise deployments of GitHub Copilot I've seen at my clients that authenticate over SSO (typically OIDC with OAuth 2.0), connecting Copilot to anything outside of what Microsoft has integrated means reverse engineering the c
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by yourapostasy 9mo ago
Non-technical home users in my circles are fed up with Windows 11's changes from Windows 10 without a suitable transition that eases them into the changes. They are nowhere near good candidates to migrate to any flavor of Linux, though
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by yourapostasy 9mo ago
With the Netflix infrastructure, I'm surprised they broadcast it so conventionally. Different channels running at the same time (with the crowd at the bottom, with the crowds as he passed each floor, with his wife watching, with pro cl
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by yourapostasy 9mo ago
Inference leans heavily on GPU RAM and RAM bandwidth for the decode phase where an increasingly greater amount of time is being spent as people find better ways to leverage inference. So NVIDIA users are currently arguably going to demand a
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by yourapostasy 9mo ago
I am satisfied when someone tells us we cannot change requirements, to get their acknowledgement that what we bring up does extract a specific trade-off, and their reason for accepting the trade-off, then recording it into design and operat
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by yourapostasy 9mo ago
I am hopeful autodidacts will leverage an LLM world like they did with an Internet search world from a library world from a printed word world. Each stage in that progression compressed the time it took for them to encompass a span of compr
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by yourapostasy 9mo ago
> They have food and housing, but their life is devoid of meaning. I find it difficult to relate to such worlds. I make up all kinds of explanations like, "well, it must be because while they have food and housing, they don't
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by yourapostasy 9mo ago
I wonder whether we're trending towards a high-sensor variation of "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" / Vannevar Bush's Memex that ingests the details of a user's daily life (the smart glasses being a pri
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by yourapostasy 9mo ago
Reminds me of a post I read a few days ago of someone crowing about an LLM writing for them an email format validator. They did not have the LLM code up an accompanying send-an-email-validation loop, and were blithely kept uninformed by the
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by yourapostasy 9mo ago
> ...multiple engineers argued about the "right" way to build something. I remember thinking that they had biases based on past experiences and assumptions about what mattered. I usually resolve this by putting on the table the
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by yourapostasy 10mo ago
We could have LLM’s capable of doing all that for your pastor right now and it would still take time before these systems can effectively reason through troubleshooting this bespoke software. Right now the effectiveness of LLLM-powered trou
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by yourapostasy 11mo ago
GitHub back in September already published their roadmap of mitigations to NPM supply chain attacks: https://github.blog/security/supply-chain-security/our-plan-... I'm guessing no one yet wants to spend the
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by yourapostasy 11mo ago
This feels to me more like the kind of Augmented Reality (AR) that will make it to mass market adoption than what the market has offered to date. Granted, audio-only, but that's where all our wearable tech seems to start (likely becaus
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by yourapostasy 11mo ago
I'm guessing they aren't widespread yet in doctors' offices due to cost. As near as I can tell, the results are acceptable for clinical settings?
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by yourapostasy 11mo ago
Ever since Framework laptops arrived on the scene, I've been waiting for someone to create thicker bezels that piggyback onto the webcams' USB 2.0 interface via a USB 2.0 hub, to integrate a color eInk display facing outwards. Jus
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by yourapostasy 1y ago
Some organizations’ leadership takes one look at the cost of redundancy and backs away. Paying for redundant resources most organizations can stomach. The network traffic charges are what push many over the edge of “do not buy”. The cost of
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by yourapostasy 1y ago
Maybe this maxim within our software world might help: "Be loosely coupled, tightly cohesive". Decoupling (the kind of self-sufficiency you are envisioning) is only a distant goal for interplanetary colonization. Loose coupling is
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Geedge and MESA leak: Analyzing the great firewall’s largest document leak(gfw.report)
438 points by yourapostasy 1y ago|137 comments
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by yourapostasy 1y ago
I love libraries of all kinds, and wish LLM training development will drive even greater preservation and digitization efforts. I sure hope someone preserves this collection, installs a dry fire extinguisher system, and digitizes into the I
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by yourapostasy 1y ago
Lounges of U.S. carriers in U.S. airports serving international flights that are about as busy as overseas counterparts have a nearly universally poor showing when compared to those overseas lounges. I’ve read this comes down to the financi
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by yourapostasy 1y ago
> ...an AML form that needs filling in if the sales go through...If that’s not overreach, I don’t know what is. Absent a complete dismantling of AML oversight (and I do have empathy for those free market purists who want to wholesale t
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by yourapostasy 1y ago
> Current situation doesn't sound too good for "scaling hypothesis" itself. But the “scaling hypothesis” is the easiest, fastest story to raise money. So it will be leveraged until conclusively broken by the next advanceme
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by yourapostasy 1y ago
This happens everywhere with lots of people in many different contexts. I call it the “‘why don’t we just’ disease”, or WDWJ Disease. When you’re in any leadership position, you have to stay especially careful to catch yourself from falling
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by yourapostasy 1y ago
This form versus substance issue is a really deeply embedded problem in our industry, and it is getting worse. Time and again, I run into professionals who claim X, only to find out that the assertion was based only upon the flimsiest inter
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by yourapostasy 2y ago
Would you happen to know where developers who want to integrate against MCP and OS 2200 running on a variety of hardware and OS versions (compile targets for validation and distribution, really) can lease time from?
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by yourapostasy 2y ago
Due to Betteridge's law of headlines: "No". But I loves me some Sabine sometimes, and watched anyways. TL;DR: "No, unless this Doppler stuff later on turns out to have legs and this time around they were just incredibly

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