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by yunwal 11mo ago
So 900b total among its 36000 employees for a total of 900b/4.3 trillion market cap. Or roughly 20% employee owned (if that 25m number is correct). This article (warning: obnoxious ads) is the only one I can find that claims to know wh
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by yunwal 11mo ago
It’s still the case that the evaluation model hasn’t seen enough examples of a blockade to be able to understand it as far as I can tell. Some very simple ones it can (in fact I’ve seen stockfish/alpha-zero execute quite clever blockad
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by yunwal 11mo ago
> we are getting extremely close to being able to make films with only AI tools AI still can’t reliably write text on background details. It can’t get shadows right. If you ask it to shoot things from a head on perspective, for example a
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by yunwal 11mo ago
Here’s a chess stackexchange of positions that stump engines https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/29716/positions-th... It basically comes down to “ideas that are rare enough that they were never programmed i
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by yunwal 11mo ago
Now do homelessness and make it over the past 20 years. Now do chances a child makes it to their 20s over the past 20 years. Now do suicides. No, we are not making progress on poverty, at least not in the United States. We are simply tradin
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by yunwal 11mo ago
> If you look at the text of the first amendment, the word "person" doesn't appear in that part. This is irrelevant, but anyway it has the word “people” in it. Either way the bill of rights is a list of personal rights. &g
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by yunwal 11mo ago
> The entire cry of "corporations aren't people!" is based and a complete misunderstanding of what a legal person is. > if it weren't for activists who thought it sounded scandalous It wasn’t activists who first mi
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by yunwal 1y ago
It's also far easier to end up in a bubble if you only consume from small sources, even if they're high quality.
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by yunwal 1y ago
> Substack? Respectfully, is full of people who are not trustworthy enough to be platformed anywhere meaningful Paul Krugman has his own substack. You think he couldn't get his old job back at the Times in a second if he wanted to?
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by yunwal 1y ago
> The adoption rate for the iPhone was slow. There were only 1.4 million iPhones sold in its first year,[1] whereas there were 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in its first year.[2] The ChatGPT number includes people who paid no m
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by yunwal 1y ago
I’m quite good at technical interviews, and I still think they’re not a good way to find the best person for the job in 95% of places they’re used
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by yunwal 1y ago
If one is trying to make an argument about the usefulness of LLMs, it’s irrelevant whether LLMs on their own can cite sources. If they can be trivially put into a system that can cite sources, that is a better measure of it’s usefulness.
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by yunwal 1y ago
I don’t see why this would be controversial
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by yunwal 1y ago
> The more interesting part for me (esp as a computer vision at heart who is temporarily masquerading as a natural language person) is whether pixels are better inputs to LLMs than text. Whether text tokens are wasteful and just terrible
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by yunwal 1y ago
Apple pays about 3x as much per stream as Spotify according to most sources. https://musosoup.com/blog/does-apple-music-pay-artists-more-...
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by yunwal 1y ago
I mean, at the point where you’re writing tools to assist it, we are no longer comparing the performance of 2 LLMs. You’re taking a solution that requires a small amount of expertise, and replacing it with another solution that requires mor
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by yunwal 1y ago
It’s quite easy to produce a model that’s better than GPT-5 at arbitrarily small tasks. As of right now, GPT-5 can’t classify a dog by breed based on good photos for all but the most common breeds, which is like an AI-101 project.
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by yunwal 1y ago
This is nice. I really like Kagi and while I don’t really need something like Ente, I’ll probably end up signing up for other services highlighted here.
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by yunwal 1y ago
Would love to see playboi carti on here.
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by yunwal 1y ago
Ebikes and small scooters make up the vast majority of deliveries in major cities. Can't remember the last time a delivery driver came in a car in NYC.
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by yunwal 1y ago
This will end up inspiring thousands of kids to learn blender
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by yunwal 1y ago
> If you completely ignore inference revenue needing to offset training costs. This is what people mean when they say margin. When you buy a pair of shoes, the margin is price/(materials+labor), and doesn’t include the price of the
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by yunwal 1y ago
Some of them also ended up getting consolidated into other larger services
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by yunwal 1y ago
Starting a new service was a path towards promotion at AWS, so they ended up launching 100s of services to the point where there were 10 different ways to do everything. I’m glad they’re culling them.
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by yunwal 1y ago
The comment above you was not denying that climate change exists. It was criticizing a misleading title. The insurance industry would absolutely say that the California wildfires were an outlier event, even if there is a trend of increased
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by yunwal 1y ago
You just made up a whole different thing. Nobody is talking about writing code with an AI here, they’re talking about using it to interact with a poker website.
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by yunwal 1y ago
If you understand the difference between greedy algorithms and non-greedy, you also understand the difference between learning by doing and building a solid foundation before tackling a problem. For most simple problems, it's true that
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by yunwal 1y ago
The bot would realistically be GPT interacting with the web application and calling out to a poker engine for any calculations/decisions.
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by yunwal 1y ago
Theoretically you could devise a scenario where promoting to a bishop would forcefully draw an otherwise losing position.
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by yunwal 1y ago
This post ends with a situation in a real tournament game where a bishop promotion is the only winning move https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess2/minor.htm

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