Top level engineers and other VIPs are people too. And it is often surprising how "low" they can get. We may imagine the CEO of a large company in his throne room, only reachable through his servant and only for matters…
Anthropic and others harvest source code from around the internet based on the idea of fair use. The big idea behind fair use is that you are not using the copyrighted material to compete against its owner. For example,…
The situation with Google is a bit unexpected. They have top of the line research, I mean, they invented the thing, and they are still doing stuff that goes beyond making a bigger LLM, as it seems to be the only thing…
https://xkcd.com/2256/
The thing is: everyone has an opinion, but the scientific evidence that one system is better than another is weak. And it is weak because people are different. Some people tolerate clock change better than others, some…
The fact we have different interpretations is the reason why it should be clarified. Some people reject AI on a matter of principle. They may have a problem with the energy cost, the idea that AI companies are stealing…
Then it should be clarified. To me "no LLMs for finding bugs" means what it means, which implicitly means "we prefer to have bugs than for you to use a LLM". It is weird, may result in worse code, but it can be…
What happens if, instead of ChatGPT the ones giving bad advice are people: friends, family, colleagues, etc... Can the person be prosecuted? It is common for well meaning people to give medical advice even though they…
Of course it is aligned, I just searched for "acetone peroxyde fabrication", aka TATP, an explosive commonly used by terrorists. Most of the links in the first page give the actual recipe, including the Wikipedia page.…
No it is not, it is official state censorship, there is a law about it, and DeepSeek has no intention to "fix" it, because it would be breaking Chinese law. On the other hand, giving the election results in the US is…
Interesting that you compare Meta and Google to Dow, Bayer, and DuPont, because to me, that's actually a pretty good praise. Just look at the products these companies have created, the common theme being plastics, they…
To me, that's not RAII, it is static analysis, useful, but different. To me, the name "Resource Acquisition Is Initialization" implies that doing one means the other one is done implicitly. Now, in the end of the day,…
It is like saying "why do C++/Rust people don't want a garbage collector?", or "why do Haskell people insist on function purity?". A GC in C++ and Rust would make things much easier, and a few impure functions would…
What makes you think it is not happening right now? Startups have to come from somewhere, and they don't have to say how they got together, in fact, it would be smart for them to keep that "layoff discord" hidden if it…
Companies that conduct these layoffs don't just lay off developers. The tend to also lay off support, sales, legal, etc... Especially support, a chatbot is all you need right? And that's how that "layoff Discord" can…
It is an anti-pattern that predates AI. Tester-driven development maybe. The idea is that instead doing things correctly, you do "something", then, if it fails (it will), you change some random stuff until it passes. It…
I wonder if there are proofs regarding what neural networks like the transformer can solve. Because fundamentally, Astra is just a bunch of matrix multiplications and a few well defined non-linear functions. Anyways,…
> AI assistant integrated plushies. Modern day Furbies?
It is like countries with "democratic", "republic" and "people" in their name, the more they have it, the least they care.
It is an "agentic IDE", a tool intended for people who don't bother writing a readme. If you care about these things you are either not the intended target or you are a hypocrite.
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Gemini is essentially GopherS, Reticulum doesn't seem to operate at the same level (it is L3, like IP, from the look of it). I hold the controversial opinion that encryption can be an anti-feature on the "small web".…
Fundamentally, that's just git with a few common features like pull requests, account management and bug tracking. Choosing one over the other is just a matter of details. How well it integrates with the corporate…
> Why don't politicians care about this? Because it is not the subject that will win them the next election. And even if they care, some things are easier said than done. With politicians who care, you get things like…
Some of it goes to bonuses and dividends, but 23% is a really big number. I think a big part of that number is risk, dividends are tied to risk too. The very idea of investing is that you take risks in exchange for…
Top level engineers and other VIPs are people too. And it is often surprising how "low" they can get. We may imagine the CEO of a large company in his throne room, only reachable through his servant and only for matters…
Anthropic and others harvest source code from around the internet based on the idea of fair use. The big idea behind fair use is that you are not using the copyrighted material to compete against its owner. For example,…
The situation with Google is a bit unexpected. They have top of the line research, I mean, they invented the thing, and they are still doing stuff that goes beyond making a bigger LLM, as it seems to be the only thing…
https://xkcd.com/2256/
The thing is: everyone has an opinion, but the scientific evidence that one system is better than another is weak. And it is weak because people are different. Some people tolerate clock change better than others, some…
The fact we have different interpretations is the reason why it should be clarified. Some people reject AI on a matter of principle. They may have a problem with the energy cost, the idea that AI companies are stealing…
Then it should be clarified. To me "no LLMs for finding bugs" means what it means, which implicitly means "we prefer to have bugs than for you to use a LLM". It is weird, may result in worse code, but it can be…
What happens if, instead of ChatGPT the ones giving bad advice are people: friends, family, colleagues, etc... Can the person be prosecuted? It is common for well meaning people to give medical advice even though they…
Of course it is aligned, I just searched for "acetone peroxyde fabrication", aka TATP, an explosive commonly used by terrorists. Most of the links in the first page give the actual recipe, including the Wikipedia page.…
No it is not, it is official state censorship, there is a law about it, and DeepSeek has no intention to "fix" it, because it would be breaking Chinese law. On the other hand, giving the election results in the US is…
Interesting that you compare Meta and Google to Dow, Bayer, and DuPont, because to me, that's actually a pretty good praise. Just look at the products these companies have created, the common theme being plastics, they…
To me, that's not RAII, it is static analysis, useful, but different. To me, the name "Resource Acquisition Is Initialization" implies that doing one means the other one is done implicitly. Now, in the end of the day,…
It is like saying "why do C++/Rust people don't want a garbage collector?", or "why do Haskell people insist on function purity?". A GC in C++ and Rust would make things much easier, and a few impure functions would…
What makes you think it is not happening right now? Startups have to come from somewhere, and they don't have to say how they got together, in fact, it would be smart for them to keep that "layoff discord" hidden if it…
Companies that conduct these layoffs don't just lay off developers. The tend to also lay off support, sales, legal, etc... Especially support, a chatbot is all you need right? And that's how that "layoff Discord" can…
It is an anti-pattern that predates AI. Tester-driven development maybe. The idea is that instead doing things correctly, you do "something", then, if it fails (it will), you change some random stuff until it passes. It…
I wonder if there are proofs regarding what neural networks like the transformer can solve. Because fundamentally, Astra is just a bunch of matrix multiplications and a few well defined non-linear functions. Anyways,…
> AI assistant integrated plushies. Modern day Furbies?
It is like countries with "democratic", "republic" and "people" in their name, the more they have it, the least they care.
It is an "agentic IDE", a tool intended for people who don't bother writing a readme. If you care about these things you are either not the intended target or you are a hypocrite.
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Gemini is essentially GopherS, Reticulum doesn't seem to operate at the same level (it is L3, like IP, from the look of it). I hold the controversial opinion that encryption can be an anti-feature on the "small web".…
Fundamentally, that's just git with a few common features like pull requests, account management and bug tracking. Choosing one over the other is just a matter of details. How well it integrates with the corporate…
> Why don't politicians care about this? Because it is not the subject that will win them the next election. And even if they care, some things are easier said than done. With politicians who care, you get things like…
Some of it goes to bonuses and dividends, but 23% is a really big number. I think a big part of that number is risk, dividends are tied to risk too. The very idea of investing is that you take risks in exchange for…