In part because model vendors specifically prefer when people think that lots of content is produced by their model. The more Claude-like writing appears on the internet, the more signal there is to investors that…
Decent summary of it here[0]. The “space” part of “SpaceX” is valued by market analysts and money managers at around 5% of the company’s entire value. Almost all of the rest is “AI stuff”, and Twitter is a rounding…
> to demonstrate that the tech industry isn't just here to extract wealth from the poor/many and transfer it to rich/few? I think the problem is that the tech industry in large is just here to extract wealth from the…
It's unlikely that AI will get to the point where it makes handwritten coders redundant, and then not immediately be at the point where vibe coders are redundant too. So if you earnestly take the position that…
>4x improvement on geospatial tasks with map in the loop. The graph shows 2% task success to 8% task success, but the evals detail 100% success rates across the board. I'm not sure what the effectiveness of this skill…
Safari's copy-text-from-image feature manages the entire base64 part of the string, except for the first character (I instead of a T). Weirdly, it gets much worse performance if you try to copy the entire string,…
I think this is a case where two people can successfully complete the task manually faster than one attempting to automate it. Get a ruler, read five centimetres of characters to your colleague, have them type it in as…
Would they still get the highlighted "PEACE FOR ALL" text throughout the shortened string? It looks like the length, and presence of those characters, was an explicit design choice.
It’s difficult to articulate the tedium and monotony of a Starbucks gig. There’s so little intellectual stimulation available in that setting. If you managed to learn more from your fast food than your humanities…
I don’t think any engineers who cost $150/hr are having their productivity moved by 20% depending on a $10/hr gap between models on or near the frontier. Most of the gains right now come from tooling and process and any…
No, standard floating point implementations have higher precision for smaller numbers than larger. So for example, in a 32bit float, there are far more numbers between 0-1 than there are between 1,000,000 and 1,000,001.…
Most of the interesting research I’ve ever done started while reading through the intermediate steps in an unrelated paper. As far as I can tell from colleagues in other domains, it’s the same there. One paper will…
What’ll happen when Google Deep Mind go to release their next models, developed mostly in London? Are Google going to end up in a situation where the people working on their models cannot use the models after launch?
> robot maid that could clean, wash and fold the laundry, do the dishes, etc. would be huge. I think a lot of people would pay new-car money for something like that. Once you take maintenance of a machine with…
I think they’ve just picked poor peer examples. Instead of choosing other models near 5.2 on the intelligence scale, they’ve picked some open models from further down the scale.
>As an AI-native startup founder, your responsibility is to know what's in your codebase, understand any potential exposure vectors, and not ship obvious vulnerabilities to real users who are trusting you with their…
I sometimes use the Claude app with text to speech enabled. It’s got a quite distinctive voice/tempo combo when it’s outputting speech. Whenever I see a typical Claude-tell in writing, my internal reading voice switches…
A debates purpose is surely to reveal if there’s a measurable difference to be reconciled in the first instance. Any actual reconciliation is a nice bonus on top. So even if the debate reveals that no, there wasn’t a…
I don't think this article properly engaged with the criticism from the politician. That's fine, I wasn't expecting it to, but this isn't valuable commentary on the politician's point. I suppose it does serve to…
I see the value in being able to discuss features more centrally. I’m not seeing the value in a per-keystroke delta of the software as it’s built though. It feels like this communications problem could be solved through…
I don’t see the value proposition here. I’ve seen roughly this feature proposed by multiple companies, and absolutely none of the have given a convincing reason for the technology to exist.
>The health service now has to spend more money settling maternity-malpractice claims than it does on actually providing maternity care This figure is from an article in the Times, and has no connection to official NHS…
In the UK, a £45k/yr employee pays their own tax and gets a take-home of £35k. The employer pays £6k for National Insurance (atop the employee's NI contributions). Pension: 2-3k. Apprenticeship levy is £300.…
This is odd behaviour, and provides some evidence that Anthropic isn't being managed by serious people. With this policy across AWS/GH/Zed/etc, they're taking their massive lead in enterprise/govt sales and handing it…
How do you deal with context length degradation here? The harder questions will only arrive when the context is getting full.
In part because model vendors specifically prefer when people think that lots of content is produced by their model. The more Claude-like writing appears on the internet, the more signal there is to investors that…
Decent summary of it here[0]. The “space” part of “SpaceX” is valued by market analysts and money managers at around 5% of the company’s entire value. Almost all of the rest is “AI stuff”, and Twitter is a rounding…
> to demonstrate that the tech industry isn't just here to extract wealth from the poor/many and transfer it to rich/few? I think the problem is that the tech industry in large is just here to extract wealth from the…
It's unlikely that AI will get to the point where it makes handwritten coders redundant, and then not immediately be at the point where vibe coders are redundant too. So if you earnestly take the position that…
>4x improvement on geospatial tasks with map in the loop. The graph shows 2% task success to 8% task success, but the evals detail 100% success rates across the board. I'm not sure what the effectiveness of this skill…
Safari's copy-text-from-image feature manages the entire base64 part of the string, except for the first character (I instead of a T). Weirdly, it gets much worse performance if you try to copy the entire string,…
I think this is a case where two people can successfully complete the task manually faster than one attempting to automate it. Get a ruler, read five centimetres of characters to your colleague, have them type it in as…
Would they still get the highlighted "PEACE FOR ALL" text throughout the shortened string? It looks like the length, and presence of those characters, was an explicit design choice.
It’s difficult to articulate the tedium and monotony of a Starbucks gig. There’s so little intellectual stimulation available in that setting. If you managed to learn more from your fast food than your humanities…
I don’t think any engineers who cost $150/hr are having their productivity moved by 20% depending on a $10/hr gap between models on or near the frontier. Most of the gains right now come from tooling and process and any…
No, standard floating point implementations have higher precision for smaller numbers than larger. So for example, in a 32bit float, there are far more numbers between 0-1 than there are between 1,000,000 and 1,000,001.…
Most of the interesting research I’ve ever done started while reading through the intermediate steps in an unrelated paper. As far as I can tell from colleagues in other domains, it’s the same there. One paper will…
What’ll happen when Google Deep Mind go to release their next models, developed mostly in London? Are Google going to end up in a situation where the people working on their models cannot use the models after launch?
> robot maid that could clean, wash and fold the laundry, do the dishes, etc. would be huge. I think a lot of people would pay new-car money for something like that. Once you take maintenance of a machine with…
I think they’ve just picked poor peer examples. Instead of choosing other models near 5.2 on the intelligence scale, they’ve picked some open models from further down the scale.
>As an AI-native startup founder, your responsibility is to know what's in your codebase, understand any potential exposure vectors, and not ship obvious vulnerabilities to real users who are trusting you with their…
I sometimes use the Claude app with text to speech enabled. It’s got a quite distinctive voice/tempo combo when it’s outputting speech. Whenever I see a typical Claude-tell in writing, my internal reading voice switches…
A debates purpose is surely to reveal if there’s a measurable difference to be reconciled in the first instance. Any actual reconciliation is a nice bonus on top. So even if the debate reveals that no, there wasn’t a…
I don't think this article properly engaged with the criticism from the politician. That's fine, I wasn't expecting it to, but this isn't valuable commentary on the politician's point. I suppose it does serve to…
I see the value in being able to discuss features more centrally. I’m not seeing the value in a per-keystroke delta of the software as it’s built though. It feels like this communications problem could be solved through…
I don’t see the value proposition here. I’ve seen roughly this feature proposed by multiple companies, and absolutely none of the have given a convincing reason for the technology to exist.
>The health service now has to spend more money settling maternity-malpractice claims than it does on actually providing maternity care This figure is from an article in the Times, and has no connection to official NHS…
In the UK, a £45k/yr employee pays their own tax and gets a take-home of £35k. The employer pays £6k for National Insurance (atop the employee's NI contributions). Pension: 2-3k. Apprenticeship levy is £300.…
This is odd behaviour, and provides some evidence that Anthropic isn't being managed by serious people. With this policy across AWS/GH/Zed/etc, they're taking their massive lead in enterprise/govt sales and handing it…
How do you deal with context length degradation here? The harder questions will only arrive when the context is getting full.