I think it's definitely not as "cool", but it's almost a different problem class entirely since there's no correct answers here. Knowing TCP connection protocols or deep compiler infra is impressive insofar as it's a…
I understand the desire for something like this, but it's very naive. Different countries had unimaginably different histories which directly propagate to different cultures and values. *This is not natively bad thing*.…
Yes, the theory is that they can bake in coding behavior in the weights that will introduce vulnerabilities...
You can't just look at the funding for math departments. I think the value generation potential of every mathematician in the world could exceed that of the capex of these companies. How much is "lost" when a brilliant…
One of the problems is the power dynamic westernized/developed societies have. The article talks about just that: Australians brought shells in and basically one-shotted a rich culture for their own gain via hyper…
The juxtaposition of someone's instinct to be thinking of bitcoin when reading about indigenous trade is at the best a bit funny, and at the worst small-minded when you consider the havoc those Australians brought onto…
Depending on the age, people are spending between 4-6.5 hours a day on their phone. How much are people spending on computers? Their mattress? 2,000 for the cutting edge version is frankly reasonable for what a phone…
I get annoyed if a webpage takes longer than 1-2 seconds to generate right now. You don't?
Are agentic systems like these making correct decisions more often than humans really unthinkable? A comment like what you just wrote was unimaginable 5 years ago
This isn't that out there in our current scenario. These models compress our collective thought and effort. Why not make these publicly owned, all profits distributed back to us?
I knew I was a highlighter but reading that showed me how much my brain relies on spam click highlighting to keep my eyes on track. I should probably read more books.
I'm kind of in the same boat and it's been pestering me for months. Every agent is simply a less capable Claude Code. If it had a lossless, massive context window (100m-1b tokens), then it will squash everything. Give…
Prompt engineering is a skill insofar as technical communication is a skill. If you don't value this then I don't know what to tell you. It's not hard, but it's important. Harness engineering is a skill insofar as it's…
School is almost a joke now. The fraction of students who have a propensity to cheat now has increased, and the accuracy of the cheated material is so good teachers/professors can't or don't have the resources to…
Obligatory taalas mention: https://taalas.com/ Despite the performative UI components they have a shipped (demo) product: https://chatjimmy.ai/ This is only 3.1 8B and a very small context window, but at 17k tokens per…
It's no secret they've been tracking people's faces as much as they can. The morning of Pretti I was on Lyndale and there were two men wearing "press" jackets with DLSRs taking pictures of people's faces in the crowd.…
_Nobody_ has the right take. Believe it or not, being seemingly laissez-faire about something can be a well evaluated and rigorous position. I highly doubt that OP doesn't care about the potential negative ramifications…
cybernetic culture research unit http://www.ccru.net I doubt it's currently maintained, but these esoteric sites are fun
Slightly off topic, but when I read about these archeological discoveries being made thanks to custom software, ML or the like - Who is writing this code? To me these projects would be so fun to work on, but this domain…
I'm not saying you're wrong, but why is this the case? I'm out of the loop on training LLMs, but to me it's just pure data input. Are they choosing to include more code rather than, say fiction books?
I've been thinking exactly this. I'm a recent CS grad and have zero experience in anything physical or on the engineering side but I think I would enjoy it. I'm a bit intimidated by it, is there a path you'd recommend…
Fair enough. I will ask, how many billions have been spent in not only FSD but the car infrastructure that makes room for FSD investment? I'm being slightly fanatical, but if our priorities were not car-centric in the…
This is true. Now to start a tangent, what's the easier problem to solve: FSD, or a robust public transport system? Moving rooms have always been around in the form of trains, busses, streetcars etc...
FSD is not being marketed as an aide for elderly people or those with disabilities, it's being marketed as a panacea for all driving related problems
I think self-driving targets a problem that doesn't really exist. The issue isn't that the act of driving is a laborious task, it's simply the amount of time spent in a car, which FSD doesn't address.
I think it's definitely not as "cool", but it's almost a different problem class entirely since there's no correct answers here. Knowing TCP connection protocols or deep compiler infra is impressive insofar as it's a…
I understand the desire for something like this, but it's very naive. Different countries had unimaginably different histories which directly propagate to different cultures and values. *This is not natively bad thing*.…
Yes, the theory is that they can bake in coding behavior in the weights that will introduce vulnerabilities...
You can't just look at the funding for math departments. I think the value generation potential of every mathematician in the world could exceed that of the capex of these companies. How much is "lost" when a brilliant…
One of the problems is the power dynamic westernized/developed societies have. The article talks about just that: Australians brought shells in and basically one-shotted a rich culture for their own gain via hyper…
The juxtaposition of someone's instinct to be thinking of bitcoin when reading about indigenous trade is at the best a bit funny, and at the worst small-minded when you consider the havoc those Australians brought onto…
Depending on the age, people are spending between 4-6.5 hours a day on their phone. How much are people spending on computers? Their mattress? 2,000 for the cutting edge version is frankly reasonable for what a phone…
I get annoyed if a webpage takes longer than 1-2 seconds to generate right now. You don't?
Are agentic systems like these making correct decisions more often than humans really unthinkable? A comment like what you just wrote was unimaginable 5 years ago
This isn't that out there in our current scenario. These models compress our collective thought and effort. Why not make these publicly owned, all profits distributed back to us?
I knew I was a highlighter but reading that showed me how much my brain relies on spam click highlighting to keep my eyes on track. I should probably read more books.
I'm kind of in the same boat and it's been pestering me for months. Every agent is simply a less capable Claude Code. If it had a lossless, massive context window (100m-1b tokens), then it will squash everything. Give…
Prompt engineering is a skill insofar as technical communication is a skill. If you don't value this then I don't know what to tell you. It's not hard, but it's important. Harness engineering is a skill insofar as it's…
School is almost a joke now. The fraction of students who have a propensity to cheat now has increased, and the accuracy of the cheated material is so good teachers/professors can't or don't have the resources to…
Obligatory taalas mention: https://taalas.com/ Despite the performative UI components they have a shipped (demo) product: https://chatjimmy.ai/ This is only 3.1 8B and a very small context window, but at 17k tokens per…
It's no secret they've been tracking people's faces as much as they can. The morning of Pretti I was on Lyndale and there were two men wearing "press" jackets with DLSRs taking pictures of people's faces in the crowd.…
_Nobody_ has the right take. Believe it or not, being seemingly laissez-faire about something can be a well evaluated and rigorous position. I highly doubt that OP doesn't care about the potential negative ramifications…
cybernetic culture research unit http://www.ccru.net I doubt it's currently maintained, but these esoteric sites are fun
Slightly off topic, but when I read about these archeological discoveries being made thanks to custom software, ML or the like - Who is writing this code? To me these projects would be so fun to work on, but this domain…
I'm not saying you're wrong, but why is this the case? I'm out of the loop on training LLMs, but to me it's just pure data input. Are they choosing to include more code rather than, say fiction books?
I've been thinking exactly this. I'm a recent CS grad and have zero experience in anything physical or on the engineering side but I think I would enjoy it. I'm a bit intimidated by it, is there a path you'd recommend…
Fair enough. I will ask, how many billions have been spent in not only FSD but the car infrastructure that makes room for FSD investment? I'm being slightly fanatical, but if our priorities were not car-centric in the…
This is true. Now to start a tangent, what's the easier problem to solve: FSD, or a robust public transport system? Moving rooms have always been around in the form of trains, busses, streetcars etc...
FSD is not being marketed as an aide for elderly people or those with disabilities, it's being marketed as a panacea for all driving related problems
I think self-driving targets a problem that doesn't really exist. The issue isn't that the act of driving is a laborious task, it's simply the amount of time spent in a car, which FSD doesn't address.