I worked professionally in OCaml for many years, and I assure you it’s possible to write low latency code by avoiding allocations. People write Java this way as well. Lots of system software was written in OCaml this…
It sounds like you’re saying that you hold the following to be true: “Only activities that involve creation can lead to joy.” But you also agree that “watching a sunset can lead to joy”. Presumably you agree that you…
Just to be explicit, and correct me if I’m wrong in my understanding, but your argument was: 1. Prompting is not creation. 2. Therefore prompting cannot lead to joy. For this argument to work, you’re implicitly also…
Have you ever felt joy watching a sunset? Smelling a flower? Hearing a song? Seeing a child laugh? Did you create any of those things? You may or may not be right about whether prompting is creation, but it is certainly…
If the United States or the Linux kernel project or frankly any other institution lasts as long as the Roman civilization, that would be a rare achievement indeed! In my opinion, its longevity is the single most…
All your examples are private goods: excludable and rival. If one person uses a unit, that prevents others from using them. Patches to open source software are public goods. Your using them doesn’t prevent others from…
“How it works” link is broken on Safari on iOS. I am quite curious how it works, exactly.
Yes, the type I wrote down is isomorphic to Option<int32>, so the compiler will ultimately generate the same machine code and do the same optimizations. But defining a new type allows you to give the two cases more…
I prefer a slightly more general rule: Make Illegal States Unrepresentable. The "Parse, don't validate" rule is a special case of MISU. What's the difference? MISU applies even when there's no parsing-like…
This study is informative and most likely directionally right: prompt injection remains an unsolved problem, and adversarial input can fool modern ML models. But I was left wondering about the specific attack vector…
I think you switched 2 and 3.
People are willing to lose a small but predictable amount of money to avoid occasionally and unpredictably losing a massive amount of money. The former is a loss they can plan for and absorb. The latter might kill their…
Weird, my browser somehow doesn’t render the title as “T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97 Degrees whichever unit doesn’t kill the dinosaur”. It just leaves that last part out, making it even shorter than “F”.
Pretty sure the comment you’re replying to is satire, and that you agree with each other.
> evolution is selecting for survival of the species, not the individual This is very wrong. Evolution is selecting for the total reproductive fitness of genes, and to a slightly lesser extent, individuals. There’s no…
It’s important for you to hear that this kind of syntax thing really, really doesn’t matter that much. Having this kind of complaint about languages is a sign that you haven’t worked on compilers or learned about the…
Scraping would be costly in this world: scrapers would have to spend tokens in order to get the webpage. But, in this world, the website owner would receive tokens that they can then use to do whatever they want,…
For Excel?
Who’s “we”? I don’t want to do that work. I don’t think kernel maintainers do, either. Do you?
I think a reasonable story could have been told that goes like this: local models aren’t as good as frontier models with a $20/month subscription, and the hardware costs a lot. So only a few enthusiasts will buy Apple…
Surely this is not something that motivates the vast majority of people using local LLMs.
There’s a big difference between DRAM and SRAM. SRAM stores bits in the state of a couple transistors. DRAM stores bits in the charge of a capacitor. A CPU is mostly transistors, so SRAM is made of the same “stuff” as…
I’m genuinely curious: why should it be on a separately managed DNS record?
In the context of microcontrollers and electronics, the likeliest intended meaning was shipping from China, South Korea, Taiwan and perhaps Japan, because that’s where the bulk of the fabs are.
Again, I’m genuinely curious: can’t two parties sign a contract that says “you pay for all tokens required to produce the answer, but you only get the final answer tokens”? My understanding of US law is that there’s…
I worked professionally in OCaml for many years, and I assure you it’s possible to write low latency code by avoiding allocations. People write Java this way as well. Lots of system software was written in OCaml this…
It sounds like you’re saying that you hold the following to be true: “Only activities that involve creation can lead to joy.” But you also agree that “watching a sunset can lead to joy”. Presumably you agree that you…
Just to be explicit, and correct me if I’m wrong in my understanding, but your argument was: 1. Prompting is not creation. 2. Therefore prompting cannot lead to joy. For this argument to work, you’re implicitly also…
Have you ever felt joy watching a sunset? Smelling a flower? Hearing a song? Seeing a child laugh? Did you create any of those things? You may or may not be right about whether prompting is creation, but it is certainly…
If the United States or the Linux kernel project or frankly any other institution lasts as long as the Roman civilization, that would be a rare achievement indeed! In my opinion, its longevity is the single most…
All your examples are private goods: excludable and rival. If one person uses a unit, that prevents others from using them. Patches to open source software are public goods. Your using them doesn’t prevent others from…
“How it works” link is broken on Safari on iOS. I am quite curious how it works, exactly.
Yes, the type I wrote down is isomorphic to Option<int32>, so the compiler will ultimately generate the same machine code and do the same optimizations. But defining a new type allows you to give the two cases more…
I prefer a slightly more general rule: Make Illegal States Unrepresentable. The "Parse, don't validate" rule is a special case of MISU. What's the difference? MISU applies even when there's no parsing-like…
This study is informative and most likely directionally right: prompt injection remains an unsolved problem, and adversarial input can fool modern ML models. But I was left wondering about the specific attack vector…
I think you switched 2 and 3.
People are willing to lose a small but predictable amount of money to avoid occasionally and unpredictably losing a massive amount of money. The former is a loss they can plan for and absorb. The latter might kill their…
Weird, my browser somehow doesn’t render the title as “T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97 Degrees whichever unit doesn’t kill the dinosaur”. It just leaves that last part out, making it even shorter than “F”.
Pretty sure the comment you’re replying to is satire, and that you agree with each other.
> evolution is selecting for survival of the species, not the individual This is very wrong. Evolution is selecting for the total reproductive fitness of genes, and to a slightly lesser extent, individuals. There’s no…
It’s important for you to hear that this kind of syntax thing really, really doesn’t matter that much. Having this kind of complaint about languages is a sign that you haven’t worked on compilers or learned about the…
Scraping would be costly in this world: scrapers would have to spend tokens in order to get the webpage. But, in this world, the website owner would receive tokens that they can then use to do whatever they want,…
For Excel?
Who’s “we”? I don’t want to do that work. I don’t think kernel maintainers do, either. Do you?
I think a reasonable story could have been told that goes like this: local models aren’t as good as frontier models with a $20/month subscription, and the hardware costs a lot. So only a few enthusiasts will buy Apple…
Surely this is not something that motivates the vast majority of people using local LLMs.
There’s a big difference between DRAM and SRAM. SRAM stores bits in the state of a couple transistors. DRAM stores bits in the charge of a capacitor. A CPU is mostly transistors, so SRAM is made of the same “stuff” as…
I’m genuinely curious: why should it be on a separately managed DNS record?
In the context of microcontrollers and electronics, the likeliest intended meaning was shipping from China, South Korea, Taiwan and perhaps Japan, because that’s where the bulk of the fabs are.
Again, I’m genuinely curious: can’t two parties sign a contract that says “you pay for all tokens required to produce the answer, but you only get the final answer tokens”? My understanding of US law is that there’s…