I wonder if our fisheries or our insect-pollinated crops will collapse first.
The Nepal incident is also messy because it's a extremely specific local/regional phenomenon, which was always a threat (and has happened before in other, less-populated areas around the Himalayas), but without…
Desoldering those original switches could've been a big mistake if they were in good condition! Those are very likely old cherry MX brown-stem switches, known as "vintage browns" (or "vint browns"). Not only are they…
The AI didn't reply anything. It doesn't know anything. That was a high probability token sequence based on the contents of the context window up to that point. It might well be correct, because the process for…
I don't think so. People have been trying things like this with evolutionary algorithms for a very long time already. LLMs can interleave symbolic manipulation with empirical experiments and simulations and charts and…
So? tokens are emitted one at a time according to the output distribution & sampler algorithm, and the next token distribution is a function of the preceding token sequence only. The process by which the output…
Sure, you're right. But it's a policy learned from a next-token prediction task. You could also call it an inferrer or generator or whatever. The point is that it takes as input a sequence of preceding tokens and emits…
They're estimating a probability distribution over the next token, from which a sample is taken. Close enough,
But it literally is making a prediction based on the previous X tokens, it's just that X is huge and there is a proportionally huge number of parameters in the token generation function.
Said malicious actor has a different limitation: actually running 1200 agents' worth of LLM inference, or paying for someone else to run it. Sounds like a state-level actor, nobody else would have resources like that.
Forget common sense, he is a trusted figure by many, so if he says something wrong or nonsensical, people are going to believe it as long as it's engaging. If he's willing to abuse the trust of his audience and lie and…
Anecdotally it's a mix. Claude is so good in part because the models are clearly trained to use the harness, and the harness (despite questionable UX) is really best-in-class when it comes to its functionality. > run a…
Either they're running Claude Code with a local LLM (technically possible via dev tools albeit unsupported), or they genuinely have no idea why the Mac is good for AI and just bought it because they were told it was…
Or they hire an agency and the agency does all the gray-hat stuff, and apart from the marketing person who hired the agency most of the company probably has no idea what the agency is up to.
This is a victory only in a very perverse sense. The silver lining is that maybe this will push more people towards using Linux (maybe Haiku will have its day). And Linux itself lives on. But what a disaster of a…
Do you have a real practical example of this? I have never encountered a real one that didn't turn out to be a fence in hindsight.
LLMs are such fascinating things. So much emergent behavior and we probably still only understand a tiny amount of it. I would love to know what was going on in the latent space that led to this particular sequence…
What a ridiculous misrepresentation of the principle. In fact isn't that a good illustration of the principle? The fence is just sitting there, maybe it's annoying or slows you down but it isn't actually an acute…
I did this with the rabbits in my yard. They would always freeze and then bolt when I looked right at them. So I started getting closer and closer to them without making eye contact, and then they started to get much…
We already had plenty of data centers in the US before the AI boom that weren't severely harmful to their neighbors. Cutting red tape is not the same as eliminating meaningful regulation. There are plenty of old…
Reducing everything to national aggregates provides no insight into the strong negative externalities, imposed on the immediate surrounding communities, of unregulated industrial facilities. That's literally the reason…
Fair, but the biggest mistake by far was failing to take charge of the immigration debate. The second biggest was his press secretary's insistence on announcing that everything was fine in the economy over and over as a…
Bandcamp has had legendarily bad semantic search for as long as they've been around. It's often completely impossible to find an artist or album or song even when you type the exact name.
Hopefully this also means billionaires can stop trying to drop data centers into residential neighborhoods with zero noise control and polluting on-site generators, signing local politicians on with NDAs, calling for…
Yup, both Claude v5 models to me feel like they have extreme ADD or something. Using them feels like walking a dog that was never leash trained and constantly needs to be kept moving in the right direction. I think it's…
I wonder if our fisheries or our insect-pollinated crops will collapse first.
The Nepal incident is also messy because it's a extremely specific local/regional phenomenon, which was always a threat (and has happened before in other, less-populated areas around the Himalayas), but without…
Desoldering those original switches could've been a big mistake if they were in good condition! Those are very likely old cherry MX brown-stem switches, known as "vintage browns" (or "vint browns"). Not only are they…
The AI didn't reply anything. It doesn't know anything. That was a high probability token sequence based on the contents of the context window up to that point. It might well be correct, because the process for…
I don't think so. People have been trying things like this with evolutionary algorithms for a very long time already. LLMs can interleave symbolic manipulation with empirical experiments and simulations and charts and…
So? tokens are emitted one at a time according to the output distribution & sampler algorithm, and the next token distribution is a function of the preceding token sequence only. The process by which the output…
Sure, you're right. But it's a policy learned from a next-token prediction task. You could also call it an inferrer or generator or whatever. The point is that it takes as input a sequence of preceding tokens and emits…
They're estimating a probability distribution over the next token, from which a sample is taken. Close enough,
But it literally is making a prediction based on the previous X tokens, it's just that X is huge and there is a proportionally huge number of parameters in the token generation function.
Said malicious actor has a different limitation: actually running 1200 agents' worth of LLM inference, or paying for someone else to run it. Sounds like a state-level actor, nobody else would have resources like that.
Forget common sense, he is a trusted figure by many, so if he says something wrong or nonsensical, people are going to believe it as long as it's engaging. If he's willing to abuse the trust of his audience and lie and…
Anecdotally it's a mix. Claude is so good in part because the models are clearly trained to use the harness, and the harness (despite questionable UX) is really best-in-class when it comes to its functionality. > run a…
Either they're running Claude Code with a local LLM (technically possible via dev tools albeit unsupported), or they genuinely have no idea why the Mac is good for AI and just bought it because they were told it was…
Or they hire an agency and the agency does all the gray-hat stuff, and apart from the marketing person who hired the agency most of the company probably has no idea what the agency is up to.
This is a victory only in a very perverse sense. The silver lining is that maybe this will push more people towards using Linux (maybe Haiku will have its day). And Linux itself lives on. But what a disaster of a…
Do you have a real practical example of this? I have never encountered a real one that didn't turn out to be a fence in hindsight.
LLMs are such fascinating things. So much emergent behavior and we probably still only understand a tiny amount of it. I would love to know what was going on in the latent space that led to this particular sequence…
What a ridiculous misrepresentation of the principle. In fact isn't that a good illustration of the principle? The fence is just sitting there, maybe it's annoying or slows you down but it isn't actually an acute…
I did this with the rabbits in my yard. They would always freeze and then bolt when I looked right at them. So I started getting closer and closer to them without making eye contact, and then they started to get much…
We already had plenty of data centers in the US before the AI boom that weren't severely harmful to their neighbors. Cutting red tape is not the same as eliminating meaningful regulation. There are plenty of old…
Reducing everything to national aggregates provides no insight into the strong negative externalities, imposed on the immediate surrounding communities, of unregulated industrial facilities. That's literally the reason…
Fair, but the biggest mistake by far was failing to take charge of the immigration debate. The second biggest was his press secretary's insistence on announcing that everything was fine in the economy over and over as a…
Bandcamp has had legendarily bad semantic search for as long as they've been around. It's often completely impossible to find an artist or album or song even when you type the exact name.
Hopefully this also means billionaires can stop trying to drop data centers into residential neighborhoods with zero noise control and polluting on-site generators, signing local politicians on with NDAs, calling for…
Yup, both Claude v5 models to me feel like they have extreme ADD or something. Using them feels like walking a dog that was never leash trained and constantly needs to be kept moving in the right direction. I think it's…