Ironically Windows XP was the first "consumer" (i.e. not "workstation") Windows version to not crash several times a day. In the 98/ME era, it was pretty common to reboot every couple hours or the system would randomly…
So I clone a repo from Github and try to do due diligence before compiling and executing the code. I open the project with my IDE/text editor, and boom, I get pwned while doing the due diligence. Unless it's Cursor's…
If we take your logic to the extreme, then there are never any legitimate code execution vulnerabilities in web browsers since the user is not supposed to visit untrusted websites.
Same here. The git commands were confusing to me until I actually saw a Linus video on youtube explaining how the git data structures worked under the hood. It was dead simple, and one could easily mentally map the…
I always feel obliged to link to this when contextually appropriate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Europe dismantled their own nuclear plants and are actively trying to ban electric vehicles from China. Getting the rest of the world on board would be much easier when you…
Well, computing and AI technology is going to be nationalized and state owned in a couple years. Good luck.
> At the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, we’ve created https://SourceLibrary.org, a collection of over 15,000 translations of Renaissance and premodern books in NeoLatin, Chinese, Sanskrit, etc. Wow, this is…
I think it's not really much of "hitting a ceiling", but more like plateauing, with growth and improvement slowed down so much that it seems to stagnate. It's all relative. In computing we're used to Moore's law driving…
This is kind of like the old school captchas where they distort the letters and numbers so badly that humans can't really read them, and specifically trained AI models might surpass humans in performance...
You can still be competitive in "casual mode" using total time used to solve all the words.
I think the issue here is that there's no objective difference between "alignment" and "actively trying to shape its replies to fit a political narrative", beside the fact that the latter refers to the kind of political…
No, but technically, all models go through an alignment phase where you feed data that's aligned to your goals and values to train the model so that it will exhibit the kind of behavior you want. There's no "politically…
Also https://xkcd.com/217/
Everyone distills/copies training data. A couple months ago when Anthropic was complaining about Chinese distillation, people found that Claude self-identified as "DeepSeek" when asked in Chinese:…
This has changed (in a nit-picky way) - Gemini is now generally available to the public in Hong Kong. ChatGPT and Claude are not available. Generally my impression is that OpenAI isn't that anal about service providers…
There are so many Chinese open weights models that any company with resources can run them in-house (or with a trusted provider). There might be some valid concerns about model alignment, but at least the model running…
You're not alone. That's essentially the experience of most people having English as a second language.
Not sure where you got the "I don't want to take any responsibility for being aware of my surroundings". GP simply pointed out cyclists are apparently super unfriendly to deaf people, inferred from the experience where…
You can disagree with the judgment as long as you follow the orders.
You might be factually correct about the privileged part, but if you think about it, it's simply a privilege to not be a slave of capitalism...
If the countries were reversed, and some Chinese software implemented an equivalent "security feature" to track US users, it would be all over the news about how China is conducting spying and espionage on America. Or…
I still don't understand why you don't just wake up earlier. It's not like without DST you have to work so late that you don't have enough hours for sleep, right?
That's simply not true. ~70B models can run fine (albeit somewhat slow) on consumer hardware with 64GB RAM. There are heavily quantized (Q1.x) models that are still usable on similar hardware. Granted recently there…
Hey guys... I have a wonderful idea. ... Let's write ECMAScript for portability.
Ironically Windows XP was the first "consumer" (i.e. not "workstation") Windows version to not crash several times a day. In the 98/ME era, it was pretty common to reboot every couple hours or the system would randomly…
So I clone a repo from Github and try to do due diligence before compiling and executing the code. I open the project with my IDE/text editor, and boom, I get pwned while doing the due diligence. Unless it's Cursor's…
If we take your logic to the extreme, then there are never any legitimate code execution vulnerabilities in web browsers since the user is not supposed to visit untrusted websites.
Same here. The git commands were confusing to me until I actually saw a Linus video on youtube explaining how the git data structures worked under the hood. It was dead simple, and one could easily mentally map the…
I always feel obliged to link to this when contextually appropriate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Europe dismantled their own nuclear plants and are actively trying to ban electric vehicles from China. Getting the rest of the world on board would be much easier when you…
Well, computing and AI technology is going to be nationalized and state owned in a couple years. Good luck.
> At the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, we’ve created https://SourceLibrary.org, a collection of over 15,000 translations of Renaissance and premodern books in NeoLatin, Chinese, Sanskrit, etc. Wow, this is…
I think it's not really much of "hitting a ceiling", but more like plateauing, with growth and improvement slowed down so much that it seems to stagnate. It's all relative. In computing we're used to Moore's law driving…
This is kind of like the old school captchas where they distort the letters and numbers so badly that humans can't really read them, and specifically trained AI models might surpass humans in performance...
You can still be competitive in "casual mode" using total time used to solve all the words.
I think the issue here is that there's no objective difference between "alignment" and "actively trying to shape its replies to fit a political narrative", beside the fact that the latter refers to the kind of political…
No, but technically, all models go through an alignment phase where you feed data that's aligned to your goals and values to train the model so that it will exhibit the kind of behavior you want. There's no "politically…
Also https://xkcd.com/217/
Everyone distills/copies training data. A couple months ago when Anthropic was complaining about Chinese distillation, people found that Claude self-identified as "DeepSeek" when asked in Chinese:…
This has changed (in a nit-picky way) - Gemini is now generally available to the public in Hong Kong. ChatGPT and Claude are not available. Generally my impression is that OpenAI isn't that anal about service providers…
There are so many Chinese open weights models that any company with resources can run them in-house (or with a trusted provider). There might be some valid concerns about model alignment, but at least the model running…
You're not alone. That's essentially the experience of most people having English as a second language.
Not sure where you got the "I don't want to take any responsibility for being aware of my surroundings". GP simply pointed out cyclists are apparently super unfriendly to deaf people, inferred from the experience where…
You can disagree with the judgment as long as you follow the orders.
You might be factually correct about the privileged part, but if you think about it, it's simply a privilege to not be a slave of capitalism...
If the countries were reversed, and some Chinese software implemented an equivalent "security feature" to track US users, it would be all over the news about how China is conducting spying and espionage on America. Or…
I still don't understand why you don't just wake up earlier. It's not like without DST you have to work so late that you don't have enough hours for sleep, right?
That's simply not true. ~70B models can run fine (albeit somewhat slow) on consumer hardware with 64GB RAM. There are heavily quantized (Q1.x) models that are still usable on similar hardware. Granted recently there…
Hey guys... I have a wonderful idea. ... Let's write ECMAScript for portability.