MarkusQ

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by MarkusQ 4d ago
More likely it's because a million dollars one way or the other won't make a difference in the hole they are digging / mountain they are building.
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by MarkusQ 4d ago
And then subtly misuse them. LLMs write like some people cook, adding bespoke artisanal Belgian sea salt, truffle oil and weirdly specific cheese without any thought given to how the result will taste.
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by MarkusQ 5d ago
You may not like the truth, but it's still the truth. https://marketwise.com/investing/openai-losses-surge-to-21-b... Anthropic is "profitable"... if you exclude compensation and compute cost commitments
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by MarkusQ 5d ago
Right, but if you ask it to make a systematic change (the room decor for light to dark and back) or something with subtle implications that would require other changes to fit in? Changing the title in the movie example is this sort of chang
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by MarkusQ 6d ago
It would have been interesting to try something closer to the movie poster example; say have the AI rewrite the passage with the room toggling between the initial light-mode decor and a dark-mode decor, then back, repeatedly. Or even chang
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by MarkusQ 6d ago
The point was that a textbook (where the 40hr/page estimate comes from) is cumulative/linear -- what you need for page n was defined / established on the preceding pages. But in a proof such as this you can call on any other
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by MarkusQ 6d ago
This. The point of these problems is the understanding / tooling gained in solving them. We're getting none of that. At best they are like a modern oracles, correctly answering your questions in a way that's doesn't he
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by MarkusQ 6d ago
Given that they all the bit AI players are still loosing money, it follows that their total costs are _higher_ that their API pricing would imply.
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by MarkusQ 6d ago
By: "an LLM AI just solved Navier Stokes" I assume you mean: "an LLM AI [company] just [claimed that a team of mathematicians they hired, using their AI] [may have] solved [part of] Navier Stokes[, definitely prompted by (and
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by MarkusQ 6d ago
PaaS: an acronym for "Plagiarism as a Service" which replaced the older terms AGI, GPT and LLM in late 2026. Origin uncertain. Pass it on.
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by MarkusQ 7d ago
I think he's well on his way. Math friends that would have said "Altman who?" a week ago are now saying "Don't talk to me about that #@$!@&!"
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by MarkusQ 8d ago
It's exactly the right measure to use if the claim is that they "slashed spending". They didn't. They continued increase may or may not have kept pace with other measures (GDP, population, whatever). But they didn&#x2
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by MarkusQ 8d ago
If so, they passed up the opportunity to make another dumb Ohio joke: "Ohio isn't actually square, though you wouldn't know that from talking to the inhabitants" or some such.
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by MarkusQ 8d ago
https://everydayastronaut.com/mars-climate-orbiter/ Although, as it turns out, "orbiter" was a poor choice of name.
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by MarkusQ 9d ago
They did not slash spending. At most the rate of increase slowed down for a year or so before continuing to rise at an even faster rate. https://dof.ca.gov/about-us/history/state-budgets/
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by MarkusQ 9d ago
Took me a minute to figure out why I got a picture of a tree[1] for haloarchaea. https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/660443931
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by MarkusQ 9d ago
They didn't start the fire. Quantum + biology → Woo has been with us since the 1960s at least.
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by MarkusQ 9d ago
Vlatko Vedral (of Oxford) to be clear. (He's listed as V. Vedral on the Tardigrade paper you linked, and it's more common to use last names in this context.)
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by MarkusQ 9d ago
That makes it sound like the increase was due to some inexorable natural force. California's per capita budget is over twice Arizona's, and they're running a huge deficit on top of that. If taxes are too high, cut taxes. I
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by MarkusQ 9d ago
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of
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by MarkusQ 9d ago
They aren't synonyms and are, in general, not interchangeable. If I'm trying to get out of an unpleasant task by intentionally failing an aptitude test, the "correct" answer is going to be the least effective. Likewise
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by MarkusQ 9d ago
Whoa! I think maybe I stepped on somebody's agenda? Both capitalism and evolution depend on the fact that over time, on average, less fit organisms/organizations are displaced by better alternatives. You may not like that, but do
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by MarkusQ 9d ago
Wait until we all get popcorn though, and find a comfy place to watch from that's just outside the splash zone.
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by MarkusQ 9d ago
> Capitalism cannot survive when products last a lifetime. This is totally backwards; capitalism would do fine in such an environment (in the same way that evolution does fine in an environment where organisms live more than just a few s
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by MarkusQ 9d ago
Is that a typo or a proposed title for the sequel. (Even if it's a typo you should probably claim it as a sub-conscious coinage, since it's quite clever.)
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by MarkusQ 9d ago
Not the OP, but I'd disagree. It's pretty easy to find the edge of what's been written about, even starting from "the feed" (but this works with pretty much anything). Start with some topic that people are posting
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by MarkusQ 11d ago
"I have fantasized about sentencing the author to read them aloud, certain that they themselves will be unable to endure the slop that they are foisting upon the rest of us.)" I wish that were true, but I fear it may not be. http
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by MarkusQ 11d ago
As someone else noted, the site isn't affiliated with the project it's promoting. So there are two distinct "they"s in play here. No idea why that's the case, but it feels sus.
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by MarkusQ 12d ago
Ah, yes, I see. The distinction between a working clock and one that's right twice a day.
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by MarkusQ 12d ago
So, normal art-writing nonsense. Or maybe I should say that, in presenting the problematic sentence first, and the putative "retroactive explanation" some distance later, the author has engaged in a form of dialectic which invites

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