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by _bypa 3mo ago
For the people peddling LLMs this is actually good news: 1. Force AI down everyone's throats claiming it's going to boost productivity 2. See people lose valuable skills because they rely too much on AI 3. Peddle more AI to make u
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by _bypa 3mo ago
The main skill you need to reach that level is the one they always keep practicing: shmoozing. Thinking is not required as an executive, so you cannot lose what you never had. And being born wealthy requires zero skill or practice.
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Too much Chinese science is ignored by the West(economist.com)
2 points by _bypa 3mo ago|2 comments
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JPMorgan Chase cuts off Anthropic access for its Hong Kong staff(ft.com)
4 points by _bypa 3mo ago|0 comments
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Chile turned to China for an undersea cable. The U.S. said no(restofworld.org)
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by _bypa 3mo ago
Same with Cloudflare & Co: https://ianreppel.org/the-penalty-of-being-human/
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by _bypa 3mo ago
So you eat your usage quota twice as fast or pay for API requests twice as much.
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by _bypa 3mo ago
Isn't that kind of like a cache for agents across vendors and versions?
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by _bypa 3mo ago
There will be an agent that closes questions for being slightly off-topic soon if there isn't already.
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Scarcity is driving AI innovation outside Silicon Valley(restofworld.org)
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by _bypa 3mo ago
Up until I read "AI servers" I honestly thought the headline would say "workers," which triggered a secondary thought: "At least it's better treatment than Amazon warehouse workers..."
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by _bypa 4mo ago
"Proffer a strongly worded capitulation" was probably too much for publication.
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by _bypa 4mo ago
> There is plenty of money to be made selling home layouts to police. Perhaps more to thieves who can make sure they break into a place worth raiding.
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by _bypa 4mo ago
Says company selling a solution. I'll have a grain of salt, please.
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by _bypa 4mo ago
That's why executives are pushing for LLMs everywhere in businesses: to ensure the floor goes up for everyone. A few productive stars who don't alter the expectations baseline for everyone. That way, all need to work harder, so th
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by _bypa 4mo ago
Most people I know who are bombarded by worthless updates every minute either ignore them but don't bother to disable any or are glued to their phones anyway, so they are beyond help.
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by _bypa 4mo ago
The unreasonable effectiveness of regurgitated partial titles.
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by _bypa 4mo ago
TL;DR https://xkcd.com/386
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by _bypa 4mo ago
So true and it's been like that for ages. It's why I called these people rogue data scientists five years ago: https://ianreppel.org/how-to-spot-a-rogue-data-scientist/
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by _bypa 4mo ago
> Give up your weekends and nights. So you can work for an employer that expects weekends and nights too. At least people either burn out or they get used to the hustle...
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by _bypa 4mo ago
I suppose for people crippled by a traumatic memory it would be beneficial though I'm not sure if that could truly wipe it from your mind with all associated emotions and thoughts. That's why they acknowledge that in the article a
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by _bypa 4mo ago
Looks and sounds interesting... Is there anything beyond glue that makes the Qwen models it uses better for development than what you get with local models through Ollama in an IDE or editor of your choice?
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by _bypa 4mo ago
- Sycophantic CHECK - Stock phrases CHECK - Repackaged "wisdom" CHECK - Expensive without being valuable CHECK - Verbose without much actual substance CHECK - No real accountability or consequences for bad decisions/ informat
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by _bypa 4mo ago
The fact that management signed off on measuring AI use through token usage shows how incompetent management really is, including in allegedly technical conmpanies like Amazon. Tokenmaxxing was an entirely expected and rational response. IO
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Charting the AI perception gap between experts and the public(link.springer.com)
2 points by _bypa 5mo ago|2 comments
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by _bypa 5mo ago
I call it executive deterministic parroting: https://ianreppel.org/executive-deterministic-parrots/
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by _bypa 5mo ago
How does that even work in compliance-relevant scenarios where the audit trail shows some LLM messed with the data? Who, if anyone, is on the hook?
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by _bypa 5mo ago
Seems to be OK again
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by _bypa 5mo ago
Interesting... because the moment I know I'm talking to a chatbot in some company's user support channel I get really impatient with delays, thinking: "It's an AI, it doesn't have to waste my time by pretending to t
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by _bypa 5mo ago
It's pretty common unfortunately. Debunking AI-generated nonsense takes an order of magnitude more effort, so you really have three choices: 1. Accept that you'll spend most of your days finding issues that will get you labelled a

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