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by aix1 4d ago
Could someone explain the appeal of flow typing? I can see how it can be useful to start with a broad type, e.g. a union, and narrow it down in a block. However, I don't quite get the opposite direction shown in their example (first a
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by aix1 4d ago
Did you do a pixel diff against the original? The output could look plausible at a glance but contain hard-to-spot errors or inaccuracies.
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by aix1 5d ago
I see, we're talking about different things. My thought experiment was along the lines of "Let's say I'm Anthropic and I want to significantly improve my frontier model's performance on, say, theoretical physics res
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by aix1 5d ago
Would love to learn more about some techniques that "everybody" uses to do this well. So far, everything I've seen that meaningfully advances the frontier has been high-touch (involving human experts in one way or another).
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by aix1 5d ago
Are you saying the models are already autonomously constructing next-gen evals for themselves? (Which is what the GP is asking.)
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by aix1 20d ago
Also firmware updates (on the non-locked variants), no? What other potential uses are there? Uploading books without WiFi is the only one that comes to mind.
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by aix1 24d ago
One thing that jumped out at me is a slower-than-I'd-expect rate of adoption of Opus 5. If you're running Opus 4.8 and choosing not to migrate to 5, what's behind that decision?
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by aix1 28d ago
These are GPU rental price futures, so you won't be investing in the hardware. The pitch is that, if you know you'll need a certain amount of compute at a certain point in the future, you can lock in the rental price today. https
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by aix1 1mo ago
What have you been observing? Genuinely curious; I use Fable as my main model and haven't noticed any regression.
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by aix1 1mo ago
Yes they do. They have to file an S-1 with the SEC, which will be made public about a month before the IPO. The S-1 has to include, among other things, three years of audited financial statements, plus interim statements (unaudited). It w
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by aix1 1mo ago
Here is one hypothesis: https://theconversation.com/problematic-paper-screener-trawl... <quote> Have you ever heard of the Joined Together States? Or bosom peril? Kidney disappointment? Fake neural organizations? Lact
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by aix1 1mo ago
Amazing, thanks for sharing.
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by aix1 1mo ago
It still knows how to speak English. When I tell it to explain something in plain language, it generally does a very good job. The weird thing is that those instructions don't persist: it lapses back into Claude-speak pretty much e
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by aix1 1mo ago
With all due respect, did you read my comment beyond the first paragraph? It addresses both points, TPU economics/pivot to sales + internal shortages making it hard to train models, to the extent they can be addressed based on public
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by aix1 1mo ago
The "let's make money by selling/renting out TPUs" faction has won and the "let's make money by training and selling a frontier model" faction has lost. And it's arguably not crazy, at least if SemiAn
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by aix1 1mo ago
No, relabelling a Pro model as Flash would make no economic sense (the Pro series is larger than Flash and more expensive to serve).
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by aix1 1mo ago
Google did not sell those TPUs because they had excess capacity. Google sold them because it can make lots more money that way then using them for Gemini inference (the shift to sales is also indicative of some power dynamics within the co
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by aix1 1mo ago
Good point, thanks.
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by aix1 1mo ago
Having thought about this a little more, it's clear that server-side storage is not compatible with Zero Data Retention (ZDR). However, in non-ZDR settings, it seems likely that the providers are capturing all that data anyway? > a
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by aix1 1mo ago
I really don't understand why server-side storage of the trace isn't a viable approach here, with only a unique key flowing to the client and back. Does it have something to do with how backend load-balancing works?
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by aix1 1mo ago
One detail I missed is that Koray's new title is "SVP of Google DeepMind"[1], i.e. identical to his old title. So, basically, the third change is even more of a no-op than I thought. It seems pretty clear that GDM will no lon
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by aix1 1mo ago
So there are two events here: Event 1 - Jeff & co leaving. Event 2 - Demis stepping down. DeepMind doesn't need a "chair" and "Alphabet's chief scientist" is a bullshit title that Jeff invented for himself
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by aix1 1mo ago
I actually think there's a low probability of that. The four have so much influence within the company that they could have trivially set this up as part of Alphabet, if they wanted to. They are also ridiculously wealthy.
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by aix1 1mo ago
> this could be a path for Demis to be CEO in the future in the AI era His current title is CEO of Google DeepMind. Becoming Chief Scientist of Alphabet seems to be a step away from the path to replacing Sundar, no? P.S. I think his rea
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by aix1 1mo ago
I think there are multiple separate events here, timed to coincide in order to minimise disruption. It's hard to be sure whether they share overlapping causes, but I'd guess that there's at least an element of that.
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by aix1 1mo ago
It's weird for an announcement like this to drop in the middle of a trading day. I wonder if it got leaked, forcing the timing.
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by aix1 1mo ago
It was the locals who decided that it was worth the extra hassle and expense (and that doing the same thing at St. Margrethen wasn't). There was probably a referendum at some point. :) I am not sure whether the stats are comparable, bu
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by aix1 1mo ago
What they do is very interesting, though IMO "refuse to enter the country" sounds harsher than it actually is. If an inbound German train is late to Basel by more than 20 minutes, the Swiss run their own substitute train from Base
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by aix1 2mo ago
Also, "healthy" as a boolean flag is, franky, a bit of a joke.
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by aix1 2mo ago
I agree it's an annoyance. However, the only thing that's locked on those is USB flashing. It is still possible to flash from an SD card. I recently bought a locked Xteink X4 and installed Crosspoint. It's great! (And I&#

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