bee_rider

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by bee_rider 3d ago
The rest of the Wikipedia page discusses errata as the documents issued to describe the errors, not the errors themselves. The section you’ve linked is… a bit weirdly written. I don’t think they meant to suggest an alternative definition th
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by bee_rider 4d ago
I think that’s the poster of the link and also the person whose github it is
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by bee_rider 4d ago
Nice investigation. It is always surprising to me when a nice round number like 1MiB results in the “bad performance” configuration (although it happens). Are you sure erratum is the right word in this context? I usually see it used to desc
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by bee_rider 4d ago
I don’t think the ban of bioweapons has really been tested. Bioweapons have a lot of downsides that make them not very appealing to deploy anyway (high chance of getting your own team, not terribly fast moving, disciplined modern soldiers i
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by bee_rider 5d ago
I mean, given recent voting patterns, people currently in their 30’s probably won’t be elected until like 2060, right?
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by bee_rider 5d ago
Em-dashes would be a loss, they can be a better flowing version of a parenthetical. “It’s not X it’s Y” is not a loss. This phrase is a symptom of a situation where the author wants to subvert expectations but doesn’t have the space, abilit
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by bee_rider 6d ago
This seems like an interesting alternative line of research. Design the a chess engine where the goal is to beat the best human in the minimum number of turns, while still offering ~no chance of human victory.
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by bee_rider 7d ago
It looks neat but I’m confused by the layout. It has a smaller screen on the “outside” and then a big foldable double screen on the “inside.” Why? Why not wrap around the outside? You’d get to use all of the screen real estate at once, and
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by bee_rider 7d ago
Usually Apple waits for other companies to work out the low-hanging-fruit problems, so they don’t have to release a device with a bunch of low-hanging-fruit mistakes. As a result, you shouldn’t grade them on the “first iteration” scale. The
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by bee_rider 8d ago
I haven’t been following the AI proof stuff very closely, but the impression I got was that these models are producing massive Lean programs that prove the statement one way or another, but are quite difficult to fully understand. Actually,
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by bee_rider 8d ago
As a user, most GUIs are awful. I’m fairly certain that this thing could, for example, vibe up a better UI for Amazon Music in less time than it takes me to find the music I’ve purchased and downloaded (because the system is more interested
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by bee_rider 8d ago
Oh wow, if they’d changed the title to match the release date (1994) that would really change the vibe, haha.
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by bee_rider 8d ago
Although, some services have started labeling their old natural language processing functionality “AI,” and released additional “AI” features, so an off switch isn’t always possible. The options seem to be to lose previously existing functi
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by bee_rider 8d ago
For the first one, Elk makes it obvious that everything is flowing into “database” or “reports.” This seems like an important part of the design. The post mentions that it doesn’t do DAG as well as Dagre or Elk, so, known and honestly state
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by bee_rider 9d ago
I think that would be confusing. Intuitively “low level language” describes the language. Your definition actually describes the nature of the compiler implementation.
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by bee_rider 9d ago
“Low level language” is one of those terms like “VLSI” (very large scale integration) where they defined it in the 70’s or something, so the academic definition is out-of-sync with what most people would expect. This is fine, it’s a term of
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by bee_rider 9d ago
Have they pulled many other “stunts” like the COVID library? It was a pretty crazy time, I think we shouldn’t judge things done then too harshly.
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by bee_rider 9d ago
This second thing (either slightly different from anti-intellectualism or maybe a different form of it$l) is quite odd. I wonder where it comes from. Sometimes it feels like we have a strong bias toward surprising effects, to the point wher
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by bee_rider 10d ago
In this case the HN-edited headline (combined with current events) reads to me like “No, really guys, we do monitor internal coding agents for misalignment.”
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by bee_rider 10d ago
Breaking “social” up into networking (connecting to my friends: MySpace, old Facebook) and media (social-graph recommended content: TikTok, current Facebook mostly)… the former might stick around. But the latter seems pretty vulnerable to l
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by bee_rider 11d ago
For a second I thought they were aiming the scary proof machine at us mortals doing PDE stuff. Fortunately the speculation is just that they happen to be aiming it at a nearby mathematician type problem. Phew.
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by bee_rider 12d ago
Just to be fully pedantic, Octave is the closest thing to being Matlab without being Matlab (and actually I use Octave). :)
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by bee_rider 12d ago
No, but we don’t need it, the comment works fine as: For all we know LLMs might be conscious in the same way that any other object might be. Sorry for the extra word. We can’t conclusively say anything is not conscious. But is there any rea
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by bee_rider 12d ago
This seems like a sort of complex trade-off (taking your word for it that they do run more efficiently when run continuously). We’d still probably prefer to run them on renewable energy and defer them when running on non-renewables, because
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by bee_rider 12d ago
> Next, by changing its /etc/hosts file, which declares mappings from hostnames to IP addresses, the agent can point the fake hostname at the real Power BI dashboard, and fool the security proxy. This allows the agent to make P
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by bee_rider 12d ago
This sort of thing was called “smartgrid” but it doesn’t seem to have caught on. Maybe we could lean into modern buzzwords. The electricity distribution system is a big sparse graph. If they are allowed to pass signals back and forth, don’t
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by bee_rider 12d ago
There should be a penalty for having less flexibility in consuming electricity. That’s how the market incentivizes us to figure out how to be flexible in our consumption. We should probably also subsidize the conversion, for people who look
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by bee_rider 12d ago
I don’t know if experience has just damaged my brain or what, but I really like matlab’s syntax for what it is. Nice for writing 100 line experiments or using in the REPL. Sort of like the Python of linear algebra, haha. It also has a nice
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by bee_rider 12d ago
For all we know LLMs might be conscious in the same way that any other inanimate object might be.
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by bee_rider 13d ago
They are made of sand. For all we know the sand was conscious before we smashed it up and arranged it into computer chips.

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