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by blueboo 12d ago
Youve struck on a key insight on language models (particularly pretrained ones, the more purely next-token predictor species.) This is a fascinating topic Janus essay Simulators is the foundational text here https://www.lesswron
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by blueboo 27d ago
A rising tide lifts all boats. It doesn’t mean the sea is made of boats
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by blueboo 4mo ago
Cool …but never buy v1 hardware folks! Especially for limited runs like high end laptops. Apple quality comes from scale. A narrow product line means they have literally hundreds or thousands times more testing than PC ultra books. (And sti
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by blueboo 4mo ago
I think the answer is no, as this is a creative repurposing of css3d as a basis for a general 3d engine. That lets you put web content everywhere, even on the triangles of your teapot. Cool, but extravagant Whereas THREE.js or webgl is purp
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by blueboo 4mo ago
> That may suit Anthropic as private models can't be distilled They can be distilled internally… expect great things from Sonnet 4.8
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by blueboo 5mo ago
Why not the Pacific Ocean
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by blueboo 5mo ago
In a master’s, you learn a lot about a little In a PhD, you learn everything about nothing
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by blueboo 5mo ago
Wait till Codex doubles prices/halves quotas on May 31
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by blueboo 5mo ago
Billions in profit may unblock scaling customer support beyond scrappy startup minimums However (and I loathe this logic) if you can get the marketplace to accept that minimal level, and the brand harm is inconsequential, why not pocket the
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by blueboo 6mo ago
For those who find this appealing: Fires still burn down houses so what’s the point of fire departments?
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by blueboo 7mo ago
Skill issue—in management. Good leaders perceive workhorse vs showhorse spectrum, critical toil vs needless flash (and vice versa). It’s hard. Most fail at hard things. The industry in the aggregate will fail at hard things So you get artic
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by blueboo 7mo ago
Open source meth is still bad in absolute terms even if it’s better than the alternative meth
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by blueboo 7mo ago
They’re not going to build their own, it’ll just be one of the many capabilities of the agent platform they use. A 2024 SaaS is just a playbook for next-gen AI. You don’t buy a spelling correction program because it got built into Word. And
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by blueboo 8mo ago
Indeed perhaps the most valuable lesson from travel is returning with the realization of just how poorly the generalizations and statistics describe the messy reality of a place. Everywhere has every sort of person
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by blueboo 8mo ago
“In a sufficiently complex system, malfunction or even total non-function may go undetected for long periods, if ever” John Gall, The Systems Bible
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by blueboo 8mo ago
When faced with the choice of making genmedia more expressive vs looking higher production-value, big labs always choose the latter. Expressivity requires intent, which turns out to be rarer and therefore less apt to show up in a benchmark
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by blueboo 9mo ago
The recent Acquired ep on “Alphabet Inc” put it aptly: social media moved into Google’s space, video (reels, “pivot to video”), and social media for socialising moved to message groups, iMessage/Whatsapp/Discord. Revenue-wise, vid
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by blueboo 10mo ago
What? AI assistants are prohibited from providing legal and/or medical advice. They're not lawyers (nor doctors).
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by blueboo 10mo ago
We call it “legacy DeepMind”
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by blueboo 10mo ago
In certain niches, the marginal value of kneecapping the competition exceeds the viable budget for counteracting gaming. It may be a quirk of this reality’s hyperparameters that a UGC media monopoly inevitably suffers from this. Or maybe at
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by blueboo 11mo ago
Can't you trivially reframe the initial purchase as being subsidized by that license? Your $200 smart knife sharpener would be $300 if it weren't recording audio 24/7 (for VAD, surely!) I don't like it either but here we
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by blueboo 11mo ago
When was the last time you did a deep research? Good agents just do research as necessary. I find GPT5 Pro >> all the top DR agents
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by blueboo 11mo ago
These are fun to make. But the real value prop would be demonstrating the effect of following the proposed practice the app indicates. …have you yourself actually tried it? Where was your technique and where is it now?
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by blueboo 1y ago
There’s literally a link to a thing you can use. Google 2025 has some great PMs and dev rel.
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by blueboo 1y ago
The safer the system, the more catastrophic the failures
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by blueboo 1y ago
Bear in mind 600 of those files are icon and screenshot variants for various screen dpis and spec ratios..
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by blueboo 1y ago
Coding to music was a flag you were just twiddling. People confuse flow with a pleasant surface engagement. Deep problem solving is when you sit forward, turn the music down, and bring up the big cognitive guns.
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by blueboo 1y ago
They’d probably be doing significantly better if they were LLM-guided
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by blueboo 1y ago
I used Whispering routinely last year; the value + glitches and ux failures drove me to gladly pay for Superwhisper; whose rough iPhone keyboard drove me to Wispr Flow (and tried otter too); whose poor transcriptions (oh THATS why they’re f
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by blueboo 1y ago
You might find $2.50 in change to use one for an hour though

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