cornholio

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by cornholio 13d ago
It would be good to also have a non-LLM version of the pitch, for some people building in the space it's a bad signal. It's associated with zero value " let my agent build something over the weekend " projects that all m
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by cornholio 17d ago
You do not have a contract with the publishers of the book. They are visibly asserting their copyright to deter any defense of ignorance or implied grant of rights to an infringer; but that's not a contract, you did not agree to it bef
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by cornholio 18d ago
That's the irony ! They put in contract rules against lawful, paying customers - that don't disrupt their service in any way for other customers - but which compete against them in the marketplace using their own IP (aka LLMized
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by cornholio 18d ago
> it's just a standard case between two private parties resolved through our legal system This is a gross distortion. Standard contractual rules bind the parties that signed the contract and the remedies are proportional to the dama
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by cornholio 18d ago
So what you are saying is that, if I can somehow get my hands on a copy of Fable, it's fair use to use it to train any models and serve those, since I'm no longer bound by the TOS of the service provider? Asking for all Anthropic
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by cornholio 19d ago
It's ironic how AI companies are re-inventing their own form of privately enforced copyright, lobby the government to ban foreign competitors that don't respect it etc., all while spending the last 5 years fighting tooth and nail
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by cornholio 1mo ago
> Is that meaningfully different from the study methods of the past? The fundamental service a teacher provides is personalized feedback, quickly identifying where you are stuck and focusing the explanations and exercises on that area, d
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by cornholio 2mo ago
When the base model has been trained with safeguards, putting "Satan himself" in the system prompt won't make it turn satanical, just do an elaborate form of role play. Additionally, no model will admit it's ready to lie
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by cornholio 2mo ago
> With what accuracy? And with how many intermediate tokens? So you are arguing here that LLMs should just "know" the result of a multiplication when the operands are in context, ie, that a hidden multiplier circuit should emer
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by cornholio 2mo ago
The field now favors into the view that symbolic manipulation is not the mechanism of general intelligence, but rather an emergent byproduct of learning. So the fact that a connectionist machine (neural network) got so good at symbolic mani
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by cornholio 2mo ago
I think it's becoming harder and harder to argue that LLMs don't really reason and just mimicry human speech. This counterexample is clearly the result of a sequence of steps that build on previous knowledge in context and logical
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by cornholio 2mo ago
Arguably, Exxon's plan to build a computing ecosystem rival to IBM's would have worked too, if the 16 bit successor of the Z80 would have maintained upward binary compatibility with Z80. CP/M was an absolute beast in the era
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by cornholio 2mo ago
Assuming the necessary laws banning this crap are not put in place, what is the endgame here? Activists destroy visible surveillance cameras, so they hide them and make them hard to recognize. Activists trace the camera locations from the p
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by cornholio 2mo ago
In a society that respects and protects privacy rights by law, the service Flock provides could not exist. There are no 'guardrails' to mass surveillance.
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by cornholio 2mo ago
This is another reframing of the problem. What makes the area desirable is previous investment society has made there, to the benefit of some and the exclusion of others; the scarcity is created by political choices, not intrinsic.
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by cornholio 2mo ago
A baseline of housing - for example, a Japanese style capsule or ultra-tiny home, that you can lock and store your belongings safely - costs close nothing. Of course, nobody would want the hobo-hotel in their neighborhood, but it has nothin
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by cornholio 2mo ago
It's circular to say "it's an allocation problem". Yes, that's the entire point: we're post-scarcity on food supply and yet, as a species, we can't guarantee the allocation of a livable baseline to every p
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by cornholio 2mo ago
They can't, because they use RL with synthetic data and LLMs as judges. So the system naturally convergences towards certain load bearing, genuine, not just annoying but ridiculous verbal tics. It's probably the reason most LLMs s
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by cornholio 3mo ago
It was quite clear 4.7 was a dumbed down high efficiency model they put out in a rush to handle the capacity issues they were having at the time. I've experienced myself substantial degradation on basic reasoning tasks, which were fixe
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by cornholio 3mo ago
Can't wait to see what unusually simple Erdos problem LLMs will expose next, hiding in plain sight for decades and seemingly intractable for professional mathematicians who weren't aware just how simple the problem was.
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by cornholio 3mo ago
You are still getting the models you signed up for. The all you can eat added a French wines selection - which requires separate payment.
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by cornholio 3mo ago
This is true for any drug, any drug can presumably become a poison, can interact with some genetic or biological trait and trigger a side effect and so on. The complexity of the biological systems is so great that they defy clear determinis
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by cornholio 3mo ago
It's easy to find counterexamples: the entire science of pharmacology is based on macroscopic effects that often lack a fundamental understanding of the underlying mechanisms of action. Psychopharmacology is the extreme example. Often,
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by cornholio 3mo ago
Personally, I would avoid UTF-8 levels of complexity because you only pay the size cost once per string. A simple 2-bytes + optional 4 bytes continuation scheme handles strings up to 140TB and increases the size of the average string by jus
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by cornholio 3mo ago
You can have a universal variable length field, for example 2 bytes for strings < 32768, then four bytes, 8 bytes etc. On the critical short string path, it costs just a single bit test. The glyph vs byte issues need to be dealt with in
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by cornholio 3mo ago
The point is that knowing what you don't know allows you to hedge your bets on events far into the future; my child will need to become productive 20 years from now and maintain it for 40-50 years. So, it's a bit like trying to ed
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by cornholio 3mo ago
The counterargument is that kids will live in a world different from our own. For example, in many countries children lost the ability to write cursive; that used to be a critical skill comparable to literacy itself. But in our current soci
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by cornholio 3mo ago
> rewriting a big widely used project in a stricter language is always a good thing Always might be a too strong word. Rust is, by design, a language with low development velocity. So you risk: 1. ossification of the current architectur
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by cornholio 3mo ago
If radiator temperature is critical you can just run a heat pump to boost it. Modern heat pumps can get pretty close to the Carnot limit for the temperature interval, for example a pump cooling to 300K and dumping out heat at 400K (125°C) w
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by cornholio 3mo ago
I'm not sure they can actually respect that 30 days absolute commitment. Let's say some internal tool flags a suspect conversation, it bubbles up and a human operator reads it and it looks like evidence of a crime. Then, that empl

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