ealexhudson

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by ealexhudson 2mo ago
In what ways do you expect a candidate for MP for Clacton to address the various calamities you mention?
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by ealexhudson 2mo ago
Sadly another shot in the arms race that captchas started which just leads to increased inaccessibility. It's interesting work for sure, but the end goal of separating out AI versus human consumers is tough. Indeed, if there was a last
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by ealexhudson 4mo ago
A lot of the solutions in the CPU space involve things like memory allocation flags, NX bits, canaries, etc. that fire deterministically. Those things are fundamentally not applicable to LLMs, and without those things modern software would
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by ealexhudson 5mo ago
This plausibly demonstrates why a nonprofit may not be a great vehicle for some free software projects - while the nonprofit should do whats best for the project, if the main work is done by commercial sponsors then it’s crucial those spons
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by ealexhudson 7mo ago
What would be great, and I don't know if @dang / the mods would take on requests like this, would be for bot participants to be allowed but the account flagged. So e.g. the user name just says "[bot] Zakodiac" or somethi
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by ealexhudson 11mo ago
I think they needed to be clearer about what the actual requirement was. If the requirement is, "Show the balance _as it was_ at that point in time", this system doesn't fulfil it. They even say so in the article: if somethin
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by ealexhudson 11mo ago
I suspect there is a bit of knee-jerk because so often this pattern is misapplied. I actually quite like the example in the article although I'm basically allergic to CQRS in general. I think your point about write-ahead logging etc is
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by ealexhudson 11mo ago
Moore's law has kind of ended already though, and maybe has done for a few years, and even if you can make a chip which is faster there's a basic thermodynamics problem running it at full tilt for any meaningful period of time. I
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by ealexhudson 11mo ago
I don't want to sound too dismissive, but all these arguments have been brought up time and again. The move from assembler to high level languages. The introduction of OOP. Component architecture / COM / CORBA / etc. The
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by ealexhudson 11mo ago
Surely the example can be "obvious" because it's simple/clear. I don't think they're commenting on whether _finding_ the example is obvious...
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by ealexhudson 1y ago
Sure, but would we really want to tell liquidators to manage assets for best eventual return rather than just convert everything to cash? In this instance, in hindsight, sure - you'd want the other thing, you want the bitcoin not the c
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by ealexhudson 1y ago
The trustee's reports on FTX's internal processes were damning. Even they had held their Anthropic on the way up, who's to say their internal FTT ledger and black holes in the Alameda books would not have eclipsed that? The i
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by ealexhudson 1y ago
The reason is simple: it allows you to do the install using "sync" in all cases, whether the lockfile exists or not. Where the lockfile doesn't exist, it creates it from whatever current is, and the lockfile then gets thrown
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by ealexhudson 1y ago
Perhaps your content quality meter needs a recalibration?
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by ealexhudson 1y ago
Agreed. "Dessert" vs "desert" - mistaking these two is often not a grammatical error (they're both nouns), but is a spelling error (they have quite different meanings, and the person who wrote the word simply spelle
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by ealexhudson 1y ago
The Judges impose the punishment set out in the law; they don't make this stuff up. The alternative is Judges letting people off just because they're politicians. That seems like an extremely poor precedent to set, those in politi
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by ealexhudson 1y ago
Within UK dialect there would be some significant differences in many of these words, even ignoring the meddle/mettle examples - farrow/pharaoh is easily distinguishable, too. I would say, though, that to people _outside_ the dial
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by ealexhudson 2y ago
If we think of the 'budget' as being similar to a bandwidth limit on video playback, there's a kind of line below which the picture starts being pretty unintelligible, but for the most part that's a slider: the less the
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by ealexhudson 2y ago
I think you're right about the essential ingredient in this finding, but I feel like this is a pretty ARC-AGI specific result. Each puzzle is kind of a similar format, and the data that changes in the puzzle is almost precisely that ne
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by ealexhudson 2y ago
No, it's incorrect and/or badly worded. The author is right that a machine cannot author things, and the stuff that the LLM might create de novo would not have copyright protection. But it's missing the point when the argumen
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by ealexhudson 2y ago
I'm not sure that's completely true. Having read MS code and starting to generate new code that is heavily inspired - sure, that's not copyright infringement. But, if you had memorized a bunch of code (and this is within huma
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by ealexhudson 2y ago
We don't really know what GPT-4 "is". I remember reading a number of relatively well-informed suggestions that there are a number of a models inside there, and the API being interacted with is some form of outer-loop around t
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by ealexhudson 2y ago
I think to be clear, brute force generally means an iterative search of a solution space. I don't think that's what this system is doing, and it's not like it's following some search path and returning as early as possib
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by ealexhudson 3y ago
The point of doing the interviews is to ground the product in actual feedback from (potentially) paying customers. This is a make-believe facsimile of that. This is what insights and feedback might look like, but I can't imagine that i
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by ealexhudson 3y ago
It's not even that: it's a device for non-dermatologists, to decide if they need to make a referral. "Cleared" is definitely the right language here, this might only be a Class 1 medical device, it's not making any
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by ealexhudson 3y ago
It's a bit chicken and egg though: I would expect that a grant would be much more likely to be granted for an event that had a decent amount of groundwork already done? For new events especially, you'd want to see some commitment.
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by ealexhudson 3y ago
Imagine a politician photoed reacting to a member of the public in disgust, except the face was stitched in from moments after. Or, worse, someone captured at the scene of a bomb reacting before the bomb went off? We have an inbuilt set of
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by ealexhudson 3y ago
By "independent" I don't mean "functions separately". Of course the CEO sits on the board. Sometimes the CFO is on the board too, although subordinate executives usually _should not be_ (they may _attend_ the board,
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by ealexhudson 3y ago
Actually, you're rephrasing the question - it was specifically about "control", not "alignment". Even if we substitute "alignment" the problem is that the suggestion is still that Sam would have been &quot
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by ealexhudson 3y ago
No board is ever controlled by a CEO by virtue of the title/office. Boards are controlled by directors, who are typically nominated by shareholders. They may control the CEO, although again, in many startups the founder becomes the CEO

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