epistasis

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by epistasis 3d ago
Moreover OpenAI must be held accountable as if the humans in the company that launched the experiment were the ones that hacked HuggingFace. Unless humans are held accountable for what they unleash on others, we are in for a very horrible t
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by epistasis 4d ago
Great concrete experience! I'd love to see some published token log_probs for given prompts and seeds that accompany a model card. Not sure if that's enough, thigh. But then it's been so long since I dealt with the api direc
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by epistasis 4d ago
The settings may change, but the two major problems in CS remain the same: cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors.
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by epistasis 5d ago
The alternative is to switch to far more efficient models and have aggressive optimization of efficiency as part of the process of improvement. There are at least two resources here that have a Pareto optimal front: time and energy. And eff
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by epistasis 5d ago
Prior post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611251
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by epistasis 5d ago
I'm sure this will stop all the public opposition to data centers! /s This type of thing will just enrage the opposition more, give them far more fuel, and attract far more people into opposing data centers. The ruling regime is u
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by epistasis 5d ago
Agreed, it makes sense for Finland, one of the very few places it does. But in the future of global energy supply, nuclear will be a far less serious player than it was in the 20th century.
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by epistasis 5d ago
When your supplier is threatening to invade and kill your people, and has critical control over supply of parts of your reactor, and regularly commits acts of nuclear terrorism such as droning the newly completed sarcophagus around Chornoby
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by epistasis 5d ago
China is only building a token amount of nuclear compared to storage wind and solar. It makes a lot of sense for a large nation like China to waste a bit of money on nuclear power just to provide support for the core national security inter
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by epistasis 5d ago
Thanks for the insight here. One thing to note about the first graph: nobody is doing as well as the first part on tool calling, and it's not close. This might be the fault of the other providers, but it's probably just something
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by epistasis 5d ago
LLM ops is not trivial. The systems for running inference are very complex, and running across multiple GPUs and nodes adds tons more complexity. And when LLMs are run incorrectly, they still work, just not at optimal performance. Even noti
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by epistasis 6d ago
I hope the data center's waste heat can be used for some form of district heating! Finland has pretty great municipal infrastructure, but I don't know enough about its heating systems.
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by epistasis 6d ago
Nuclear is the most expensive form of clean energy. It is likely to bankrupt at least one company. When Finland contracted with France to build their latest reactor, they wisely had a fixed price contract where the French company would pay
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by epistasis 7d ago
This type of model, of which there are many, either directly releases their results as a precomputed database right away, or others release that database, or the method gets ignored. Check out VIPdb for the broad category of methods/da
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by epistasis 7d ago
No I need better phone app developers. The fastest phone has the same issues. New phones are just as sluggish. And, it's a phone , there's not going to be fast networks everywhere, and a whole generation of poor developers was ra
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by epistasis 7d ago
I really don't care at all about phone models, I just want software to launch quickly. Waiting 15 seconds for a simple app is just infuriating in this day and age. This is mostly on crappy app developers, but a lot of that falls on App
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by epistasis 7d ago
Try different models, it's a breath of fresh air. GLM 5.2, etc. all make life much more enjoyable. They may not one-shot a complex project the same way that Claude can spit out memorized architectures, but that sort of system is always
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by epistasis 7d ago
One note for those still using the Claude system for chats: there's no system to get generated images, spreadsheets, etc. out of the system. They claim it's a "security concern" to provide that data to you, as if they ar
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by epistasis 7d ago
What's disgusting is that they refuse to acknowledge what they and only they know: were these chats fed in to the new model that found these results? Nobody would be disgusted at following stated policy, that's doesn't make s
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by epistasis 8d ago
> OpenAI says the model didn't access his user data directly, but leaves unanswered whether Tristan's chat conversations were part of the training. This sort of cagey half-answer is highly suspicious and indicates that yes Open
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by epistasis 8d ago
I 99% agree, but have conflicted felings. There's a mix of services. S3 is and was an amazing resource for normal people. Extremely reliable cloud storage for backup, for distribution, for anything, well, it's a dream. I prefer Cl
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by epistasis 8d ago
That infrastructure was still built, just out in the Inland Empire, at a far far higher cost per capita than if LA had stuck to its "theoretical back of the napkin number." (That's how zoning works, it's theoretical bac
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by epistasis 9d ago
It only seems like that because every other type of housing is literally banned. If apartments, even small buildings, were legal in LA, they'd be building them everywhere and they'd immediately fill up. The Mayor, Karen Bass, acci
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by epistasis 9d ago
This is such an amazing video. It collapses about three years of my casual research into housing down into just a few minutes. Thanks for sharing.
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by epistasis 9d ago
Dense, newer housing needs a lot less water. If Los Angeles had densified rather than sprawling into the Inland Empire, etc. overall water usage would be far lower. As it is, water usage in Los Angeles has had flat water usage for decades,
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by epistasis 9d ago
There's a really great way to think about this that doesn't get enough attention: land rents. Some plots of land are very valuable due to their location, what you can access, etc. It's pretty straightforward to find out what
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by epistasis 9d ago
It's amazing how little has changed in recent years in LA. The massive downzoning of the 1980s had its effect: prevent efficient land use, and channel money into the hands of landlords and homeowners from all newcomers. LA is a ridicul
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by epistasis 9d ago
Obviously? Just because a fish doesn't see water doesn't mean it's not there. They're just so used to it that they don't have the concept of "not water." Look at this entire thread: Holmes was widely ackno
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by epistasis 9d ago
> uncritical media coverage and general buzz really "wanted a female Steve Jobs". And all the ways that Holmes emulated Jobs in style but not substance went along with that. Even if you're right, so what? Nobody signed ove
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by epistasis 9d ago
No, that's just sexism backfilling which things to discriminate against. She was sold as a successful Stanford dropout, a genius who had a simple idea and assembled a very powerful group of people to push the idea and a ton of funding.

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