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by fraboniface 23d ago
I hadn't seen the token/Joules comparison with human speech before. Humans are still 22x more efficient, which is not that far considering the rate of progress in this area.
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by fraboniface 2mo ago
One could also see it this way: shouldn't the goal of society be to allow more and more people to do things for the beauty of it rather that producing ever more useless stuffs and destroy the planet on the way?
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by fraboniface 6mo ago
Thats' why you need light EVs. Norway has electric tanks. China has light EVs.
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by fraboniface 7mo ago
We'll have won politics the day people understand that individual responsibility doesn't work at scale, and that, on average, people just respond to incentives.
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by fraboniface 8mo ago
You're dead right, it would be the one killer move to remove a lot of perverse incentives, fix the internet, possibly even social media, and all live in a happier world. The whole economy would stop paying the ad tax to Google and Meta
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I asked Gemini 3 what was the smartest thing it could think of(fraboniface.com)
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by fraboniface 10mo ago
> Developments to the model architecture contribute to the significantly improved performance from previous model families. I wonder how significant this is. DeepMind was always more research-oriented that OpenAI, which mostly scaled thi
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by fraboniface 11mo ago
While "quality of life first" remains true in spirit for a lot of French people, this hasn't been supported politically since 2000 (when legal weekly work time was reduced to 35 hours - many people do more but they are compen
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by fraboniface 1y ago
How do you (especially Europeans) understand this move from Russia? Can it really sustain a war against us? Does it want to break NATO by proving the US won't move?
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by fraboniface 1y ago
"The World Beyond Your Head" from Matthew Crawford is exactly about this. Definitely recommend reading!
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by fraboniface 1y ago
On this, read Daniel Susskind - A world without work (2020). He says exactly this: the new tasks created by AI can in good part themselves be done by AI, if not as soon as they appear then a few years of improvement later. This will inevita
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by fraboniface 1y ago
They mention that chronological order increases the amplification of extreme content. They don't seem to have tested only subscribed content though.
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by fraboniface 1y ago
Fossil (in particular coal) thermal plants that were planned for shutdown are being kept online or restarted because of AI energy use. Tech had a pretty minor environmental footprint until now but it's growing rapidly due to AI, for us
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by fraboniface 1y ago
An idea I had is organizing week-ends in big houses with maybe 30 strangers of similar age. You make them have a great time, and afterwards you invite them to indicate the people they really liked. Over time you can make them see each other
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by fraboniface 1y ago
The problem is that fossile fuel companies (and other polluting industries) don't just answer an existing demand but also influence on that demand: they lobby against environmental regulation, run influence campaigns against climate sc
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by fraboniface 2y ago
Exactly, every country should urgently have a public debate on how best to use that technology and make sure it's beneficial to society as a whole. Social media are a good example that a technology can have a net negative impact if we
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by fraboniface 2y ago
It's very hard for parent to resist the insistent demands of their children to get a smartphone when their classmates all have one, and not having one means being or feeling excluded. This is the kind of coordination problem better sol
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by fraboniface 2y ago
Creation is the single most fulfilling human experience after having children (which is also creation). I'm not sure we want to take that away from us.
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by fraboniface 2y ago
Why ignore academics?
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by fraboniface 2y ago
Very interesting, I've been thinking about this kind of approach but haven't had the time to really work on it. So what kind of business model do you have? Is it a kind of drop-in replacement for vector dbs? Out of curiosity, if i
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by fraboniface 2y ago
Wow nice, what was the service to attract people so well?
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by fraboniface 2y ago
This has indeed been a big blocker, but the article is proof that the market now wants it. And there are plenty of new nuclear startups, as well as interested researchers. What was lacking so far was a real need energy-wise (in the absence
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by fraboniface 2y ago
I don't really understand this argument. How are dozens of nuclear power plants a single point of failure? Because of the uranium mining and processing? Then we can invest in fast reactors, which consume 100x less and require less R&am
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by fraboniface 2y ago
Videos streams from everyday life sound like extremely high quality data for training AI. Videos available on the internet are a very biased sample compared to that.
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by fraboniface 2y ago
Not exactly, they use a small but long-context model that has the whole dataset in its context (or a large part of it) to generate the chunks as elements of the reply, before passing those to the final model. So the retrieval itself is diff
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by fraboniface 2y ago
Maybe I was unclear (not a native speaker) but that's what I meant: good luck designing a social media without those. So yes, I agree with you.
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by fraboniface 2y ago
> We know parents want to feel confident that their teens can use social media to connect with their friends and explore their interests, without having to worry about unsafe or inappropriate experiences. Or how to ignore the fact that t
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by fraboniface 2y ago
Some commenters seem a bit confused as to how this works. Here is my understanding, hoping it helps clarify things. Ask something to a model and it will reply in one go, likely imperfectly, as if you had one second to think before answering
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by fraboniface 2y ago
That would be very bad product design. My understanding is that the model itself is similar to GPT4o in architecture but trained and used differently. So the 5x relative increase in output token cost likely already accounts for hidden token
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by fraboniface 2y ago
Sorry for the additional unwanted advice, but have you considered a pay-what-you-want pricing for the upfront fee? You can set the minimum to zero and a default above your target, and perhaps ask only after a short free trial period. I hear

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