groby_b

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by groby_b 6d ago
The existence of attractors (e.g. "stable at iteration 31") for AI models is one of the weirdest things in AI land. They are a wonderful space to explore, fascinating and full of horrors. Meanwhile, my hat's off to the (curre
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by groby_b 6d ago
Flip side? I have, in almost half a century of tech dabbling, never once needed a cable from that box that I couldn't have bought again. I still keep _some_. A basic supply of standard cables "just in case", and clearly label
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by groby_b 6d ago
The details on the lab are (understandably and simultaneously frustratingly) quite sparse. But it's worth keeping in mind that theoretically, the mold on that cucumber in your fridge constitutes some sort of biolab. The main released c
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by groby_b 12d ago
"indepdendent" does not mean "i see all parties as absolutely the same". It means "I am not firmly affiliated". You still have the ability to make choices on who is a better likely outcome
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by groby_b 13d ago
Because it's completely dwarfed by florpedness. I can't define that either, but I just know it's more important. Less facetiously: A debate of the importance of something needs a shared understanding of what is being debate
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by groby_b 16d ago
That's the famous dropbox comment right there. > 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mount
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by groby_b 19d ago
Except... some of us like to stream content on TVs. And some of us really don't like the idea of maintaining yet another extra piece of hardware for that. And so your TV does need Internet access. The same holds for many other devices,
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by groby_b 23d ago
"I would guess I'm one of a handful of top individuals on Earth outside the frontier labs, in terms of my experience with top-end models." I'd argue that number of tokens burned does not translate into "experience&q
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by groby_b 23d ago
This may be hard to understand, but that was an illustrative example on why sometimes a few degree difference have bigger absolute impact than you'd expect from the purely numerical value. Nobody (well, almost nobody, I guess) consider
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by groby_b 25d ago
Mid 50s here - you can start at any point. Can confirm. The past is in the past. It had good and bad outcomes for you. Those stand, and you're best served by making your peace with them. All that matters are the decisions you make now.
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by groby_b 26d ago
4A still doesn't permit you to destroy the evidence. Resist on 4A grounds, destroy the evidence, 4A reasons get overturned - you've got yourself a conviction. US v. Akram Musleh.
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by groby_b 26d ago
While I think it's an abuse of power from a moral point of view - yes, that would be the expected legal outcome. Under any administration. You can refuse to hand over access. You can't go torch evidence. Caught Ollie North as well
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by groby_b 27d ago
It's working reasonably well for me. Given your description of the behavior, my guess is context window compression bit you. Less likely if it's a root level CLAUDE.md and you used a recent version of Claude Code.
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by groby_b 27d ago
Possibly. But telling it in a rules file eats significantly less context than if it needs to read a bunch of files every time just to find what "conformant" means. AGENTS.md is a poor substitute for agents actually learning, but i
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by groby_b 27d ago
If your writing gets called "slop", you might want to look at why. It's usually and indication it's considered low quality writing, and... you can fix that. (Unless you use AI, then you're doomed ;)
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by groby_b 27d ago
Uh. The .md files are also there so I don't need to say every single time "In this house, we believe in uv & PEP723. Also, no fucking localized imports, no just-in-case try/except." (Or the equivalent incantations fo
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by groby_b 27d ago
It's... a weird take. "Sure, the model makes repeatedly the same mistakes, and I could prevent that, but then it wouldn't be the same model" sounds like an excuse for masochism. The one small bit of truth is that yes, in
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by groby_b 2mo ago
> you can always short the stock. Which is going not too badly for the shorts, so far. There's a reason almost 50% of the float is loaned out. We'll see once the earnings call rolls around.
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by groby_b 2mo ago
Given doing better costs money, and people don't want to pay for better, leaving that place is hard. We've seen the same play out with physical goods - the cheapness of just-good-enough-but-right-now-cheaply outcompetes quality, w
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by groby_b 2mo ago
> Use Linux/KDE. Yep. I, too, get more productive by spending a PhD worth of effort on choosing a window manager.
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by groby_b 2mo ago
"No information about your text is ever sent to the server, and there’s no way to identify the author based on the minted certificate" This means the certificate is independent of author and source text. There's nothing stopp
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by groby_b 2mo ago
Sure, but did it need to be written by AI? Does that solve for the right constraint?
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by groby_b 2mo ago
Yes, to get funding.
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by groby_b 2mo ago
But they don't want to, because figuring that out is your job as a supervisor. If you outsource that work to customers/patients, you'll end up with the car dealership model, where the sales rep begs you to give a 10 on every
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by groby_b 2mo ago
There are other phones. They allow publishing PWAs, it turns out.
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by groby_b 2mo ago
"you just need radiators which are passive "Just" is doing a lot of work there. SpaceX is planning to launch 100 GW of compute annually, that comes with ~ 2.5 square kilometers of radiator (assuming an optimistic 800K radiato
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by groby_b 2mo ago
"Altman doesn’t appear to be a beacon of corporate ethics." Do those exist? I'm usually happy to see a mild candle flicker in the ethics window.
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by groby_b 2mo ago
This is a general belief of our current version of capitalism. As much work as possible is outsourced to the user, the gains are captured by the company. See also self-checkout etc.
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by groby_b 2mo ago
It does. It's called a PWA.
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by groby_b 2mo ago
In retrospect, I think my wording might be misleading - I didn't mean to imply the US is doing significantly worse than developed world, just that none of the developed world does significantly worse than the US either. I.e. I was resp

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