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by gwerbin 4d ago
I wonder if our fisheries or our insect-pollinated crops will collapse first.
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by gwerbin 4d ago
The Nepal incident is also messy because it's a extremely specific local/regional phenomenon, which was always a threat (and has happened before in other, less-populated areas around the Himalayas), but without consistent warming
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by gwerbin 6d ago
Desoldering those original switches could've been a big mistake if they were in good condition! Those are very likely old cherry MX brown-stem switches, known as "vintage browns" (or "vint browns"). Not only are the
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by gwerbin 6d ago
The AI didn't reply anything. It doesn't know anything. That was a high probability token sequence based on the contents of the context window up to that point. It might well be correct, because the process for generating that nex
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by gwerbin 6d ago
I don't think so. People have been trying things like this with evolutionary algorithms for a very long time already. LLMs can interleave symbolic manipulation with empirical experiments and simulations and charts and thinking/rea
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by gwerbin 10d ago
So? tokens are emitted one at a time according to the output distribution & sampler algorithm, and the next token distribution is a function of the preceding token sequence only. The process by which the output distribution is shaped
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by gwerbin 11d ago
Sure, you're right. But it's a policy learned from a next-token prediction task. You could also call it an inferrer or generator or whatever. The point is that it takes as input a sequence of preceding tokens and emits one more to
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by gwerbin 12d ago
They're estimating a probability distribution over the next token, from which a sample is taken. Close enough.
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by gwerbin 12d ago
But it literally is making a prediction based on the previous X tokens, it's just that X is huge and there is a proportionally huge number of parameters in the token generation function.
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by gwerbin 14d ago
Said malicious actor has a different limitation: actually running 1200 agents' worth of LLM inference, or paying for someone else to run it. Sounds like a state-level actor, nobody else would have resources like that.
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by gwerbin 14d ago
Forget common sense, he is a trusted figure by many, so if he says something wrong or nonsensical, people are going to believe it as long as it's engaging. If he's willing to abuse the trust of his audience and lie and mislead pe
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by gwerbin 15d ago
Anecdotally it's a mix. Claude is so good in part because the models are clearly trained to use the harness, and the harness (despite questionable UX) is really best-in-class when it comes to its functionality. > run a web search, w
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by gwerbin 15d ago
Either they're running Claude Code with a local LLM (technically possible via dev tools albeit unsupported), or they genuinely have no idea why the Mac is good for AI and just bought it because they were told it was good for AI. The fo
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by gwerbin 15d ago
Or they hire an agency and the agency does all the gray-hat stuff, and apart from the marketing person who hired the agency most of the company probably has no idea what the agency is up to.
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by gwerbin 17d ago
This is a victory only in a very perverse sense. The silver lining is that maybe this will push more people towards using Linux (maybe Haiku will have its day). And Linux itself lives on. But what a disaster of a policy, clearly just cateri
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by gwerbin 18d ago
Do you have a real practical example of this? I have never encountered a real one that didn't turn out to be a fence in hindsight.
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by gwerbin 18d ago
LLMs are such fascinating things. So much emergent behavior and we probably still only understand a tiny amount of it. I would love to know what was going on in the latent space that led to this particular sequence having a high probabilit
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by gwerbin 18d ago
What a ridiculous misrepresentation of the principle. In fact isn't that a good illustration of the principle? The fence is just sitting there, maybe it's annoying or slows you down but it isn't actually an acute problem or a
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by gwerbin 18d ago
I did this with the rabbits in my yard. They would always freeze and then bolt when I looked right at them. So I started getting closer and closer to them without making eye contact, and then they started to get much more comfortable around
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by gwerbin 20d ago
We already had plenty of data centers in the US before the AI boom that weren't severely harmful to their neighbors. Cutting red tape is not the same as eliminating meaningful regulation. There are plenty of old industrial sites that c
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by gwerbin 20d ago
Reducing everything to national aggregates provides no insight into the strong negative externalities, imposed on the immediate surrounding communities, of unregulated industrial facilities. That's literally the reason we have zoning l
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by gwerbin 21d ago
Fair, but the biggest mistake by far was failing to take charge of the immigration debate. The second biggest was his press secretary's insistence on announcing that everything was fine in the economy over and over as a distant second.
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by gwerbin 21d ago
Bandcamp has had legendarily bad semantic search for as long as they've been around. It's often completely impossible to find an artist or album or song even when you type the exact name.
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by gwerbin 22d ago
Hopefully this also means billionaires can stop trying to drop data centers into residential neighborhoods with zero noise control and polluting on-site generators, signing local politicians on with NDAs, calling for eminent domain to seize
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by gwerbin 23d ago
Yup, both Claude v5 models to me feel like they have extreme ADD or something. Using them feels like walking a dog that was never leash trained and constantly needs to be kept moving in the right direction. I think it's optimized aroun
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by gwerbin 23d ago
They would have to be colluding with any organization that runs a serious benchmark. Which is totally possible! But that would be one hell of a conspiracy theory.
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by gwerbin 23d ago
What's silly about it? Content-addressable decentralized storage -- not tied to a cryptocurrency -- is really valuable for censorship-resistant archiving of politically-sensitive data (such as climate change research).
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by gwerbin 24d ago
I can't speak for anything that came later, but in the early videos the majority of the benefit was that the presentation was exceptionally clear, and focused on developing one little piece of a subject at a time, it gently paste forma
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by gwerbin 24d ago
Claude Code more or less does have the tools to do this: plan mode, todo lists, user question prompts, et al. What it does not have is a "guided" mode where the agent (or harness) interviews you and helps you structure a work plan
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by gwerbin 25d ago
I believe they are genuinely getting better for fully autonomous tasks. Anthropic seems to have gone all in on this, at the expense of more typical usage patterns.

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