inciampati

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by inciampati 14d ago
He was a friend of many people in my community. I met him a few times at public lectures. But his way of thinking has had a profound impact on my life. I rejected his rejection of technology. I think he didn't appreciate the power of i
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by inciampati 24d ago
There is no reason to believe that generalist models need to be transformer (or transformer hybrids) it's just that people are risk averse and not spending their resources on the many scaled risky bets needed to explore the possibiliti
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by inciampati 24d ago
> We're not seeing them differentiate from each other, implying that the design space might not be that large. There is the more likely reason they are not differentiating. They use almost exactly the same class of model. Everything
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by inciampati 1mo ago
And this business of rates is also why getting the immune system—such as via personalized vaccine—to recognize a tumor is functionally "curing cancer". The problem is it isn't one disease in the sense that different tissues,
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by inciampati 1mo ago
It is amazing how fast it happened. Right now one of my main projects is fully running on DeepSeek flash. My reason was that I was blocked by both of the main US AI labs from working on it because it involves viruses. DeepSeek flash has bee
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by inciampati 1mo ago
Oak Ridge huh? What other small town would be a target?
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by inciampati 2mo ago
I think I'm less bothered by the risk because I've actually used these systems to do biological research, to work in bioinformatics and to work in the lab. And while I think that the leverage you get in bioinformatics is very sign
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by inciampati 2mo ago
My point is more about conflict of interest in Anthropic, and certain techpeople types thinking that biology is a useful scapegoat because biologists don't use or understand this tech (they claimed 0.03% of users would be affected by b
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by inciampati 2mo ago
Anyone can write out the code for a bad virus. You can go download it from an open repository. It's only through deep interface with the world that the idea for the bad virus turns into an actual bad virus. The fever dreamers will say
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by inciampati 2mo ago
Please post this!
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by inciampati 2mo ago
but that's what we use the agent "swarm" to do .. it's also not scarce. what's scarce is imagination.
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by inciampati 2mo ago
This is a major reason why I and a number of biologists I've talked to have canceled their anthropic accounts recently. Not working is not working.
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by inciampati 3mo ago
Tell us, what gives you that impression?
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by inciampati 3mo ago
There is nothing more surreal in AI chat than entering your own name and being told you are a banned topic. Open source models must win. There is no alternative.
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by inciampati 3mo ago
Extinction risk. From population genetics... Does Anthropic even employ biologists? It's magical thinking about a field that is poorly understood by their community.
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by inciampati 4mo ago
Memory makes computation universal.
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by inciampati 4mo ago
Finally, I can escape to paradise and work remote.
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by inciampati 4mo ago
I am also using these models to accelerate scientific discovery. Yes, they are making all the difference at the frontier. At least, they feel they are. The messy thing is that we still need to communicate with each other and that's not
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by inciampati 4mo ago
Just remember that the will do clever but useless things to improve. Like changing the random seed as per autoresearch's hero image. lol! imo, out of the box thinking is needed.
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by inciampati 4mo ago
> Integrated Ralph Wiggum loops: looping capabilities for long-horizon tasks Imo, this shouldn't be embedded in the executor layer. Orchestration should handle this.
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by inciampati 5mo ago
poorly vibe coded. machines can check details easily, use them.
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by inciampati 5mo ago
Didn't OAI just try that 18 months ago?
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by inciampati 5mo ago
They do approximate any function... within the range they're trained on. And that range is human limited, at least today.
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by inciampati 5mo ago
I'm already living in this future. In a decent execution framework, with context management, memory via unix, and mechanisms for web search and access, local models are effectively on par with frontier ones. And they can often be much
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by inciampati 6mo ago
I prefer to think of it as a reference in the Torment Nexus.
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by inciampati 7mo ago
get the system to build a clean architecture and explain it to you. it will help it to build a better system. a huge part of working with these models for engineering is getting them to create reports. for themselves and of course for us to
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by inciampati 7mo ago
Lines of code are nothing. It's verification that creates value.
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by inciampati 8mo ago
If you don't service the debt, your assets will be repossessed and sold off.
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by inciampati 9mo ago
But a graph, which provides a view at a certain level of resolution, can often be described in a few consise statements. That's why we make them, to get a view we can condense.
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by inciampati 9mo ago
> CAD. Sure, you can do that in text... but it takes much more room to do and magnitudes more time to interpret. Fascinating example for me. I do CAD... using text! My only experience with it is programmatic in openscad. We check the vis

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