inkysigma

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by inkysigma 8d ago
I think the Navier Stokes problem kind of illustrates what he’s highlighting. I think most people even before AI expected that this would resolve in the negative and that you could get finite time blow up. There wasn’t really ever going to
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by inkysigma 8d ago
To be quite clear, the solution to the _Navier Stokes problem_ is one in which you get a finite time blow up (i.e. infinite pressure). This is more meant to suggest that Navier Stokes is unphysical in some way which is not necessarily unexp
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by inkysigma 14d ago
I'm curious what regulatory pressure there is on EU AI companies that wouldn't apply to many of the US firms. The AI Act and GDPR still apply to the tech giants since they operate in the EU (e.g. Anthropic watermarking). There are
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by inkysigma 21d ago
This is rather weird framing since usually an additional citizenship (especially one in a country like the US) is considered a valuable thing to have for your child. Usually people claiming birthright citizenship are weird are doing it beca
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by inkysigma 2mo ago
I know this is a bit cliche but I wonder how much headroom there is in the lower parameter count range. Is there any good reason to believe there is a lot of headroom or there is not? I suppose I'm just wondering if this wave of nearly
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by inkysigma 2mo ago
I'm not the biggest fan of the current age verification schemes, but I don't think the idea kids can lie about their age differs in the threat model posed under either system. Presumably, under the law, parents would be the ones t
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by inkysigma 2mo ago
The final time complexity for Karatsubas does account for the addition via the master theorem and gives you something less than n^2. It’s just in some sense the recursion is dominant so we add to the exponent. As a result, I think the artic
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by inkysigma 2mo ago
Given more code hosting services, I wonder if we'll also see a corresponding increase in the number of alternative VCS or if git is legitimately very entrenched as a tool. I am just being a bit grouchy but I do wish there was more deve
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by inkysigma 2mo ago
I actually agree to an extent with the idea that there is also some obvious political influence on LLMs on stuff like GLM or DeepSeek. This is reflected in conversations even on HN where this is brought up as a risk so I think this is somew
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by inkysigma 2mo ago
I think I understand your point but the funnier response to this question is that actually sometimes it is: https://futurism.com/grok-looks-up-what-elon-musk-thinks To your narrow point, it's very obvious that Musk inf
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by inkysigma 2mo ago
I think the distinction with the Chinese models (or with any of the other models) is that they aren't particularly vocal and obviously active about their politics. I don't see how political commentary about Musk's is somehow
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by inkysigma 3mo ago
This is essentially an open research question. ML theory is unfortunately very weak relative to where the empirics are. I think there's a relatively optimistic paper that was posted a while back here but I would also take it with a gra
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by inkysigma 3mo ago
At a high level, the text samples are how the relationships are derived. If we treat text samples as sequences of tokens, then the sequences of tokens describe the joint distributions they occur together which confers the relationship betwe
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by inkysigma 4mo ago
One example along this path as an example is that every function must either terminate or have a side effect. I don't think one has bitten me yet but I could completely see how you accidentally write some kind of infinite loop or recur
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by inkysigma 5mo ago
So I can't tell if the linked commit is an actual attempt or just an experiment but it did always strike me as odd to make a JS runtime in Zig when my impression was there were a lot of work-stopping compiler bugs at the time.
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by inkysigma 5mo ago
I'm curious how this view fits in with BERT or the T5 release which prior to the current LLM craze were the de facto language models for use in pretty much any tasks. Was this a position that would've otherwise grown without the l
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by inkysigma 5mo ago
Some of those organizations (Linux and Mozilla) work on open source code for which they are already trained on. For clients like Apple, they almost surely have agreements to not do that.
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by inkysigma 5mo ago
Well it did contain a request to not notify according to that same letter. I suppose that brings up several questions. 1. Does that mean the same thing in the ToS? 2. How valid are these requests?
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by inkysigma 5mo ago
Depends on how legitimate you consider an administrative warrant and how willingly you think complying with one is. On a more practical level, forcing them to go to court might not be much better. If this went to a FISA court, those are ess
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by inkysigma 5mo ago
His anti censorship stance isn't necessarily born out by the data: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/25/elon-mu...
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by inkysigma 5mo ago
X under Musk has sustained more government takedown requests. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/25/elon-mu...
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by inkysigma 6mo ago
I think in this context, scaffolds are generally the harness that surrounds the actual model. For example, any tools, ways to lay out tasks, or auto-critiquing methods. I think there's quite a bit of variance in model performance depen
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by inkysigma 6mo ago
Actually given boot chain protection, this will probably get harder as time goes on but even assuming some kids are able to, this is clearly definable as a user error: the fault lies with the kid and as a parent you need to think about your
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by inkysigma 6mo ago
Except none of these bills (California or the one in question) as currently written require an ID to actually be verified, merely that the user provide an age. This seems intentional as it's seems to solve the user journey where a pare
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by inkysigma 6mo ago
I think this is the third time this has effectively been posted see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362528 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365597
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by inkysigma 6mo ago
Some of these are also just like really weak? One of them for example seems to be some random employee at FB donating ~$1k to a politician and calling that a link. The entire "Proven Findings" is all over the place and provides no
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by inkysigma 7mo ago
Depending on the implementation, I could see that having rate limiting effects. There're only finitely many IDs so scaling sockpuppeting will saturate these IDs quickly but it's quite easy to spin up a new anonymous account. For e
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by inkysigma 7mo ago
Just an FYI, but I don't know if being in the website field of GitHub really helps since there's a rel nofollow on the link.
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by inkysigma 7mo ago
I mean in the sense that they seem to literally be random names. I don't even think they're people associated with Palantir in anyway.
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by inkysigma 7mo ago
I'm assuming this is satire but I'm wondering why include names of seemingly random people? Why not leave it empty or make it signed by high level known executives.

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