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Fair Use Paradox: Training and Distillation(jasonwillems.com)
4 points by jayw_lead 7mo ago|0 comments
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by jayw_lead 8mo ago
> The walled gardens are imo getting worse But isn't Apple (the most egregious example IMO) losing a slew of cases in many jurisdictions (not just EU)? I think the consensus is very much that they've overplayed their hand and t
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by jayw_lead 8mo ago
The market for something like a ModRetro or Analogue 3D surely can't be entirely about everything being an investment?
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Fair Use Paradox: If Training on Public Data Is Fair Use, Why Not Distillation?(jasonwillems.com)
2 points by jayw_lead 10mo ago|1 comments
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by jayw_lead 11mo ago
Same playbook for AWS. When they admitted that Dynamo was inaccessible, they failed to provide context that their internal services are heavily dependent on Dynamo It's only after the fact they are transparent about the impact
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by jayw_lead 11mo ago
You're right, I should have tied that back to the opening. The acceleration we've experienced has allowed us to "outrun" our problems. In earlier generations, that meant famine or disease. Today, it might be climate chan
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by jayw_lead 11mo ago
Yes, both software improvements and tailored hardware will continue to pay dividends (huge gains from TPUs, chips built specifically for inference, etc, even if the underlying process node is unchanged). Slowing transistor scaling just give
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by jayw_lead 11mo ago
I tend to dislike the term AGI/ASI, since it's become a marketing label more than a coherent concept (which everyone will define differently) In this case I use "singularity", by which I mean it more abstractly: a hypoth
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by jayw_lead 11mo ago
> "massive upfront investment and large and complex" and therefore predict progress stopping ages ago? Regulatory and economic barriers are probably the easiest to overcome. But they are an obstacle. All it takes is for public
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by jayw_lead 11mo ago
I think there is still a lot we can do within the current paradigm - most software, especially for enterprise, is still quite bad. And that will continue to drive employment and growth. But w may one day have to contend with expecting fewer
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What if the singularity lies beyond a plateau we cannot cross?(jasonwillems.com)
24 points by jayw_lead 11mo ago|28 comments
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by jayw_lead 11mo ago
Most of modern history has been defined by our ability to outpace our problems through technological acceleration. This essay argues that, rather than an uncontrollable AI takeoff, we may be approaching physical, economic, and regulatory li
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IoT Fails: Production App Hit a Staging API and Exposed Debug Tools(jasonwillems.com)
2 points by jayw_lead 11mo ago|1 comments
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by jayw_lead 11mo ago
In this post I describe an incident with a Petlibro smart feeder: the production iOS app momentarily showed developer overlays, a request inspector, and terminal UI — all tied to what looks like their private staging API backend. I dig into
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Show HN: AI Dojo – open-source LeetCode-style trainer for AI prompts(github.com)
2 points by jayw_lead 1y ago|0 comments