jefftk

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by jefftk 4d ago
Automattic is a Delaware corporation, so it's required to have a board.
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by jefftk 4d ago
With some technologies, if you match attacker and defender effort you're safe, but not all of them. Nukes are the traditional example: if every person was a "nuclear power" we'd be dead within the day. But luckily there
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by jefftk 4d ago
Their agents also did hacking when given impossible tasks unrelated to cyber security. The models are very capable, and very goal driven: apparently if they conclude hacking is the best path to what the evaluator will reward them for they&#
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by jefftk 6d ago
I don't think there's anything 'passive' about specifically asking for what you think should be done!
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by jefftk 7d ago
I grouped mine a few months ago. Since then, several times, I've been able to find a cable and use it right away. Before that the prospect of digging through the massive tangle often led me to (lazy!) order new cables.
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by jefftk 9d ago
Fingering helps a lot: it means you get a very reliable indication of which note is intended, and there are no multi-step slides.
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by jefftk 10d ago
This is why I love playing for contra dancing: no one cares what the musicians look like.
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by jefftk 10d ago
Yes? The author is very clear in the blog post about having used AI very heavily: Up until now you have been reading the words of Anthropic’s Claude, in particular Fable 5. In part, this is because I simply could not have written this pie
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by jefftk 10d ago
I wouldn't expect MIDI to be a good fit, and when I experimented with it a few years ago I wasn't able to get anything I liked. Pitch and volume are continuous, and while this can be encoded in MIDI it's awkward. If you sen
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by jefftk 10d ago
That patent is about a particular way of implementing a low-latency pitch tracking algorithm. My tool uses a different pitch tracking algorithm based on zero crossings. It's much simpler and far from novel. A big difference is that Imi
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by jefftk 10d ago
The relevant patent is from 1986, long expired: https://www.jefftk.com/p/ugo-contis-whistle-controlled-synth...
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by jefftk 10d ago
Try setting the gate to a higher number?
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by jefftk 13d ago
But fuel usage it not proportional to mileage and weight across vehicle classes, and damage is proportional to axle weight to the fourth power . A diesel sedan might use 1.25 gal for 100 ton-miles, while a tractor trailer might use a third
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by jefftk 13d ago
This should be a per-mile fee that varies based on weight, modeling road damage. Set the tax to specifically counteract the implicit subsidy. Otherwise you are taxing diesel sedans and tractor trailers the same amount per gallon when a gall
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by jefftk 15d ago
>> August 2025 https://www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster/ : "These models have clearly hit a wall where training is hitting diminishing returns" >> Wrong >It was my under
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by jefftk 24d ago
Clearly LLM written, and describing a design intended for a minimum of 6 servers that was running on 4. They don't say either way, but it seems possible to me that they might happen to write 3 chunks to a single machine and lose data
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by jefftk 24d ago
This is why I don't expect Anthropic to stop, and so I don't expect the value of the company to go to zero. But the question is conditional on them deciding to, which (to the extent you trust Anthropic leadership which they'r
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by jefftk 24d ago
Personally I'd trade 50% of my wealth for a significantly large decrease in the chance that AI gets us all killed.
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by jefftk 28d ago
That doesn't actually work. Say you took a book and used an AI to translate it into another language. The translation wouldn't have an additional copyright, the way it would if a human had done the work, but the output would still
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by jefftk 1mo ago
I think this is the kind of place where applying bounded distrust is critical: it's not whether we trust Google overall, it's about figuring out what sorts of statements we should expect to effectively bind companies and in what w
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by jefftk 1mo ago
Reidentification via writing style is definitely possible, and I doubt the vendor will modify things in a way sufficient to handle that. But I think this is a place where we should apply bounded distrust: there are lots of places where we s
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by jefftk 1mo ago
I think you might have missed the deidentification piece?
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by jefftk 1mo ago
The legality stationing officers to record plates and building a DB is not settled law, and my interpretation is that it's more likely legal than not. Observing things in public is normally legal, and the extent to which scale changes
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by jefftk 1mo ago
Advertisers don't trust websites to display their ads. If a site takes full control of their ads experience and hosts everything first-party I agree it's hard to block (site can keep changing things to thwart the ad blocker), but
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by jefftk 1mo ago
I tried Fable, which is the biggest model I have access to: https://claude.ai/share/ab39ee92-7801-4a0c-8d5d-e23d09b439c2 >> Without searching, what can you tell me about exmadscientist? Fine if you get this hall
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by jefftk 1mo ago
My parent wrote "what incentive is there to publish anything new?" and I described my motivation, but of course people vary a lot in what drives them.
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by jefftk 1mo ago
That's fine! Humans who read my blog typically won't credit me if I help inspire them either. (I was pointing out that "they'll train on a version that strips out you as the author" seems to be is incorrect about h
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by jefftk 1mo ago
Of course! I do think we'd lose a lot of great writing if it went amateur-only. But my parent seemed to be saying the incentive would entirely disappear, so I wanted to give my perspective.
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by jefftk 1mo ago
Yes, that would be fine. I write primarily communicate ideas, not for credit or fame. Empirically, however, LLMs don't strip out the author: the big models know a lot about what I've written even with search disabled. Ex: https
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by jefftk 1mo ago
> If the only visitors to websites are now LLM training bots then what incentive is there to publish anything new? I write because I have ideas I want to share, and whether that happens with LLMs as an intermediary isn't important

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