jimsimmons

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by jimsimmons 7mo ago
pretty common on twitter, esp these days where there is strong anglo-saxon white nationalism crowd they do romanticize their ancient past as one of conquest and domination over others. btw, even without the viking aspect, norse law was pret
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by jimsimmons 9mo ago
just bricked my display out after a nvidia driver upgrade attempt. the swapped ctrl and alt (to mimic mac) setting has been reversed. horrendus ux
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by jimsimmons 1y ago
does not have paper ergonomics
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by jimsimmons 1y ago
> if Google and Meta got the best people, what the hell did they do in the last ten years? Invented the Transformer, Gemini, TPUs, monetized YT effectively, transitioned to mobile successfully, established GMaps as a foundation
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by jimsimmons 1y ago
Honest person would have rejected it and protected the prize's honour
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by jimsimmons 1y ago
Also how can one totally anonymously pay them?
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by jimsimmons 1y ago
Does anyone have discreet pointers for downloading all the data? What format is it usually?
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by jimsimmons 1y ago
And how solving the trolley problem is the key to make it all work
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by jimsimmons 2y ago
"it is never too late to start a career in middle management" goes the old joke
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by jimsimmons 2y ago
I've been waiting since 2021 when I saw demos of GitHub copilot
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by jimsimmons 2y ago
This whole "I became 10x better" is vaporware. It can kinda sorta maybe help sometimes a little bit is not vaporware
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by jimsimmons 2y ago
Yeah if you're getting paid $50K outside the bay maybe. If you want big bucks you are writing original code, no two ways about it
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by jimsimmons 2y ago
I wrote a cycle detecting reference counting system and asked Sonnet 3.5 to fix it and it failed. I hand held it, gave it tests, called out flaws in reasoning.. etc., and it still didn't fix. The longer the chat the more likely it was
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by jimsimmons 2y ago
He worked there for a year. He had minimal impact. Probably not even among the top 50 impactful people in OpenAI history
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by jimsimmons 2y ago
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by jimsimmons 2y ago
That's just 125K users
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by jimsimmons 2y ago
Larry bought Android without telling Eric even though Eric was the CEO of Google at the time. He is a bean counter and the only form of accountability he knows is billable hours.
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by jimsimmons 2y ago
Is it non Riemann or non Eucliden
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by jimsimmons 2y ago
Is that "umm ackshually .." bit really worth doing here? Open weights vs training code is not a distinction worth drawing for the average person
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by jimsimmons 2y ago
Advertising it as Writing a C Compiler is misleading. This is no where near C's speed. It's just an implementation of a C like language. And honestly there are better books or tutorials for something like that. C's selling po
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by jimsimmons 2y ago
I work in the field and the work is presented in an extremely obtuse manner. What is the problem you're trying to solve? Are you proposing a new generative model?
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by jimsimmons 2y ago
Who 3
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by jimsimmons 2y ago
You can choose to not seed further or set your upload levels to zero
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by jimsimmons 2y ago
He broke into a network though
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by jimsimmons 2y ago
Why is everyone acting like this is some radio active data. If you don't distribute further, it should be pretty ok to download and play with this?
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by jimsimmons 2y ago
Imagine dropping Forstall for Ive. Monumentally idiotic decision by Cook. Because if it iOS went from being the most evolved OS to lagging Android quickly.
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by jimsimmons 2y ago
It's interesting how any thread critical of OAI or Sam gets shot down from the front page very quickly but anything positive lingers on. When Google Gemini threads are created on launch days they get merged very slowly and therefore co
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by jimsimmons 2y ago
Google did a much better job here and everyone glossed over
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by jimsimmons 2y ago
Experienced Rust users: how do you rate this? What level of proficiency would this leave you with
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by jimsimmons 2y ago
If OpenAI is so great and MSFT owns 49% of them why would MSFT need to do something like this? Why not put all that compute towards fine tuning models on product specific data

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