kolinko

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by kolinko 4d ago
From where in the rest of the world are you? Did even you talk to anyone living in countries neighboring Russia? Sure not everyone benefitted from US but a ton of people/countries did and still do. US never felt a need to build walls t
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by kolinko 4d ago
Here’s the oneshot, not sure if it’s slop or not though :) https://kolinko.eu/pdf-reading-order/ But I wonder about your opinion.
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by kolinko 4d ago
Thanks :) Another cool book about back and forth between monopolies and decentralisation in our space: https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empire... It also has an audiobook.
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by kolinko 4d ago
As a general rule, if another country has an open war with your neighbor and openly says that you may be next, don’t put in private data into the sites controlled by that country.
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by kolinko 4d ago
It has steep costs, but with monopolists they have other ways of extracting value from the inventions. Awesome book about the history if Bell Labs - virtually all semiconductor tech we use today was created there (transistors, ics, solar, l
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by kolinko 4d ago
I think it’s the other way around - why should you care about a monopolist’s interests?
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by kolinko 4d ago
Becuse they are a monopolist and we can require certain things from monopolists. Similarly, Bell Labs was kind of required to release transistor for anyone to license - it was a part of social contract that they were allowed to maintain the
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by kolinko 4d ago
I’d expect everything that you type into Yandex that can be of use to the Russia will be used by Russia - they will nit care about hurting you. Just like Russia doesn’t care about online criminals being located within their borders - as lon
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by kolinko 4d ago
A nice story, but I don’t think there really was a time where closed source models’ development stalled really.
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by kolinko 5d ago
Yeah that’s why heuristics should work on the lowest possible layer, not on pdftotext. If you use pdftotext you’re stripping positional data and other stuff. Do you use a public set of documents? I bet I could almost oneshot this with my ha
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by kolinko 5d ago
I think when it comes to precision movement we never went back and we probably won’t go back. We’ll surely have different ways to accomplish it, but society would need to collapse big time for us to not be able to recreate mechanics to oper
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by kolinko 5d ago
Yes of course
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by kolinko 5d ago
Executive branch in Poland and I guess the rest of Europe as well. Bureau for Consumer Affairs. They make decisions, give penalties to corps and invalidate harmful ToS. Then if a corporation doesn’t like it (and they never do), they can app
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by kolinko 5d ago
There are governments with working institutions believe or not. Also, I just read up and in our legal system a nonindividual agreement is nonbinding if “it is drastically against the consumer’s interests or against ‘good manners’”, with fre
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by kolinko 5d ago
Very small peak at the beginning but yes, it’s mostly a long tail. Not always and not in all fields but in most cases afaik it is how it is.
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by kolinko 5d ago
Oh, I just dropped all the comments. Memory and session histories are for storing these things, comments just add confusion. Subsections - how do they run into the same problem? What falsification? The views I mean are dynamic ad hoc. Every
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by kolinko 5d ago
I would argue that creating an llm book that sells also requires human labour, just a different kind of one.
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by kolinko 5d ago
I gave a blanket ban on pdftotext to my agents. The output can get so mangled that a smart human wouldn’t untangle it. Did you try understanding the output from pdftotext yourself? My approach is just ocr-ing with Terra or Gemini flash + ch
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by kolinko 5d ago
What harness? And why not just Fable+Opus? Personally I use only one family for code editing, other families for code navigation. Models tend to reason about the code using their own intuition and putting other families onto the same codeba
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by kolinko 5d ago
Who says anyone needs to hold a mental model? Imho a better way of thinking about it is in terms of views - you can have an unimaginably complex codebase that nobody reads in full, but either agents or humans receive views/perspectives
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by kolinko 5d ago
first you’d need to define how to define/measure the complexity of code when it comes to this case.
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by kolinko 7d ago
It’s pretty well established by now that harness matters as much as a model. Even if a model is smart enough to work around harness’ limitations, it may take it way more time, context and money.
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by kolinko 8d ago
Then you will prevent corporations from paying authors to create work altogether.
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by kolinko 8d ago
Did you ever publish anything? First year or two it is mostlu pushing marketing/pr, and the long tail of trickle of money is where the true earnings lie. Also, for many works of art it takes more than 2 years to produce a next piece, a
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by kolinko 8d ago
Ad hominem? Also it's big tech (MS, Amazon) that is against this more than anyone.
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by kolinko 9d ago
Depends on jurisdiction, just because someone wrote something in a contract doesn’t mean it’s binding. In Poland/EU we have an (ever growing) list of forbidden clauses that even when written and signed by consumer are null and void. An
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by kolinko 9d ago
But we have various exemptions that are for all the companies, no? E.g. you're free to hack and crack software to do your own backup copies.
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by kolinko 10d ago
Isn't Europe controlled by indigenous population already?
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by kolinko 10d ago
If I’m not mistaken only optics are really unique to BD and need dedicated production? Everything else is rather universal components so even a hobbyist should be able to build a BD reader from scratch - having access to servos, cnc, and 20
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by kolinko 10d ago
With 100 years you need every other generation to rewrite/refresh them, or the data is lost. For things recorded today, nobody will care about refreshing for 75 heads, and if during 2100-2125 there are some budget constraints/wars

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