mattnewton

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by mattnewton 4d ago
I don’t agree it’s that small. I think that the tools have advanced to the point where there are maybe 100 people pushing it forward at each company but a shortlist of thousands who would love to take their place and would be more than capa
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by mattnewton 7d ago
Android flagship vendors added their own wireless earbuds as well
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by mattnewton 7d ago
anyone with a pile of dongles disagrees here. It was clearly broken to sell AirPods
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by mattnewton 19d ago
Before, but they say that they’re also not going to provide astra to cursor subscribers
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by mattnewton 21d ago
This is not that, these are people seeking to immigrate to the United States legally getting jerked around instead of a process that approves or denies them on a set timeline.
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by mattnewton 1mo ago
Where would you get enough pre internet tokens to train a near-frontier model?
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by mattnewton 1mo ago
I think deregulation of the banking sector at the very least contributed to the G in the GFC which congresses under Clinton and Bush did.
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by mattnewton 1mo ago
Congress sets the budgets (well, is supposed to, but yes there has been pretty excessive delegation to the executive) so you really want to say every Congress # + White House. When you break it up that way, there have been several fiscally
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by mattnewton 1mo ago
I assume they pass the image alongside the text to redo/recheck the work. Yes this is silly, but is apparently required to get around refusals.
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by mattnewton 1mo ago
TIL Bloomberg terminal is the original iMessage blue bubbles network
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by mattnewton 1mo ago
I think efficiency is unlikely to result in lower demand for compute, instead more useful compute per watt increases the value of that compute; and we are not going to run out of economically useful things to do with it anytime soon on the
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by mattnewton 1mo ago
If China keeps releasing LLMs with such permissive licenses it probably works better since the pretraining rnd is subsidized and de-risked - but that’s a big if.
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by mattnewton 1mo ago
The exception being the token embeddings and lm head (which scale with the number of tokens the model knows and presumably you need a smaller number in the tokenizer for only English and python). But those are a pretty small % of the total
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by mattnewton 2mo ago
Honestly the 27b dense one punches way above its weight in a lot of domains, especially coding in my testing, so I think you will probably be disappointed.
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by mattnewton 2mo ago
I agree. 27b dense really did seem like the sweet spot.
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by mattnewton 2mo ago
There was a 3.5 122B 10A release - https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
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by mattnewton 2mo ago
Because demand for inference tokens is above supply
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by mattnewton 2mo ago
This was a big concern for earlier models, but with modern CoT trained models they should be able to come to the conclusion entirely in the thinking trace.
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by mattnewton 2mo ago
I think a) the labs are releasing very fast and b) why would they implement the long tail of app features when they can effectively sell tokens to every user to write their own version of the app, which is what is currently happening?
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by mattnewton 3mo ago
It’s not that poor people can’t afford a stamp it’s that they aren’t going to spend money on an automated service or stamp if there are other places to apply to that don’t require this. So I think it’s going to lower recall a a lot - it red
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by mattnewton 3mo ago
Why do your think Meta doesn’t make money? Their ad platforms are incredibly lucrative.
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by mattnewton 3mo ago
There are plenty of services to send mail form the internet for a small fee, so this will only discourage the most poor candidates and add friction for the best ones.
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by mattnewton 3mo ago
I’m saying there is basically no way to both make vlms able to understand the long tail of PDFs where the layout conveys information (like charts and tables) and to make it as token efficient as text formats. Current approaches have mostly
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by mattnewton 3mo ago
Because PDFs are a nightmare of a format and the only thing that’s is reasonably guaranteed about them is they will render to an image that people can read, the parsing of which will be much less token efficient than the equivalent text
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by mattnewton 3mo ago
But then I close my laptop and it’s not running on the headless host anymore right
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by mattnewton 3mo ago
I read point 19 as Palantir’s goal being to import Chinese and Russian style surveillance, and the comment saying effectively “it can’t happen here” and “taking them less seriously” because they are raising alarm. After rereading my comment
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by mattnewton 3mo ago
How hot does the water need to be before you raise the alarm? I think there is value in pointing out trend lines and voicing opposition even if there are other countries that have more authoritarian views on speech. This is not a competitio
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by mattnewton 3mo ago
In the US, I think we are being intentionally DDOS-ed. This strategy was laid out by Steve Bannon in the old frontline PBS interview where he called the media “the opposition party.” “They’re dumb and they’re lazy, they can only focus on on
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by mattnewton 3mo ago
Yeah people are overdoing it, and not everyone is being motivated to do something by feeling mad, but maybe instead of throwing up your hands that you can’t care about soybean tariffs, you could try to educate yourself on tariffs and choose
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by mattnewton 3mo ago
_in a polling place_ no less

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