matusp

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by matusp 7d ago
The problem is that empirically regime changes very rarely lead to stable liberal democracies. Yeah, a magical societal transformation according to exactly our standards sounds great to us. But that is not how this is going to end.
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by matusp 9d ago
How much money are Europeans paying to US companies for AI services and how much are Americans paying to EU companies? I don't think it's a good idea to let billions of dollars go to other countries because you couldn't be bo
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by matusp 9d ago
This is a bottom feeder mentality. Europe has enough bright people and resources to truly compete in the AI race. There is something wrong when the only selling point is that it's local.
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by matusp 14d ago
Mushroom pickers generally know only a handful of easy to distinguish types and only pick those. I would say that 99.9% of pickers will never get poisoned.
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by matusp 17d ago
> I disagree with this. Decoders were absolutely dominant in 2020 for chat. GPT2 was considered too dangerous to release, and I remember scrambling to get on the GPT3 waitlist. It worked. He's not talking about decoders, he's t
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by matusp 27d ago
There is no theory why the gap shouldn't be closed. At the same time, people are trying to make them work for years by now and it's never good enough. But they are competing with incredibly optimized architectures.
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by matusp 1mo ago
To me, all these agent systems just look very stochastic. You have these agents that have some basic computer capabilities and they are producing semi-random actions that also affect the semi-random actions of other agents. It is funny to o
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by matusp 1mo ago
The transformation from Roman republic to Roman empire was mainly about how the top-level government is organized. It was not about the relations with vassals/periphery. The Roman republic was as imperialistic as empire in this regard.
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by matusp 1mo ago
I don't know the details of their implementation, but in general, if the text is not watermarked, you will probably fail the test after a few tokens. If it is, you will have to run the entire text, or, you can just run it until you hav
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by matusp 1mo ago
And when you are an investor, you must predict who is able to make a good game. What is the likelihood that a Myst-like will pay for itself. There is already a lot of Myst-likes on Steam, do players want more?
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by matusp 1mo ago
The minimalist approach is great until it isn't. You can cover 98% of use cases with a single button is a great motto, until you are in the other 2%. I often fail to find basic functionality in software today, because some smart produc
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by matusp 2mo ago
It is a good blog, not a good paper.
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by matusp 3mo ago
The thing is, you can play it in any way you like. You don't have to optimize for speed at all if you don't enjoy it
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by matusp 3mo ago
With the volume of outputs in today's academia, this is simply not possible. There are conferences with tens of thousands of submitted papers, grants have hundreds of pages, etc.
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by matusp 3mo ago
The AI companies also have a lot of space to grow their income (more ads, price hikes, ...). It seems realistic for them to turn profitable. But the market expected much more from these companies.
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by matusp 3mo ago
The standard of living in Rome was not surpassed for more than a millennium. Large parts of the empire were at peace for centuries, allowing economy and trade to thrive. Many provinces that were peaceful and prosperous were ravaged by wars,
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by matusp 3mo ago
There are thousands of people working in top level labs. Somebody would leak it
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by matusp 4mo ago
Is matter code? There is some sort of computation happening in space over time.
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by matusp 4mo ago
I understand that motive. On the other hand, LLM smell makes the text untrustworthy. I have detected it as well, and I immediately started to wonder about whether I am reading a reasonable expert analysis or just an AI hallucination. I stil
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by matusp 4mo ago
There are many ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine that really welcomed the Russian army. The problem is that the rest of the country is not that happy about this.
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by matusp 4mo ago
Can you give me some examples of these interactions / vibe?
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by matusp 4mo ago
This is the question that led to the communist movement in the 19th century.
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by matusp 4mo ago
Of course mediocre and bad leaders make their mark on history. But Carlyle's Great Men theory is more about paradigm shifts that Great Men can will into existence, not just random noise they bring along. The problem with GM theory is t
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by matusp 4mo ago
I find it interesting how slow the spread really was after the initial burst. I am used to think about Christianity as a global religion. But before 16th century it was a pretty regional thing and its position seemed pretty precarious in ha
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by matusp 4mo ago
https://docs.polymarket.com/concepts/resolution
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by matusp 4mo ago
The problem is that AI is mostly yielded by the Silicon Valley caste that is as popular as bankers in 2008. People are sick of tech companies that are acting as parasitic as possible.
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by matusp 4mo ago
How exactly would you deploy 10,000 drones? If you start thinking about the logistics of it (you need to store them somewhere, somebody needs to bring them from the storage and prepare them for launch, somebody needs to navigate them, ...),
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by matusp 4mo ago
Dataset quality is a huge issue in ML in general. You can often list a few dozen random samples from any given dataset and you will find out something weird going on instantly.
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by matusp 4mo ago
It's like asking what if AWS starts doing it, they have all the infrastructure in place. LLMs are just one cog. There is a lot on the application side they are not doing at all.
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by matusp 4mo ago
Never heard the term Lusophone before. TIL

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