michaelscott

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by michaelscott 24d ago
How've you gone about getting into this btw? I have extensive experience in infra and pipeline rollout but have struggled to find freelance clients for this kind of thing. Would be great to tie it into ML as a learning opportunity ther
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by michaelscott 3mo ago
They're not available everywhere, and the neo-banks in general are tightening their processes to a point where they're becoming difficult to use. I've had multiple situations now where Revolut denied things like a tap payment
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by michaelscott 3mo ago
This happens in a number of medical systems of countries across the world and is perfectly feasible, usually through premium subsidies for stuff like planned check ups, buying certain types of food and even installing equipment to monitor y
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by michaelscott 3mo ago
Unfortunately in this game first principles requires massive resources, not "some". Building in-house on top of existing open weights is a good way to bootstrap this process, especially since there's nothing inherently magica
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by michaelscott 3mo ago
OP probably means using the existing open weights as a base for further homegrown development and research, not that the homegrown models are always updated based on whatever US or China are doing in the moment
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by michaelscott 3mo ago
It is not a given that we should allow computers to exist, the risk of harm is too great. It is not a given that we should allow vehicles to exist, the risk of harm is too great. It is not a given that we should allow hammers to exist, the
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by michaelscott 4mo ago
It does with Volvo, although I couldn't say how big it is relative to global industry. Within Europe it's a large player
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by michaelscott 4mo ago
But why wouldn't he start the conversation in Polish? If the priest responds, he is Polish. If he doesn't, he is Spanish.
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by michaelscott 4mo ago
It's actually not available to most people that live in any third world country, otherwise migration would be significantly higher than it already is. Regardless, "voting with your feet" is an individual action. Voting at hom
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by michaelscott 4mo ago
Yes, they are. Accurate prediction is rewarded in every market, for every asset or asset class. There are adjacent order benefits (I live in my home, I eat corn, I have a say in how a company is run) but these are never divorced from the im
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by michaelscott 4mo ago
This is functionally what already happens. The market to sell into for defense is almost entirely B2G, the only exceptions being places where the existing government is not very strong or centralized
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by michaelscott 4mo ago
Sure, but what _is_ the practical solution to the invasion of a foreign military power on your home soil then? Do you think these systems should only be developed by the government? And if so, do you then apply the same logic to anyone work
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by michaelscott 4mo ago
I had a partner who was a teacher in very rough areas; the school principal was routinely called by the local gang leader to let school out early because rival gangs planned to have a shootout in the afternoon. Kids there were abused in mor
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by michaelscott 5mo ago
For me, video is the main one. Sizes from 100MB - 3GB. Getting videos from an Apple device to an Android is a pain in the ass because I need to 2FA log in or click through something relatively convoluted (Dropbox, GDrive) or deal with pulli
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by michaelscott 5mo ago
The kind of site that makes one happy the Internet exists
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by michaelscott 5mo ago
Their problem space may be just fine with open weight models regardless, but yes the release of gemma 4, GLM 5.1 and qwen 3.5 (and now 3.6!) have all happened in the last 6 months
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by michaelscott 7mo ago
Thanks these are genuinely helpful. I also use/d Pinterest for this kind of use case and haven't managed to find many good alternatives
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by michaelscott 7mo ago
I guess it depends on the definition of deterministic, but I think you're right and there's strong reason to expect this will happen as they develop. I think the next 5 - 10 years will be interesting!
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by michaelscott 7mo ago
Nothing you've said about reasoning here is exclusive to LLMs. Human reasoning is also never guaranteed to be deterministic, excluding most correct solutions. As OP says, they may not be reasoning under the hood but if the effect is th
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by michaelscott 7mo ago
Switzerland's draw is the money. It's true that a significant proportion of the population is foreign born, but the whole country is smaller than some tier 2 cities in China and many foreigners do not stay longterm. If China paid
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by michaelscott 8mo ago
This was crafted with a subtlety that captures the continental combination of infrastructural petrification and untethered pride perfectly. Wonderful
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by michaelscott 9mo ago
Yes because these descriptions are meant to foster dehumanization and detachment, which is very useful in military and scientific study contexts. That's why they also sound unnatural in casual conversation
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by michaelscott 9mo ago
A lot of mechanisation, especially in the modern world, is not deterministic and is not always 100% right; it's a fundamental "physics at scale" issue, not something new to LLMs. I think what happened when they first appeared
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by michaelscott 10mo ago
After using Rust for many years now, I feel that a mutable global variable is the perfect example of a "you were so busy figuring out whether you could, you never stopped to consider whether you should". Moving back to a language
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by michaelscott 10mo ago
* old Toblerone Matterhorn logo unfortunately :( They've had to remove the mountain from branding since the chocolate is no longer produced in Switzerland. Still, I love finding the bear in the older boxes still floating around.
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by michaelscott 10mo ago
No, more like literal survival. In these conditions there is no mental bandwidth for things like spiritual constipation
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by michaelscott 10mo ago
You're conflating 2 issues here: judgement of adult attempts at a new language and the time required to learn it. The first is just a cultural thing, although it is sometimes valid for understanding a speaker (cases in Slavic languages
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by michaelscott 10mo ago
I am not young, but I have never seen a major institution (including governments) caring about citizens in aggregate in my lifetime. To me, this is an artifact of the 50s or 60s, some bygone era (which is funny, because the government did n
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by michaelscott 10mo ago
This is how Cloudflare does (did?) PRNG
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by michaelscott 10mo ago
I think this is a primary reason why there is no real "cheatsheet" for this stuff. The application of a given algo (and even what types of inputs you provide) are heavily dependent on the detailed specifics of your use case and ho

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