nkozyra

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by nkozyra 16d ago
A weird line to draw since Google still owns the general ad web space.
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by nkozyra 21d ago
> get used by government agencies and local businesses to post announcements and these sites are increasingly if not completely unusable The US House of Representatives posts their live hearings exclusively on YouTube. This is informatio
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by nkozyra 21d ago
While I'm sure some of the open weight providers do this as well, I think the comparison is frontier labs v local inference.
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by nkozyra 22d ago
I barely see a difference between buying the hardware that feeds (and often colludes with) those labs, at least not as a moral stance. Even if you trained your own model, you'd be committing some of the same sins, paying for the same h
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by nkozyra 22d ago
I don't understand how people don't consider this. Plus you're spec'd out of near-SOTA level in months. The only reasons to actually do this are a) you have a lot of dispensable income and are a hobbyist/tinkerer, b
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by nkozyra 1mo ago
Censorship being explicitly a function of government, at least in legal terms, seems pertinent here.
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by nkozyra 1mo ago
It's not _solely_ a Trump thing, but he gave RFK an enormous platform and has himself been espousing demonstrably untrue things about vaccines and vaccination schedules. This very week, in fact. [1] If you don't see this as an eno
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by nkozyra 1mo ago
Unlike a lot of pathogenic diseases, measles requires an extraordinarily high amount of herd immunity (upwards of 95%), so this isn't a particularly telling data point on its own.
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by nkozyra 1mo ago
True, but RFK (and other politicians and celebrities) have been active in pushing some form of anti-vax ideology for a decade plus, in some cases back to the 1970s. It's been a growing movement, not something that kicked off when RFK a
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by nkozyra 2mo ago
Honestly you're lucky there were any leaves left. You must have caught it within two or three hours after its arrival. In the US we have similar hawk moths; the tomato hornworm also looks like a hummingbird when it reaches maturity.
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by nkozyra 2mo ago
No. But do you need to run every small problem through a 10B-30B model? We're smashing ants with hammers most of the time. We're asking frontier Opus/Fable models to classify text and build frontend code. Once we start dissec
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by nkozyra 2mo ago
> But they first need adoption. I think they've got that. Short of budget stuff or the Slate truck, most new cars have some big dumb screen in them at all times. But advertising poses a new problem for both advertisers and mfgs not
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by nkozyra 2mo ago
Obviously they read it, but it's 2026 and entirely possible to publish an article without having read a word of it :) All that said, I think initially it was a mix of a few things coming together. Yes, auto mfgs always want to reduce p
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by nkozyra 3mo ago
Provide financial incentives to make it worse.
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by nkozyra 3mo ago
> Everyone constantly does! In the aggregate, I agree, but in tech things are pretty loose outside of California.
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by nkozyra 3mo ago
It was purely a hype/media play.
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by nkozyra 3mo ago
Elon wanted precisely the same model.
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by nkozyra 3mo ago
You can't buy the OS directly, but it certainly isn't free.
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by nkozyra 3mo ago
I think this is a good point, but it ignores the idea that a human form is not the ideal (or even closet to) one to do specific and generalized jobs.
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by nkozyra 4mo ago
On the one hand I understand this fairly deeply. I started doing "ML" ~ 20 years ago building classifiers people would laugh at today and even at the time barely impressed people when they were 95% correct. I moved into NLP and bu
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by nkozyra 4mo ago
Which is probably why they created another, for-profit, entity. You can argue that it's unlikely the for-profit conservatorship of the non-profit is incompatible with that goal, but legally that becomes very much grey area.
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by nkozyra 4mo ago
Well Twitter has other investors, too. But he'll also likely be shaving equity here and there along the way to hedge this bet.
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by nkozyra 4mo ago
A more "hardcore" team will keep telling him he can win on appeals, and bill accordingly.
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by nkozyra 5mo ago
I don't want to spoil it for you, but ...
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by nkozyra 5mo ago
Given all that, maybe we shouldn't have attacked. Doesn't seem like it really did anything.
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by nkozyra 6mo ago
The latter, their arrangement with OpenAI enabled this.
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by nkozyra 6mo ago
> If so, why do you think lobbying exists? Specifically because it's not a natural market. There are people who secure a 2-year, consequence-free term to impact U.S. law, at the behest of people with money. Lobbying is special inter
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by nkozyra 6mo ago
No offense intended here, but this probably isn't the place to promote your package, given it's a story about a massive and incredibly popular dependency that managed to get got.
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by nkozyra 6mo ago
Clever/novel ideas are very often subtle deviations from known, existing work. Sometimes just having the time/compute to explore the available space with known knowledge is enough to produce something unique.
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by nkozyra 6mo ago
CV is a space where I would 100% agree with you. But - edge cases notwithstanding - there's not so much of a dropoff with NER that I would first go to an LLM.

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