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by oersted 4d ago
Let's not forget that in this case the agents were on an RL loop continually being reinforced to get better at a narrow set of tasks. It may be true that regular agents trained for general purpose use do not behave this way, but they s
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by oersted 7d ago
These are good points. I still think that, even if in principle it should be enough for self-driving to be a bit more safe on average, in practice there’s a much larger barrier of acceptance. Individuals are unlikely to give up their contro
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by oersted 7d ago
Yes but in practice the pushback is more about the shift on who is held responsible and who has the control to prevent a crash. People understandably prefer to keep control of their own safety, even if on average they are worse at it. Becau
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by oersted 9d ago
Obligatory link to the classic copy-pasta: > They're Made out of Meat https://web.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
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by oersted 13d ago
CBC is the BBC of Canada. This is the light version of the site for those that have limited data I suppose. It is nice.
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by oersted 14d ago
“load bearing” :) For once it’s appropriately used.
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by oersted 15d ago
Yes and I agree with the dictionary quotes from the article. It seems to me that there are indeed multiple distinct meanings to the word "salad". I'd say that a potato salad is a different class of food from a green salad. If
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by oersted 15d ago
- I'm of the perhaps controversial opinion that a potato salad is not a salad, particularly a warm one. - A wedge salad is right on the edge. It's a traditional salad except that the lettuce leaves are not separated. But if it was
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by oersted 15d ago
I really love this, it’s what I want to see in HN. But I can’t resist joining the pointless debate: - A primarily cooked dish, particularly if it is cooked all together or is served warm, is definitely not a salad. - An “untossed salad” is
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by oersted 18d ago
Why not just trigger the fetch on keyDown and show it as soon as the response arrives, as usual? The time it takes to press a key is a reasonable target to aim at for API latency I suppose, but it is still an arbitrary target. Waiting to di
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by oersted 20d ago
async
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by oersted 21d ago
You forget that Nvidia has also been the top consumer GPU player for 20 years.
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by oersted 21d ago
Ah yes Spacy, good times :)
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by oersted 23d ago
> more crowded marketplace for talent That is “the people” isn’t it? It is the consequence of democratization and openness. I am not sure if superstars were good representatives of what most people wanted. Often, I am sorry to say, it wa
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by oersted 24d ago
I don’t think that’s correct, the data is not that special either, and getting a similar dataset is significantly easier than getting the compute capacity to use it, even if they are both relatively hard. Probably this also is too cynical a
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by oersted 24d ago
Oh yes I agree, LLMs are not that complex in principle, most engineers could build a toy version completely from scratch without too much difficulty. But that’s the tip of the iceberg. If you have any ambitions of doing this professionally,
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by oersted 25d ago
The argument is sound, but the maths don't math for now, and it's unclear when/if they will. For the time being, unless you truly have millions, the outcome from training will be very net negative, while focusing on building
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by oersted 25d ago
Everyone says they want to do training, because it's sexy and an easy way to justify raising mad funding rounds. Some manage, most don't. I don't know where you are located, but in EU, in China, and yes even in Silicon Valley
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by oersted 25d ago
You can do plenty of "real engineering" under normal conditions. But specifically when it comes to LLM engineering, no there's really not much you can do, they are called "large" for a reason. You can play around at
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by oersted 25d ago
There's this dilemma where in theory there's a ton of demand for engineers that can do real LLM machine-learning, but in practice there are very few available positions and entrepreneurship opportunities. The reality is that an in
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by oersted 1mo ago
That's an oversimplification. Private Equity's goal is to take control of the business and change it so that it has higher resell value. Often they do sell it for parts, or they enshitify the hell out of it to squeeze revenue from
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by oersted 1mo ago
It's quite the dark-pattern to allow you to download it and scan for free, without any clear indication that it's a paid product, and then ambush you with a purchase dangling the space savings in front of your face.
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by oersted 1mo ago
Incentives are about tricking the selfish side of people into doing things that are valuable for others, which can be an incredibly powerful force, but it’s not the only way to get people to do things, and it’s not okay to be absolutely sel
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by oersted 1mo ago
Ah I got excited for a second thinking this was some kind of AI test on a Warhammer 40K game:)
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by oersted 2mo ago
Of course that’s the mechanism and this kind of repost is not unique, but it is still relevant to note that the small HN committee made an exception for this one.
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by oersted 2mo ago
They do seem to have an internal review process, some articles might have been heavily edited, particularly early in the development process. But indeed, if Pangram is marketing itself as "near-zero false-positives" now, that enta
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by oersted 2mo ago
Recent events have shown that it's a double-edged sword. Sure the Mythos hype probably drove a lot of sales and investment, but it also led to a crackdown from the government.
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by oersted 2mo ago
I agree that the connection to OpenAI is very speculative here. It's true that Pangram is also very unreliable, and the match is pretty weak anyways: "69% came back flagged as fully AI-generated, with another 28% flagged as partia
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by oersted 2mo ago
Check their R&D expenditures and profit margins they are quite poor. Their revenue has always been sustained by the fact that their technology needs to be constantly replaced because it keeps getting better. The moment it stops getting
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by oersted 2mo ago
Of course, but such a theory doesn't pop out of nowhere. Like in any technical field, new paradigms are always inferior to the incumbent on key metrics, and need room to be nurtured for long periods. My perception is that there's

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