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by orangecat 3d ago
Perhaps you should volunteer your services so that the project for which you paid $0 can have release notes more to your liking.
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by orangecat 3d ago
You're reducing programming to its utility in producing exchange value in the captitalist political economy. Well, yes? If you want to write code that isn't useful to anyone and just gives you warm fuzzies, go for it. I've
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by orangecat 3d ago
There's nothing to learn about being an engineering manager. You tell your developers to write code, go on vacation, and come back to a completed product.
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by orangecat 4d ago
Cars qualitatively opened up something that humans could never do before. Not really, we explored almost the entire world on foot and horseback. Cars and trains "just" make it easier. A million lines of LLM slop? As they say,
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by orangecat 6d ago
My understanding is that the Euler solution was in fact a significant achievement, but it's well short of Navier-Stokes (Euler doesn't include viscosity). It's not clear whether Buckmaster and Alpöge's approach would hav
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by orangecat 6d ago
OpenAI has said that their models were definitely not trained on any of Buckmaster's sessions after July 3rd (from https://archive.ph/75WcF ); likely they found that's when he switched the "allow training&quot
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by orangecat 6d ago
Why are people here jumping so quickly to conclusions? I think a lot of it is the continuing denial that AI can do anything useful. It can't possibly be that OpenAI's better-than-Astra model is very strong at math; the only way
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by orangecat 7d ago
This is great. I've been trying to get Linux on my M4 Pro mini with moderate success (NVMe and all cores working, but display and wifi only via USB adapters), and recently it's been a slow process trying to get the hypervisor runn
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by orangecat 8d ago
Which is not "theft" according to current legal precedent, and also common sense.
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by orangecat 8d ago
What is that supposed to prove? OpenAI is almost always going to be training new models.
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by orangecat 8d ago
If writing up the paper would involve using OpenAI's unreleased model, neither OpenAI nor Anthropic would be happy about Alpöge having that access.
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by orangecat 8d ago
In that it isn't able to genuinely solve problems Yes, in retrospect I should have been suspicious of that drone hovering outside my window when I was writing down the counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture. This is just not a rea
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by orangecat 9d ago
But when the "this new model is totally better" claims keep turning out to be false Current models are in fact much better than the top models from a year ago. I have no idea how anyone could claim otherwise without a huge amoun
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by orangecat 9d ago
How else could the LLM even begin to do what it did otherwise. Are we really still having the "LLMs can only regurgitate what was in their training data" argument? Where did the counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture come fro
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by orangecat 10d ago
Good. If https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-defense-of-the-amyloid-h... is correct, the reason existing anti-amyloid drugs don't work well is amyloid leads to tau which leads to neurodegeneration, so by the time
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by orangecat 12d ago
Public schools generally don't receive enough funding to provide the bare-minimum. This is commonly repeated and basically false. Inflation-adjusted funding per student continues to increase: https://nces.ed.gov/progr
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by orangecat 13d ago
It was banned by the federal government Not exactly. The law was weird, and that's why it was overturned. It didn't make sports betting illegal federally, instead it prevented states from "authorizing" it, which the pe
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by orangecat 13d ago
As a practical matter when someone gambles away their life savings we aren't going to let them starve in the streets, we're going to give them public assistance. Despite my libertarian leanings I have to acknowledge that sports be
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by orangecat 13d ago
Ok, and how does banning short-term trading make the world more fair?
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by orangecat 13d ago
Maybe an extra 1% spread doesn't matter if you buy and hold for 50 years, but for 2 years it absolutely does.
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by orangecat 15d ago
Sure you can, the same way you can own a lamp without owning the power plant.
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by orangecat 20d ago
Dedicated Lunatic Fringe player: https://morphing.cloud/lunacy/
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by orangecat 21d ago
People in hospitals are less healthy than the general population. Clearly hospitals make you sick.
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by orangecat 23d ago
The "standard" theory is that amyloid leads to tau protein accumulation which leads to neurodegeneration: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-defense-of-the-amyloid-h... . Which would explain why current treat
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by orangecat 24d ago
Fable was able to get Linux booting on my M4 Pro mini. (Using Asahi as a base, not possible to upstream because they really don't like AI). Hardware support beyond USB 2.0 requires tracing macOS under the hypervisor, which Fable refuse
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by orangecat 26d ago
College has gotten so expensive that it's a big cost for pretty much every family. There have been many articles about how no one pays the rack rate anymore, so it's not really as expensive as it seems. Yeah, I've been amus
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by orangecat 29d ago
There was a story about a woman who needed dialysis but had no insurance. And who was in the country illegally so she couldn't use Medicare or Medicaid. Still a terrible situation, but not representative of the typical American.
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by orangecat 1mo ago
Can someone explain exactly how the market can in any sense support not one but two trillion dollar valuations Suppose there are 100 million jobs that can benefit from spending $10k/year in tokens. At a conservative 30% margin and su
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by orangecat 1mo ago
Right, and it's often very sane. If you're paying $250k/year for a software engineer, it likely makes sense to have them spend $10k/year on tokens from the best available model rather than trying to save a few thousand w
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by orangecat 1mo ago
If you tell it to implement something it will go ahead and implement it, without considering how much complexity it adds to the system or weighing alternatives. Recently I asked Claude (Fable) to use multiple threads to speed up a computa

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