plaidthunder

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by plaidthunder 8d ago
It's a reference to a very old meme. Where "eat the bugs" was a shorthand for the lower classes being fed bugs as a cheap source of protein. Has been re-mixed without attribution so many times that I don't know when it s
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by plaidthunder 23d ago
These same VCs have been pushing spirituality on the US via socially conservative politics. It's highly possible that they are only instrumentalizing a value system that they don't really personally buy into, but their strategy do
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by plaidthunder 2mo ago
> the modern life I don't think modernity caused any sort of degradation. You said it yourself, "thinking is hard work". It's rational to save energy. This might even have incentivized the emergence of mimesis in huma
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by plaidthunder 3mo ago
Restrictions aside, many years ago I landed a self-hosted Array.sort implementation in Firefox's JS Engine that performed better than the native C++ implementation :] -- it's a recurring theme. https://bugzilla.mozilla.
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Why smarter models won't lead to AI co-workers(usize.github.io)
2 points by plaidthunder 3mo ago|0 comments
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by plaidthunder 3mo ago
So, like mapping a type onto each incoming token that's been predetermined? To attribute each token to a particular topic? I'm not sure what impact that would have on the performance of a model. It needs to learn information about
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by plaidthunder 3mo ago
CUSMA goes both ways, it allows Canadian and US Citizens to obtain 3 year temporary work permits for many skilled occupations with low friction, across both countries. It's another contributing factor to the "brain drain" eff
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by plaidthunder 3mo ago
It seems like there's an opportunity to embed identity information into tokens themselves, the way we embed sequence information. The trouble is... it's quite a challenge to train. Sequence is easy to derive for any corpus of data
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by plaidthunder 3mo ago
The free healthcare only matters if you get permanent residency.. Otherwise, it's just like the world's most expensive insurance plan thanks to the pay cut. In terms of people in the tech industry I know of who moved to Canada fro
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by plaidthunder 3mo ago
US citizen moves to Canada on a CUSMA visa: - 30-50% pay cut - points and lottery based immigration system that penalizes them for each year you age after 30 - frequent unfavorable rule changes - fear of being trapped forever o
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by plaidthunder 3mo ago
Sure, but Turchin's overproduction of elites doesn't suggest a birth and death cycle right? It's a system that gets out of balance and needs to adjust over time. He calls the process that moves the system out of whack the &qu
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by plaidthunder 3mo ago
B-but Curtis Yarvin said that dictato-err, "kings" are better for freedom because they don't need to care what the public thinks! /s The people in the tech industry who have cheered on mafia style government in the USA s
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by plaidthunder 3mo ago
Yes. It might be a general property of all human organizational structures, to degrade over time in terms of intent drift and erosion of public goodwill. It offers some predictive power if so, like OBAFGKM + luminosity is enough to determin
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by plaidthunder 3mo ago
I always found pair programming a bit.. hellish. Chatting about things. Rubberducking. Playing code review ping pong. All great. But the feeling of being shoulder surfed killed my ability to play around with the freedom that I do when I&#x2
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by plaidthunder 3mo ago
It's a general problem of defining yourself in negative terms. Being "un-{thing I don't like}" doesn't say what you are. It only excludes one possibility while leaving behind an infinitude of mostly crappy alternati
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by plaidthunder 3mo ago
They become less attractive to immigrants looking to engage in economic arbitrage. They become more attractive to outside non-governmental powers looking to engage in economic arbitrage, which brings its own challenges. They have less negot
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by plaidthunder 3mo ago
> Why would the solution to “our people aren’t having enough babies” be “we should import different people to have their babies here”? If you become poor enough and weak enough, you'll be "replaced" anyway. And not on your
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by plaidthunder 4mo ago
I don't find this reassuring, because Elon's playbook is to force the public to purchase anything of his which doesn't do well on its own. Maybe a nice $1.776 trillion dollar tax funded investment into "unwoke" AI.
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by plaidthunder 4mo ago
Because the lab working on Mistral is in the European Union.
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by plaidthunder 4mo ago
> stagnation vs Chinese industrial hegemony I don't think we get to be stagnant and fend off Chinese industrial hegemony. It's not a symmetric bet.
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by plaidthunder 4mo ago
The reason I called out Lada in my original comment is because it's a counterpoint to what you just said. The Lada was the result of too much protectionism. Produced from an empire that was too inward looking and feared interacting wit
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by plaidthunder 4mo ago
I have one of the first runs of model 3s. It still runs perfectly. Great battery life. I'm happy with it. Nevertheless, I find it frustrating that I can't even consider buying a BYD as my next electric daily driver. Because when T
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by plaidthunder 4mo ago
Competition. Lower prices. Better repairability.
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by plaidthunder 4mo ago
100% tariff and political threats -- implying that they'd find a way to mark them as "unsafe", despite the fact that Canada and Europe tend to have higher safety standards than the US and already have BYD presence. You can se
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by plaidthunder 4mo ago
The world before all of the big beautiful tariffs. It's depressing that we can't buy BYD in the USA. It's feeling more and more like being stuck with a Lada in the 1980s.
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by plaidthunder 5mo ago
I'm not anti-military as a rule but... c'mon. Opinions on the US military vary. In extremis, were the people working for Pol Pot just good patriots with no moral culpability? We could surely at least agree that there are cases whe
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Claude Stole the HR Docs(usize.github.io)
1 points by plaidthunder 5mo ago|1 comments
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by plaidthunder 5mo ago
Red teaming a cluster with an instance of Claude code set loose in it, instructed to access PII it shouldn't have. Showing how RFC 8693 semantics can help in situations like this, even when Claude gets hold of an access token via promp
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by plaidthunder 7mo ago
There are generous ways to interpret a critique of "redditification". 1. An increase in comments that aim to gather social approval as opposed to advancing a conversation or sharing knowledge -- often including meta commentary on
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by plaidthunder 7mo ago
Words are cheap. Actions aren't. Dario Amodei is putting his company on the line for what he believes in. That's courage, character and... yes, morality.

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