podocarp

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by podocarp 5d ago
Exactly, watching an episode of dad's army where they are all mumbling with gasmasks on… just pretend soldiers I guess
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by podocarp 5d ago
Entirely untrue in the Pacific theatre, with the Japanese doing human experiments both with germ and chemical agents. The largest scale use I remember was where they released infected rats (forget where) in a certain Chinese city to cause a
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by podocarp 5d ago
But that doesn't do anything much? Nails don't lie with their points up so it will just roll out of the way. Also if it's like a thumbtack sized nail with a large base pointing up, it will actually not pop the tire, it will j
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by podocarp 6d ago
To them distillation of models is bad but not distillation or art, books, hand written code, user generated content etc
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by podocarp 6d ago
Many times the battery costs more than the savings, even if you charged it up for free, say at a mall or mcdonalds or something. If there was a large savings the utilities provider would be doing it already. Well that's also why people
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by podocarp 6d ago
If they tried to play nice they would have offered the compute upon hearing the rumors, and not just "authorship" after or close to getting a result. It's just a PR stunt.
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by podocarp 6d ago
It's just conflict of interest. OpenAI is trying to get billions and billions and there's so much at stake. You spend millions trying to preempt two guys. It just makes you seem like a big bully. People would get angry even if it
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by podocarp 6d ago
That's just damage control lol. That's the equivalent of a NDA. Get your name as lead author, get paid, and stay silent forever.
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by podocarp 6d ago
You can't justify it being OK just because it's common. Here, this just makes benchmarks into a low signal and useless marketing number once people get numb to all the 99%s. Also no idea what viruses and cancers have to do with th
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by podocarp 8d ago
At that point maybe they'll just knock you out and torture you for whatever secrets instead
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by podocarp 9d ago
If it's a single agent then people will just call it a chatgpt wrapper, can't have that can we
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by podocarp 9d ago
Ah I get it but you can't also just self censor for everyone left and right, and we have no right to get others to self censor. We will quickly run out of words to describe anything offensive. It's just outrage culture, I mean you
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by podocarp 11d ago
It's not just learning is it, why do people buy hand ground coffee when there quite literally isn't any difference? Or audiophile snake oil? As long as humans are still the consumers, some part of consumption will be emotional. Co
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by podocarp 11d ago
I have no evidence at all, but could it be that repeating the same thing over and over again in the context makes models latch on to it wrongly and gives them more confidence despite it being wrong? Kind of like a sunk cost fallacy… Althoug
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by podocarp 11d ago
Not sure what you mean. Are you suggesting that the current state of affairs is a result of not putting in extra work to guide or direct models away from such behavior? That perhaps this is their ground state?
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by podocarp 11d ago
That's true. So there's probably a balance somewhere and it might differ for different "managers". But personally I think right now they're too far in the do everything yourself at all costs mentality.
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by podocarp 11d ago
Fair enough, I kind of assumed their sandbox was just some generic container or bwrap thing everyone uses for agents nowadays
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by podocarp 12d ago
The problem with latex is definitely not types, not unless you're maintaining hundred line macros and defs. I think one problem is just that it's hard to represent 2d stuff in 1d. Like let's not even talk about equations, wha
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by podocarp 12d ago
I used to take notes in latex. I was fast enough to do it with snippets etc. Just skip over mistakes and fix them later. So for that application I think AI assistance would still be not very useful? Also if you were to do assignments with l
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by podocarp 12d ago
Antibiotics of all sorts, runoff, etc... There's no magic panacea. Thai and Vietnamese shrimp farms have been known to kill of swaths of mangroves. This you can find from a Google search. On a more anecdotal basis, I've also heard
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by podocarp 12d ago
Can't read the article, is there a summary
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by podocarp 12d ago
Container escapes can however be quite easy... There are tons of known exploits. Containers are not secure in the first place. In any case even if you're using VMs or bare metal, it is all for moot if you have poor networking set up li
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by podocarp 12d ago
We still have guns and knives and nail guns and even cars. They automate something, but also have potential to injure and kill. You just weigh the pros and cons. You don't just not do something because there's a risk of death. Car
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by podocarp 12d ago
Criminals also try their best to cover up their tracks but that doesn't mean we don't try to catch them too. So nothing should change for AI powered xyz too. I kind of agree. You can't blame a model for running a red light wh
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by podocarp 12d ago
Yea it's sometimes kind of annoying. I think they're optimizing for the wrong thing. A good engineer knows when to turn around or ask. This is just insane banging head on wall sometimes. It tries to find all kinds of ways to hack
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by podocarp 12d ago
Do you have a source on the speed limit of biological computation. Potential gradients should behave just like electricity. Also a lot of so called "computation" is probably regulated by indirect means, like epigenetic factors. It
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by podocarp 12d ago
Well then the common refutation is that humans are also next token predicting machines!
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by podocarp 16d ago
WG is totally fine for home labs etc. But pushing configs to the server or networm when onboarding a new peer, making sure the new peer IP doesn't collide with someone else, etc. Can be quite annoying sometimes. NAT is honestly smaller
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by podocarp 17d ago
It just matches real life. What about lmb to shoot? You don't fire a gun on trigger release, you fire it on trigger down. Walking? Would be weird moving only on keyup.
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by podocarp 19d ago
Indeed, it's absurd people still have this left/right standoff. Boggled my mind as a kid in history class that the Republicans somehow wanted to free slaves in the past but are all in on bombing the crap out of iraq. Well, guess t

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