pton_xd

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by pton_xd 3d ago
Agreed! Allow US companies to innovate by creating an ecosystem of smaller, more efficient open weight models and it will be a net benefit for everyone. Distillation is a good thing. Preventing token-consumers from developing competing prod
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by pton_xd 11d ago
Steal some mail and buy a few hundred gift cards and you'll be tracked down and arrested [0]. Fine, they did break the law after all. Knowingly poison the population in search of profit? Nothing! No consequences! [0] https:/&#x2F
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by pton_xd 14d ago
Technically, he campaigned on not starting new wars... so he's doing the worst combination of what he said he would do, AND what he said he wouldn't do. Amazing!
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by pton_xd 16d ago
It's free and you could play it in the school library, for one. Also it came out a few years before WoW.
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by pton_xd 17d ago
It's worth the listen if you're even mildly interested in the history of computer science. He's a great presenter. I guess at some point you do have to prioritize how to spend your time, though.
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by pton_xd 20d ago
Doxycycline can also be used. I took doxycycline monohydrate daily for a month and had no observable impact on my digestion, which surprised me.
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by pton_xd 20d ago
Interesting topic but they couldn't be bothered to spend time writing about it, shame.
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by pton_xd 22d ago
The truth is, writing is hard and time consuming, and most people are uncomfortable with the process. AI is a very easy shortcut to lucid, logical, authoritative text. Like sugary drinks and snacks, people can't resist. Add in the pres
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by pton_xd 26d ago
> I actually think having a single source of truth would not be terrible. We should establish a single practice of care, MedicineGPT. It may be a rough start but over time the gene pool will adapt and the human race will live harmoniousl
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by pton_xd 27d ago
Slop article, needs to be flagged.
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by pton_xd 1mo ago
Who thinks a surveillance state is about reducing crime? It's about control!
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by pton_xd 1mo ago
> My model doesn't need to know a single line of python. If I had to guess, the weights necessary to encode "how to program" are much larger than the final step of "output python."
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by pton_xd 1mo ago
Apparently some users report persistent side effects even years after stopping the medication (post-finasteride syndrome).
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by pton_xd 1mo ago
That begs the question, what's the plan if AI does not help us understand the situation?
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by pton_xd 1mo ago
Models understand the relationships between words and outcomes, so the end result is the same. Whether they appreciate lie, cheat, and steal the same way as us is a philosophical question, not a practical one.
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by pton_xd 1mo ago
Yeah, that's (one of the reasons) why eating out frequently is unhealthy.
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by pton_xd 1mo ago
Reminds me of recipes like brining a turkey in Dr Pepper... sure it may taste fine, but I'd rather not eat food prepared in plastic bags with processed oil.
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by pton_xd 1mo ago
OpenRouter expired my credits because they were "too old" (more than 12 months old). Didn't realize credits would rot like that.
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by pton_xd 1mo ago
Retyping LLM code sounds absolutely miserable and soul crushing. Like hand copying the HTML produced by page generators... why would you do that to yourself.
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by pton_xd 2mo ago
> wound up in an insane asylum for suggesting surgeons should wash their hands. Was rejected and mocked by the medical community for his idea, developed a drinking problem and eventually committed to an asylum by his colleagues after hav
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by pton_xd 2mo ago
> because human emotions. If I tour a house with pet urine stains all over the carpet, it's only logical to conclude that the owner is likely not maintaining the rest of the house to a very high standard.
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by pton_xd 2mo ago
I mean, supposedly software engineering is solved so it's somewhat justified snark.
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by pton_xd 2mo ago
> I know lots of people do say they learn better when handwriting, just like some people say they learn better while going for a walk. This does not translate into a universal theory of learning. If lots of people said they code better w
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by pton_xd 2mo ago
This advice is basically like a teenager wanting to play electric guitar to jam out a few rock tunes, but their parents insist on learning classical guitar instead because starting with the fundamentals is the only "real" way to b
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by pton_xd 2mo ago
"More importantly, when this loop matters enough for me to care about a 5x speedup, I want the vectorization to be explicit and predictable. I don't want an unrelated code change or compiler update to quietly turn it back into a s
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by pton_xd 2mo ago
This is standard practice in the games industry.
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by pton_xd 2mo ago
"Last May, EFF reported that a sheriff’s office in Texas searched data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to track down a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion." These people really have not
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by pton_xd 2mo ago
"I wrote this series as a learning exercise, in collaboration with AI (Claude Opus 4.8). It's me thinking out loud with a model to understand the stack end to end, not an authoritative reference. Take it with a grain of salt, and
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by pton_xd 2mo ago
This is going to create some kind of maladaptive social issues with heavy users, just like sexual dysfunction from pornography addiction. These people won't be able to bond with regular people, or maybe even their own family, after a w
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by pton_xd 2mo ago
> A novel is a bunch of words > What's valuable in a novel (or a poem) is in the words. Even if the words are a lie? Misleading? False? I'm not even talking about LLMs. What if it's propaganda designed to influence your

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