ren_engineer

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by ren_engineer 6mo ago
somebody looked at Claude Code's binaries and Anthropic is testing out their own app platform called antspace. Not sure why people are shocked, they've been cloning features of their API customers and adding them to their core pro
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by ren_engineer 1y ago
bodybuilders once again 10-20 years ahead of mainstream science
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by ren_engineer 1y ago
cell tower dump and general geofence warrants to Google/Apple were how many Jan 6th protesters were found and charged. Courts threw out all their arguments about this very issue. This is standard practice and was celebrated as cops bei
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by ren_engineer 1y ago
you'd think they could use AI to interpret the best model for your use case so you don't even have to think about it. Run the first few API calls in parallel, grade the result, and then send the rest to whatever works best
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by ren_engineer 1y ago
Gwern talked about it when GPT 4.5 came out, a ton of breakthroughs with image and text AI came from anons trying to optimize models for their waifus. That's basically the origin of chat models in general - https://www.reddi
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by ren_engineer 1y ago
/g/ was the origin of Chain of Thought for AI, also where llama weights were first leaked
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by ren_engineer 1y ago
lol that was a bait thread, this is the same place that had a discussion on whether a pitbull could defeat the Sun if it snuck up on it at night
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by ren_engineer 1y ago
churches don't get billions annually in government funding, they are treated like any other charity in terms of donations
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by ren_engineer 1y ago
those endowments, especially for the Ivy League schools, aren't liquid at all. They'd take a massive haircut if they had to start pulling funds from it
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by ren_engineer 1y ago
no, but there would be much more push back against this type of action if Harvard and other universities didn't alienate a large chunk of the population. Why should the taxpayers fund places that openly admit to decades of racial discr
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by ren_engineer 1y ago
the judge you are quoting literally worked in FDR's admin when they were deporting millions of Mexicans, regardless of whether they were born in the US. They didn't get due process
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by ren_engineer 1y ago
these types of moves wouldn't be possible in the first place if these institutions hadn't spent decades burning their own credibility. They even mention Alzheimer's research in this post, something that has literally wasted b
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
just cutting government spending would automatically put the US into recession, deficit spending is the only thing that has kept things going. Huge amount of job growth is either direct government hiring or indirect through businesses hirin
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
hyperscalers in shambles, no clue why they even released this other than the fact they didn't want to admit they wasted an absurd amount of money for no reason
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
saw someone point out how they could have framed it as a way to reward good workers, but instead they showed how they can go after people underperforming. Just bad framing and shows how out of touch they are
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
>Janus is the roman god representing changes, transitions from past to future, beginnings and ends Deepseek flexing on OpenAI with this model, basically say their time is over
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
not sure why people are surprised, it's been known a long time that RLHF essentially lobotomizes LLMs by training them to give answers the base model wouldn't give. Deepseek is better because they didn't gimp their own model
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
comparative advantage is disproven at this point, because economists are failed math majors who don't account for the innovation flywheel effect and general network effects. Silicon Valley software industry happened because of the prox
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
their energy policy has essentially crippled their economy
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
Gen Z only voted democrat by a 4% margin which is an absolute death sentence for the democrat party considering people only vote further right as they get older. For context Obama won that demographic by 20% in 2012, and won it by even more
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
not when the majority of real estate is being bought by investors just looking for a place to throw money regardless of price. That's the main issue in Canada and in tier 1 cities in the US. The people owning the RE don't live the
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
and yet deepseek just created an amazing model with the fraction of their compute resources
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
forced to finally release after that new open source model came out that was equal or better?
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
target market is probably people who will write it off as a business expense
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
ChatGPT itself is them copying their own API users, this is just them building out more features already built by users. My guess is they know they don't have a long term edge in models alone, so they are going to rely on expanding Cha
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
Newton should have known to always leave a moon bag
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
some tweets about it, I guess we'll find out soon enough how bad the damage is https://x.com/FossilLocator/status/1840218595541778791 https://x.com/emollick/status/176650458778187819
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
and apparently removing the cap on returns for investors
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
you've also got Brockman taking a sabbatical, who knows if he comes back at the end of it
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by ren_engineer 2y ago
most of the people seem to be leaving due to the direction where Altman is taking OpenAI. It went from a charity to him seemingly doing everything possible to monetize it for himself both directly and indirectly by him trying to raise funds

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