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by revel 2mo ago
LLMs are bad at creative work and I don’t see them improving any time soon. Try asking an agent to write a story about raccoons. It will almost certainly involve either stealing food or raiding trash with a 50% chance of having a character
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by revel 3mo ago
Awful news for everybody, particularly those in speculative tech jobs. We may well look back at the attack on Iran as the American tipping point that caused the same kind of financial stagnation as Brexit caused for the UK.
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by revel 5mo ago
Running benchmarks at scale and protecting against reward hacking is non-trivial.
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by revel 11mo ago
What exactly do you mean by "career politician?" Being a member of the opposition in a dictatorship means giving up material wealth and putting your life & liberty on the line.
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by revel 1y ago
This is one cause but another is that agents are mostly trained using the same sets of problems. There are only so many open source projects that can be used for training (ie. benchmarks). There's huge oversampling for a subset of proj
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by revel 1y ago
I was a big enough believer in crypto to literally start a company in this space only to leave it completely disenchanted and deeply pessimistic about the direction of the industry. I felt that there were many real legal and regulatory chal
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by revel 1y ago
They used RFT and there's only so many benchmarks out there, so I would be very surprised if they didn't train on the tests.
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by revel 2y ago
> Now, imagine the uproar that might ensue from some corners today if a textbook made this sort of direct comparison between two groups, with one group happening to be white and the other black. Some social justice warriors would no doub
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by revel 2y ago
That last point about differences between dev, test and prod should be right at the top. It's rare to find teams that have set themselves up for success (for reasons I do not fully understand)
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by revel 2y ago
I didn't get that impression. Although you're right that there's likely no relationship between wives developing heart conditions and subsequent divorce, there's not enough information from the article to know whether th
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by revel 2y ago
In my opinion kubernetes is fundamentally hamstrung by the overly simplistic operator model. I really like the general idea, but it's not really possible to reduce the entire model down to "current state, desired state, next actio
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by revel 3y ago
QAnon (often shortened to Q) is the name given to the persona that has been adopted by a few different individuals and is almost certainly currently controlled by Ron (principally) and Jim (secondarily) Watkins. Calling the posts "Q in
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by revel 3y ago
If you have a subscription, the HBO documentary I mentioned, Q: Into the Storm is excellent. I think that the struggle mainstream news orgs have in talking about QAnon is that it's very difficult to encapsulate all the interlocking con
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by revel 3y ago
The contents of the letter are interesting in their own right, but there are 2 aspects that strike me as particularly interesting. First off, he doesn't seem to regret killing his wife, more the consequences of his crime. He doesn&#x
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by revel 3y ago
Although no lead is insurmountable, the fixed capital investment and mature software ecosystem specific to this sector makes it harder to imagine what a competitor would look like. Given how large the prize is, the next chapter of chip deve
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by revel 3y ago
this fits well with my vision: every website will have unskippable land acknowledgement prompts that list the entire history of that nation
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by revel 3y ago
There are some really profound misunderstandings of how bankruptcy and credit work in this thread. Creditors are ranked by seniority and get paid out in order by seniority. Equity is below every creditor and has been completely wiped out. C
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by revel 3y ago
This thread is already a damning indictment of google cloud. Price cuts alone won't attract customers -- google has sustained significant reputational damage with their crappy customer service and support. That's hard to fix
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by revel 3y ago
The CFO leaving is always a big deal. It can mean nothing but it can also mean a really spectacular blowup is about to take place.
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by revel 3y ago
I don't think that the problem is that JavaScript may or may not have this feature, it's not even that the language is large and all-encompassing; it's that mixing and matching features is highly appealing and very rarely wor
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by revel 3y ago
this is standard industry parlance
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by revel 3y ago
Is there an accompanying architecture diagram that goes with this? I'm not sure which bits and pieces are included without poking through the code
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by revel 3y ago
EDX has been in the works for the better part of a decade at this point. Totally unrelated to binance
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by revel 3y ago
Authentication is easy and solutions are more or less fungible, but there’s no obvious and easy way to do authorization. OAuth makes authentication pretty easy but all the complexity comes from authorization, which is adjacent to authentica
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by revel 3y ago
I think you're getting to the heart of what a smart approach to regulation would look like (for me at least). Try as I might, I can't imagine a situation where someone is able to subvert an LLM to come up with a world-ending scena
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by revel 3y ago
The real problem with AI, as I see it, is that we are not ready to give the average person the capabilities they will soon have access to. The knowledge necessary to build nuclear weapons has been readily available for decades, but the cons
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by revel 3y ago
Twitter has remained functional largely because all the former employees did their jobs effectively. I've seen what happens when companies lay a tech department to waste and it looks like this. This is a one-way cost reduction program
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by revel 3y ago
Although they weren't mentioned, social media and streaming video are the most striking cases. There's one flavor of social media website and it sucks. It's the same infinite scrolling page of 30s attention grabbing headline&
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by revel 3y ago
The complaint is very damning. They have receipts showing that the CEO directed the company to set up a sham compliance department to evade restrictions and sanctions. Also there's all the historic fraud and market manipulation. Hard t
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by revel 3y ago
Where is the corruption in any of this? That is a strong accusation without any semblance of an argument. During a downturn the stronger companies often acquire distressed competitors and consolidate. Evidence of corruption would be CS bein

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