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by simonw 8d ago
My point is that researchers and academics really have been doing this for decades - it's the reason projects like Common Crawl and LAION exist. I think it's notable that nobody was calling out those researchers for their lack of
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by simonw 8d ago
How do you feel about the integrity of the machine learning researchers over the past twenty years who trained models on scraped internet data that weren't particularly powerful and didn't attract any attention?
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by simonw 8d ago
> While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models . Once again, I'm no closer to understanding what https://openai.com/policies/how-y
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by simonw 9d ago
The difference is memory bandwidth. The M5 Ultra that's coming out on 22nd September can do 1,200GB/s. The M5 Max you can buy today only has 614GB/s.
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by simonw 9d ago
I don't think we even have a year. The current batch of LLMs are ferociously good at identifying vulnerabilities.
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by simonw 9d ago
Got any leads on good tutorials on how to use a microkernel operating system on a VPS somewhere to host a website?
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by simonw 9d ago
> Andrej Karpathy and AI systems engineering into a single hour. His core thesis: "You can actually delete everything… Delete everything, keep Graph." Yeah, that's not what that video is about either. This is weird!
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by simonw 9d ago
I'm a little intrigued as to what is going on here. Searching for "Prompting is dead in 6 months" returned this video, the Hacker News thread, and a LinkedIn 15 minute extract from this video where the author claimed that it
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by simonw 9d ago
This is a mislabeled upload of stolen content. The original video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuZoDsNmG_s - on the official Stanford Online YouTube account. It has the title "Stanford CS230 | Autumn 2025 |
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by simonw 9d ago
The US can't even vote for universal healthcare. I have real trouble seeing a path for UBI.
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by simonw 9d ago
I hope for their sake they bought all the RAM they needed to fulfill those Kickstarter orders at least six months ago.
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by simonw 9d ago
The Kickstarter page makes that a little more obvious - it's hardware: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tiinyai/tiiny-ai-pocket...
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by simonw 10d ago
Yeah that one looks like controlled mouse updates. I wonder if they sped up the video?
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by simonw 10d ago
Presumably to try and reduce the chance of a mass panic among their users.
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by simonw 10d ago
I've been using Blender via Astra (and Sol before they) without any UI automation at all - Blender supports writing and executing Python scripts, here's how I'm doing that: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms&#
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by simonw 10d ago
I think it's a genuinely good implementation of the concept. It looks good and plays reasonably well and captures what it needs to capture from the original. (Update: OK the sword fighting isn't good. As I got deeper into the game
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by simonw 10d ago
I was impressed by this 3D version of Zork. Video: https://bsky.app/profile/emollick.bsky.social/post/3muqcwa4j... Demo: https://zork-underground-empire.netlify.app Code: https://github
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by simonw 10d ago
Thanks for saying that. For what it's worth, I kept engaging because you clearly had a perspective based on real issues and deep consideration.
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by simonw 10d ago
My eye glazed over a bit during the opening paragraphs, but once you get to the meat of the article about how OpenAI's own researchers are using their tools it gets a lot more interesting. I noted that they use the acronym RSI (for Rec
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by simonw 10d ago
Which part of "let's compare advanced AI systems being then sketch out a child-like drawing of a pelican riding a bicycle and then argue over whether or not they should be wearing a hat" isn't funny to you?
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by simonw 10d ago
> Please read past the LLM-ness of any given post. I just can't. LLM assisted posts are often so long , and the hints are usually obvious right at the start. They're so unpleasant to read. "It's not X, it's Y&qu
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by simonw 11d ago
This article is a direct rebuttal of that idea.
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by simonw 11d ago
I remain worried about prompt injection style attacks against self-driving cars. Imagine if someone finds a weird image pattern that gets misinterpreted as instructions and hangs that off a bridge over a freeway.
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by simonw 11d ago
> What if the result of the port causes everyone involved in the original to give up? What if this capability causes people to harm themselves because they now have no economic value? Yeah, this is one of the harms of Ai That I don'
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by simonw 11d ago
And just in case we are talking about different things here... https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/criticis... presents two different definitions (among several) of "criticism": "the
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by simonw 11d ago
You mean this one? https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/porting-justhtml/ I think that's a good illustration of my critical stance. It ends with several open questions: Even if this is legal, is it
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by simonw 11d ago
If your definition of "critical" is "this stuff is all bullshit and doesn't work" then no. If you're looking for coverage that talks about what doesn't work as well as things that do then I've been pe
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by simonw 11d ago
Uncritically?
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by simonw 11d ago
I've been pretty consistent about my disinterest in AGI: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... "You have a very strong track record of speaking out of both sides of your mouth
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by simonw 11d ago
Anthropic are uncomfortably interested in "model welfare" in my opinion - it's a regular feature of their system cards. Here's the Fable 5.1 PDF: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/0339e6a7c5c7b87f5c07798616dc

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