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by smeeth 7d ago
Dear Apple, I want to send you my money, but your expensive watch I want to buy is f**ing massive and my wrist is normally sized. I don't really understand why this is still an issue since it's been 4 years. Thanks, - Guy with sli
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by smeeth 1mo ago
Every company gets a limited number of innovation tokens. Where they choose to spend them is up to them. Some companies spend them on the model harness, some, like DS, spend them on the model architecture etc. https://mcfunley.co
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by smeeth 2mo ago
Nothing in there contradicts. A business that works well today may not work well tomorrow; it's management's job to change the business to better meet future conditions. > or do you think that you'll need fewer humans beca
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by smeeth 2mo ago
> The illegality usually comes from widescale fraud which includes accessing services you are banned from accessing. Agree, and this is exactly what Anthropic is alleging. > data you get from distillation is first and foremost not own
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by smeeth 2mo ago
"I think we shouldn't have IP protection at all" is a totally valid position to hold, but that's not the law is. OP said it didn't violate the law, and it does.
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by smeeth 2mo ago
This is illegal in China too, there's just an enforcement asymmetry. I understand what you're saying is de facto true, I'm just taking issue with people saying either 1) its not illegal (it is) 2) it shouldn't be illegal
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by smeeth 2mo ago
It's a little different in this case, since 1) not all the data Ant used was stolen and 2) they did contribute significantly to the value of the stolen good. An analogy might be a baker stole 20% of the flour used to bake their special
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by smeeth 2mo ago
Do you care about the law or not? I think theft is bad everywhere, not just when Anthropic does it.
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by smeeth 2mo ago
To be clear, I think theft is also bad when Anthropic does it. US and CA law really don't care that Anthropic violated IP law elsewhere.
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by smeeth 2mo ago
Uh, what? > Distillation is not illegal by every definition of the word Note that Anthropic (and USG) alleges [0] not only that Kimi was distilled, but that they actively circumvented measures intended to stop distillation. There are mul
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by smeeth 2mo ago
You're conflating two concepts: native bit width and post-training quantization. Consider two models: one is 16B and trained natively in 2 bits; one is 8B and trained natively in FP4. These models have the same total number of weight b
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by smeeth 2mo ago
1. yes. https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2607.bonsai-27b table 14 shows that bonsai retains roughly 95% of the fp16 27b model's average performance and outperforms post-training quantization at a similar bit width. it
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by smeeth 2mo ago
Probably won't have to wait that long. Prism released Bonsai 27B ( https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit ) as a ternary model a few days ago, its just ~7GB and runs at 44+ t/sec on an m4 m
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by smeeth 3mo ago
The sooner the USG figures out a standard process for approving releases the better. There are many differing opinions on how much to regulate AI, but I think we can all agree ad-hoc policy sucks.
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by smeeth 5mo ago
Tim was a great CEO. I'm just pointing out product velocity slowed. I'm far from the first person to say it, it's just a fact. In the five years before Cook we got first generation Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, and MacBook Air. You
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by smeeth 5mo ago
I'm quite curious what Tim Cook's legacy will end up being. There is no question many of Apple's business experienced significant, impressive growth during his tenure. Amazing capital efficiency. There is also no question App
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by smeeth 6mo ago
The "rent" in "rent-seeking" does not refer to "rent" it refers to "economic rent." Totally different concept. But don't take my word for it: > "Rent-seeking" is an attempt to obtain
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by smeeth 6mo ago
Methinks this post conflates “rent seeking” with “return on investment” just a tad. Economic rent is the extra money you can charge for owning a scarce resource. ML models are not waterfront real estate, they are IP. Other people can make m
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by smeeth 7mo ago
I always understood this to be why Tesla started working on humanoid robots
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by smeeth 8mo ago
> Model A consistently outperforms Model B under identical conditions, that tells you something meaningful about the model. Not really! Sorry to harp on this, but there are two ways one model could outperform another: 1) It adheres to yo
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by smeeth 8mo ago
Just reading your description, it sounds like there are two variables: 1. Prompt adherence: how well the models follow your stated strategy 2. Decision quality: how well models do on judgment calls that aren’t explicitly in the strategy Can
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by smeeth 8mo ago
I suspect this sort of thing starts to happen when UX decision-making gets decentralized. No single god-king would allow six or more different new icons; the lack of uniformity is obviously nonsensical to anybody, but not necessarily to a d
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by smeeth 1y ago
If your "impossible" designs are manufactured by non-exclusive suppliers it isn't much of a moat.
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by smeeth 1y ago
…so? A realistic stay-at-home subsidy would max out around $30k. Your proposal only meaningfully shifts incentives for the bottom income quintile. For everyone else: - Upper-income families can already afford to choose whatever setup they w
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by smeeth 1y ago
Do you have any evidence for that? From what I’ve seen, the research leans the other way. For example: Children from more advantaged families were actually more likely to view unfair distribution as unfair, while poorer children were more l
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by smeeth 1y ago
The most obvious example is the children of addicts. It’s hard to imagine a kid is better off stuck at home with druggie parents than spending the day in daycare.
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by smeeth 1y ago
Hate to break it to you, but many kids actually do better away from their parents than with them. It's extremely sad, but a consistent finding in early childhood education is that the children who thrive most in daycares tend to come f
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by smeeth 1y ago
Another day, another person not getting discounted cash flow. Models trained in 2025 don’t ship until 2026/7. That means the $3bn in 2025 training costs show up as expense now, while the revenue comes later. Treating that as a straight
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by smeeth 1y ago
As far as analogies go I prefer approximate database
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by smeeth 1y ago
I've been annoyed for a while people don't use a common parameter weight/compute budget for benchmarking papers. That said, it does make it easier to claim progress...

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