svachalek

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by svachalek 5d ago
We're not talking about a 6k virus file though. More like 10 terabytes and it needs a server that can pack all that into VRAM.
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by svachalek 5d ago
DigitalOcean (at least through OpenRouter) is pretty reliably bad in my experience. Fireworks can be great, but it depends on the model and on the day.
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by svachalek 5d ago
I don't know why mathematicians got lumped in with physicists further down the thread. In my experience this is a well known stereotype of physicists and while of course not universal you don't have to look very hard to see where
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by svachalek 5d ago
Ugh. To be fair to the LLMs they're trained on industry blogs, and if you spent too much time reading them you'd also think every electronic stamp album needs to scale to a billion users with millisecond regional failover.
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by svachalek 5d ago
Yeah I've felt that gut punch all the time. Seems to happen with every technology. In the early days of GPS, people would ask for directions to the gas station then pull it up on their phone map and go "yeah, you're right!&qu
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by svachalek 7d ago
I tend to agree. Software development history is a long saga of things that are bad and still popular. Think of how popular J2EE, XML, and SOAP were at some point, and they're just miserable to use or maintain.
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by svachalek 8d ago
Wait, isn't it ChatGBD?
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by svachalek 12d ago
I'd say Occam's Razor leans easily to the former as well, given the history of projects that Snowden revealed and were never shut down, plus all of the cooperation with the federal government that's being touted in recent ann
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by svachalek 14d ago
Those hypothetical "small government conservatives" are running up the Federal deficit at a breathtaking, unprecedented pace. What's actually going on is much simpler to explain as corruption.
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by svachalek 14d ago
Ah yes, the great US institution of ad tech. Mass privacy intrusion in the service of selling clicks for a nickel.
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by svachalek 15d ago
I think this was the biggest shock of the original ChatGPT for me. Just how completely unrobotic its voice was compared to everything we'd ever imagined in sci fi. Even that early version was also way more adept at understanding things
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by svachalek 16d ago
The entire output of an LLM is also part of its input. Appending to long stretches of LLM-generated text, it will continue to get more and more robotic as the style of the input gets replicated and enhanced in the output. It's possible
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by svachalek 16d ago
Neither book stores nor app stores pay for quality, beyond some minimum low bar. Markets are optimized for getting product out quickly, sales and marketing, and follow on effects of succeeding with a hit. If you made a better app, game, boo
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by svachalek 16d ago
It can certainly be negative sum for a generation at a time, say 20 years. The US stock market has the good fortune of not doing that in a long time but if you look around the world for example Japan these periods are not hard to find.
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by svachalek 17d ago
Hasn't the past 30 years of the Internet age taught us that given such trust, programmers will make the incorrect decision with horrifying predictability? The most trivial level of software security requires that pointer safety needs t
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by svachalek 20d ago
I'm really not sure, I identify with people on all sides of this in different ways. If I try to picture an apple, I get something - vague, fleeting, not in my actual field of view - that tells me something what it feels like to look at
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by svachalek 20d ago
Well those that claim humans are conscious need to come up with a test to demonstrate it empirically. Then we can have LLMs take the same test. As it is, it would be insane for me to confidently claim you are conscious or even that you&#x27
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by svachalek 21d ago
It's a shame because the Bambu product line is genuinely first class. They don't need to play these games to compete, and could have won a lot of genuine good will by giving a little back to the community.
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by svachalek 21d ago
I don't see anyone other than ZAI yet but GLM 5.2 is available on many providers worldwide so I'd expect we'll see the same on this one soon.
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by svachalek 21d ago
Chinese universities are really a huge advantage, even in the US many of the top staff in model development are Chinese. Another big thing is the hardware costs required to train models. Between those two factors it really looks like this w
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by svachalek 22d ago
It's a little more like App Store "gems" imo, with some clarity and honesty removed. Pay for "usage" that disappears arbitrarily: coded that bug fix for you, 3% usage consumed. Would you like to upgrade your plan to
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by svachalek 22d ago
Come back tomorrow so you can raise your faction reputations another 0.00001%!
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by svachalek 22d ago
You're right, probably nothing to do with moving all manufacturing out of the country or Reagan's union busting.
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by svachalek 23d ago
In chess? That ended in ~2017.
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by svachalek 23d ago
The industry has always had niches where quality is really important, such as NASA where you install your product in a multi-billion-dollar, one-of-a-kind robot and launch it into space. However, for the most part all that matters is that i
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by svachalek 23d ago
It really wasn't. Ask the average young coder these days how many registers their CPU has, or even the difference between the stack and the heap.
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by svachalek 23d ago
Those are some big ifs and assumptions unfortunately, and the use of AI unfortunately has an isolating effect that is only likely to move the needle in the wrong direction.
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by svachalek 23d ago
We've gone through this with chess, and the days when a human can do anything to help AI there are long past; the human can only drag it down. It seems to me to be a form of the bitter lesson. I expect this will happen in every field w
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by svachalek 23d ago
Their point is directional. Fed is lowering rates but yields are rising.
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by svachalek 23d ago
1 in 6 households in the US are millionaires. And they're nearly a mutually exclusive group with the underemployed and educated. These are very large groups of ordinary people who are very much not running the ship right now. There&#x2

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