svara

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by svara 4d ago
I'm a bit worried that this line of reasoning is assuming its conclusion, in stating that mathematics is for human understanding. This is not something that's just true on its own; it's on us as a species to make sure that
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by svara 4d ago
This has a clear answer in systems theory; the ability to bang out code was never the limiting factor for Google et al.; large organizations are limited by coordination costs. It's the small teams you need to pay attention to, the orga
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by svara 24d ago
Yes, but it's also building other skills. There's no friction to learning something new anymore, and that's really quite amazing. E.g. I've gotten pretty good at git thanks to AI because it forced me into more complex wo
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by svara 24d ago
I was sure someone was going to say that. Culture can change surprisingly quickly, but it certainly won't change in ways you like if you're not doing your part. Already, young people and the ways they use online media are quite di
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by svara 25d ago
> We're reading more words than ever, but instead of coming from books, they're coming from digital media. We're losing that same muscle for long-form reading and deep focus (...) Yes, true, but that's also very much
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by svara 27d ago
A bit ironic that this is written in idiomatic Claudese.
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by svara 28d ago
I'm probably going to be going against the grain here, but I think it's not as bad as it looks at first. I was similarly frustrated a few months ago, but have noticed I've started to learn the idiom. Its use of "dense ja
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by svara 1mo ago
AI company leadership are telling everyone, and that's paraphrasing only lightly, that there's a chance AI will destroy humanity, and will probably cause mass unemployment, so we need to put datacenters everywhere. So why do peopl
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by svara 2mo ago
Absolutely not. I've spent nearly every summer in the last 30 years in that region and it never was like this; it also wasn't that warm. Occasional fires, sure. But very clearly nothing approaching the current scale and frequency.
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by svara 2mo ago
People have not suddenly become deranged or simple minded. Two of the large recent fires in the Landes region, including the most recent, have started from poorly maintained, spontaneously igniting cars. Those also have not suddenly started
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by svara 2mo ago
> Le sujet, c’est l’aridification du milieu. Pour revenir à cet incendie, ce n’est pas un problème de culture, mais de climat. A bit of a distinction without a difference. The climate is not changing back, it's the new normal. In th
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by svara 2mo ago
The pine forest is the agriculture.
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by svara 2mo ago
You're not wrong, but there are levels to understanding. For example, when studying maths or physics, it is very common to feel like you've understood everything, until you get to the exercises, and need to apply that understandin
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by svara 2mo ago
Somehow all the with/without cookbook design examples look vibe coded on both sides to me. I'm not enough of a designer to be able to point exactly at what makes it so, but Claude does seem to have a somewhat limited repertoire of
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by svara 2mo ago
OK, but having read that section you'll see how > just writes off any improvement Is not what that section contains? There's a more nuanced point about capabilities improving in some ways but not others (ability to one-shot app
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by svara 2mo ago
Genuinely happy to hear you're successful here! But, why would you expect there to be no drawback to not knowing the local language when moving to a foreign country?
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by svara 2mo ago
You are (as am I) in the 30% of Germans (40% in major cities) with a Migrationshintergrund . At that point, it barely makes sense to call that a minority, it's just normalcy. If you find yourself in a pocket of unusual backwardness wh
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by svara 3mo ago
Thanks for actually giving a great answer to this versus the other knee-jerk comments! I will definitely look into this more. I think it's important to note that the cost of bringing a drug to market has increased a lot (about threefol
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by svara 3mo ago
It's not black and white- in pharma there are notable sources for investment that are not private, e.g. for orphan diseases that would otherwise not see enough investment due to lack of profitability. But here's a mechanism to mob
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by svara 3mo ago
Generics exist for drugs that usually someone did hold a patent for that has since expired and they're much less profitable than patented drugs. Not sure how that address the point. Again, the investment to get a drug to market is giga
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by svara 3mo ago
No, only a small part of this is publicly funded.
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by svara 3mo ago
You spend billions to get a drug from concept to approval - and then once you've invested all that money, someone else can just sell it too, free loading on all the studies you ran? Why would anyone invest in drug studies? I need a bit
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by svara 3mo ago
When searching Fastly it seems to match "fast".
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by svara 3mo ago
I think one positive thing that might come of this is for AI to act as a sort of counterweight to the fragmentation of reality into different filter bubbles. It might be difficult to make models that have useful, high intelligence, but also
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by svara 3mo ago
I'm legit pretty excited about applying AI to accelerate biological and medical discovery. It's already happening right now, still in relatively mundane ways, but there's so much to do.
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by svara 3mo ago
Okay but if I understand correctly what you did, you measured the performance with automatically rewritten prompts on Fable vs. original on Opus? This might be where the difference in performance that you saw came from.
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by svara 3mo ago
While I can only peripherally relate to the specifics of your story, I think it beautifully illustrates how interesting and mind expanding it is to spend time in different cultural contexts, and that different cultures can very much co-exis
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by svara 3mo ago
The things is, this is almost certainly what's happening. You can (could, maybe they 'fixed' it by now) get sota LLMs to reproduce entire novels near verbatim. The idea of giving it parallel texts of those novels in different
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by svara 3mo ago
Unfortunately useless if you do anything related to biology. It doesn't try to flag dangerous queries, it just flags queries as biology-related wholesale. It's absurd. To see how far the filter goes I asked it "Are trees a
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by svara 4mo ago
This is strange to me, did you really ask like this and which model did you use? I just tried your no. 1 and 3 verbatim and Opus gave fine answers; no. 6 I've done in the past with no issues. The other ones we can't really replica

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