thatguymike

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by thatguymike 26d ago
It should burn N + len(answer), because you have to re-cache the whole answer without the prompt stack. Perhaps more persnickety, it pushes the LLM out of distribution - if it’s unnatural for it to write in plain language without the prompt
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by thatguymike 27d ago
“Users are the product” is a phrase used when the users aren’t the ones paying for a free service. For a paid API the users absolutely are the customers.
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by thatguymike 1mo ago
Impossible in fact, because there are 4 of them and you can’t repeat numbers
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by thatguymike 2mo ago
I agree an academic research program wouldn’t spend billions on a datacenter, but that’s just a reason why foss AI as described in this article won’t work - because big compute is required to do anything of real relevance.
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by thatguymike 2mo ago
FOSS is the wrong analogy. Building frontier LLMs isn’t primarily an engineering discipline, it’s a scientific research program. Of course we do have basically open source research programs, including most universities and big projects like
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by thatguymike 2mo ago
They are definitely doing this to build RL environments. Absolutely heinous.
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by thatguymike 2mo ago
Very interesting! I honestly would have expected the opposite: I was optimistic about strongly functional languages in the age of AI. The more modular and side-effect-free your code is, the easier it should be to constrain changes, catch sl
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by thatguymike 3mo ago
> A total of €13.5 million has been allocated to the project. > This public investment underlines the importance of an independent, trustworthy and future‑proof Dutch language model. It does, but not in the way you think it does.
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by thatguymike 3mo ago
The next Jonathan Blow is going to be massively empowered by their tools and make something wonderful. Having fewer people involved can lead to a more focused execution of their vision - most amazing indie games are like this. But yes your
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by thatguymike 4mo ago
I love the concept - blocking apps are often too restrictive which makes me disable them. Slowing could be a nice alternative. This probably uses a vpn? It’s important to think about how to stop me disabling it casually. I use Opal which bl
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by thatguymike 5mo ago
Agreed - they dont even need to send an employee to do it, they can just send a driverless waymo with the luggage surely!
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by thatguymike 5mo ago
A decade ago I gave a presentation on automata theory. I demonstrated writing arbitrary symbols to tape with greek letters, just like I’d learned at university. The audience was pretty confused and didn’t really grok the presentation. A gen
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by thatguymike 5mo ago
Well this is incredibly joyful, well done.
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by thatguymike 5mo ago
Tech Guy reinvents meditation
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by thatguymike 6mo ago
Curious, that doesn't match the graph up on the Leaderboard page? https://arcprize.org/leaderboard
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by thatguymike 6mo ago
That’s… not how the labour market works
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by thatguymike 9mo ago
Happy new year from SF. 2025 was about hanging on, balancing a heavy workload and a new baby, but in ways which I’m confident are the right decisions for our future. I did a lot of Becoming An Adult this year, learning to trust myself and m
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by thatguymike 9mo ago
The conceit here is that it’s the bot itself writing the thankyou letter. Not pretending it’s from a human. The source is an environment running an LLM on loop and doing stuff it decides to do, looks like these letters are some emergent beh
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by thatguymike 9mo ago
Not easy, but I have a friend who did this by reaching back out to his old professors and colleagues, figuring out what they needed, and ended up doing a swe project in his old lab and built that into a consultancy which does tech partneri
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by thatguymike 10mo ago
Based on this article alone, I can believe this is a good thing. The US military suffers incredibly from its monopsony position and without a doubt will get a heavy wakeup call (read: dead young people) next time it has to fight a real war.
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by thatguymike 10mo ago
Why doesn’t the government put Cloudflare or something in front of their site?
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by thatguymike 10mo ago
Oh I was hoping for this but with real birds in my neighborhood. Still neat!
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by thatguymike 1y ago
Not taking away at all from the message, but: there's something funny about a freehand MSPaint extrapolation appearing in a post about econ PHDs :)
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by thatguymike 1y ago
This is great. Watch them take the data down in 3, 2, 1... Until then I'd love to see trails of where the traffic enforcers have been on the main map, it would make the map more engaging.
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by thatguymike 1y ago
It’s funny, I immediately thought it was LLM but I was fairly confident it was ChatGPT. I suppose the styles are converging more than I thought: too long, lists, “not just x it’s y”, “here’s the X”…
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by thatguymike 1y ago
Good news! It's being worked on, announced in the blog post linked from that article. https://openai.com/index/helping-people-when-they-need-it-mo...
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by thatguymike 1y ago
Getting laid off in our careers is indeed likely, but part of the deal is that it’s not mutually exclusive to becoming a multimillionaire. We work cushy jobs for high pay, with the possibility of absurd payouts, accepting that the deal we g
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by thatguymike 1y ago
This article suggests it's mostly groups which the democratic party is against, but can't stop because of loose campaign finance regulations. But the posted article suggests the DCCC is involved with Mothership. https:/&#x2F
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by thatguymike 1y ago
A fundraising 1.6% efficient fundraising model... This surely can't be true can it? Surely a national scandal if so?
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by thatguymike 1y ago
> The King of Ink Land, who is now considering using a VPN, … > At the moment, he feels stuck with no clear solution. Hm.

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