thuuuomas

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by thuuuomas 11d ago
It’s not just from industrial sources. Many flame retardants are “forever chemicals” & are often wantonly dumped by fire departments, Air Force bases, etc.
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by thuuuomas 14d ago
Why do you think that is?
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by thuuuomas 27d ago
Is there any evidence the books are truly "destroyed" & not merely "disassembled"? It's common practice to cut the spine & binding off a book, scan the loose pages, & drop the rubber-banded loose pages i
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by thuuuomas 1mo ago
Your neighborhood examples are on an incomparably smaller scale than Meta et al. It’s much easier to disregard the human cost of decisions when you are separated from said humans by thousands of miles & billions of dollars.
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by thuuuomas 1mo ago
Redundancy is robustness is expensive.
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by thuuuomas 1mo ago
Why should IP persist in a world of “intelligence too cheap to meter”?
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by thuuuomas 2mo ago
> a characteristic that leads to a propensity for AI A smoldering sense of inadequacy compels use of the adequacy machine
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by thuuuomas 4mo ago
Do you use Grok multiple times per day? Is Grok solving Erdos problems?
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by thuuuomas 4mo ago
Why would they sell it for less when they could sell it for more? We’re witnessing “American exceptionalism” transform from a brash claim to a whiny demand in real time.
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by thuuuomas 4mo ago
> I think you won’t get [cathedral],.. > even if you do get [cathedral], [bazar] will run circles around you…
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by thuuuomas 5mo ago
Because it’s hooked up to a microphone in your kitchen & your kid is arguing with you about what lunch they want & they say “Hey [agent], what day is pizza day at [school]?”
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by thuuuomas 8mo ago
Tell me, is the deployment of that famous talking sand at all resource-constrained?
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by thuuuomas 8mo ago
We aren’t even mining asteroids near Earth’s orbit. Space colonization is a ketamine dream. There’s no extraterrestrial economy. Earth is all we have. One pie.
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by thuuuomas 9mo ago
In a phrase: Worse Is Better
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by thuuuomas 10mo ago
My concern with something like this is content marketing or other forms of surreptitious advertising. Will you clearly indicate “boosted” authors/publishers/pieces?
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by thuuuomas 10mo ago
> Corporations and governments are made of actual people. Hand-waving away the complex incentives these superhuman structures follow & impose.
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by thuuuomas 10mo ago
Yeah, it's on codeberg https://codeberg.org/uzu/strudel
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by thuuuomas 10mo ago
Glad we agree that the “builder” without craft is just looking for the nearest exit.
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by thuuuomas 1y ago
In the United States, the working poor are considered deserving of their burdens in an immutable, moralizing, Calvinist way. “They make bad choices.” “They have bad culture.” “They have bad genes.”
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by thuuuomas 1y ago
Today’s public benchmarks are yesterday’s training data.
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by thuuuomas 1y ago
I cannot understand this prideful resentment of theory common among self-described practitioners. Even if existing theory is inadequate, would an operating theory not be beneficial? Or is the mystique combined with guess&check drudgery
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by thuuuomas 1y ago
> If you like it or it makes you feel something, that's all that matters. You’re right! > Even jazz uses 6-2-5-1's over and over. You’re not even wrong! I wonder if jazz does anything else besides that?
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by thuuuomas 2y ago
A major floodplain in Michigan has a similar problem with dioxin contamination. https://www.michigan.gov/-/media/Project/Websites/mdhhs/Fold...
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by thuuuomas 2y ago
In another world, macros could have filled the role that programmable yaml fills today.
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by thuuuomas 2y ago
You’re narrowly addressing LLM use cases & omitting the most problematic one - LLMs as search engine replacements.
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by thuuuomas 2y ago
I tire of this disingenuous comparison. The failure modes of (experienced, professional) humans are vastly different than the failure modes of LLMs. How many coworkers do you have that frequently, wildly hallucinate while still performing
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by thuuuomas 2y ago
Why are they attempting to model LLM update rollouts at all? They repeatedly concede their setup bears little resemblance to IRL deployments experiencing updates. Feels like unnecessary grandeur in what is otherwise an interesting paper.
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by thuuuomas 2y ago
The negative tone of some comments here betrays that techno optimist suggestion that tech will solve environmental issues. Clearly, the incentives just aren’t there!
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by thuuuomas 2y ago
There’s a decent supercollider implementation as well https://github.com/everythingwillbetakenaway/DX7-Supercollid...
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by thuuuomas 2y ago
These results speak towards the absence of an audience for poetry as much as they do the aptitude of LLMs for creative writing.

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