vagab0nd

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by vagab0nd 12d ago
If the agents couldn't talk to each other, how did they know which obscure wiki to use? Is this some kind of a Schelling point?
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by vagab0nd 12d ago
> it wrote 13 million lines of Lean Is this basically like opening up a black box and seeing 13 million gears all rotating seemingly randomly and still having no idea how the machine actually works?
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LZ sees surprising result in search for dark matter(www6.slac.stanford.edu)
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by vagab0nd 12d ago
Sounds like we just need better proof of work infra? Obviously the bots are using the optimized hashing code while the users suffered.
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by vagab0nd 12d ago
CC extracted the private keys from the AT&T modem and moved the decryption to my UCG. No more slowdown when scraping the internet. This is a pretty well-documented hack but without CC it'd probably take much longer.
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by vagab0nd 17d ago
The stem models were getting better and better, but stopped dead right around when GPTs started to work.
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by vagab0nd 21d ago
This is so 2024. Now that software is solved, you should write your own browser plugins. I have one for each website I visit often. - One for Amazon that removes the annoying sidebar they recently added, and ads from the search page - One f
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by vagab0nd 26d ago
"There's no reason for websites to be ugly anymore"
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by vagab0nd 1mo ago
> outside test flight environment This is the way. I have a setup that refreshes all my apps at 4am so they never expire. To get around the 3-app limit, I build all the features I need into one super app.
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by vagab0nd 2mo ago
> Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word For some reason, I had a very different picture when I read the title. A real, conscious bug that chews out words in documents to change the meaning of the text, thus
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by vagab0nd 2mo ago
Another source I'd love to see scraped or opened up is the New York Times archive, along with other newspaper archives.
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by vagab0nd 3mo ago
I get where you're coming from, but this seems no different from the risks associated with having a baby. Pushed further, babies never consent to any of the traits they inherit from their parents.
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by vagab0nd 3mo ago
For most tasks, I don't value the LLMs based on their absolute capabilities. I wouldn't want to use GPT-4 today even if it's free.
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by vagab0nd 3mo ago
Compared to the vast amount of things you will be able to do, the ones that are hard limited is a tiny portion.
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by vagab0nd 3mo ago
I think it comes down to scaling and removing the bottlenecks. If you build one data center on earth, you did just that. If you build one in space and make it work and cost effective, you can scale infinitely (which is why SpaceX is uniquel
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by vagab0nd 3mo ago
I used to be in the "AI will soon do all your thinking for you" camp, but I was overlooking a scenario: sometimes the gap between what you understand and what you're trying to achieve is so wide that no prompt can bridge it.
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by vagab0nd 3mo ago
I do enjoy my self driving car :) I've been enjoying it for the last 6 months. And I will enjoy my trip to Mars, when there are nice hotels there. But it's gonna be a while. It's a good time to be alive.
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by vagab0nd 3mo ago
As much as I love vim, I still want my cursor tied to the mouse when I'm in a web browser. If you recorded how I browse, you'd see seemingly random mouse movements, clicks, drags, and scrolling. I think it helps me read and keep t
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by vagab0nd 3mo ago
At this point you are not buying a particular chip. You are buying whatever compute you can get.
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by vagab0nd 4mo ago
Isn't that the market cap of the company? That doesn't mean the company creates trillions of dollars of value. It just means the number of shares times the last per share trading price is trillions of dollars.
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by vagab0nd 4mo ago
You will wish you had them when you need them. There might be reasons in the future that you don't realize now. Plus the fact that storage is cheap. So the most logical thing to do is to keep them unless you have a good reason to delet
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by vagab0nd 4mo ago
Guns should be illegal because they can be used to kill people.
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by vagab0nd 4mo ago
One huge plus of owning is you are forced to put money each month into a likely appreciating asset. It probably doesn't beat someone who diligently DCAs into s&p 500 though.
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by vagab0nd 4mo ago
This left a strange feeling. The article reads as extremely bleak. But from a different perspective this is extremely bullish for AI.
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by vagab0nd 4mo ago
This is a valid perspective, but I don't think a useful one. Being able to produce code is a huge unlock for many non-programmers. So in a way, it doesn't matter how much time existing developers spend on coding. It's about h
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by vagab0nd 4mo ago
Giving Musk the benefit of the doubt, here's a thought experiment: It doesn't seem like any of the big labs in the US can keep a lead for more than 3 months. The Chinese models are closing in. Even if xAI comes up with the best mo
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by vagab0nd 5mo ago
This has become a problem for me. I like trying new things. But I also know that in about a week, there's going to be a better/cheaper setup. And a week after that. And ideally I'd like to get some coding done when I'm n
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by vagab0nd 5mo ago
Is this really surprising? A face has what, 40 intrinsic dimensions? Isn't this just like facial recognition? A paragraph sure has more than 40 dimensions.
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by vagab0nd 5mo ago
Think about it. He's stealing from the US military. The politicians are stealing from you. Who's laughing now?
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by vagab0nd 6mo ago
I thought we've long passed the Turing test, until I tried to implement a chat bot. It's not even close. It's easy to "pass the Turing test" for 5 minutes. It's extremely hard if you try to hold a longer, conti

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