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by wnmurphy 12d ago
xAI mentioned a Memphis outage, which is where Anthropic was leasing capacity on Colossus 1. I do think this is the explanation.
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by wnmurphy 12d ago
Actually, nevermind... this looks more like Anthropic and xAI coincided due to shared xAI infra (6:23am and 6:30am), and OpenAI's issue was more likely then a coincidence (7:43am).
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by wnmurphy 12d ago
Curious then as to why the incident coincided with similar issues with Anthropic and xAI.
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by wnmurphy 12d ago
Yeah, I'm looking forward to this actually. https://chatjimmy.ai/ blew my mind at how fast etched model weights can be. For on-device LLMs, there's a point of diminishing returns, meaning you don't need to ha
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by wnmurphy 15d ago
I just want to say thank you. The playa phone is a fixture. I think in 2008 I walked by it and said "oh, that's a funny art installation." Then the phone rang, and I said "wait, what? is that a working pay phone?" I
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by wnmurphy 15d ago
Every sort of experience is possible. You could spend the entire week high as a kite, biking around and just looking at everything without talking to anyone, though the vast majority of the community are people you probably would enjoy inte
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by wnmurphy 23d ago
Complement: I know many devs who are exceptional at 1 (writing code), and 2 (contextual thinking) never even occurs to them. They will happily implement whatever they are told, without ever thinking to ask "why am I being asked to impl
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by wnmurphy 26d ago
If you are a US citizen, they are not entitled to your unlocked phone. They need a judicial warrant if they want you to unlock your phone with a PIN/password. It is settled case law that that falls under your protections under the 14th
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by wnmurphy 29d ago
It’s a preemptive attack to prevent accountability for Trump and Hegseth under the next presidency. All of those extrajudicial boat attacks that have been justified by claiming they were smuggling drugs (cocaine imports to the US haven’t dr
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by wnmurphy 1mo ago
Seriously. I see a cool product that someone built and is sharing with the community, and the top comment is basically a criticism that it's not a $31k terminal.
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by wnmurphy 1mo ago
In case this is useful for anyone, this study on high-risk HPV and medicinal mushrooms blew my mind: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25271984/ In 88% (36 out of 41) of patients with high-risk HPV, taking reishi + turke
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by wnmurphy 1mo ago
Humor requires a sudden orthogonal leap from context. That's what a punchline is. I think you're saying that you can eventually train models to arrive at that destination by training on existing jokes, effectively encoding these l
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by wnmurphy 1mo ago
I had a related insight, but in the domain of humor [1]. LLMs are inherently probabilistic, and there's currently no mechanism for producing an orthogonal directional change in the path traced through a latent space which is also conte
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by wnmurphy 1mo ago
There's value to hand-copying something. Hunter S. Thompson transcribed Hemingway to internalize the cadence of his writing. However, if you're serious about it, then why not hand-write your LLM-generated code? You'll get muc
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by wnmurphy 1mo ago
Where do you suppose the taco trucks procure their lettuce?
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by wnmurphy 2mo ago
Intelligence doesn't require sentience. Think of it like this: if you can offload a task to an AI model that requires reasoning or representing a nonlinear system, you are offloading intelligence.
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by wnmurphy 2mo ago
It's funny to me that these models were created by effectively "distilling" all available content including the proprietary works of many other people, but now it's a problem that someone is doing the same to them. You&#
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by wnmurphy 3mo ago
I think the author's choice of words is framing the discussion. They did build their own website, but they loved the look of the one they saw, so I'd think a better choice would be "inspired by" rather than "stolen
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by wnmurphy 3mo ago
This was my first thought as well. Hunter S. Thompson used to copy Hemingway by hand to internalize his cadence.
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by wnmurphy 3mo ago
The telemetry will tell the story, not the clickbait news headline based on preliminary information. I seriously doubt FSD would drive into a house.
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by wnmurphy 3mo ago
> Until Tesla (or someone else) actually takes responsibility while the car drives itself Were you aware they're already doing exactly this in Austin and Dallas?
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by wnmurphy 3mo ago
Another factor I don't see mentioned: every Trump policy is inflationary. Deporting the labor base, deterring legal immigration, applying tariffs that were basically derived by taking the trade deficit with a country and dividing by 2,
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by wnmurphy 3mo ago
> FSD is up to v14 and there is no sense in which it's "Full", or is likely to be "Full" any time soon. I think the SpaceX IPO is way overvalued, but have you actually tried FSD v14 yourself? My car has 8-year ol
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by wnmurphy 3mo ago
Which means more Grok degradation, more severe throttling, etc. I can't understand why xAI charges 50% more per month for Grok over competitors when it doesn't even gracefully downgrade to a cheaper model when paid subscribers hit
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by wnmurphy 3mo ago
This is the exact analogy I use to explain how models work to laypersons as well.
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by wnmurphy 3mo ago
I'm considering Anthropic. I think they will be one of the survivors if/when the AI bubble bursts. I was dubious about SpaceX (orbital data centers need to solve for extreme radiation and error-correction during training), but the
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by wnmurphy 4mo ago
I really want Spotify to follow. I feel cheated and deceived when I'm enjoying some music, then I realize that there's no bio for the artist and they released 7 albums in 2025. Users should be empowered to filter out AI content if
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ChatGPT voice mode and zalgotext = nightmare fuel(wnmurphy.com)
2 points by wnmurphy 4mo ago|1 comments
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by wnmurphy 4mo ago
A while back, I discovered by accident that forcing ChatGPT to respond only in zalgotext and then using voice mode generated some really bizarre audio. Have uploaded the audio files for anyone who's interested. They've since patc
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by wnmurphy 4mo ago
My car drives itself. That's a $18T global market. Also $1T in data center investment makes sense when you realize that companies are racing to create virtual white collar workers. Google spends $9B a year on software engineers.

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