wonnage

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by wonnage 1d ago
Dan spent 50k words missing the forest for the trees People had been calling a housing bubble since 2003. You quite literally need the market to do dumb things over a period of time before the bubble pops. Otherwise it’s not a bubble! Actua
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by wonnage 3d ago
Surely if you hoover up every book in existence to feed into an ai model you must be extracting more than 1.5B in value. If not then it’s not a viable business.
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by wonnage 12d ago
The whole point of transformers is that you can take “a tiny ML model” and just scale it up 100000x and then it tells Zuckerberg what to bake with his kid
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by wonnage 12d ago
You can pour a bunch of beads into a pachinko board and end up with a normal distribution. Do the system “know” they need to go there? Then you feed a bunch of tokens into a GPU and end up with a distribution of possible next tokens…
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by wonnage 12d ago
I think you are just litigating the philosophical debate of Bayesian vs frequentist interpretations of probability. Because the weights really are just probabilities. Bayesians say that the probabilities represent strength of belief, implyi
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by wonnage 13d ago
This article presents some evidence for why Grep might work better but I don’t think it does a great job of explaining why it gets chosen - is it something that was intentionally reinforced during training or was it just because LSP is hard
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by wonnage 13d ago
Don’t forget making podcasts and telling you what to bake with your kids
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by wonnage 14d ago
They literally fearmonger for a permanent underclass, it’s definitely not decreasing
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by wonnage 14d ago
It’s all just vibes
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by wonnage 17d ago
Not sure if Blink is more locked down but Ring works alright with just Homebridge + HomePods
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by wonnage 17d ago
Those are rookie numbers, once Elon sends my agents to Mars they’ll be doing 40 extra minutes per sol
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by wonnage 17d ago
AI is somewhere down there with Covid and Ubisoft, I’m gonna go with yes
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by wonnage 17d ago
Do not recommend. There’s this stupid hard limit every day which takes like 8 hours to reset no matter how many tokens you used
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by wonnage 21d ago
Furthermore the present CDC was gutted by an administration whose solution to Covid was to stop counting
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by wonnage 22d ago
Rates are around 3.5% right now before taxes.
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by wonnage 23d ago
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it
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by wonnage 23d ago
The company may be losing money but the people are getting enormously rich and cashing out religiously
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by wonnage 23d ago
ChatGPT already notifies the authorities if it thinks you’re doing something illegal. Fable downgrades itself if it thinks you’re doing something even vaguely suspicious.
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by wonnage 23d ago
Believe it or not, you can’t just run a profiler on everyone’s browser
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by wonnage 23d ago
I’m not surprised it works on a simple app.
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by wonnage 24d ago
In my experience if you’re at the point where you have something to sample then the hard part is already done. In a perfect world everything is covered by distributed tracing and the problems are only in your application code and the agent
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by wonnage 24d ago
That works for well trod paths, e.g “fix ci” works exceedingly well. “why app slow” obviously doesn’t work because the task is underspecified. But in order to properly specify you either need an experienced engineer who knows how to narrow
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by wonnage 25d ago
Go ahead and explain why you decided to use “quantum” and “liquidate” then bro
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by wonnage 26d ago
2000 ai generated tests on a hobby project that the author has almost certainly not reviewed does not inspire confidence
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by wonnage 26d ago
It has all the hallmarks of just telling an agent to scrape MDN and make a website
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by wonnage 29d ago
It could be the economically rational thing to do if they think there is a bubble
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by wonnage 29d ago
I think we’re saying the same thing?? It is literally just vibes and all this faffing over which model has better “taste” is pointless Where you’re wrong is pretending there is any intellectual rigor to the discussion which justifies promot
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by wonnage 29d ago
This sounds about as unhinged as Google saying Material Design 3 is 30% more rebellious
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by wonnage 29d ago
Thinking the giant array of GPUs has “taste” is exactly the problem
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by wonnage 29d ago
AI-pilled obsession with "taste" is bordering on insanity It's just vibes

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