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by xyzzy123 4d ago
Right but if I make public statements that I am very worried about dog attacks would it not strike you as weird for me to specifically train my dog to fight? Agree you are going to get reward hacking regardless and any model which can do co
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by xyzzy123 4d ago
In the OpenAI case, they hacked websites while they were specifically being trained to do exploit generation and I wonder why more people are not asking questions about that.
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by xyzzy123 4d ago
I am finding it hard to read these deeply impassioned letters while keeping in mind that they are spending millions to train models at scale to do the exact thing they say they are worried about them doing. Not general "intelligence&qu
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by xyzzy123 4d ago
I am finding it hard to read these deeply impassioned letters while keeping in mind that they are spending millions to train models at scale to do the exact thing they say they are worried about them doing? Like why are you explicitly RL-in
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by xyzzy123 4d ago
bytes/$ or bytes/mm^3 are important properties of storage. But there are a lot of others like read cost (if that is very different from write cost), iops, cost per iop, latency, durability, storage conditions (do I have to keep th
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by xyzzy123 17d ago
The author is Corey Quinn who is usually... not slow to criticise Amazon when they deserve it. His business is cloud cost engineering and his natural enemy (or best friend since it generates so much consulting) is AWS's managed NAT gat
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by xyzzy123 19d ago
As I understand it, the killer app is llms. You could run MACs directly in RAM, offloading a lot of work from CPU and cutting down on insane (external) memory bandwidth required. Imagine (this is a fantasy pitch but potentially achievable f
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by xyzzy123 22d ago
I've been there and would advise thinking about which parts of the job are causing you stress. Few of the things that make work suck are unique to tech. Is it the hours? Unrealistic expectations around work output? Hostile management
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by xyzzy123 24d ago
The specific complaint of the poster seems to be that certain people are NOT being "come for".
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by xyzzy123 24d ago
It does seem to me that for this specific problem the materials are a lot more amenable to control than the information is? There's also this weird revealed threat model thing going on? Like why does it make sense to support heavy LLM
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by xyzzy123 24d ago
I don't fully understand the instinct to regulate local models for this? It seems like the wrong place to address the problem. You can download Ebola sequences right now if you want to. That's not the same as having an isolate. T
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by xyzzy123 25d ago
Mostly you should assess rule of law by threat to you and people you know and not by what it seems like other people are able to get away with. Yes, a big part of the idea is that laws are meant to also apply to the powerful, but it's
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by xyzzy123 28d ago
I'm not really sure the thing they were trying to measure was measurable with the study design and level of funding they had. To be fair, the paper is fairly clear on the limitations and much better than the press release. The study is
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by xyzzy123 1mo ago
In my opinion this is one of the areas where GPUs provide a qualitatively different experience than unified memory boxes. For an EPYC with a 5090 (no layers on CPU) vs an M3 max 128GB, qwen 3.6 27B at 128k context / 7k generation:
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by xyzzy123 1mo ago
You can get 5-10x the perf out of the blackwell under the right workloads. It has faster VRAM (> 2x) and can do a lot more matmuls (>> 10x). They're both good value (or crazy expensive) depending on how you look at it. It depe
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by xyzzy123 1mo ago
I can't tell if your comment is satire or not, so, bravo :) From my perspective what I always loved about "the profession" was a relative LACK of gatekeeping. I loved offensive security for the same reason, there was a long r
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by xyzzy123 1mo ago
Great, the start of model segmentation where I'm gonna need a legal license to ask about legal problems, a nutritionist license to create a meal plan, a medical license to ask about an x-ray, a pilots license to ask about a flight plan
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by xyzzy123 1mo ago
I feel like the details of this are highly dependent on the confidence of the warning; moving large numbers of people (particularly elderly) will result in some deaths regardless. I guess more time to do it should help though.
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by xyzzy123 1mo ago
I know this is uncharitable and I am wrong but I am having trouble coming up with concrete scenarios where you die with 2 days notice but survive with 3. I am nonethless a believer that more accurate forecasting has value.
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by xyzzy123 1mo ago
There are a lot of tasks that are hard for organisations to run consistently but require some intelligence - monitoring logs and metrics for anomalies and security events, backup audits, audit processes in general, ensuring document quality
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by xyzzy123 1mo ago
The value prop for the crazy sounding idea of putting GPUs into orbit.
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by xyzzy123 1mo ago
I guess my v0 would be notches around the mating end to allow for compression, and a hose clamp. Maybe split shaft collars off aliexpress for a fancier look. The design space of barbell collars is a big set of worked solutions to a very sim
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by xyzzy123 1mo ago
Since it's the morning I thought I would ask Claude to create an example. This is just a first pass; it will be totally wrong but demonstrates the general idea. I don't know anything about barbells or your sensor: https:/&#x
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by xyzzy123 1mo ago
I would consider asking it to model its proposed designs in openscad or build123d (ideally something query-able). Then have it render and examine plausibility / suitability from different angles. Get it to render the part in use also a
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by xyzzy123 1mo ago
I do feel like Oxide are qualitatively different from the others pjlmp mentioned because they're staying commodity in key interfaces like CPU ISA / OS / ecosystem (thing with big network effects) and mainly focused on fixing
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by xyzzy123 1mo ago
The other aspect is that the electrical parts of the power system are lighter at the higher frequency too. A 400hz transformer is meaningfully smaller and lighter than a 50hz one. This is the same idea as switching power supplies but planes
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by xyzzy123 2mo ago
You're right of course, LLMs provide a partial, unsound oracle. The "halting problem is unsolvable" argument relies on the oracle not being able to output "not sure". But adding that option admits trivial oracles, l
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by xyzzy123 2mo ago
Its funny because you can write a halting problem oracle by calling out to an LLM and have it return yes / no / not sure and get it to work reliably for almost all real code, like that is an entirely practical thing to do in 2026.
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by xyzzy123 2mo ago
Hi, shredding the book is to reduce potential legal liability of format shifting - if you shred the book after scanning, the theory is you are not increasing the number of copies. This has come up as a factor in legal rulings. The legality
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by xyzzy123 2mo ago
> Practically speaking, is there really a difference between prompting an LLM to create a CMS for a website and installing something like WordPress or Ghost? There is some difference; when you install WordPress or Ghost, your problems ar

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