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No Bailouts for Big Tech Billionaires: Policies for When the AI Bubble Bursts

openmarketsinstitute.org
3 points·by nsagent·il y a 15 jours·0 comments

Kasane: New drop-in Kakoune front end with GPU rendering and WASM Plugins

github.com
53 points·by nsagent·il y a 3 mois·6 comments

Research Shows Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs

cauchy221.github.io
4 points·by nsagent·il y a 4 mois·0 comments

All OpenReview Data Leaks

twitter.com
6 points·by nsagent·il y a 8 mois·1 comments

wBlock: The next-generation ad blocker for Safari

apps.apple.com
2 points·by nsagent·il y a 8 mois·1 comments

Recommended Practices for NPOV Research on Wikipedia

arxiv.org
2 points·by nsagent·il y a 8 mois·0 comments

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nsagent
·il y a 13 heures·discuss
The restaurants get to set those values though. A coffee shop near me puts the default options as $1, $2, $3 for low order totals. So if I go in and get a coffee (which is $4.50), the lowest tip option is 22% and the highest is a whopping 66%.

I've seriously gotten tip fatigue and have been working to move back to a sane standard. I've noticed the places that have these crazy tips, also pay their staff well.
nsagent
·il y a 17 heures·discuss
I was actually surprised to hear my brother-in-law deride LLMs as being useless for areas he has expertise in when I visited for the 4th of July.

He was complaining that he would ask how to perform a certain repair on a car, and the LLMs he tried (ChatGPT & Grok) would give him a long involved process and he'd ask why not do it this simpler way and it would say, oh you're right! He just found it gave bad advice and realized (rightly) that in areas he has less expertise in he has no way to judge how good the outputs are.

This is from a guy who loves tech, historically worshipped Elon, loves his Tesla, and (rightfully again) didn't buy into SpaceX because he thought it was overvalued.

In the past when I visited for holidays he was liable to have a positive outlook on LLMs and their utility. Seems telling that he's starting to see the cracks.
nsagent
·avant-hier·discuss
MacPorts
nsagent
·avant-hier·discuss
Your links show you used a fuzzer, but that doesn't address the other half of Andrew's statement. Is Andrew misreporting/misremembering your conversations?

EDIT: It's really telling that asking a factual clarification question is somehow downvote worthy. I probably shouldn't be surprised, but this epitomizes the reason online discussions devolve in to flame wars (even moreso than real life, though it happens more and more there as well).

The answer could be as simple as we didn't use a fuzzer until recently so both are accurate. I honestly don't know, which is why I'm asking. Yet somehow just asking is triggering to people.
nsagent
·avant-hier·discuss
Treat it as a data point and make your own decisions (he does back it up with several sources that indicate a workaholic mentality with that expectation for others). Hiding it ends up perpetuating the behavior unseen.

*Below is an aside that explains why I think it's better to air these things even if it seems like "rumors and gossip."

I know first hand how toxic some people are irl compared to their public persona. There was a professor in my department during my PhD who was known to be a slave driver, but there are no accounts of it outside of the department. We would have to warn incoming students about working with her, though sometimes they wouldn't believe it could be as bad as we said. I spoke with one of her students after she left the lab due to being hospitalized for exhaustion from overwork: the professor contacted her while she was still hospitalized and asked her to complete a task ffs!
nsagent
·avant-hier·discuss
Andrew could have been more tactful in his blog post (though as I've grown older I often find less tact to be more effective), but it really sounds like accommodating Bun was a net negative for Zig.

  When Jarred joined the Zig community about 5 years ago, I described him as someone who had strong "beginner energy".
I wouldn't call it beginner energy, though I understand it might seem like that. Rather, it's an approach to development and no amount of time changes it.
nsagent
·avant-hier·discuss
I think that post highlights a difference in philosophical approach to software development. Bun is focused on moving fast and will deal with the consequences as they come. Zig takes a more planful approach.

I've experienced both in my career and I fall solidly on the planful side. It's why stopped using homebrew and I've avoided huggingface packages as much as possible.
nsagent
·il y a 9 jours·discuss
Not surprising. It seems that the comment section of every coding agent thread has at least one person mentioning they use "tokenmaxxing" to increase their token usage because it was brought up during their quarterly review, at a standup, or some other communique from on high.

Just wonder what happens when more and more companies introduce similar restrictions. Will that lead to devaluations of the LLM companies?
nsagent
·il y a 13 jours·discuss
From the article he linked:

  If a subsequent probe fails, the system cross-references threat intelligence platforms like Shodan to match the host and falls back to their specific indexing methods.
So it uses Shodan, but is not purely a mirror.
nsagent
·il y a 14 jours·discuss
This is the fundamental tension in law making and government in general.

Leaving room for nuance reduces the seeming capriciousness seen in the enforcement of some laws that look heavy-handed when applied strictly, while said underspecification can allow for abuse instead.

As long as people are individuals with their own volition this tension will exist.
nsagent
·il y a 16 jours·discuss
You appear to be arguing with a strawman; at least you seem to have ignored a central part of my message:

  The issue is that the test is positively correlated with success in an undergraduate program, so they threw out the baby with the bathwster. The real issue is that the SAT is not able to distinguish the capabilities among students to the degree it purports to.
nsagent
·il y a 17 jours·discuss
Having made graphics using TikZ, it was tedious and time consuming, but the results look great! Would have loved an easier way to make them.
nsagent
·il y a 18 jours·discuss
There are three major parts of the modern GRE: Verbal, Quantitative, and Analytical Writing. You could easily look that up, or ask if you didn't know.

Responding off the cuff without any reflection on the comment you're responding to doesn't move the conversation forward in any meaningful way. It just comes across as disrespectful.
nsagent
·il y a 18 jours·discuss
Do you also think LLM leaderboards accurately reflect the capabilities of the models being tested? If you do, then I can easily point you to numerous academic papers pointing out the various flaws in many leaderboards (from poorly designed benchmarks like bABI and the original SQuAD, to data contamination, and more).

In that same way, any test, including the SAT and GRE have flaws. They can be gamed in ways similar to LLM leadeboards: test prep makes you better at them. That's one of the main reasons universities moved away from SAT; they were afraid that it disenfranchised lower socioeconomic status students (and it does to some degree). The issue is that the test is positively correlated with success in an undergraduate program, so they threw out the baby with the bathwster. The real issue is that the SAT is not able to distinguish the capabilities among students to the degree it purports to.

And if you want an anecdote to match all yours, the first time I took a GRE practice test, I got a 3 on the writing. Not because I'm poor at writing, but because I didn't really know what they were looking for. After reading a test prep book, I got a 4.5 on my next practice test and a 5 on my final practice test. When I finally took the actual GRE, I got 6 on the analytical writing. Trust me, nothing changed in my writing ability over that time. In fact, I didn't even practice the skill except through those three practice tests. Clearly the test was not capable of determining my real ability to make an argument; it merely tested my ability to adapt my writing to what was supposedly being tested.

Interestingly, the vast majority of universities that got rid of the GRE requirements for PhD programs are not going back on that. Turns out that the students with the highest GRE scores are the ones most likely to drop out of their STEM PhD. [1]

[1]: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
nsagent
·il y a 22 jours·discuss
I moved from custom POSIX shell scripts to chezmoi due to the complexity of handling lots of random environments. It really simplified getting up and running on disparate server environments.

The last few years I've rarely had to switch machines, so maybe chezmoi is overkill now, but it works well, so I'm in no rush to simplify again just for the sake of it (and who knows if I'll need chezmoi's features for real again in the future).
nsagent
·il y a 22 jours·discuss
Get the new Powerbeats Pro 2. Nearly identical in functionality to Airpods, but they have ear hooks as they are designed for sports.
nsagent
·il y a 24 jours·discuss
Having seen plagiarism first hand, sometimes it exceedingly blatant. Like copying from a PDF that was produced via LaTeX — since LaTeX hyphenates words to split them across lines, if you end up keep-ing the hyphenation in, the te-xt reads like this.
nsagent
·il y a 25 jours·discuss
Yeah, it's been known for a very long time. Richard Feynman alluded to it in his speech The Value of Science [1] where he discussed a Buddhist proverb:

  To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell.
He then goes on to say:

  What, then, is the value of the key to heaven? It is true that if we lack clear instructions that determine which is the gate to heaven and which is the gate to hell, the key may be a dangerous object to use. But the key obviously has value: how can we enter heaven without it?
[1]: https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/40/2/Science.pdf
nsagent
·il y a 30 jours·discuss
I know this isn't going to be a popular take, but here goes anyway...

The complaints that Anthropic are routing your requests to a different model reminds me of an old Louis CK bit about airplane wifi. Clearly Anthropic was too aggressive with whatever guardrails they put in, but the response seems overly entitled to a model people didn't even know existed not that long ago.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=me4BZBsHwZs
nsagent
·le mois dernier·discuss
Having lived in bumblefuck Alaska for a year, I can honestly say that they do in fact pay more, but it's also super expensive to live in rural Alaska.

Likely a bigger issue is that very few people want to live in a town of 3000 people or less that isn't connected to the interstate road system. Money can only do so much to fix that.