BearOso

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3 giorni fadiscuss

I think putting it in terms of API pricing is oversimplifying disingenuously. Anthropic still hasn't pulled the rug out from under us, so I'm sure it cost a great deal of money once everything comes together, likely surpassing 1.5M. Summarily, they got the result faster, which a group of engineers couldn't do, but at a greater expense.

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I posted on an older article that I thought it probably cost half a million in API pricing. 165k USD is a lot lower. I wonder what the actual compute cost was. When this first hit the news, Opus 4.7 was brand new and required 6x the compute power per user token vs 4.6. The article says they were using Fable, which is way more expensive.

5 giorni fadiscuss

That's probably in an overscan area on most TVs, so it might not even show up.

13 giorni fadiscuss

Lenovo has an incentive to say prices will never go down. They need to continue selling right now when prices are high, but customers will wait if they have reason to think they'll go lower.

15 giorni fadiscuss

Backticks ` ` are used to trigger code-style formatting in markdown. Since all the coding AIs are trained almost entirely on github, you see it everywhere in their output. They'll use it even in places where it's supposed to be just plain text, and almost always in git log messages, which by spec have no formatting.

15 giorni fadiscuss

Slack uses this? Thanks for the info. I've never been forced into Slack, so I wasn't aware of that. Either way, it's stupid to use in places it doesn't induce formatting.

17 giorni fadiscuss

Yeah. It simply shouldn't be falling back to a software cursor in the first place. That's the bug.

17 giorni fadiscuss

I'm seeing lots of bots/agents misusing backticks like this. It's because people are writing agent plans in markdown and the agent thinks it's appropriate everywhere. Maybe you shouldn't be running all your comment replies through Claude.

18 giorni fadiscuss

You do realize that an LLM is an enormous decision tree? The prompt is the state and output tokens added to that are the subsequent state that's fed back into the machine. Running the math without deliberately adding any randomness would produce a deterministic output.

18 giorni fadiscuss

He's referring to accumulator styles, eg. the 6502.

21 giorni fadiscuss

In our small town, the local compliance officer is colluding with a tree-cutting company that has a contract with the city. They lie and claim trees are "dead" and they're constantly cutting them down unnecessarily at the taxpayer's expense. Pretty soon we're going to look like one of those new suburbs that are just concrete and grass, but with old houses.

22 giorni fadiscuss

We're in this situation because of laziness. I doubt doubling down on it is the solution.

25 giorni fadiscuss

Avoid the backtick quotes, too. Claude also mistakenly uses them outside of markdown.

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We had less intrusive ads. Google AdSense was originally text-only and small-sized ads. What happened? It became far too lucrative to switch to the annoying ads by taking advantage of their trusting user base. Ad companies have only one service: make money. They will all do the same thing when able to.

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Alternatively, you could have downloaded an existing one. What you did is just a roundabout way of acquiring one of the many WASM Rust GB emulators in the training set. Except it probably now has several problems from reconstruction. You didn't learn anything new from the process. It's just wasteful in several ways.

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There is a fallacy here in assuming there's 256 steps from 0 to 255. That's not true, there's 256 values that can be represented in 8 bits, and 255 steps (spaces between those values) from 0 (black) to (255) pure white. Thus, the division by 255 isn't problematic. Of course, 128 isn't half grey, it isn't in 0-255 and quantized 8-bit values are almost always in sRGB, not linear perceptive space.

This is the same kind confusion that happens with sampling positions in modern APIs, where the location is specified in coordinates and not in pixel centers.

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I've noticed as well. A lot of pull requests are just agents running constantly, hoping to have produced something of value. Entropy is at an all-time high, though.

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Going from Opus 4.5 to 4.7 secretly required 6x more compute to run. 4.8 is apparently 30% more on top. I haven't seen any optimizations lately aside from distillation. Nobody's optimizing, they're just scaling up.

2 mesi fadiscuss

I agree. The pope seemed to take the opportunity to talk about the ethics in good faith, no pun intended. But Olah just used the association to aggrandize AI for marketing sake.

2 mesi fadiscuss

That line comes across as a wink to investors. They aspire for AI to displace human labor, as does he. Reading between the lines, it just confirms business as usual, and consequences aren't even worth thinking through.