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Spartan-S63

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Spartan-S63
·4 dagen geleden·discuss
I took a long break from reading for enjoyment after I graduated from college. I got burnt out from reading things I didn't enjoy in high school and undergrad. Now it's what I do to wind down my day before bed. It's a nice relaxing activity that allows my imagination to run a little.
Spartan-S63
·18 dagen geleden·discuss
I'd be interested to see more concerted research into contagious/self-replicable vaccines that are self-replicating and spreadable to a wider swath of people. That seems like a step forward in public health prevention for seasonal illnesses that we have well-engineered and safe vaccines for.

I understand the bar for deployment would need to be high to ensure that side effects are even rare compared to typical voluntary vaccinations.
Spartan-S63
·vorige maand·discuss
If we're evaluating a person, rote recall is not necessarily cheating. It's expected, but then you'd expect them to apply that rote-memorized information in a novel way later on and prove they understand how they applied their priors to the new situation.

Models don't actually reason in the same sense, so recalling rote from their training data is "cheating" in the sense that the training data cheated, not the model. So many of those benches have snaked their way into training data to make them less useful benchmarks. That, I think, is going to be a long-term difficulty in quantitatively assessing model quality and "intelligence." So it is cheating, in a sense of what we expect from the models and training data, but not in a human sense.
Spartan-S63
·vorige maand·discuss
No, the public at large are the stakeholders. The enterprise is the subject of the regulation.
Spartan-S63
·vorige maand·discuss
How is the subject of potential regulation considered a stakeholder?
Spartan-S63
·vorige maand·discuss
I find that OpenAI's agentic tools and models are better for building human-maintainable software. Meanwhile, Anthropic seems to be cosplaying Apple while missing out on all the exceptional engineering required to create something that polished. Their admission of predominately using Claude with little human oversight and their stealth mode is an indictment of a poor engineering culture, from what I can surmise.
Spartan-S63
·vorige maand·discuss
I think the ideal, but politically infeasible outcome would be passing regulation to prevent hyperscalars from hosting their own models (or requiring wholesale leasing of infra), akin to other country’s telecom line-sharing regulations. Essentially convert machine intelligence to a regulated-utility industry rather than a competitive enterprise.

Consolidation is inevitable, so let’s lean in and ensure society, not shareholders, reap those benefits.
Spartan-S63
·vorige maand·discuss
I don't fully agree. If the only way information and cross-pollination is through in-office water-cooler conversation, that's an organizational smell.

If you have most of the work and conversation is done in public, you're not hiring very curious people.
Spartan-S63
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Most variants of GPT-5.5 are less chatty and token-intensive than Opus 4.8/4.7, so despite the output token price being higher, it generates fewer tokens, so the net cost is lower.

Per-token pricing is totally sensible from the provider-perspective on mapping COGS to revenue, but for a consumer, different models will produce more or less tokens, meaning the cost calculation is multi-dimensional.
Spartan-S63
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Yeah, it's certainly a departure from the Prius-style hybrid powertrain. I'll watch that video as I haven't come across it yet!

Also, I love how my 4th gen Tacoma drives! So glad I got a long-bed Trailhunter last year.
Spartan-S63
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
If they cleaved off xAI and let it die, they'd be in much better shape!
Spartan-S63
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
I now have a hybrid Toyota truck (Tacoma i-Force MAX), so it's not like the classical EV/BEV powertrain, from my understanding. Instead, the motor is between the engine and the transmission, so it gives an initial kick of torque before the engine starts or provides sufficient power.

It's interesting that Toyota has two hybrid models: one for efficiency and one for low-end torque performance.
Spartan-S63
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
I had my breakup with them when I realized that I always install vim keybindings for every editor I use and that Neovim plus plugins gives me the typical workflow I use. It became a no-brainer to lean into the LSP ecosystem (and DAP for debugging) and have the native version of the way I like to edit files.

It also helped that Neovim tends to consume minuscule amounts of resources compared to IntelliJ. I like the product Jetbrains developed, but I don't like how resource hungry it is—running JVM software is something I try to avoid, if possible.
Spartan-S63
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
> except that no one has been able to articulate what "new work" might emerge

I think it's worse than that. The frontier labs are purporting that there won't be any "new work" required in the future—starting with knowledge workers and then eventually snaking down into more manual labor jobs via robotics.

The irony is that these same labs are still hiring engineers to build the machinery they're so convinced will make engineers obsolete. It's so paradoxical it's not true.

The only true things are that AI is a bubble, the current technology is unsustainable given the amount of compute required, and LLMs are overhyped in what they can do well versus what they need to be closely supervised with.
Spartan-S63
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Wouldn't it be incredible if they remove the sequel trilogy from canon and rebrand "Legends" as the actual post-Galactic Civil War timeline? I'd certainly like that.
Spartan-S63
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
At some point, because these models are trained on existing data, you cease significant technological advancement--at least in tech (as it relates to programming languages, paradigms, etc). You also deskill an entire group of people to the extent that when an LLM fails to accomplish a task, it becomes nearly impossible to actually accomplish it manually.

It's learned-helplessness on a large scale.
Spartan-S63
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
Yeah, I agree with this. I think age-related content moderation is a losing fight and one that will create more contempt for laws, more surveillance, and much more PII surface area that will be exploited.

There are really two "core" issues at play:

1. The prudish nature of US society

2. The fact that we don't have data privacy laws and restrictions on digital surveillance by private companies
Spartan-S63
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
App Tracking Transparency. I first through "AT&T" and then actually realized the acronym.
Spartan-S63
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
And even if you could be made whole via insurance, the TSA agent not facing repercussions and the system not having a feedback loop to improve is the actual problem.
Spartan-S63
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
I think this, or calmer heads prevailing and Powell retaining soft power/influence are the most likely outcomes. Without being able to dismiss board members at will, Trump won't have the influence he wants over the Fed.