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An omnipresence in wired?

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astrange
·4 小時前·discuss
A VP is not a designer, and doesn't have a standard anything.
astrange
·昨天·discuss
You'd be stuck on how to update "the color of a TV tuned to a dead channel". Was never sure if that meant a starry sky or a bright blue one.
astrange
·昨天·discuss
> LLMs seem particularly bad at writing prompts for other LLMs for this reason

Claude is terrible at this! Probably for the same reason that its writing style in prose is so annoying and full of claudisms.
astrange
·昨天·discuss
It might need the longer answer to think about the question, so one approach would be to ask it normally and then ask it to repeat itself shorter.
astrange
·昨天·discuss
If that was the case in a non-trivial way you'd see mode collapse, but you don't, they come out differently.
astrange
·23 天前·discuss
https://www.the-scientist.com/chatgpt-and-alphafold-help-des...

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.15204

> They already fold proteins with simulations.

I like how you're trying to argue with the Nobel committee here.
astrange
·上個月·discuss
Bad pelicans are in the training set because it's read his blog post. Including a good pelican in midtraining wouldn't help the problem because you'd just produce that every time.
astrange
·上個月·discuss
Query streams aren't really useful data in any sense. Just like nobody else is actually profiting from "selling your data".
astrange
·上個月·discuss
It is not a sponsored article and he writes one of these every time a new model releases. Why would a professor at Wharton need to write sponsored Substack articles.
astrange
·上個月·discuss
> Super catchy names like Opus, Mythos and Fable trying to get you to think that these software products are actually super-human life changing experiences.

They're originally named after the blends at a nearby coffee shop.

https://postscript.co/pages/brew-guide

I've noticed nobody at HN knows what "marketing" is or how to do it. It's not just naming things and being evil and cynical is not the most successful method.

…also frontier models are a superhuman life changing experience. If they aren't, what possibly could be?
astrange
·上個月·discuss
How can a patch be "reproducible"? The testcases are reproducible.
astrange
·上個月·discuss
Scraping the internet isn't a copyright violation. Using it for LLM training is much more transformative than Google and Internet Archive, which are legal.
astrange
·上個月·discuss
They all looked like real CVEs to me.
astrange
·2 個月前·discuss
Do you actually have evidence this works and doesn't degrade performance?
astrange
·2 個月前·discuss
That's how a base model would work. An assistant model is simulating a human and behaves the same way a human would if you screamed at them.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/emotion-concepts-function
astrange
·2 個月前·discuss
The US doesn't.

"Social standing" in this case means if your girlfriend's parents will let you marry her. Not, like, who likes your LinkedIn posts.
astrange
·2 個月前·discuss
> everyone else - namely blue collar and service workers - are doing worse and worse

* better and better

https://www.nber.org/papers/w31010
astrange
·2 個月前·discuss
Inequality is not "ever increasing". You should resist the urge to say everything is constantly getting worse just because that makes you look more sympathetic to the poor.

(A worse issue is that inequality decreasing can mean things are getting worse for everyone.)
astrange
·2 個月前·discuss
Depends what you mean by "control". If you don't own a nice house, car, driver etc. but your company just happens to provide it as a perk, then you still have it.
astrange
·2 個月前·discuss
It sounds very AI. Current AIs' ideas of good writing involve weird metaphors, references to sensing things you can't sense, and tricolons.