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Comment #49245789
I believe they're implying that if the data centers don't get built in Texas they will be built in Louisiana and Virginia.
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Comment #49245749
This reminds me of a girl I knew in college who worked as a contracter for a book publisher. I was surprised to learn that one of the most common types of books people submitted we…
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Comment #49233851
We're quickly reaching the point where Lidar isn't needed, pure vision workflows are getting much better.
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Comment #49229041
It's worth noting that some prediction URLs, for instance: https://longbets.org/6/ are offline. The original long bet was whether or not computers could pass the turing test by 202…
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Comment #49171524
A long time ago, maybe 2016, I interviewed at Paperless Post. The interviewer asked me explain the concept of a promise in javascript, then asked me to implement it from scratch, t…
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Comment #49085872
If you have a safe in your home and you knowingly wire up a bomb that goes off when a certain lever is pulled then you lie to the police and tell them the way to open the safe is t…
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Comment #49077396
I'm torn here because it does seem like Netflix brought this on themselves. At the same time the litigious nature of American workplaces are part of the reason large corporate envi…
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Comment #49007114
> whose job often involves making decisions based on data and established practices That's what middle management does, your C-suite has an entirely different function.
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Comment #49001880
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Comment #48998935
I personally take AA with a giant handful of salt.
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Comment #48996750
Eventually everything includes ads. It's just a question of time scale.
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Comment #48994937
All the benchmarks I see put it around the capabilities of Opus 4.8 Medium or Sonnet 5 High. As far as I can tell it's slightly better than GLM 5.2.
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Comment #48914319
Back in college, I did a hackathon where I striped data across different clouds like OneDrive and Dropbox so that even if one of the providers went down you would still be able to …
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Comment #48884904
Everything about LLMs is inefficient. They have their benefits but watching them reason over things that are painfully obvious, that they've literally investigated before (before a…
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Comment #48866282
There are different classes of mathematical problems. The one in the post definitely shows the advantages that LLMs have compared to humans for some problems but it's in an entirel…
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Comment #48866019
Sure but say some company based in Lousiana has a website that violates NYC law. What exactly will NYC do about it? Is there some mechanism to for them to block the website inside …
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Comment #48864794
Is this something that cities can really enforce? Like I get that NYC is a bit of an exception but let's say a 5 person town in Wyoming decides that they want to make this practice…
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Comment #48864773
I mean if there's something I'd bet against being solved by LLMs in my lifetime it's that one. We truly do not have line of sight into what a proof would even look like.
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Comment #48854371
I despise Google's insistence that everything be a web page.
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Comment #48851058
> expanding it beyond coding work Is there anything it can do that codex can't?
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Comment #48849409
How is this different than Codex?
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Comment #48847566
I've seen Opus do this pretty frequently, actually. It's one of the reasons I don't trust it as a model.
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Comment #48838029
DeepSWE is the one I generally trust: https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/
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Comment #48795992
Substack is doing just fine. Blogging didn't collapse, a bunch of spammy get rich quick types were a flash in the pan as expected.