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I don't think it's the dream, I think it's the cynical market-driven logic. Automation has been rolling out for a long while now, and most of the low-hanging fruit of things that c…

Humanoid robots can be dropped in wherever human labor is currently used. That makes them extremely easy to sell to industry. This unlocks, in principle, a large chunk of the poten…

I almost entirely agree with this. However, after coding quite a few large projects with LLM assistance, I can say with certainty that there is some form of "art" at play with rega…

Hello HN. There's still a long road ahead for the project, but since I've recently closed the loop on bootstrapping the language's core within itself, I thought now's as good a tim…

TU-level concepts (mostly) dissolve during the linking stage. You need to compile with -c to generate an object file in order to see the distinction. Also, the difference manifests…

> and to avoid the warning (error) the code is decorated with compiler pacifiers, which makes no sense! How is that a bad thing, exactly? Think of it this way: The pacifiers don't …

It's not just a pure matter of law, and looking at it from that perspective is naive. Legacy publishers in general (and a few big ones in particular, like der Spiegel) have been lo…

In the grand scheme of things, we've only had about a quarter century where you needed a *very* specific kind of problem where prosumer hardware wasn't adequate across computer sci…

There's no confusion here. It's pretty easy to make the argument that the combination of auto play and short form is orders of magnitude more problematic than the sum of their part…

There is a HUGE difference in that the combined short length with the fact that the video starts playing before you even have a chance to make a decision on whether to watch it or …

Honestly, I don't mind the format in principle, and the process that goes from YT's homepage to watching a single one of them is not that bad to me. As long as I get to make a deci…

If your argument is that the guardrails only provide a false sense of security, and removing them would ultimately be a good thing because it would force people to account for that…

Agreed. DEATH handing out swords to kids as Santa in the Hogfather is a funny joke, not an example to follow.

> Have you read the literature? Do you have a background in machine learning or statistics? Very much so. Decades. > Being trained by predicting one token at a time is also not a c…

> They do it by iteratively predicting the next token. You don't know that. It's how the llm presents, not how it does things. That's what I mean by it being the interface. There's…

For the sake of this conversation "understanding" implicitly means "understand enough about it to be unimpressed". This is what's being challenged: That you can discount LLMs as un…

Yeah, but that's their interface. That informs surprisingly little about their inner workings. ANNs are arbitrary function approximators. The training process uses statistical meth…

> I feel like LLMs are a fairly boring technology. They are stochastic black boxes. The training is essentially run-of-the-mill statistical inference. There are some more recent in…

Not by virtue of that alone. A choice of tech stack can never be enough to prove anything. It only establishes a lower bound on resource usage, but there is never and upper bound a…

The black box I'm referring to is us. You can't have it both ways. If your test for whether something is intelligent/thinking or not isn't applicable to any known form of intellige…

Ok, but how do you go about measuring whether a black-box is doing that or not? We don't apply that criteria when evaluating animal intelligence. We sort of take it for granted tha…

I'm glad someone picked up on my dumb joke :), I was getting worried. That being said, round-tripping works just fine, axiomatically so, until you go out of your way to discard the…

And phase. People always forget about the phase as if it was purely imaginary.