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Yes, but the point being for the LLM to be useful to us it has to do something relevant for us and we have to define what is relevant. Even if you view them as fully human level or…

Maybe? At the end of the day, even if they are some insane oracle (pun intended), they're still bounded by training data and how it relates to the real world. Even if they're a nea…

You develop a set of heuristics for skimming it in the same way you do with code. Big wrapping operations like sums, integrals, and matrices, then what's nearby them, give you a ve…

FWIW I quite liked it but I'm from the RF world so maybe I'm biased.

It's a 4th power because you're doing the inverse square law twice, once for the outbound pulse and once for the reflection.

8B is still three orders smaller than current frontier though

The anti counterfeit strategy is that the volumes here aren't worth it for someone to clone, even if the board and code are dead simple. These niche hobby products are usually reas…

Still a strawmam somehow?

I fear you underestimate the malice of the average tech company

Medical/psychological experiments involving human subjects are mandated by federal law to run through a review board. Did that happen here? This isn't a medical experiment, but I d…

That's not what the parent is talking about. You're using the strawman of what appears to be occupancy zoning or something similar to argue that a techno fascists should have free …

Yeah, it always strikes me when this crazy, obviously stupid stuff ends up "49 to 51" like either there are active forces fighting each other ending in an equilibrium, or the equil…

Idk if many people remember how Reddit was when it started, its whole draw was that it was a bunch of relatively intelligent/friendly western internet people who liked to kinda rol…

I see this parroted constantly but it seems to be getting proven wrong by Japan and, frankly, the US

I agree with the second part, 90% of apps are just a vague rehashing of 100 other apps, very little novel software ever gets written, especially at the component level. The point b…

Here's a much simpler reason: the output of an LLM, mathematically, is average. The code it writes is, effectively, the geometric mean of github. The ideas it comes up with are the…

I take the opposite view but to the same conclusion. I've heard the joke "the more advanced you get the worse you get at math" from a lot of mathematicians. I'd bet most mathematic…

The manufacturing is really deeply gnarly. Like crazy materials you'd have to reverse engineer the production process for, then reverse engineer how to form the blades so they'll s…

It's actually safer-ish. First: terms. Filtering is good, involves moving slowly through stopped traffic between the cars, usually under 20mph differential. Splitting is less good,…

Motorcycles aren't invulnerable 3 ton steel tanks but the stats and anecdotes are deceptive. They're really not that bad if you're not a moron, even if you're mostly worried about …

It's so fucking bad. I'm watching a team try to maintain a huge dashboard/control application that interfaces with a large amount of hardware using solely AI workflows. Literally n…

The issue wasn't really git master, that was a side effect. Google what MISO means and maybe go learn some actual kernel development.

On one hand yeah it's a little over the top. On the other hand I don't think this was written for our proto-techno-fascist forum...

There are a multitude of ways to significantly curtail crime that don't rely on this paradigm of spying on everyone. That's like saying "I can't get to work on time, we need to kee…