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Could you imagine a scenario where from warning to complete evacuation takes more than two days? Evacuating a whole area is a hard task, particularly once you start looking at more…

— Spoilers, if you’ve not read this and yet are still reading this comment chain I guess the grooming may start earlier, it’s not really discussed and it’s a bit ambiguous as to wh…

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Oh I mean LLMs are the opposite, they’re not the same blind optimisation thing weirdly watching you with no core understanding. They’re great for this kind of thing.

Tbf if I don’t enjoy that aspect and it saves me a day or so per year that I can use for consulting instead it makes sense to do that trade. Two and a half perhaps including taxes.…

They didn’t say fibre didnt matter. They disagreed they should care more about fibre than any other.

Recommendation algorithms are, frankly, weird as a user. Something watches your tiny interactions and, with zero concept of anything happening, gets surprisingly good at predicting…

I think you’re right, my base assumption is that the models can code and can fix bugs, and can code more in parallel and faster than humans at a lower cost. If Google are tackling …

This is the research taste part - often they can be good but human experts are really good at this (also you know your codebase, without the prompt these models have no other backg…

I can say a portrait doesn’t look like a person even if I can’t do better, googles product range is an absolute mess and using it is a nightmare - I don’t know how to fix the compa…

What’s it a prediction of?

The question of agency and the question of income are different. The former - we do things manually that can be automated for fun all the time and make entirely arbitrary weird thi…

> Google acting like a normal but competent company that's just chugging away, Chugging away not releasing products or releasing ones worse than their competition typically. Not su…

IMO that doesn’t sound so much like prediction any more. It’d be prediction if it’s “predict what would come next in this text sampled from distribution X”. But what’s it predictin…

It’s always been nebulous but that was fine because we were so incredibly far away from it. We never really planned to be close to it figuring out the edge. Some have it at human o…

We have those laws. You need consent regardless of how you get the data. That’s they say “we value your data” (a phrase you can read in two ways) and ask if 1368 partners can have …

Browser fingerprinting is not cookies. Cookies are a very specific technical thing.

GDPR is not about cookies, and what data do you mean? The data about how you use the site, tied to anything they can identify you with?

It might be that what we consider a basic and very hard puzzle are extremely close together on a more absolute scale. The difference is often for us what proportion of humans can s…

It’s not about cookies. It’s about what the site is allowed to do with your data. Cookies are an implementation detail. It’s baffling we’re having this misunderstanding on this sit…

In a way it is - or rather it wouldn’t t change anything if we added more features. The default is “no”. Without explicit consent you can’t do a lot of things. You can’t have a def…

Utter nonsense. There’s no way you could get models as smart by fine tuning. I couldn’t throw a problem like “build a pokemon database with UI to teach my son sql” and get a workin…

> I've worked with these systems for four years now and they have not meaningfully improved in that time frame. Not meaningfully improved?! Four years ago was gpt *3.5*! ChatGPT ha…

Huge fan of the non-seat/monthly based pricing. Do you need it to be higher to not just cover costs but also make a profit?

> What am I missing? They’re testing the same models on the same task but different ways of organising the swarms and the new approach works better.