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Reminds me of Thucydides describing some of the civil wars that erupted in various cities in the wake of the Pelopponesian war. He says that when order breaks down, thoughtful mode…

Their release post was on HN recently. The comments seemed to think that it was similar to OpenRouter, not an actual model.

Certainly, but I think you need to have a library card to use the computers. I do see folks who look homeless using the computers, so I assume there must be a special accommodation…

In the US? I think you most likely need to provide proof of an address

I think this post will age poorly. Middle managers were not “waste”, they served a social function of creating stability and managing workloads. I think the proposed “new model” pr…

> the cost of executing on a bad why just dropped to nearly zero Ah ok, wait until Anthropic sends you the bill.

The style is very obvious. Some snippets that display classic patterns: “ Both of those things are true. That’s the part most benchmarks can’t see,” “And it’s changing how I” (clas…

Those percentages seem in line with what I have heard. Not company-wide, MSL was exempted, of course, and probably a few other golden geese here and there.

I am also on the job market, but as a Senior. Pro-tip: ask them this question before they ask you. “One quick question I have about the company culture, …”

You might be describing EleutherAI

I hope this finally works out. I remember almost exactly ten years ago I got excited about one of these proposed cancer cures, tried to talk about it at lunch with my coworkers, an…

> so what may be happening is that bosses see that output is at 80% (productivity down!) but workers see that they can give that 80% output with 40% effort (productivity up!). So w…

Not just “a startup”! Also, famously, Meta, with their famous AI usage dashboards

I guess an uncharitable way to read this might be “the ML engineers/scientists want to automate all of the jobs except their own.”

I’ve heard this theory before. I think in the medium term it will have some effect, but a lot of these ultra religious groups have high attrition. In the long run, evolution will h…

I’m going to try to win the award for the most controversial theory on this thread. The real reason we are having population shrinkage is because evolution did a crappy job. It did…

I think TI calculators are not a source of distractions the way a phone or a laptop is

You’d think so, but I haven’t seen it explicitly discussed in their papers, and nobody else that I know of trains on that many tokens

Liquid does amazing work, but I kinda feel like they are overtraining their models. 38T tokens seems like a lot for an 8B model