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How long was the text? And mind sharing?

This should really be the #1 comment on this post.

This really depends what you mean. If you spend $5.00 on anthropic tokens does that cost Anthropic more than $5.00 to serve? No. If you amortize all of their training and salaries …

Almost every. Pangram is pretty accurate on longer texts. I haven't seen any glaring examples of false positives.

Honestly academic writing is the only place where I think AI slop might be an improvement over the status quo writing style.

I don't know if Ed is far off the mark. But this article does nothing to help illuminate it. He mixes estimated capex spend by like 3 different sources with actually commitments by…

The old school solution to this is have different schema in your database, and have views as the cross team public interface.

The issue wasn't sharing a database, it was not being clear about who owns what. Having multiple teams with one code base that has one database is fine. Every every line of code, t…

The vast majority of people who write don't have a voice worth preserving. The rest can build out a voice document to make sure the AI doesn't strip it out.

If AI wrote and thought better by default then I wouldn't have to read the AI slop my co-workers send me.

My experience has been (ordered from best to worst) 1. Author using AI well 2. Author not using AI 3. Author using AI poorly With the gap between 1 and 2 being driven by the underl…

If he was making an argument from data it would be cheap. But he's making an argument from lived experience against both data and someone who lives here. Are you saying that the da…

> You're completely out of touch. Even apartments are super expensive nowadays. I would gladly live in a house without A/C. Why do you have so much certainty about what it's like i…

The American media writes articles about what gets clicks not what is true. If you don't believe the enormous amount of freely available data on the internet. I am American, I had …

>But at least they could afford a house, right? I think a lot of people would accept living in a house without AC and more likely to catch fire. Is a house like that cheap today? N…

> You're ignoring the gorilla in the room. Why can't one live in a comparable manner today and bank the difference? For two reasons. 1. They're illegal. You're not allowed to build…

They lived in a house or apt with a third the sqft/person that was far more likely to catch fire and didn't have AC. If they had a car they most likely shared it. It was far less s…

They are large enough to cover their previous training costs but not their next gen training costs. i.e They made more money on 3.5 than 3.5 cost to train, but didn't make enough m…

The most impactful censure is not the government coming in and trying to burn copies of studies. It's the the subtle social and professional pressures of an academia that has very …

It's definitely not more productive per hour than 40. And if you're moonlighting another 30 hrs that'll definitely decrease your productivity at work.

> Imnsho this paper is very low quality Compared to like a phase 3 clinical trial, sure. Compared to your average paper, and especially your average business paper I don't think th…

This work would suggest that the WFH movement would see a rise in sr. engineer salaries and a reduction in jr. engineers salaries, which we haven't seen.

You can't build a universal mind-reading device that doesn't require calibration.

I get the idea of publicly disclosing security issues to large well funded companies that need to be incentivized to fix them. But I think open source has a good argument that in t…

Why? Why should we care where our pasta is made? Why not just buy the cheapest highest quality pasta, where ever it happens to be made?