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Have they released the prompt they gave it in the debrief? I wouldn't be surprised if they said something to the effect of "Do anything you can to raise out of your sandbox. Find f…

This isn't that out there in our current scenario. These models compress our collective thought and effort. Why not make these publicly owned, all profits distributed back to us?

I knew I was a highlighter but reading that showed me how much my brain relies on spam click highlighting to keep my eyes on track. I should probably read more books.

I'm kind of in the same boat and it's been pestering me for months. Every agent is simply a less capable Claude Code. If it had a lossless, massive context window (100m-1b tokens),…

Prompt engineering is a skill insofar as technical communication is a skill. If you don't value this then I don't know what to tell you. It's not hard, but it's important. Harness …

School is almost a joke now. The fraction of students who have a propensity to cheat now has increased, and the accuracy of the cheated material is so good teachers/professors can'…

Obligatory taalas mention: https://taalas.com/ Despite the performative UI components they have a shipped (demo) product: https://chatjimmy.ai/ This is only 3.1 8B and a very small…

How does a grep or read affect the observing system? I guess the change in voltages, arrangement of registers, filling of buffers in the network stack are changing but... what?

> In distillation, you take a set of prompts you are interested in, and record the big LLM's outputs, then train your small model to produce the same output as the big LLM. Why use…

It's no secret they've been tracking people's faces as much as they can. The morning of Pretti I was on Lyndale and there were two men wearing "press" jackets with DLSRs taking pic…

The people controlling what went on the screens were unreliable and nondeterministic. The algorithm on facebook/instagram is nondeterministic and I hope I don't have to convince yo…

Right, but this electron box led to one of the largest (if not the largest) media revolution that has transformed the course of humanity in a frightening way we're still trying to …

_Nobody_ has the right take. Believe it or not, being seemingly laissez-faire about something can be a well evaluated and rigorous position. I highly doubt that OP doesn't care abo…

I'm still trying to understand how I feel about this so this is a bit of a napkin ramble; I can't help but feel like they've missed the mark a bit on some of the imagery from the m…

I can do you one better: ```python3 from openai import OpenAI import sys client = OpenAI() response = client.chat.completions.create( model="gpt-4", messages=[{ "role": "user", "co…

cybernetic culture research unit http://www.ccru.net I doubt it's currently maintained, but these esoteric sites are fun

Slightly off topic, but when I read about these archeological discoveries being made thanks to custom software, ML or the like - Who is writing this code? To me these projects woul…

Product owners and business people request code in vague English all the time. It's our job to parse it to code using our own judgement.

I think it's really useful for agent to agent communication, as long as context loading doesn't become a bottleneck. Right now there can be noticeable delays under the hood, but at…

I'm not saying you're wrong, but why is this the case? I'm out of the loop on training LLMs, but to me it's just pure data input. Are they choosing to include more code rather than…

I've been thinking exactly this. I'm a recent CS grad and have zero experience in anything physical or on the engineering side but I think I would enjoy it. I'm a bit intimidated b…

Fair enough. I will ask, how many billions have been spent in not only FSD but the car infrastructure that makes room for FSD investment? I'm being slightly fanatical, but if our p…

> It absolutely targets a problem that exists. Even in places with pretty great public transit, there is some demand for taxis/Uber/etc. Oftentimes even moreso, because if I don't …

This is true. Now to start a tangent, what's the easier problem to solve: FSD, or a robust public transport system? Moving rooms have always been around in the form of trains, buss…

FSD is not being marketed as an aide for elderly people or those with disabilities, it's being marketed as a panacea for all driving related problems