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The relevant paragraph about Meta’s commitment to open source is here, and the statement is significantly less confident than news is reporting > • Open source is a positive and im…

I have had a hunch for a while now that (in addition to these tools), Anthropic has actually leaned in to Claude's distinctive manner of writing since it makes the text more obviou…

It makes it easier to write recursive async functions. It makes it easier for async functions to borrow rather than clone from their outer scope. All really awesome, non controvers…

Yes but the second order effect of this is that the cost of the tooling goes up since it is now the bottleneck, and therefore the shoemakers that survive do it off of technical com…

My main gripe here is the lack of transparency around the total experiment and construction. I doubt that they simply pointed their model at these ten specific problems alone and g…

Given that we were nowhere near this state even two years ago, I think it’s a question of velocity more so than just distance.

Can anyone that works on this technology provide an honest assessment of where this technology actually stands? How much instrumentation is actually required, what the interaction …

It’s funny how much of a “ChatGPT tell” that thin weight accent header is. Sol seems to place that on _everything_.

While there is “law”, how much agency does an average European individual have in shaping those laws? This is a multi national body for which you can’t vote for its leader. You can…

178kb?! What are you putting in there, a JVM?

I’m curious what makes you believe that this distinction is precise or meaningful. What exactly is the difference?

Un what? There’s several friendly clauses among these proposals including > 8. Any contributor who feels they cannot write in English without assistance, may write in their native …

I think the questionable term is not “syntactically likely” but “merely”. Syntactical likeness is a vast solution space that encompasses the work of a terrible developer and a geni…

Not necessarily. Drop semantics are just syntactic sugar, and can thus be aggressively inlined or auto vectorized by the compiler.

you're probably only allowed a subset of the query language to talk to an encrypted table. E.g. only range queries that target a sample size > 5% of rows, etc., with exceptions for…

What strikes me the most is just how many different tasks are involved in modern model design. It used to be the case that you come up with a new loss function, slight architecture…

tags could be display only with no way of filtering for a certain tag.

Community generated tags seems like the obvious solution to all of this. You could easily give a setting to turn them off, breaks no existing systems, and allows for a broad emerge…

> We chose a different consensus algorithm for Meerkat, called QuePaxa, that aims to avoid the “tyranny of timeouts” imposed by protocols like Raft. QuePaxa is a subtle protocol, b…

This product feels bad and sloppy, so I’ll give my hypothesis for why this was built: At this point, Anthropic is likely having Claude itself propose and build features autonomousl…

Exactly. The spec should go in a git comment, NOT vcs. Or, you keep the document in history for the duration of the PR and remove it post review or pre merge

Yep. Tokio uses it for their tests in CI as well last I checked.

The article says that if your read hits a master there’s no consensus needed. Perhaps I read wrong

Looking at the implementation sketches, this algorithm looks even trickier to implement than Paxos (already a notoriously tricky algorithm to implement) and on top of that, I think…

Its also because the CoT is probably unintelligible