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So in computer science we have this thing called "distributed systems". It turns out that even if you buy the biggest and most powerful computer there is, all it takes is one probl…

in addition, there is also "stupid" and "not stupid"

Truly fascinating how when you're a tourist in a place that survives off of tourism, you get treated nicely.

It is utterly fascinating the ends to which people will go to insist the opposite.

The Chinese desire to raise China to global dominance is exactly a concern w/ status and wealth. It's naive to think that America and China are any different in the degree to which…

Seems like the difference b/w samurai and ninja. The samurai saw his sword as an extension of his soul - a disrespect to the sword was a disrespect to the man. The ninja used the s…

Is it not the case now that oligarchs "own" intellectual credibility? Becoming a credentialed mathematician requires an entire lifetime of devotion, lots of money or scholarships, …

Sure, I'm conflating the tool w/ the people building the tool - but imo muddling the distinction is good, because the hard distinction is what tricks people into an unthinking mode…

Reminds me of Blood Meridian where The Judge meticulously sketches the rock glyphs that he comes across, and then destroys the original. Now that I think about it, The Judge is an …

too bad hypocrisy never got in the way of people making money

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The fact that they're not being prosecuted for breaching HF's systems is bad news.

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yea, this seems to be the underlying thread here. Dunno why the author is so concerned with getting an LLM to imitate his writing style.

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We're all project-managers now. The trust required of the LLM is no different than that that required when a PM trusts a dev-team to implement correctly. As a PM, you need to under…

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a very expensive sprint

Nice point. I agree with this, and it implies that it's useless to apply the category of creativity to LLMs (at least wrt interpolation and extrapolation), and even more useless to…

so you're saying the difference b/w extrapolation and interpolation is subjective unless the difference is defined tautologically?

The more I read these think-pieces on AI the clearer it is to see that they have very little to do with LLM technology, and are really just talking about the collapse of the set of…

It's rare to see posts like this with such pure, crystalized ideology.

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I am personally very excited by the development of a medical AI-harness that would 1. operates against a well-defined DB of medical studies 2. intakes my basic demographics, vital …

I like the idea of small, artisinal, solar-farm-to-desk DataCenters.