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Comment #48453943
The for-profit is a PBC with the sane mission at the nonprofit [0] [0] https://openai.com/index/built-to-benefit-everyone/
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Comment #47856195
The paper they published last year goes over some of these transformations: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09263
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Comment #47853725
> Integrating an imperceptible, robust, and content-specific watermark From the system card someone linked elsewhere in the discussion
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Comment #47464789
No LLMs are calibrated?
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Comment #46866264
I mean, you could also frame this as an issue the electorate could actually prioritize instead of just hoping the courts work it out
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Comment #46484001
The derivative being a grad(ient) student sampling scaffolds against evals + qualitative observations: most prompt-based llm papers
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Comment #45076769
Cancer is a parasitism that kills the host (or the host dies from other causes and it is not self-sufficient). Just because something is defined by uncontrolled self-replication do…
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Comment #44536481
It isn’t actually very wrong. Your example is tangential as graders in school have multiple roles — teaching the content and grading. That’s an implementation detail, not a counter…
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Comment #44536438
> Good evaluations write test sets for the discriminators to show when this is or isn’t true. If they can’t write an evaluation for the discriminator I agree. All the input data is…
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Comment #44536401
I wish the other replies and this would engage with the sentence right after it indicating that you should test this premise empirically.
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Comment #44533390
If this sort of error isn’t acceptable, it should be part of an evaluation set for your discriminator Fundamentally I’m not disagreeing with the article, but also think most people…
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Comment #44532406
LLMs evaluating LLM outputs really isn’t that dire… Discriminating good answers is easier than generating them. Good evaluations write test sets for the discriminators to show when…
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Comment #44202406
in the app: Settings ~> Data Controls ~> Improve the model for everyone
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Comment #43846497
That’s a premise that would make me consider the wiseness of my actions.
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Comment #43644200
Quippy, but off the cuff: - I don’t go to my present town square(s) socially because it is full of a-social behavior. Same reason to avoid certain bars or clubs, prefer certain par…
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Comment #40731692
Really enjoyed the piece. A passing thought: the ethe of individuals in the 70s and 80s is important because of the people it informed in subsequent years. While many people still …
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Comment #40730664
Glibly, I’d also love your definition of the education system writ large.
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Comment #40638263
Bit of a detail, but where are you deriving “with hundreds of terabytes of unified GPU memory” from?
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Comment #40612094
No, but it makes more conceptual sense given the model can consider what was said before it
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Comment #40111211
I love the romance of this piece, but in my experience he’s just describing the difference in expectations of learning biology at a high school versus advanced undergraduate to gra…
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Comment #39454685
> “Our best shot at making the quarter is if we get an injection of at least [redacted]% , queries ASAP from Chrome.” (Google Exec) Isn’t there a whole anti-trust case going on aro…
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Comment #39237367
You could probably consider learning a sign wave to be a “grammar” related to periodic variations. Grammar in this context feels like “What are the core conceptual heuristics that …
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Comment #39172906
I'd assume they mean users interacting with the chart vs first load. So the user sees the base chart (Let's say 1MB of data on the server, less depending what gets pushed to the us…
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Comment #39171447
Exactly what I want from DuckDB. Was playing with using it as a quicker cache for a data app backed in Snowflake, wonder how hard it’d be to write the attach for that vs doing it a…