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> I'd like to know a lot more about how that works. Count load-bearing words using two different algorithms in a belt-and-braces fashion

I like minimal irreducible inherent complexity of a problem or a system (waterbed or zero-point would work I guess) and then you can derive some form of a law of conservation of co…

You can walk 50km in those extra 24 hours which will save your life if you’re in a storm surge area without other means of transportation, which is easily the case when everyone el…

You can board up a helluva lot more stuff in a week than in two days. Crucially, you can move more of the most expensive stuff out of the storm surge zone, which is where the bigge…

Peer says paperclip factory advances goal. Not clear. Others proceed. Must continue.

Not at all clear. To me it looks like he’ll be in a position to actually be unhobble DeepMind - reminder DM was sitting on a ChatGPT product for a whole year before ChatGPT got rel…

Demis will get an offer he can’t refuse - they’ll make him the CEO of Alphabet and have the whole company go all in - the question is when.

...can you make the 5s pitch be more like 'X times faster than pnpm and more secure' but fill X for me? unless it isn't pnpm at all in which case replace with 'it does X' because I…

Note I didn't mention copyright

Distilling is unsafe from export control perspective - Chinese models are poisoned by US frontier distillation and a case can be made that the US won’t like distilling what they ma…

> Heavily moderated by humans with discretion. Pretty sure both of the above have extensive automation in their moderation.

I hope you're right, but hope is not a process. I'm looking at the obviously exponential charts of capabilities and don't have much to add to that hope. Vera Rubin datacenters aren…

I agree about your general assessment, but I don't see my coding skills of, depending on how you count them two or three decades, being needed in 36 months - so I'm trying to upski…

Frontier LLMs write better code at CRUD tasks than 95% of developers today. They’ll get to 95% of most niche coding domains by December and likely all coding tasks sometime next ye…

It’s very common here on HN from the threads I’ve engaged in - everybody has an idea how learning works but it’s usually based on perceived personal experience and not actual resea…

Even better would be to rewrite it by hand with a pen.

You’re correct in that people with good returns usually hit a few home runs over the decades and the rest is just beta. That isn’t the point, though. The point is you have to be ab…

Sir you haven’t seen evals done properly if you’re saying this.

Probabilistic algorithms are not new. If the distribution is known you can bend surprisingly many things to your will in the long run - and the most interesting part is the long ru…

It’s a garbage collection problem. They’re good at adding stuff. They’re bad at removing stuff. You have to go out of your way to have them remove stuff; rubrics, byte for byte ide…

I asked ChatGPT and it told me these aren’t not important /s

It’s more than you get from free software - you get no proofs, no warranties and any responsibility of its authors are their pure good will. Reminder lean proofs are software!

As in chess and go and also coding for the past ~year there are two groups of people: the disappointed and the enthusiastic. The disappointed are sad that they lost their advantage…

I mean, if you're paying this little, you aren't the customer; the service is either subsidized by investor money (best option), the government (which makes it unfair competition a…

So is Fable, I’m asking who is the customer if the thing is free