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Seems bizarre. It's not like companies didn't want to sell it--they'd prefer to have the revenue. This is just kicking them then while they're down. I wonder if it will reduce risk…

The inter-city travel was my favorite part of EverQuest. (The rest of the game, I didn't find too interesting.) The level of challenge was about right: if you looked at maps and pl…

I enjoyed browsing through it. One comment: the "philosophy and art" row is missing anything after 1890.

> Today, 1,165 Bob Ross originals — a trove worth millions of dollars — sit in cardboard boxes inside the company’s nondescript office building in Herndon, Virginia. This seems lik…

I feel it too: - Plenty of em-dashes - "you're absolutely right" - "They're X, not just Y"

And the most important thing about PCC in my opinion is not the technical aspect (though that's nice) but that Apple views user privacy as something good to be maximized, differing…

> Yet this approach is obviously much better than what’s being done at companies like OpenAI, where the data is processed by servers that employees (presumably) can log into and ac…

This sort of convenient semi-arbitrary extension of a partial function is ubiquitous in Lean 4 mathlib, the most active mathematics formalization project today. It turns out that t…

> many of my math friends consistently slept 9–10 hours a day. Anecdotally, I've noticed an association between long sleeping and math ability in particular, so this doesn't surpri…

In Meta's case, the problem is that they had been given the go-ahead by the EU to train on certain data, and then after starting training, the EU changed its mind and told them to …

Video of Hyperia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wUKY3HBw2U A fun point in the article: Burton got into the industry via Rollercoaster Tycoon experience: > Curiosity became an ob…

I agree: a well-designed educational course can feel like a video game in some ways, in that you're learning at a high, consistent rate.

My favorite blog post on tips for finishing is this classic by Derek Yu (of Spelunky fame): https://makegames.tumblr.com/post/1136623767/finishing-a-gam... .

That was strange. I had to reread it to confirm that he's just talking about some random kid looking at the publicly-available game data files, not an employee or anyone else with …

All sorts of technology can be used secretly to assist criminal enterprises. Cars, computers, pencils, electricity, etc. It's unfair to hold LLMs to a higher standard than what app…

Yep. Advanced military technology tends to favor countries with high GDP per capita, which are mostly liberal democracies.

The license allows to reproduce/distribute/copy, so I'm a little surprised there's an approval process at all.

Qwen1.5-72B-Chat is dominant in the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, though. (Miqu isn't on there due to being bootleg, but Qwen outranks Mistral Medium.)

The Bradley-Terry model is essentially the same thing as Elo. https://lmsys.org/blog/2023-12-07-leaderboard/ > This model actually is the maximum likelihood (MLE) estimate of the u…

This was definitely easier to follow. Since they're building a special-purpose accelerator for a certain class of models, what I'd like to see is some evidence that those models ca…

> When you say Claude is worse than Mistral Medium are you going by the Chatbot Arena Leaderboard or some other benchmark? I'm mainly going by the arena leaderboard, but it's also …

The tech is legitimately impressive and exciting, but I couldn't help but chuckle at the revenge of the Scunthorpe problem: > It looks like the safety filter may have taken offense…

For getting a flavor of training LLMs without needing to be at one of the pre-training companies, it's very accessible to fine-tune a relatively small open source LLM such as Mistr…

I wonder what's happening to all that money. Back when they originally released Claude, they were second only to OpenAI as far as chatbot models were concerned. Although Claude was…

It's still an exceptionally poor privacy policy compared to pre-LLM online services. Compare with the Google Docs privacy policy, for example: https://support.google.com/docs/answe…