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Unfortunately opinions don't change the reality of physical processes.

To be honest the main issue with meta has never been around open/closed software. They've also done react, Cassandra and some other bits. But this, like their open weights is like …

I think "code isn't the bottleneck" is often accurate though in organisations with high friction processes.

I think making water expensive because of the fact that it's essential would be problematic at best

I think single dynamic dispatch is one thing but ends up reasonably well optimised by modern compilers, especially the JVM. I think most code written since the 2010s prefers the co…

I'd be surprised if it were anything other than just an LLM only equivalent of Gemma some 4B param model, they can't be spending much money on it because each query essentially nee…

The discussion on filler tokens is interesting, but is it not just the case that these filler tokens end up being essentially substituted stand-ins for words we understand with all…

This one is interesting as it's been hand verified. There was a recent proof that inadvertantly "proved" the collatz conjecture by triggering a bug in LEAN: https://infosec.exchang…

To be fair we don't really know in terms of prices what's real and what's just investor subsidised attempts at market capture at this point. It could well be OpenAI's attempt to dr…

People are already doing it to some extent, especially the sort of technical non-programmer crowd. A member of my family was even having a (now pretty out of date) version of chatG…

The data centre build out is one thing but I'd be surprised if they weren't having a few generate training data for robots as well at this point.

We are pleased to announce that we have two billion users of our platform The Torment Nexus as inspired by the hit scifi book "please do not create the torment nexus" The other fic…

> A person can type 3,000 words by hand and have no thought pass through their head beyond the need to finish before lunch. I get this is tongue in cheek, but it's so wrong that it…

To be honest I always got the sense that it had a sort of pro-Apple bias that doesn't seem to be reflected in real world applications.

I think you can use them critically. Probe the code, see how it behaves when tweaked, can you break it etc.? without slowing you down too much. And in doing so you probably learn 8…

I'm less familiar with Swift but from a design point of view Go and Kotlin have really different ergonomics. Kotlin leans in really hard to creating DSLs etc. whereas Go avoids all…

And the error will inexplicably be for a different line

Although they are doing pretty much the precise opposite of that. As it tends to be, I suppose.

I think the thing is that 3.5 flash is actually similarly capable on a lot of tasks that matter and is faster. Pro is more specialised in the direction of mathematical reasoning an…

Yeah this idea that the unique value proposition of humans is now our motor capabilities rather than our cognition is unnerving as someone with dyspraxia. Like, oh good, they've fi…

Generally it's more "overlooked" than allowed. In the UK for instance cycling on pavements (sidewalks) is unlawful but the guidance is to only enforce this if the cyclist is not gi…

I think the fundamental aspect of flow is that it requires a high amount of cognitive engagement. Most of the time you're just not getting that from interacting with an LLM because…

There's no good guys, just entities you might be able to get marginal value from, who in turn want to get marginal value from you

> It's like a denial-of-service attack on the human mind. I think this may be an example of deliberate hostile design, attempting to force users to adopt LLM based solutions to the…

It's like an open conspiracy but people go along with it because they perceive it will make parenting easier.