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The proposed “feed” solution is functionally indistinguishable from incremental reconciliation. The article presents a good framing and is well-written, but doesn’t really propose …

whatever it is, it will be heavily skewed in favor of whatever there is a lot of examples of. AI could bolt together many cookie-cutter pieces into a very large YOLO system. The tr…

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> but gotta love me some Buddhist pedantry y’all can spar with the best above comment == Q.E.D.

This “data driven” science approach sure looks like empiricism from a distance. What am I missing?

California has codified a water caste system. In 2015 (my last experience with this), citizens were ordered to cut water use 25% while ~400 pre-1914 claimants with magical "senior …

it’s a loose usage. necessary but not sufficient type of thing. if all your DNA instantly disintegrated, the process ends quickly, you are not you in many senses of the word. to pr…

I use and prefer screen I use tmux on windows and elsewhere when I must They both have pluses and minuses, neither is perfect and both (yes even tmux) seem “old” in today’s world T…

i love this. i wistfully clicked the web ring links and was sad to find they were self-refs. in another universe (or this universe in the near future?) there is a legit web ring of…

It is in fact how Deinococcus radiodurans works: Deinococcus radiodurans has a unique quality in which it can repair both single- and double-stranded DNA. When damage is apparent t…

I want this mutation. You have little nano-crawlers going up and down your DNA strands fixing problems. It’s like ECC RAM for the essence of YOU. And you’re basically immune to can…

Yes, what other opex is there? It will have good ventilation, I’m not worried about cooling.

At my house. I have 5Gbps fiber and could pay for 10 or 25 if I need it.

I’ve priced it out: max $135/month to run a dual Xeon 2U server with 3T RAM & 2x 22 core Xeon Gold. It’s the 2x 750W power supplies that ultimately determine opex. My power costs $…

311 may have said it best ~33 years ago: I tell you what's wrong to me The industry's ability to manufacture stars They churn them out like Iwo Jima makes cars But the blame lies n…

If you mean being forced to overpay for no-longer-SOTA closed models, that’s I guess the protectionist motive here: impossible to enforce, enforcement uneven and political, illegal…

How do you do that without banning the model itself. It doesn't matter who can or can't run it. They are trying to ban something that can be represented entirely by a sequence of b…

The AI rigs cost money, sure. But no one is talking about regulating those. We are talking about regulating models, which do have zero cost of reproduction. It’s like banning the l…

The first token on a new AI rig costs $X (full capex cost) then every token after that costs virtually zero. Over time the cost/token trends towards zero (modulo opex). That said, …

I can understand (not necessarily defend) protectionism for products with nonzero manufacturing cost and some required physical size and such. I am befuddled when the same policies…

No, the court case you’re thinking of was when someone tried to say the AI itself had the copyright ownership. That’s not allowed (at least in the US), the copyright owner must alw…

If you’re processing N things at a time and your “scalar tail” is N-1 why can’t you put in a dummy value for the last entry, run one last SIMD iteration, and discard the dummy retu…

Very good point. It’s nontrivial but not impossible to determine this, I am very curious! One nightmare scenario is a 3-bit error being detected as a correctable 1-bit error upstre…

> they could just use a regex to change Claude to Kimi in their distillation pipeline! Jean-Kimi Van Damme would like to have a word with you.