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The key is who has standing in such a case. Likely broadcasters are the ones most likely to be impacted. Also depending on how the statute is written markets with total monopoly co…

Honestly I wouldn’t want myself as my own guardian angel. In fact I think very few people look out for themselves well. I don’t want another version of me around, one is too many a…

The start of the dot com boom I would mark at August 1995 when Netscape’s IPO was the most successful IPO to that date. But really I mark it with the IETF RFC 1290 “There’s Gold In…

Economics says the hardware required and the scale of hardware available at what price will converge to meet demand

I suggest downloading these frontier models just to have a copy; even though it’s 1.5TB, it’s worth sticking in a cheap disk and putting aside. Seeding torrents would be even more …

Yes, it’s way off field in many things, gets into weird minutia without seeing a way out, and it’s often seeing a clear sequence of work but then halts on a statement like “ok I’m …

I have to say cc opus 5 is abysmal. It talks to itself incessantly, gets stuck in minutia, fails to understand problems clearly and makes steering mistakes constantly. It also has …

As well as tons of other things without electricity involved at all! Don Quixote was never in fear of being electrocuted. In other news, no whales were bothered by this windmill, e…

When I say distill I also mean mine it architecturally for insights but I doubt seriously the model training is entirely distillation of Claude, it’s almost certainly a mixture of …

Because the open model might have been distilled from outputs of the closed model doesn’t mean they are architecturally equivalent. There is almost certainly innovations in archite…

Interestingly the reality of the open source release is they are opening up to full distillation by the closed source model providers at a deeper and more fundamental level. If any…

Come now. The purposes for which the data is used is relevant. I am much more concerned with my internal corporate IP being actively used against me than passively used to train th…

I think a better framing is the marginal utility of the models capability growth. At a certain point frontier models will only be needed for frontier problems. The demand for that …

I’d also note that running a 2.8 trillion parameter model at scale efficiently is not simple. I would expect when open weights land getting it running fast, efficient, and at full …

Lost me here - I was there - I worked on open sourcing communicator at Netscape and starting Mozilla. We were the one company that tried to own it all, but were out spent and out m…

And this demonstrates this benchmark does not necessitate achieving those goals to achieve a perfect score. You seem to miss the point that almost all of math, physics, computer sc…

A great deal of mathematics is transforming nonlinear problems into linear ones and solving them with linear techniques. Others are solving non linear problems through stochastic m…

2008 in the EU and last year in the US.

Not necessarily - the compliance side would open up stripe entirely unless they very carefully structured as a bank holding company. Stripe has been trying to gain a charter in Geo…

What I find interesting about this isn’t acquiring the flow from PayPal but the fact that PayPal has a bank charter and stripe doesn’t (not a real one, all that Georgia bank stuff …

Agreed. It’s also a lot better at following instructions. If anything codex can get caught into an overly literal adherence to instruction while Claude you can barely trust it to s…

Yeah that was my instinct too. What sort of career defining trends are visible with this much historical data? Feels like someone wrote clickbait research to get published.

Hmm ok. The fact 5.6 Sol performs around Fable level and is included without mega token spend in the subscriptions means I’ve promoted codex to my primary harness and model. The la…

But a proof isn’t an explanation it’s a proof. Proof by assuming the opposite is true and demonstrating a contradiction is very indirect and not at all directly explanatory yet it’…

It’s a real condition. For me it’s jet liners of various makes. I had to rewrite the quote as “0.005 Boeing 777’s” to be able to comprehend just how strong those snails teeth are.