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Customers are not perfectly-informed rational actors. The areas that companies are cutting costs on are precisely those that are most likely to escape the customer's notice - sligh…

I found public transit commuting to be quite peaceful most days. The rowdy children happened infrequently enough that they were often a nice change of pace, and the "drunks and thi…

Well, it's Science Alert - not exactly a bastion of level-headed reporting.

Gotcha, that makes sense. The LLM-written article said something about a "humanize" setting, so I thought it could have been something about that, so I spent a while looking for su…

What's the value of modeling these as petri nets instead of a regular sequencer? I was expecting some sort of branching, or at least multiple tokens per ring, but I can't figure ou…

You can also use a fixed seed for your prng. A hash of the input text (up to the current turn) should do.

In my experience, they had a lot of stuff working well in the first few years they rolled out the home voice assistants - Alexa, google home, etc. But for whatever reason, they've …

What safety critical applications would be a good fit for LLMs?

It means the headline was vomited out by an LLM.

Simply knowing the quirk doesn't improve your skills, but the process of finding it often does. If Claude shortcuts that, then yeah, the problem might be solved, but you didn't ski…

It definitely depends on the game. Some allow second (or third or fourth) players to play as "guests" (not signed in to any particular account), and some don't. Party games, or gam…

You can play the DVD without your Xbox being online.

At least stock photos don't have the documented side effect of inducing nausea.

I mean, even the demo prompts on the ComfyUI page aren't adhered to by the model. From the first prompt, one of the four lines: > TRANSITION: a violent WHIP PAN off the rooftop tha…

I wonder if the setup accidentally hit a cache at some layer.

And you'd have to be a pretty pig-headed exec to assume that the only experience an employee could possibly have with LLMs is positive.

And all of us have owned multiple keyboards that have lasted for years of daily heavy use without a single key failing. Even the $30 membranes you could buy at $local_retailer didn…

> That means zgm is early, but it is intentionally early in public. "Intentionally early" is one of those phrases that means they vibed this README out in an hour with AI, and now …

Oh, I understand what you mean. Thank you for explaining.

> This isn't because police are inherently horrible people, it is because they are normal humans. Well, you also have to remember that police aren't selected at random from the pop…

The big thing that's changed is that you're hearing about it. The second biggest thing is that we've given cops more and more access to automated systems that they can misuse.

> So either nobody cares about IP (at the very last in this context) and any AI company can just do whatever with data, or Chinese companies have to be held up to scrutiny. Anthrop…

Snarky answer: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Realer answer: A combination of the above, plus group/bu…

Anthropic is claiming that training an LLM to mimic another LLM is materially different and worse than slurping up stuff written by humans (even if that material is stolen). Basica…