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Nonsensical issues go viral all the time without any conspiracy behind them

I agree that resolution and burst speed don't matter a whole lot. But this page is missing the bare minimum specs that should be of interest to any photographer, such as: approxima…

I've been seeing a lot of projects that let one use large models on machines with small amounts of memory. They seem to all be doing significant quantization and/or expert streamin…

> tailscale is setting a higher expectation for themselves What exactly is the higher expectation? As someone with little expertise and no stake in any of this, the blog reads as "…

My assumption is that the difference is 90% from more memory. I'm making several assumptions because nothing here looks groundbreaking so I don't care to dig deeper, but the model …

Is this P2P, or hosted on proprietary servers? How is it funded? I don't like ads and I like free things, but "no ads, free forever" doesn't make me confident in its long term stab…

I think my primary curiosity is: does "rampant AI cheating" mean "most students in most classes" or "a few students in a lot of classes"? The latter is my expectation based on my p…

Every few weeks I see a headline about a teacher catching 80%+ of their students cheating with AI. I wonder how much newsworthiness selection bias is taking place here? Out of all …

I feel like the basics of information theory are a valuable thing for people to learn, especially as AI that makes up information starts to become more prevalent.

The article has a good point and is correct. But it gets too far down into the weeds. For example, the paragraph about how priest conversions don't count as empire-building seems l…

I read that part and I still don't like the article. I have several hundred hours in AoE2. Maybe I am unique, but it has never even occurred to me to call the collection of people …

For typical social media sites, engagement will pretty much always be proportional to both revenue and cost per user. Either revenue > cost, and the site is incentivized to increas…

Presumably significantly less. But GP's point is that reducing advertising revenue doesn't remove the incentive to maximize engagement.

If it is to be believed—which I wouldn't count on—it sounds like the intention of the prompt was to keep the model focused, but the model's interpretation of it was to keep you foc…

Some guesses: - A lot more direction-dependent. - More maintenance related to keeping the right direction, maintaining more moving parts, etc. - Less convenient form factor, more s…

Simply by the fact that you say computer engineering, you already went deeper than 99% of "computer people" in 2010

With a car, when I turn the steering wheel a quarter turn, the car immediately starts to turn at a known rate (I can't quantify it, but my muscle memory knows it). With an LLM, if …

This matches my experience coding, and the expectations I (and many other) have been voicing for years about why AI is still a ways away from solving coding. The hard part of progr…

I'm also curious, specifically about the cost of training vs inference, and comparing that to other industries that can have high R&D costs. My instinct says that open weights aren…

To me, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia feels less like vocabulary and more like trivia

It's a bad aphorism if you take it literally and don't think about any nuance, but it's the correct priority . In many cases each of the three steps can take longer than the last, …

I have a similar anxiety about emailing or messaging people directly. If I'm just posting a comment on HN or reddit, there's not much commitment and if someone responds but I don't…

This feels like less of a gamma issue and more of a color space and monitor calibration issue. Possibly affected by the fact that oklab didn't exist when this article was written a…