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AI companies aren't fabbing processors. They're buying capacity at fabs to make their own designs. To make more RAM, they'd need to invest in making more DRAM fabs, which is a slow…

Intent often matters in the law (aside from certain laws with strict liability). You intentionally drive your car into someone you hate and kill them => murder, go straight to jail…

> Nevertheless one has to feel very strongly to share such a take here in this manner unless they are gaining something from it. Do they really? What does it cost them if they're w…

If they leave at all info about security patterns, you get an AI that knows how to code, but doesn't know what can make code insecure. That doesn't seem like a great idea.

Must have been https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mrGMMmrVNE from Welch Labs.

"JPEG" is short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, an ISO/ITU group that creates a lot of imaging standards. The JPEG image format you're thinking of is only one of the formats …

Does anyone know what assets Greenpeace USA has? I imagine Greenpeace international will set up Greenpeace USA 2.0, all the volunteers/employees will move over, and the original wi…

> Imagine being a vim or emacs user and have those replaced by something you have to type entire sentences for functionality. As a former vim user who uses cursor, I've found that …

Qualcomm won in court, so that doesn't seem to be the case.

> The travel to/from Taiwan was statistically riskier than the climb. That doesn't seem plausible. What's the number of free soloists who have died in climbing accidents vs in comm…

In theory you could generate a bunch of code that seems mostly correct and then gradually tweak it until it's closer and closer to compiling/working, but that seems ill-suited to h…

That's a fair point. Normally if you injected the "dog" token, that would cause a set of values to be populated into the kv cache, and those would later be picked up by the attenti…

But LLMs have been measured to have some theory of mind abilities at least as strong as humans: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01882-z . At this point you either need t…

Is that East Germany or West Germany?

https://www.theverge.com/news/790636/amazon-prime-mk30-drone... gives more information, including that * No one was injured directly, but someone was treated for smoke inhalation *…

How do you get your tickets? Do you just buy in person at the theater or ballpark?

They aren't being told to be evil, though. Maybe the scenario they're in is most similar to an "evil AI", though, but that's just a vague extrapolation from the set of input data t…

It needs to be a decision problem (or easily recast as a decision problem). "given a number as input, output as many 1's as that number" doesn't have a yes or no answer. You could …

Does it actually go to the US corporation, or to some European subsidiary?

I don't see any reason to believe this was requested by the Anaconda developers. For example, it refers to the Anaconda developers in the third person: "For example adding a footno…

Meta has experimented with a hybrid mode, where the LLM uses autoregressive mode for text, but within a set of delimiters will switch to diffusion mode to generate images. In princ…

If they cared they could probably use a DEF system to reduce them.

I've found that OpenAI's Deep Research seems to be much better at this, including finding an obscure StackOverflow post that solved a problem I had, or finding travel wiki sites th…