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Yeah, totally. But... the problem is that I don't have time to test every single model that comes out. So I rely on reports like this to decide, should I even bother testing out Mu…

My conclusion is the opposite. If benchmarks were meaningless, surely Meta would be able to find some benchmark that shows they are better than Sol and Fable. The fact that they ca…

Personally, I end up throwing away a decent amount of books that the book donation people won't take. Especially old technical books. Textbooks from 2001. These headlines just don'…

I don't think people working at Amazon "know that it is a part of a larger bad", it's one of the most trusted American institutions. https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/why-everyone-l…

Yes there are studies, for example last year Pangram's false positives were measured to be under 0.5%. https://www.pangram.com/blog/third-party-pangram-evals Personally, at first I…

It is a smell. But it's the EU that smells bad, when it comes to tech regulation. It's the smell of cookie popup warnings.

Think of it this way, how would you turn a set into a vector in the first place? We solve this in programming a lot, for example, the "one-hot" encoding for neural networks. Here, …

"Falling behind schedule" doesn't really seem like the right term, for a sector of the economy that has been accelerating for the past few years. You could easily describe this tre…

The next step in my fight against screen addiction is to have my children not watch Toy Story 5.

I don't think it's nonsensical, it's just another name for the same thing. E.g. in the Haskell wiki it says, "the Error monad, also called the Exception monad". https://wiki.haskel…

Yeah, and rate-limiting is only one of the things a PaaS needs to handle, to avoid looking like a bad actor to the underlying platform. The trickiest thing to handle is people usin…

Perfectly demonstrating the truth of the "Microsoft org chart" cartoon. https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts

The specific code I was working on, I had a general idea of the sort of performance improvement that would be possible. I just thought that it would be too hard for the models to f…

It's an especially awkward situation because Railway is a competitor of Google Cloud, with many third parties involved. So, I just think it will take them a little more time to fig…

I didn't dig into what the actual repository was doing, but personally, I took some inspiration from the idea after reading about it and realizing that I might have been underestim…

Reminds me of: “In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he’s not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic sch…

I wonder, if you ask a local LLM to access a forbidden site, from within Russia or China, can it figure out a way to do so, out of the box?

The conclusion that "insurance companies using algorithmic tools have failed Californians who lost their homes to fire by systematically undervaluing their properties" seems pretty…

> There is no avenue by which you make GitHub better by continuing to use it as it has been. I feel like in a very mundane sense, I pay GitHub for a service, and they use that mone…

ChatGPT is a great resource for learning things, if you really want to learn. I hope that this leads us to shift education towards helping people learn things, when they do want to…

Isn't that how it should work? If you write the police and ask them to delete all their data about you, that isn't a thing that they do. It shouldn't matter if the police store the…

I've been making games with JS in the browser with my kids, ages 7-13. Very simple games, the sort where we can just use emojis instead of real game assets. Even just building a ga…

This part of the essay makes me feel moved by the author's situation. > I am sitting down after a long walk outdoors. It should have been relaxing, but I was processing - processin…

It's funny to use "the market value of all taxi companies combined" as a proxy for how valuable the self-driving market will be, because that's exactly the reasoning that led peopl…