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We are only ever one computer science paper or github repo away from all of their moat fading to dust anyways. The question everyone financial should be asking is “what happens whe…

The sizes for the matrices are decided up front (“hyperparameters”, more or less guesstimated) and the values that are learned (“parameters”, for completeness) and remain static af…

Yes. Each token prediction is one big function call. Then you just recursively generate more tokens until run out of context or the model predicts a next token indicating end of se…

They log all DNS requests made to their public resolver in a searchable internal database, at least when I worked there a decade or so ago. I wonder if they seed their crawler with…

One of my personal faves on that site: fauux.neocities.org

> We really need an open protocol to build on. I’d bet making a slack-compatible client or bridge isn’t hard, we all just instinctively know whoever develops it is going to get sue…

Perhaps “censorship” & manufacturing consent? I think both political extremes have their own angles: liberals might be concerned that conservative censors will censor kids from lea…

My proposal is that we increase the effectiveness of child controls on devices, so kids can’t get access to the adult world on them. Parents in other threads however tell me that t…

I heard a billionaire is funding this, he’s probably afraid of the one famous instance of someone like him getting killed by one of those.

My point is that the entire check is bypassed easily and instantly, and in the meantime the government gets data that someone _will_ figure out how to make personally identifying f…

Headline news: children infiltrate the universal adult one time password scheme for porn, parents panic! Turns out the 18 year olds started selling access to their younger friends,…

These things passing the Turing Test makes anthropomorphizing their behavior awkward , but don’t forget it’s just an analogy to communicate an experience. If you convey a certain w…

It was precisely that for me! Another commenter captures it well; “the bitter lesson” indeed.

I’d recommend my method of just drawing out the block diagram and drawing out + digging into the math at each step! I’m the kind of person who needs to take time to ask lots of que…

Im also a mere mortal, and after putting a few years into it IMO I’d say people make it much more complicated than it actually is. I failed most of my math courses for lack of inte…

Back when ChatGPT came out, I was so shocked by how _good_ it was for an “AI” product that I simply had to know how it worked. Over the next month I ended up drawing out a block di…

How do you verify someone’s age reliably without identifying them? Unless there’s some standard around zero-knowledge proofs they’re implementing that I’m not aware of, they’re pro…

I don’t understand how video evidence from a mass surveillance network would have helped here. They found your car without it! Shouldn’t your issue be with the prosecutor, and thus…

Indeed sad, congrats on publishing your book though. I’ve certainly felt a bit of that same angst myself. I think SWGEmu (cool project, just learned of it from you!) do represent s…

Really hate to say it, but I’ve stopped publishing my work too for this reason. I spend most of my time now building my own little software ark, and I aspire to no longer think of …

I don’t think people realize that these devices can even be used that way. I talk with people outside of the tech scene frequently, and they are routinely surprised when I tell the…

You know how when you finish prompting some code generator to build something, and you look over what it has built and feel a sense of emptiness even if it does what you want? I th…

I’m still pretty skeptical about OpenRouter. I have a client implemented for them so I can use them with my harnesses, but at the same time that client was generated and tested in …