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That poster mixed it up with trademarks, for which enforcement is required to maintain its validity.

I don't see how this follows. The cost of nails has fallen by 95% over the last century. It's because the cost of manufacturing has fallen. Not because they are selling the informa…

Yes but there is a big, big market for subagents to consume lots of tokens cheaply and condense information up to parent agents. Luna would not be my choice for planning. But an ex…

So this only switches models if the cache is cold, because otherwise the economics of switching don't work. But most agentic work involves long strings of successive tool calls tha…

None of this matters, this is the judge approving a voluntary settlement reached between the parties last year. If you think it should be different then you have to make a cogent a…

He's saying they just plug your USB stick into some gizmo sold to the state, and it's going to find enough to escalate it. If the idea is that there's no point in encrypting anythi…

Because they don't have a lot of parameters to store general Wikipedia knowledge. They're small. Use big models that have high parameter capacity to store general information. Or b…

Small open source models shouldn't be used for world knowledge, that's not their purpose.

Gemma 4 was released in April. It's a good series of multimodal models.

There was some recent reporting that a July release of the Pro model got pushed back for exactly that reason. Its performance was not good compared to the OpenAI/Anthropic big mode…

You're correct, but that's a different market segment and not the market GLM 5.2 and its peers compete in. The labs are not interested in the small, fast, single purpose end of the…

The (quite excellent) article discusses several of your points. If you haven't read it, I recommend it. - Commodity market profitability is determined by marginal cost of productio…

Convergence in coding makes them highly substitutable. But I could see harnesses configured for different purposes -- let's say, a harness for creating teaching plans -- being able…

This happens all the time. The government can decide legislatively that certain commercial terms are simply unenforceable. Making distillation clauses unenforceable in tort law wou…

The problem with many of these kinds of works is that they are a product of a provincial SV mindset that is largely unaware of the broader world or anything at all outside of its c…

Because quality of writing matters. Good communicators learn to use the written word. Bad ones rely on mental crutches. Good communicators get an audience, and bad ones won't. You …

That's annoying, but it's not why scaled manufacturing is lowering unit costs of panel production. Look at bare panel prices, they've followed the same cost curve down. The same pr…

I have seen the SWIFT thing happen for $100k. I think AI could actually be better for this, because it's often easier to implement hard rules for the AI. With the SWIFT incident I …

You can fix this simply by using normal controls. That's why we have purchase orders that can only be entered by buyers. Product is received and approved by buyer. Invoice goes to …

Looks like it's planned. https://github.com/orgs/chattocorp/projects/1?pane=issue&ite...

They did use RLHF at the time, at which point it is not a pure probabilistic representation of the training corpora. Bizarrely, RLHF never came up in the paper.

Bender's paper had this to say about stochastic parrots: "Contrary to how it may seem when we observe its output, an LM is a system for haphazardly stitching together sequences of …

Regulatory capture doesn't necessarily mean the regulated get to decide what the regulators do in precise steps. It can simply mean they support and exist within a regulatory regim…

He has this wealth as a function of having sold the equity in the company he co-founded, so in fact virtually all his wealth has already gone through a tax event at the federal and…

On-prem versus cloud inference doesn't matter for concentration of power. Concentration of power exists when the model makers are the same as (or control) the inference providers. …