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Yes, that does track with my personal experience. More context, more params and no quantization is probably it. But my hunch is that all the training data they've been getting in t…

>>> the model is (obviously) good at security Out of curiosity, are you one of the people who has access to the model? If yes, could you write about your experimental setup in more…

Sure, I am not precluding the possibility that they've trained a genuinely great model. All I am saying is that the "this model better than that model" is moot when on one side you…

>> Test it yourself, GPT 120B OSS is cheap and available. BTW, this is why with this bug, the stronger the model you pick (but not enough to discover the true bug), the less likely…

Maybe they did use small models but you couldn't make the front page of HN with something like this until Anthropic made a big fuss out of it. Or perhaps it is just a question of c…

The word "profound" is a bit overused when it comes to movies. I agree that The Battle of Algiers is an excellent film, one of the best ever made even. One Battle After Another is …

Yeah, I'm watching a lot of Charlie Chaplin movies in preparation for my new role as a tramp.

I agree on principle. But there is going to be a painful transition where people are still reckoning with the new capabilities so I understand where all the fear/sadness is coming …

> I don't know if the market will have fully internalized that knowledge soon enough This exactly. I am neither a boomer nor a doomer. It has helped a lot both at work and in accel…

This started decently enough and then the author went all over the place. I'm not sure why detailed explanations of neural nets and smart contracts were needed here. It really feel…

Excellent comment that really gets to the crux of the matter. Countries like China and India see themselves as civilizational, America sees itself as a perfect marketplace - it exi…

Rather than think of it as a pivot to hardware, I looked at it as MS trying to corner their share in the consumer market. Mobile and Social were the hot things back then and mobile…

Ballmer doesn't strike me as an idiot and definitely not bland. He's one of the more colorful tech personalities. MS's almost unassailable lead in enterprise could be attributed to…

My point was more that MS hasn't had an industry changing product in a while. Google became joint-SOTA in AI and seems poised to take the crown with the next Gemini, and also in se…

I often wonder why Satya Nadella is so venerated on HN compared to say, Cook or Pichai. As innovators, MS lags way behind both Google and Apple. I can't think of one bleeding edge …

I guess Atlas is a good name for a web browser. But I'm surprised their first release is Mac only. Does it indicate they are targeting some kind of power user (programmers, creativ…

Unless the filmmaker has a track record of misrepresentation or negative representation, I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt. In any case, if the movie irked you that much…

Well there are no "good" characters in this film so how would one add a positive portrayal of blacks? Maybe "Pat" could have also been black but he's an ex-bomber turned paranoid j…

The review does not mention Deandra (played by Regina Hall) at all, among other black characters who weren't negative representations per se. Deandra is very prominent in the secon…

Reviews are very hit or miss nowadays (mostly miss for me), but the verdict for One Battle After Another is absolutely correct. For those of you who are on the fence wrt watching t…

Digesting a big code base in a new job. Claude and Gemini have been very useful in helping me come up to speed on a code base written in Go (a language I have used before but not f…

If Google can fend off the US DoJ, I think they're going to be just fine.

Gemini is apparently doing pretty well. 400 monthly active users on their app and they recently increased the prices for their API. Sundar Pichai has taken a lot of heat in the pas…

Absolutely!

My Carnatic Raga classifier is progressing very well. I am now training a classifier to identify 142 ragas. A bit of background: I have been working on a Raga classifier since Nove…