Viewing profile — spott

https://jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html Any organization is eventually controlled by people more interested in the organization than its mission. Or something to that e…

I think it died before that, it was just that buried it then.

Forth I assume uses reverse polish notation: arguments before the operator. 3 4 + for example, would return 7.

Probably just not post-trained well enough. I think the argument that pre-training gives a lib-left model is probably correct, so Grok, pre-post-training has a lib-left bend, then …

huh? ``` curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | \ llm -s "Review this shell script and tell me what it does" ``` That isn't unauditable trust...

Is this open source? I can't find a link to download the weights.

Why would they spend a ton of effort ensuring that their customers spend less money on them? Token economics also are weird. If you design a fancy new frontend that for example use…

You aren't looking for a random set of tokens that have the exact same logit, you are looking for the largest n tokens to have the exact same probability. This is exceedingly unlik…

Which products are outstanding in their categories? Gmail isn't outstanding, search isn't outstanding, maps isn't outstanding. They are all pretty par for the course. Google used t…

Is there a paper on this? I'm curious how they pre-trained it... I feel like it must have had audio/image output that they chopped off. I wonder how hard it would be to add it back…

https://newsletter.maartengrootendorst.com/p/a-visual-guide-... (in a link from here: https://developers.googleblog.com/gemma-4-12b-the-developer-... , which was linked in the text…

This is just early fusion basically. FAIR did this 2 years ago now: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09818 I've been waiting for something like this to be released since then. The annoyi…

This could just be because everyone is using direct OpenAI api keys when using OpenAI.

Yea, they are just much higher level programmers… most programmers don’t know the low level syscall apis.

Does ssh need to allow root logins? Sshing as a regular user and then sudo to root works 95% of the time…

Typo? Or morbid question?

I think of it differently. Before, you measured diffusion rate of oxygen and inferred oxygen concentration from that (the concentration outside the chamber is always greater than t…

This might be it: https://www.eizo.com/products/flexscan/ev2730q/

https://datatau.net used to be kinda that… but it has been dead for a while, and it looks like the spam bots have taken over.

You can. They are offering both options.

Adjusted for inflation?

> there wouldn’t be different ideological factions in the first place. Maybe I’m just very jaded, but I don’t think this is true. Our values are significantly more aligned than we …

Multiplex the sensor? Split the laser into 7 ish spots and read all of them at once? That doesn’t sound that hard…

This isn’t a horrible idea, but the risk isn’t really big enough to justify introducing that friction.