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Full stack / Generalist Engineer Location: US (GA) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Only to PNW or Bay Area Technologies: Python, Linux, embedded C, SQL, React, ML (PyTorch, LLMs),…

Full stack / Generalist Engineer Location: US (GA) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Only to PNW or Bay Area Technologies: Python, Linux, embedded C, SQL, React, ML (PyTorch, LLMs),…

Full stack / Generalist Engineer Location: US (GA) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Only to PNW or Bay Area Technologies: Python, Linux, embedded C, SQL, React, ML (PyTorch, LLMs),…

Maybe the quality is reduced, sure. But if you "do some searches" you can find all of those things for any major software release. Seems to me like people in Apple's walls are forg…

I'm a Linux and Windows user thinking of getting a Macbook, mostly for the hardware. All these recent proclamations of disappointment in Tahoe seem insanely overblown to me. The pr…

It's an arms race between human writers and AI. Writers want to sound less like AI and AI wants to sound more like writers, so no indicator is reliable for long. Today typos indica…

Assuming Eric / Core doesn't come out with some scathing "real story": Well, it's better to figure this out today (that Eric / Core are not so great) rather than a year or two down…

Chinese builders are not equal to Chinese hackers (even if the hackers are state sponsored). I doubt most companies would be interested in developing hacking tools. Hackers use the…

Survived 102 seconds before a rug pull. Impressive!

That issue is the fourth most-reacted issue, and third most open issue. And the two things above it are feature requests. It seems like you should at the very least have someone po…

I'm thinking a lot about the ARC-AGI ML benchmarks, especially the "shape" of the dataset and what that says about how it should be solved. I think there's good reasons to believe …

Interesting essay. But it attributes something magical (ability to solve undefined problems) to humans and says that AI doesn't have it. It seems pretty meaningless and not engagin…

I'm completely puzzled on why space-based compute is so exciting to everyone all of a sudden. I have worked on spacecraft and the constant power benefit seems comically far from ou…

Full stack / Generalist Engineer Location: US (GA) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, only to PNW or Bay Area Technologies: Python, Linux, embedded C, SQL, React, AI/ML (PyTorch…

Not sarcasm at all. There are some "AI thinkers" who are trying to make 8% faster CUDA kernels for attention, and there are some trying to save the world. These fields are called "…

LessWrong.com - this is where virtually all of the serious AI thinkers are.

As an extreme believer in AI (to the point of being a doomer and expecting+fearing ASI) I have to agree with this wholeheartedly. We have to be careful to avoid blaming AI as a tec…

Kilobytes or single digit megabytes. It happens because Sharepoint sporadically alters created/edited metadata for any (?) file it stores. Most programs don't care about that but S…

Sharepoint is one of the worst, most bug-ridden softwares I've worked with. It has a bug with Solidworks (3D design suite) that sporadically makes files completely un-openable unle…

This is a really interesting discovery. In ants it's apparently common for one species to stop being able to produce workers on their own, and use the sperm from another species in…

The accuracy is going to be the real make or break for this. In a paper from 2018 they reported 92% word accuracy [1]. That's a lifetime ago for ML but they were also using five fa…

I'm honestly kind of surprised there haven't been significant large-scale attempts to well-poison LLMs with certain viewpoints/beliefs/whatever. Maybe we just haven't caught them.

Entirely the second. When Vera Rubin starts reporting its regular scans this will be made very clear because we'll probably find 10+ interstellar objects per year at minimum.