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thepasch

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    Comment #49203257

    > How tolerant are models today to a few broken weights. Extremely! You can remove entire layers and the model will still work just fine, with barely perceptible capability losses.…

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    Comment #49179892

    Not if you run your own system prompt that does not explicitly contain the term "pi coding agent". Perhaps they string-match against some other stuff, too, but as long as you parap…

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    Comment #49155010

    Nvidia has hordes of raucous gamers on the prowl waiting to tear their chips out of their hands the moment hyperscaler demand falters; plus, China has made sure there will always b…

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    Comment #48898161

    Agh, sorry about that. I had no Mac around to test this on, though I might be able to get one by proxy. I'll try to get it fixed.

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    Comment #48897943

    No credit to me for that! Got it off of here: https://opengameart.org/content/bonus-round-8bit

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    Comment #48897848

    gotta save some ideas for the sequel

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    Comment #48897694

    On-screen controls are live!

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    Comment #48897385

    Yeah, on it right now! Should be up within the hour. edit: It's up!

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    Comment #48897190

    I mean, technically , "I selected Fable for this task" and "Opus did the heavy lifting" aren't mutually exclusive statements...?

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    Comment #48897166

    Okay, so, maker here! I was expecting this to drown in the flood of /newest, so seeing so many folks get a chuckle out of this is a very pleasant surprise. The obvious spark for th…

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    Comment #48897042

    I'll... uh, do it next week!

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    Comment #48897033

    Grab that coin and you'll get there!

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    Comment #48896858

    The heavy lifting was done by Opus. I wouldn't burn precious soon-to-be-departing Fable usage on this!

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    Comment #48885283

    > Why should it be illegal for me to recognize the way you walk into my store If you did it in just your store , that wouldn't be a problem. The correct analogy, however, is "why s…

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    Comment #48882795

    Can Anthropic please just decide on what their plan is with Fable instead of kicking the can down the road last-second every time and consequently destroying all notions of being a…

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    Comment #48824921

    > Just leave your computer or note-taker device/app off. Or grab a napkin to write some notes on, that's not that hard. > > Not everything needs to be written down Congratulations …

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    Comment #48774513

    I don't think "the bubble is at risk of popping" and "hype is cooling down" are equivalent evaluations. By the time people start pulling out money, that is the bubble popping, and …

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    Comment #48738531

    I'm personally in the "they keep releasing shameless lobbying papers disguised as thinly veiled research or essay-coded content, push anticompetitive walled-garden practices, show …

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    Comment #48736992

    > What’s the punishment here exactly? Seeing as how Anthropic cannot stop raising a stink about "illicit Chinese distillation attacks" every month or so, I'd bet money on them eith…

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    Comment #48713056

    I appreciate it, and I'm glad you thought it was an interesting read!

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    Comment #48713052

    How do you define reasoning? What does a system have to functionally do in order to qualify for it?

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    Comment #48712972

    > The algorithm is literally "predict the most likely next token". That's confusing the training objective with the learned behavior. It's like saying "Stockfish's algorithm is lit…

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    Comment #48712917

    That's fair. FWIW I don't think they are either, but I specifically don't think they're fundamentally incapable of it, and I think that as models grow, we're going to see more and …