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I also noticed Gemini's habit of getting stuck on things I said. It became evident quite quickly. I haven't noticed this in the same way in any other model. Something's wrong with …

copium argument

Infantile take. Here's a positive: creates incentive for people who want to compete to actually make something new. If we could just freely clone generational hit games and make mi…

You're not using the good models and then blaming the tool? Just use claude models. Copilot's main problem seems to be people don't know how to use it. They need to delete all thei…

Not my experience at all. Copilot launched as a useless code complete, is now basically the same as anything. It's all converging. The features are converging, but the features bar…

Gambling sites probably do have it in their user agreements. Further, "insider trading" in prediction markets is probably fundamentally illegal under existing commodities fraud law…

Your own wiki link disagrees with you, most of the article uses landlordism as the base-level example. You've just discovered how "rent seeking" is used as a more broad term to des…

I think they were referring to the costs of training and hosting the models. You're counting the cost of what you're buying, but the people selling it to you are in the red.

That's literally what he said

In my experience owning private stock, you basically own part of a pool. (Hopefully the exact same classes of shares as the board has or else it's a scam.) The board controls the p…

Postgres nationalists will applaud the conclusion no matter how bad the reasoning is. Don't get me wrong, the idea that he wants to just use a RDMBS because his needs aren't great …

That's how I've always characterized them. But if you think about it, it's not really true. The LLM is "lossily" containing things an encyclopedia would never contain. An encyclope…

the quality is definitely not better, not since the early 2000s when everything was fully digital and everything is single tracked, rhythm shifted to metronome grid, autotuned--the…

SQL has this problem since it wants the SELECT list before the FROM/JOIN stuff. I've seen some SQL-derived things that let you switch it. They should all let you switch it.

First guy says something about philosophy. Second guy says he's had a bad philosophy class, implying it's a bad, naive, amateur, or uninformed take on the philosophical subject at …

The LLMs do have "latent knowledge," indisputably, the latent knowledge is beyond reproach. Because what we do know about the "black box" is that inside it, is a database of not ju…

I claim it's normal to hate public transport. Online, there are some loudmouthed public transport enthusiasts. To them, everyone who isn't doing public transport is a racist, boome…

They say you always gain a bunch of weight on creatine just from the higher water retention in the muscles

I think it's because software engineers are the only group that can unanimously operate LLMs effectively and build them into larger systems. They'll automate their own jobs first a…

Trump's DoJ just submitted basically the same remedy proposal last Friday, it's on

It's the other way around. The model is impeccable at "understanding text." It's a gigantic mathematical spreadsheet that quantifies meaning. The model probably "understands" bette…

Wrong, wrong. Opposite of everything he said. All his examples are backwards. The article is basically inversing the Single Responsibility Principle. First of all, consistency does…

If you're more conspiratorial, nobody called from McDonalds. That was just a cover for whatever creepy spy tech they used.

The phrase 'mental illness' has expanded as a category a thousand-fold this millennium. I see no evidence he has any mental illness, other than a particular kind that is fully volu…

Same, had to call around a lot to find primary care, and was being given multi-month waitlist estimates for seeing an ENT specialist. I've had more luck recently as I was able to g…