Claude is superb at some tasks, much better than Mistral or ChatGPT at times... The other day I got stuck doing some research that involved a heavily obfuscated piece of JS, there was absolutely no way forward using ChatGPT, I switched to Claude and I got the whole file sorted in no time. It really was able to determine all the passes the and techniques used to obfuscate the code and work through them in an iterative way...
Claude is now available in Europe
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#72I don't understand their api not being intended for individual use [0], are developers supposed to use this subscription only? The haiku model is pretty good for the price + available large context, and the opus/sonnet models are in the league of gpt-4, so I would have liked to pay for the api. I've moved on to llama 3 70B as a daily driver and it works really well! The only issue is it's small context size and it do…
I heard of people using the GPT-4 API for personal use because it's a lot cheaper than paying for the subscription since it's pay-per-use. Maybe they don't want people to do that.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Trust and safety folks are the biggest bunch of weenies around. Yeah I said it.
Yeah but then also take it further. They originate from modern society & it's need to cater to sensitivities. And that's a sentiment that's in general pretty well supported here. It's the likes of Elon, hated here, that are the one's fighting this. LLM's censorship is a symptom of a much wider problem. For instance we see it partially causing lots of mental anxiety: the world should bent to my anxiety instead of lear…
It's not just that. LLMs by compressing knowledge, and providing one answer [0], demote diversity. Search engines demote diversity but you can still get to many viewpoints; if you are willing to do the work to tweak your query, or go past top ranking results. On major search engines there is suppression but it's done page-by-page, or at worst site-by-site. With LLMs diverse viewpoints are suppressed through universal "safety" policies.
[0] https://blog.mojeek.com/2023/11/one-model-to-rule-them-all.h... as pointed out here, search engines are like Librarians that point you toward context, whereas LLMs are more like Doctors that protect you from context.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Trust and safety folks are the biggest bunch of weenies around. Yeah I said it.
Yeah but then also take it further. They originate from modern society & it's need to cater to sensitivities. And that's a sentiment that's in general pretty well supported here. It's the likes of Elon, hated here, that are the one's fighting this. LLM's censorship is a symptom of a much wider problem. For instance we see it partially causing lots of mental anxiety: the world should bent to my anxiety instead of lear…
> It's the likes of Elon, hated here, that are the one's fighting this.
There's a difference between LLMs and X that makes it defensible to have different moderation strategies for both.
A spammer using an LLM to write their little Vialis commercial isn't bothering anybody.
A spammer posting their little Vialis commercial on X is an obnoxious cunt.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's saying a lot given the other contenders are DEI folx.
When I got started in this business 20 some years ago it was wildly diverse: you’d have like a biker-gang looking guy with hard right politics getting yelled at by a chick with bright pink hair, but it would be about bash or perl or something. Never about stupid political posturing. We’ve managed to destroy the one profession with serious vertical class mobility where no one gave a fuck about your race or age or sexu…
>you’d have like a biker-gang looking guy with hard right politics getting yelled at by a chick with bright pink hair, but it would be about bash or perl or something
Yeah but they were all white
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#760 job openings in Europe outside of London, how will AI solve this?
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#77They banned my account a few weeks back because I asked it to translate some Japanese text that was on a kitchen knife. Still no response from their Trust & Safety team. It's frustrating because Claude is really quite good at coding and I used it frequently.
Aaand it's because of bullshit like this that platforms are evil and ought not be used...
Evil?
Clumsy, lazy and risk averse - yes. Stupid? Uncaring? Infuriating? Yes.
Can we save "evil" for now deserving cases?
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You have to search really hard to find a bigger crybaby than Elon Musk around though. It's why he bought Twitter: to create a safe space for himself, where he can surround himself with all his favorite opinions (his own).
Hahah the hate runs deep
And so does blind love!
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I got started in this business 20 some years ago it was wildly diverse: you’d have like a biker-gang looking guy with hard right politics getting yelled at by a chick with bright pink hair, but it would be about bash or perl or something. Never about stupid political posturing. We’ve managed to destroy the one profession with serious vertical class mobility where no one gave a fuck about your race or age or sexu…
> no one gave a fuck about your race or age or sexual orientation or politics or anything but can this person code, do they geek out Is this really true though? There is so much evidence that shows women and other minority groups to be systematically discriminated against in tech.
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Re: Claude is now available in Europe
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I got started in this business 20 some years ago it was wildly diverse: you’d have like a biker-gang looking guy with hard right politics getting yelled at by a chick with bright pink hair, but it would be about bash or perl or something. Never about stupid political posturing. We’ve managed to destroy the one profession with serious vertical class mobility where no one gave a fuck about your race or age or sexu…
> no one gave a fuck about your race or age or sexual orientation or politics or anything but can this person code, do they geek out Is this really true though? There is so much evidence that shows women and other minority groups to be systematically discriminated against in tech.
I’m sure there is better data than my anecdotes.
Back in the day it seemed like everyone was “different” somehow.
Certainly when I ran the biggest group I ever have my boss (Ning Li, absolute pro) was a woman, and 2/4 of the managers I supported were women, and in a group of pushing 40 I was one of two who was an American white guy.
I suppose it’s a judgement call if FSU folks count as “white”, but if not then “white men” are, or were at least, a vanishing minority on hardass infra teams.