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ambicapter··on Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required)
"under a second" still seems like a massive amount of time if you're running an army of bots.
ambicapter··on American views of higher ed decline, once again
Access to information and learning are not necessarily correlated.
ambicapter··on The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI
Because they used to care.
ambicapter··on No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
Maybe it's also rate-limited by the fact that it's not actually a silver bullet and actually needs time to find the proper place for its application as well.
ambicapter··on Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech
If you actually want your "AI" to interact with anything digital, are these voice-to-voice models going to...use speech to text? How does this model interact with anything that isn't an audio channel?
ambicapter··on Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier
Deezer is a great alternative.
ambicapter··on WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal
Would this let you actually create a file on your filesystem (as best as the model can), or is it just like a window into its own little world?
ambicapter··on Claude Duet
No shit, they want you to burn tokens. Any efficient use of computation on your side is a threat to their business model.
ambicapter··on Rust off Rails: The opinionated web stack for the AI era
We live in a post-truth and post-definition world.
ambicapter··on Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car
"It's standard practice"

"It's completely different than what you're talking about"

"Guys...who even cares?"

ambicapter··on Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car
But I can do it every 6 to 8 hours!
ambicapter··on Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car
X is less of an "other part of the overall business [SpaceX]" and more of a bolted-on, completely unrelated part merged together b/c of financial difficulties.
ambicapter··on Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car
If there's anything we've learned in the US in the past ten years, is that this new breed of corporations and government officials will gladly take the "standard" set of rules that everyone has been operating in in good faith and exploit the gaps as hard as humanly possible.
ambicapter··on DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests
I don’t like OpenAI or Anthropic’s attitude towards the law but this whataboutism.
ambicapter··on Tesla Roadster
Is this a broken link for anyone else?
ambicapter··on Neural networks are clean
A recurring motif among the LLM-pilled.
ambicapter··on Steam Client Is Now Faster Than Epic's New Vibe Coded Launcher
Steam crashes my window manager every time I close it now. This started a couple weeks ago.
ambicapter··on I Know Why the Mathematicians Weep
model collapse seems to say that "AI" cannot train on itself.
ambicapter··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
The Ones Who Sell The Panic Sell The Cure.
ambicapter··on Tesla's Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges
There's one of those in the thread right now.
ambicapter··on AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
Then you get fat and suffer "diseases of civilization" because walking is good for you and extended sitting is not.
ambicapter··on A Visual Intro to Complex Numbers
> I now feel like "complex" numbers etc. are the representation of data through multiple numbers where a single value (scalars) is not enough.

Ok, now find a single term that you think would adequately describe that concept.

ambicapter··on REA Reverse – Engineer Anything
Because it's already been done for you? Sure, you can spend your own tokens on it, but it's probably cheaper and more time-effective to use something that already exists and does the job.
ambicapter··on OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"
He’s basically been chasing non-accountability his entire life. This would be its final form, he completely abdicates all of his thinking to a machine (of his own creation).
ambicapter··on OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"
They don’t need to understand what they’re doing, they’re interpolating from prior data until they maximize reward.
ambicapter··on Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B
Jokes all around: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/typesafe-ai/9a94651c-5d63-4e82-8854...
ambicapter··on Sorry, I'm in a meeting
> too much dependency on me for context and such

If you're management, that's literally your job. Synthesize and communicate the important context bits.

ambicapter··on Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
And can be used to cross-correlate with other datasets to further narrow down who you are and how you can be targetted.
ambicapter··on The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
Slip into this closed-source device which controls your limbs!
ambicapter··on Theranos.world
I don't see how either of your examples are necessarily more direct than the other?
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