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basch··on Why were Covid vaccine trials so fast?
>many of them did suffer from effects from the vaccine

what does many in this sentence mean? are you claiming that a large percent of health professionals "suffered effects"?

basch··on Why were Covid vaccine trials so fast?
and even if the maybes are yes, it's still a debate whether an accident negates taking future risk. eg does a nuclear meltdown lead to no new nuclear power plants?

a lab leak doesnt in and of itself prove that gain of function research isnt worth further pursuit, if better care can be taken. there is clearly risk/reward calculations, and not everyone will agree what risk in a pool of risks is worse.

basch··on GTA 6 Physical Copies Won't Include a Disc, Will Just Be a Code in a Box
There's a lot of AAA games I havent tried, but why are the launch day patches Ive experienced so gigantic?

Why do games need to download textures, sounds, videos over again? I just can't understand why a 100GB game has a 60GB patch etc, other than purposeful obfuscation or complete disregard for care.

basch··on GTA 6 Physical Copies Won't Include a Disc, Will Just Be a Code in a Box
"At 200GB I don't know how anybody can justify valuable space in their SSD for a single game."

What game plays off the disc itself? Most games copy to the ssd and then just download a new full copy of the game from the cloud the second the copy from the disc is done.

basch··on Claude Tag
The killer feature here is an auto assembling todo list, punchlist, project management.

Discussing what needs to be done next, and having it automatically sort it into what subtask it is, if it applies or is blocking to multiple other tasks. Recording specifications, measurements, dimensions. Being able to ask other people facts and have them correctly documented into the right task.

Company Brain / Knowledgebase is imho more rear facing, whereas todo is future facing.

basch··on Steam Machine launches today
You could still offer this, similar to the ad tier and ad free tier of a kindle, or a carrier locked phone.

$799 for a locked down version, $1049 for an unlocked version. Opportunity to pay $300 to unlock it later at any time. 5% discount on purchases on a locked device.

basch··on John Jumper to join Anthropic
Did you look at the charts in the article?

It out-performed every model that wasnt a max/ultrafrontier of some sort, except for the one that the article was extolling the virtues of, including grok high. you could make a good argument that deepseek is a better value, but gemini flash is when bundled is already pretty accessible.

nowhere did i claim that flash was better than fable or 5.5xhigh.

basch··on Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
and with a structured tool, what better place to practice writing, process, iteration, revision, editing.

this happens constantly, every day. a current implementation of a technology isnt optimal so the entire class of anything related to that technology is treated as equally flawed.

the solution here is better tools, not preventing better tools from being created.

basch··on John Jumper to join Anthropic
from the looks of it, 3.5 Flash is still better than most models

https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/glm-5-2-is-the-new-le...

The idea of "falling behind" when you can leapfrog each other every six months leads me to believe it has to be more than just "falling behind" for one cycle. It's a culture, process, red tape, focus, or mandate problem of some sort. Something not as easily correctable preparing for next launch.

basch··on Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
two wrongs?
basch··on Hacker News but for independent blogs
The reason it’s a debate is because both interfaces / flows are broken.

Back/forth, new tab, currently open tab switch, bookmark, needs to be redesigned from first principal. They all approximate different versions of similar intents.

basch··on Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
ill be in the strong minority here, and it should be opt-in, but if theres no affiliate link, i would be ok with my tiny marketshare browser capturing the extra. less ethical for them to be replacing other peoples affiliate links, but they are also blocking ads ... so, not exactly the most purely ethical product in the world anyway.
basch··on An interview with an Apple emoji designer
does the reverse notebooklm exist yet that turns podcasts into longform journalism?
basch··on Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
white hat firefox, black hat brave?
basch··on What even is food authenticity? Why we guard carbonara, and flatten chicken rice
Beer purity 1516
basch··on Your ePub Is fine
or they enjoyed the games despite flash.
basch··on Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't
>Specifically, AI+human developer no longer outperforms AI alone. So far, all the available evidence seems to show AI as a force multiplier for developers and that for good results

Or humans are relegated to the co-processor role. The AI does 99% of the thinking and work and consults the human for the 1% it needs. Whether that extra contribution is essentially a random number generation, creativity / outside the box input, or esoteric problem solving remains to be seen.

basch··on Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo
If someone came in and moneyballed the sport with no name horses, wouldn’t their stud fee rise with wins? New lineage would start.
basch··on Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs
What’s the reason against separate conduit for utilities?
basch··on Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis
It doesn’t wreck the companies though. It just costs more money and tike to accomplish the same task. It’s inefficient.
basch··on I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling
There’s a massive amount of duplicated effort in curriculum creation.

If the really gifted are documenting their lessons and publishing the framework other really good teachers can pickup where they left off.

Having those curriculums in a standard format would go a long way to making components interchangeable and remixable.

basch··on Anthropic scales Claude Mythos to critical infrastructure in 15 countries
Or just control of supply and demand. If they can charge twice as much serving half as many customers, that leaves a lot of potential future customers leftover.
basch··on OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS
That’s not the case at all. Kirkland just ditched Huggies making their diapers. They just introduced a breaded chicken tender nug to compete with one on the shelf.

They absolutely go out and find who can make the product and the quality and price they want. It’s not always an identical product to the brand name on the same shelf. Sometimes it displaces the brand name.

basch··on Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
It was not better than a competing dock from Dell or Lenovo etc at the time. Wireless docks worked better.
basch··on It's Not Just X. It's Y
It strikes me as an Oder of operations problem.

If the system prompt is “flesh out template y with thought x” the form drives the generation, it feels compelled to use the whole template.

Of the system prompt is “refine thought x and then format it with the appropriate parts of template y” it becomes a simple transformation and formatting.

A lot of current gen llm pain appears to be being in the early days of understanding the nuance of system prompts.

basch··on Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
Per day being a key part of that. 30g at once is going to give a good chunk of people pretty severe cramping or a trip to the bathroom.
basch··on We replaced Zendesk
>So the choices usually come down to: close up shop or sell to a PE firm.

It essentially is PE but swallowed by a national construction company is the other end.

basch··on Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation
>Few non-programmers have heard of anthropic or claude

They ran a super bowl ad. It's all over the construction industry. Claude is still not quite the Kleenex that ChatGPT is, but there is a pretty good chance lay people have heard of ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude by now.

To disagree with the person below/above me that ChatGPT is the word used generically, when someone uses Gemini or Claude or Copilot, they TELL you which one they used, because they are essentially saying "i didnt use ChatGPT by choice."

Gemini is the one most likely to be used without people knowing which one they used.

basch··on I'm Tired of Talking to AI
Maybe the current implementation
basch··on Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis
Or you answer to somebody else, which is how perpetually cannabilizing next quarters numbers to appease short term shareholders becomes more important than cost savings and using your labor pool time to solve actual problems.

Or when the sales teams bonuses are more important than the margins of the business.

There’s lots of reasons the “wrong work” gets pushed down and it’s not exclusively because “they aren’t listening” as much as “they are listening to someone else who matters more.”

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