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greesil

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I'm a bipedal next token predictor, in English and in C++. I loop therefore I am.

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greesil··on Chip stocks slide in US and Asia as AI jitters rattle investors
Or written by AI. Or commented on by AI.
greesil··on Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts
> Agents will explode the use 100x or more

That _could_ happen, but very likely not in a short enough timeline to save them.

> In fact spacex story tells you next : investments in infrastructure is the best investment

ROFLMAO. How's the stock doing?

greesil··on Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts
I think Ed's argument is that given the infra investment the revenue won't be enough to pay back the original investors. In fact cheaper models make this worse for them. Who cares about the investors? Well it turns out the infra was financed in large part by debt that was securitized and a bunch of regarded investors that bought the debt looking for higher returns will be taking a huge haircut when the bubble pops. The amount of securitized debt is roughly the same as the mortgage backed securities back on 2007, ergo the prediction is a big recession.

What's unclear to me is if this is a systemic issue that's going to cause credit to freeze up but imo the opacity of the shadow banking "system" does not help here. If you see one cockroach, etc.

greesil··on Leak Reveals Possible Secret Russia-China Military Plan to Disable Starlink
Because stage 3 would be something like Kessler Syndrome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

greesil··on Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute
If you were anticipating the stock to drop sharply in the future, this may be cheaper.
greesil··on Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets
Their only accountability is to the stock price. The insanity will continue.
greesil··on FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home
Because nobody reputable reported on it?
greesil··on Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar
Capital, politicians, conservatives, libertarians,
greesil··on America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen
I doubt it's the greatest given all that's happened in the past year. But it's certainly up there, no pun intended.
greesil··on Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]
But me asking questions is in fact my trying to understand, is it not? I ask a stupid simple question with a slightly rude tone, and then I get downvoted by a bunch of pedantic insiders. Although to be fair it appears some are trying to help.

Look dude, every field develops its own terminology. It's not a conspiracy, just an emergent property. But it always makes getting into the field, or understanding what's in the field, much harder than it needs to be.

greesil··on AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise
Server load, for sure.
greesil··on Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise
How do you know this? I'm not trying to attack your statement, I am genuinely curious how anyone knows anything about model performance outside of benchmarks that are already in the training set.
greesil··on Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]
Yes, I understand one function of jargon, which can be useful to insiders in that it conveys a precise meaning. But, it can be confusing to outsiders, and that is also a useful thing for insiders. In the context of LLMs, what other function can produce p(next token) if not the LLM? And, you just about make my point for me with regards to jargon being confusing by misidentifying what the policy actually is (something i never would have noticed :) In any case, it's an interesting paper. Thanks for all your down votes everyone.
greesil··on Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]
But the probability vector is the output of the LLM, no?
greesil··on Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]
It's a comment. On Hacker News. Not the RL subreddit, or whatever. I'm just amazed at the jargon. I'm sure it's useful, but one could just call it model output.
greesil··on Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]
Wtf is a policy? Is this some sort of RL thing that I'm too ML to understand?

Gemini tells me it's the probability of the next token for an LLM. Okay then.

greesil··on A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10
"This is notably fast given that this is the first time that an Android driver bug I reported was patched within 90 days of the vendor first learning about the vulnerability."

This makes me feel better about Google, but also makes me kind of frightened of the rest of Android. I wonder what Apple's response time is?

greesil··on More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions
Which comments?
greesil··on The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
The whole country? Really?
greesil··on Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools
Some people respond to incentives. The rest of us are just trying to do our jobs and will probably be fired and then later consumed by the basilisk. We are living in an age of extremophiles.
greesil··on Gemini API File Search is now multimodal
Too bad they can't just easily vibe code new features.
greesil··on OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”
Isn't this what RAG is really for?
greesil··on NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers
Well this explains tripping on acid a little bit
greesil··on Where did my taxes go?
Insurance company with an army primarily. But now with an expensive credit card bill.
greesil··on Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security
You did not increase comprehension by not using a single negative.
greesil··on Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer
How do you keep it from getting prompt injected?

Oh I get it the runtimes are nice and small, you're using Claude for the intelligence. Obv

I think I'm just impressed with anthropic more than anything. Defcon would have me believe that prompt injections are trivial

greesil··on Sodium-ion EV battery breakthrough delivers 11-min charging and 450 km range
Which company?
greesil··on Show HN: Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search
Suicide booths a la Futurama
greesil··on Show HN: Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search
Collective action is not our strong suit.
greesil··on Choose Boring Technology and Innovative Practices
That's why I'm still using Tomcat and web cgi
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