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'extraordinary claims' is laughable.

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

>..What evidence is there that these have a chemical difference?

3 lines later..

>.. The Drug Enforcement Agency tests the meth they seize to see how it was made.

quick answer!

>They're an excellent company, and the complete opposite of Bambu when it comes to Openness.

not really -- but there ARE total open printers out there. voron and ratrig come to mind.

prusa decided to change a lot of ethics once they became 'big'.[0]

[0]: https://blog.prusa3d.com/the-state-of-open-source-in-3d-prin...

wild that we're talking about which OS locks you up more w.r.t an apple product.

A computer filled with great hardware that gets its hands held behind its back by shit software sounds like the soup de jeure for apple.

>but my god, I'd die of cringe if someone asked me about my laptop and I had to say "googlebook"

i'd hate for my computing choice to lack fashion forward qualities -- I wouldn't want to be embarrassed at Gate A-13 with my new Apple perched on my lap proudly while waiting for the next question from my adoring fans.

I hope they appreciate the new color!

real talk : my favorite excuse for using an Apple product throughout my life is the tried and true "my company stuck me with it and I hate this piece of shit.", so I find it kinda fascinating that they're such cult objects -- and to be fair I am sure i'd say exactly the same thing if I was ever stuck in a company stupid enough to try to make me be productive on a fancy chromebook, too.

so it just boils down to strictness even when we're talking LLMs?

I agree with you about fast failure being a nice feature , but I also think that if you're TDDing a bunch of stuff and it fails in some categorical way , well then the test suite was lazy.

1) python is one of the foremost trained upon languages

2) it's practically verbose, not technically

3) it resembles pseudocode

4) batteries included shortcuts a lot of work

all of these reasons are a boon for LLM work.

nous portal or openrouter with a harness that uses intelligent multi provider requests,a local memory system, and pre-sub context compaction on input. if you do similar stuff often your token usage will drop after awhile of using a memory subsystem like hindsight or honcho quite a bit, and even more if you're using your harness to build relevant skills for the repeated tasks.

would you rather less anecdotes or more hard coordinates?

it feels right that Trump is the president in office when all of the gov websites turn to LLM generated generic crap.

they weren't better before, they just weren't generic crap.

p.s. : https://www.war.gov/portals/1/Interactive/2026/UFO/Slideshow...

>Actual site photo with FBI Lab rendered graphic overlay depicting corroborating eyewitness reports from September 2023 of an apparent ellipsoid bronze metallic object materializing out of a bright light in the sky, 130-195 feet in length, and disappearing instantaneously.

lol finally we can actually know how the FBI imagines the fake aliens, ray-traced 90s Bryce3D art.

Thankfully ive been UFO hunting for some time, so I can corroborate: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1adf348d93e3...

Cliff Stoll didn’t pass away, he merely entered a non-orientable phase state.

written mere inches from my klein bottle.

glad to see you here Cliff.

1 in 4.72 × 10²⁸

1 in 47.3 octillion.

i'd be suspecting a race condition or some other naive mistake, otherwise id be stocking up on lottery tickets.

(lol at the other user posting at the same time about the lottery ticket.. great minds and all that.)

hard to tell.

even if volume and hype decreases from the general pop there doesn't seem to be much of a cap on model requirements -- so at least one sector will be pushed into purchases one way or another.

it just depends on how you define computer.

people will own an increasing number of dumb terminals connected to rented services.

does that reduce the number of computers? well, no..

so, imo : the trick isn't to reduce physical ownership of devices, the trick is to make it so that you need Big Iron in order to do anything.

One way that might be achieved is by forming social and cultural dependence on models so large that no one individual could possibly run them...

>the One country that dropped an A-bomb.

i'd like to point out that the soviet RDS-3 was an airdropped A-bomb.

I get that you mean 'in anger', but I don't feel that bad being a pedant against a propagandist statement that's also pedantically wrong.

a lack of existential threat in the form of pay-seeking and remediation from the people you stole training materials from that allows for an intrinsically different pace of operation than the Western competition

why are we pretending these are equivalents?

yes, single gpu open models exist. Now show me the one that can keep up with a SOTA api model on more than short code block evals.

>Frankly, it concerns me that people think vomiting their thoughts onto the internet could possibly benefit from computational assistance

it concerns you because you have a good authority over your spoken language, and like most people with those skills I presume the language flows easily from you.

that ability isn't guaranteed, for a lot of people expression is tough, and those people felt equally alienated when confronted with an essay of word salad about why their opinion is wrong.

An LLM is a tool. In the 90s I would read columns and editorials about the disgusting faux pas of replying to a wedding invitation via such a cheap trendy medium like internet e-mail , now you receive death certificates that way.

It's not all bad, simpletons can use LLMs to have the critiquing essays turned into 5 word ELI5 statements that they can become enraged over once all the nuance is stripped. That's fun!

busy streets rarely have cars that are moving fast.

rural roads and 2 lane highways have fast traffic that a) doesn't expect other traffic, especially pedestrian b) are long and constant, breeding inattention and c) have few or limited passing zones that encourage racing.

busy streets have slow traffic where the drivers are forced to do nothing but check their mirrors while they wait to move.

it's hard to argue that decreased genetic diversity will help humans. Maybe we don't need hundreds of thousands of new exotic huge bovines to shit methane into the air all day every day, but it should be seen as fairly vital that we try to keep genetic diversity as high as we can in order to maximize future opportunities that may arise from research and development for the sake of humanity.

other bovines didn't get to near-extinction and spring back after years of remediation and lobbying efforts, the American bison did.

... well and they want to twist whatever knives they have in oAI -- if they can help the competition with their silly over-spend more the better.

it's a huge red flag for me if I hear that without an origin.

"Am I speaking with X? This is Y from Z Corp." is okay.

"Am I speaking with X?..." is a spammer, a complaint, or someone trying to serve me papers.

(in the US)

write it on paper and don't announce to the world you have it.

two things greg brockman didn't do effectively.

>Yeah I know, sure, fake information on the internet. It's so prescient I guess, but the actual story is incomprehensible.

apply this logic to john carpenter movies and they fall apart, too.

Escape from LA is just about as absurd, just less paranormal.

Nuclear powered personal submarines, surfing typhoon waves from California plate shifts, transforming bullet-proof stealth helicopters, emp superweapons and engineered DNA-tailored superbugs ( or atleast the claim of them ) , VR replacing reality, Cuba taking over the democratic world after a theocratic US rescension.

it's just entertainment campiness. When I play a Kojima game I just sort of imagine it internally as a video game equivalent to a John Carpenter movie.

40c is miserable to be in, but it's not really that hot compared to fire or combustion. The record hot day in Phoenix was 50c; miserable but livable w/ precautions.

wet pipe burst temps are between 57c-75c .

it's not that simple.

llms can handle greenfield stuff fine; it's just more important at that stage of development for the operator of the LLM to specify constraints where possible. If the operator is unaware of what constraints should be considered then they have an LLM right in front of them that is familiar with the idea premise that can help create constraints with the operator either via investigation, suggestion, or interrogation.

If the goal is "Claude plz make me a SOTA db system." , well -- 'garbage in, garbage out.'

ask was cool because the appeal initially was to allow people to better form search queries with natural human language questions.

as far as weird search engine traits I still think ChaCha is king; it's just sort of intrinsically funny that another human being is being given two cents to find me the most relevant FarScape fansite or DIY tattoo ink guides, whatever.

i've had an experience at the cross section of the two where I dreamt factorio optimizations after obsessive play.

generally they don't work out.