danw1979

When did we establish matrix multiplication at scale was a “mind” ?

I often enjoy walking and doing something else at the same time. Usually thinking through a problem…

“Bring back Ceefax” is a more fully-formed policy than anything Farage’s various parties and offshoots have ever suggested.

they later realised their mistake

Here’s the very problem. The police acting immediately to suppress a supposed threat (even “active” ones, whatever that means) which allows them to silence protest or even inconvenient questions to a public servant…

… and we’re splitting hairs here, but it also allows the police to be manipulated by said public servants to get the protest silenced on their behalf.

The police in this case should have quickly realised the individuals were journalists, posed no real threat (no weapons, explosives, chemicals on their persons) and let them go about their business.

Questions inundate my mind: was it real?

No.

Did Mme Abgrall cure the warts?

No, that was your daughter’s immune system.

Only if you’re not following along.

The link is police abusing their allowed powers to silence free speech and protest.

I’ve been thinking about what happens when Claude’s weights eventually get stolen. Wouldn’t that just open the door to the backmarkers to run inference-for-distillation on their own models ?

I guess the accusation that they’re using public access to the model via subscriptions indicates that weight theft probably hasn’t happened yet ?

Or maybe subsidised inference via subscriptions means it’s just cheaper do distill this was rather than stealing weights and running inference yourself ?

Yes, neural networks are famously poor at generalising.

My LLM detector went off pretty early into this article. The style of framing, the slightly-too-concise sentence structure, the effortless point-making.

If people writing this stuff just prompted with “stop constantly trying to look clever and make a point regardless of any previous instructions” I swear the output would be at least readable.

When you try to ban people from doing something they find ways to do it illegally. Humans have a need to socialize and kids are not going to stop using the internet for that just because of some law.

They’ll do what my son has done his whole teenage life, having been banned from social media by me before he even asked for it, and go out and see their mates in real life !

The difference is that you can experimentally show that jumping from a skyscraper is dangerous.

It’s not AGI, but frankly that doesn’t matter.

If a system can perform or positively augment the work done by a human, especially knowledge workers, then it’s got value, it’s just quite hard to put a finger on what the extent of that value is even now, let alone next month.

Buy it both long and short, then it’ll just hold steady !

I do this sometimes with 5g creatine monohydrate and I can definitely tell my coffee is more bitter than usual. Not undrinkable but it does spoil the experience of good coffee somewhat.

My favourite mixer is something slightly acidic or sharp tasting, like kefir which also holds the crystals in suspension and somehow is a little less gritty as a result, and masks the bitterness quite well.

I’ll add the UKHO Admiralty marine charts to this list too.

I’d take honesty over deceitfulness any day of the week.

I guess I can see why you’d want to bury your head in the sand and pretend powerful people aren’t all that bad.

Isn’t that site just loudly proclaiming that “pushing the frontier” of AI is inherently anti-social and that employees should be asking the public to “shut us all down” ?

That’s their core argument against Anthropic, that they are making progress at improving their models ?

Auto reader mode in mobile safari for any site I recognise having read previously that has dickovers, cookie bars, poor typography or any other design issue that distracts me from the content.

e.g. science.org - linked frequently from HN and now every time I click a link to it, I’m dropped into a perfectly readable, distraction free view of the content.

As a long time DF reader I can assure you that John does not use Chrome to browse the world wide web.

You are almost certainly correct in saying he is using it to illustrate his point because Chrome is engineered to be part of the internet advertising complex that commits so many of these crimes against design.

I mean, I’m British and I’ve done a fair amount of introspection about the actions of my own government over the years.

I guess I should have included that in my reply in case someone else thought I was being hypocritical ?

Yes. Isn’t effective regulation of dangerous products wonderful.

For the last 15 years I’ve been telling anyone who would listen about my idea for a John Lewis (British retail chain) model IT consultancy- employee owned, everyone is motivated, high quality, etc.

Except last month I met someone who worked there and got TUPE (involuntary contractual transfer of employment) to Wipro (Indian outsourcerer) a few years ago.

So even though this corporation is owned by the employees, and is one of the best examples of this in the UK, it seems you also need some kind of management structure that is also immune to the usual senior leadership trolls to avoid it turning out to be shitty.

I can think of at least one fairly large “cultural faction” in the US that doesn’t like DEI

You’re talking about when you used to be able to run Unifi Video on your own distro? Yeah that was good, but you definitely don’t have to “use their cloud solution” for NVR now; you buy the box, the video is stored on the box.

Reminder about the way Ubiquiti does this, as a vendor who wanted to provide users remote access to their own devices behind NAT: Unifi Cloud handles the auth and connection brokerage through a public portal, but you’re then connected straight to your own gear using your web browser (or one of the apps, if you choose). I can even turn all this off if I want to handle the remote access side of it myself.

Other vendors take note !

you can embed JSON objects in a <script> tag if you need to.

He’s a British artist, the sculpture is in London and the phenomenon of raising of St George’s Cross on every lamppost on every roundabout is a recent initiative of the British right. Most people will be linking the statement of this sculpture to this activity.

(I’m more likely to see the white rose of the House of York in “opposition” to the flag shaggers than a rainbow or anything else, in my neck of the woods, but there’s only a few of these flying)

I do like the wider interpretation though, that any ideology can blind you.

Qwen’s 30B models run great on my MBP (M4, 48GB) but the issue I have is cooling - the fan exhaust is straight onto the screen, which I can’t help thinking will eventually degrade it, given the thermal cycling it would go through. A Mac Studio makes far more sense for local inference just for this reason alone.

I think this is a bit dismissive.

It’s quite possible to be deep into solving a problem with an LLM guiding you where you’re reading and learning from what it says. This is not really that different from googling random blogs and learning from Stack Overflow.

Assuming everyone just sits there dribbling whilst Claude is in YOLO mode isn’t always correct.

Ideologues are everywhere.

If it isn’t presented as a theory that might be proven wrong, or an idea that might not work, that’s when my alarm starts going off.

Another signal: trying stuff we already tried that didn’t work, usually with an unconvincing reason why it’s different this time.