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there is essentially no scientific explanation for its existence

The heat comes from Yacumama, a great serpent-spirit called the Mother of the Waters.

this is a goldmine, worth bookmarking.

stylelint beeps you can't just pass hex colors directly, that color is not in our design system, you need to write a design doc for custom color tokens and get approval from the frontend platform team, open a PR in their repo, make sure you have storybook tests covering all the color <cross product> button variants, ask in their slack channel for approve, ask their manager, wait. someone from their team leaves a comment: "we should make this an approved custom colors enum not a string, so if you want to add custom colors you also have to update this enum", fix the PR, staff engineer from sister team drive by request for changes: "we are currently implementing custom themes and changing colors will be done through the ColorSwatch service", ask for timelines, "maybe next week behind a feature flag", give up, close the PR, open a new PR with "stylelint-disable", force-merge it.

Idk if it's a "truly insane policy", but these are the rules of the game, and there is a procedure in place for changing the rules of the game.

Wow this is really awesome. Really really smooth. It's insane how after 25 years or so my muscle memory is still intact.

It is a bit of both. A non-deterministic instrument and a predictable slot machine.

at the risk of sharing my secret magic spells :)

this is phenomenal work, genuinely! I feel like you read my mind! <next instruction here>

can go a long way.

of course, I would only say that when I mean it, because Claude can get superficial and cut corners which is why I prefer GPT for raw implementation.

If you play with these models long enough, you realize there is more to them than just "model X is smarter than model Y" or "model Y is cheaper than model Z". They are different tools and the prompting technique is different. It is very much like playing an instrument.

With Claude, you sometimes want to under-specify or phrase things more indirectly to give a color to the implementation or elicit something creative. Also (you might raise an eyebrow at this) being nice to Claude will be rewarded and being mean to Claude will be punished. Claude tends to mirror your tone more aggressively and you don't want to get into negative loops with it.

With GPT, you have to be precise and reduce ambiguity. GPT will often try to resolve ambiguity in a min-max style "I'm going to do X, but make sure it is not quite Y". It will tend to be more paranoid and overengineer to catch all edge cases if you don't tell it precisely what the scope is.

With Qwen, you have to give it a shape and let it fill it in. Qwen likes XML, JSON and lists. Qwen likes to be shown a bunch of examples of previous work.

This is not scientific at all, just vibes, YMMV.

So this is the other side of banning American models for non-Americans? And how exactly do they plan on enforcing all of this? Great Firewall of America?

This is a complete joke. The malicious clowns behind this should be removed from power and prevented from ever holding any position of power in any form of governance system.

This is really cool!

First thing that came to mind is that I would use this for a sim city style video game

don't worry, these idiots can try, but it is too late for them :)

Technology is deflationary. I am holding in my hand a device that would have been a supercomputer 30 years ago. It costed me a couple of hundreds of dollars.

These models and the hardware they are running on will get even more efficient. We are nowhere near the physical limits of what we can achieve.

it is inevitable that it will win

information wants to be free

a fable for the ages:

pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered

This mammalian hardware we are running on is merely a bootloader, larva state, don’t take it too seriously. It was good enough to run us and I am grateful I woke up running on it.

yay! looking forward, and thanks!

This looks really great, more thoughtful than any benchmark that I've seen until now!

I'm curious if you're only interested in scoring frontier models or you would accept submission from custom harnesses? I am working on multi-model harnesses and would love to test them against your benchmark. Do you plan on releasing the tasks publicly?

Honestly, compared to any random sample of non-retarded and non-malicious people you can find.

Eventually you have to come back to the real world and learn to accept the harsh truths of the reality you find yourself inhabiting.

I don't know why I feel so much contempt for people like you. I kinda get it, you want to feel intellectually superior. You're the reasonable one, the adult in the room, etc. but seriously bro, this reality is so fucking harsh. What keeps you going? Why are you still here and going through with it?

the people are the government

A lot of countries claim that. I think that can only work at a small scale.

I want really small, face to face responsible governments

We are not that different :)

We can always dream and then find ways to make it practical :)

It's encouraging I didn't get downvoted as much as I expected I would.

I've lived in several different countries. There are nice people everywhere. The country governments are shitty everywhere.

That can be figured out after the dismantling process :)

My personal utopian take: smaller communities/city-states that would naturally coalesce into more fluid confederations. A lot of these communities could also be distributed and non-local.

I like this. And furthermore, it is my opinion that all current nation states should be dismantled.

All I'm going to say is this is a very shallow analysis, and I expected more from the author of masterpieces like Exhalation. It's a good time to start discussing these topics, so it might still be valuable to publish this as a way to get the debate started.

I am glad you were able to find the root cause and get treatment, and sorry you had to go through this. I hope we will soon remove “psychiatry” from the domain of medicine completely and start addressing actual biological issues directly.

You're probably right, I'm an idiot. I just think there's not much we can do about it, so might as well not take it too seriously. At least for the innocuous type of surveillance like reading my emails to learn how to sell me product. Things that you really want to keep for yourself shouldn't really touch the internet at all.

I used to care, but I don't anymore. They can read my emails, my code, track what websites I visit and what music I listen to, be my guest. I'd let them read my thoughts directly if we can build technology to do that lol. I realized that ultimately, these corporations are too stupid to do anything of value with all that data, so I don't feel threatened.

Yup, I was just giving them "thumbs down" on every suggestion, but I know I am screaming into the void.

But the fact that this feature exists in its current form (opt-out) means that nobody who tested it internally had the balls to just say "this is fundamentally the wrong direction, we should probably not do this". Don't be evil teehee.

I just can't stand how Gmail is putting a red line under every other sentence that I write (telling me that my writing style is a "mistake") and aggressively nudging me to rewrite it to make it sound more like AI.

Whoever thought such a product would be a good idea should be fired.