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hirako2000

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Code and concepts fiddler. Occasionally completes something cool.

Usually more ideas in his head than have time to implement them

Often Feels smart and dumb simultaneously.

Likes fauna and flora, worries about plastic and other sort of crap getting produced in the billion. That includes rubbish thoughts and logic that proliferate at this worrying rate.

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Llama 4 wasn't deemed a success, and Meta pivoted away as its now former head of AI couldn't demonstrate, nor even showed interest in, business profit.

They overspent on llama 3 anyway so money ran dry, LeCun is good at running research, but budgets didn't stretch. Meta isn't investing in frontier big models anymore.

You've got to understand, proprietary models operate as the following:

- release: full precision, debrided, uncapped context

- shortly after, hooked: quantized, governance department slammed, and a pseudo large context, attention reduced to start and end of thread.

- down the road: 4bit quantized or worse with nerf incantation to make the next upcoming model feel amazing.

Rince and repeat.

Nothing new under the sun though. It's the barista-brication of the tech field. No crafting skills, to make anyone replaceable.

We saw it before AI. See ServiceNow university, teaching tailored abilities to run as technical consultant, for ServiceNow. That way good luck transitioning.

Phosh 0.56.0 17 days ago

The fact I thought it was a custom UI over stock android means they got this well rounded.

It's just making a parallel. We may be at the 10cent Uber. But oil and labour costs tend to go up, tokens as used today will probably cost what they cost today or less. But we won't just go to the airport, if we can go to Mars we will ask for it.

It also has a tendency to yield corruption. Some would call it lobbying but in the end it's a counter political force because forces on the other sides exist already.

Not sure fighting fire with fire is the solution, a last resort.

I don't disagree with certain occupations being more parasitic than others, but most jobs can be deemed parasitic. In a fair market "lazy" jobs can't exist or someone else would do it at a better price. Short term let entrepreneurs are just doing arbitrage, because there is a need for it. What you see as making things worse for some which is true, is also making things better for many others. Fix the system, rather than cracking down on foreigners doing what you may then tolerate locals to do.