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They've said for some time that Claude Code is 90% LLM generated code.

That consumer energy prices are going up is simply a matter of public policy. Municipalities have the power to keep rates flat, but they choose not to.

Putting it in 100m times is great perspective. This is essentially a healthy amateur athlete running at nearly full tilt for 4 minutes straight.

After MoE entered the mix, raw parameter count is less useful a measure.

If there are two folks standing at gold, nobody gets the silver medal.

The real elephant in the room is pricing for KV cache writes and reads. That makes all the difference for tasks with large context.

It doesn't indicate Epstein even met with Cerf. It looks like a wish list.

You're not forced to buy the games that require it.

I'm generally laissez-faire about corporate layoffs. Corporation should have the freedom to organize how they want.

Still, this sticks in my craw. Microsoft didn't just buy a game studio. They bought a fleet of studios, a non trivial segment of the entire video game market. And they did almost nothing with them, and then they just light the goodwill on fire. It isn't just the IP. It is the brand, the organizational work, the history. Just vaporized.

The least they could have done is sell the studios mostly intact.

I graduated a long time ago with a degrees in CS and philosophy.

I've never understand the hate for philosophy; I think more about my philosophy classes now than my CS classes.

This is exactly how the Fed influences the business cycle.

That's the instantiation of AI in a particular embodiment; the ethical boundaries are clear.

For a chatbot, there are dozens of use cases, all with different ethical impacts. The idea that there is a single framework that you can shove every situation through is counter to a couple thousand years of philosophical discourse, not to mention basic usability.

This reads of projecting personal ethics onto a model.

Most of the the behaviors the article talks about happens every day in business. Why would we set a higher standard for models than our fellow humans?

Let the operator set the ethical parameters of the model. To be a useful tool, I want the model to give me as many good options as possible, ethical or not.

This is particularly important for fictional situations, e.g. I want my model to be able to act like a corrupt shopkeeper.

As long as it is in the CCP's national interest to have a frontier model, Chinese companies will have the resources for another training run.

You're already depending on the OS for many other things. Depending on it for page caching is just one more thing.

Bummer. I'm the maintainer of the Python bindings.

I have to figure out how to support both versions now...

I've used LMDB in production for multi-terabyte databases, and we encountered the long-write time but found a solution.

The important idea is that LMDB offloads cache management almost completely to the OS. You have to become intimately familiar with the way that the page cache works and how to configure it.

These colleges certainly have English, Philosophy, Art, and History classes, all of which require papers to be submitted and the exams consist of essay questions.

That Computer Science is somehow a privileged subject where the exam grading must be automated is elitism of the highest degree.

Yes. That's exactly what college is. If you don't have the resources to effectively individually evaluate a student's output, you shouldn't hold a graded class.

While I agree with other comments indicating that the headline is drawing on a small period of data, other data in the deck is pretty compelling.

Page 25 "The number of data centers in the US" gives an interesting insight as to the magnitude of the data center boom. 60% more data centers are being planned or are under construction. This might actually be underselling it in dollar amount, as I believe the average data center size under construction is larger than the average data center already constructed.

Page 27 "Cyclically adjusted P/E ratio near all-time highs" is certainly concerning and points to a near term correction.

Which is literally what graduate students get paid to do.

How do you think English, philosophy, or history tests get graded?

But what's wrong with pen and paper?

A meeting to get a lamp post change is exactly how progress stops. It is why we can't build anything in US and it costs a billion dollars per mile of high speed rail.

I would get nervous carrying around a $10k laptop.

The very idea of "let's just write it correct the first time" is itself very much a second system fallacy.

Crazy I saw one of the victim's grandchildren post on Reddit yesterday and thought it should make the news.

I wonder if I should stop taking a glucosamine supplement.

A common security control today is to use another model to check the actions of the target model.

Perhaps the best defense against runaway AI is AI you control yourself.

I think it is worse for Hetzner. The secret is out. Their prices have attracted a lot of demand, and they need to buy equipment to satisfy that demand.

The last Hetzner box I leased I had to poll for availability as if I was Ebay auction sniping. It took me 2 days to acquire it.

Bill Gates is a great counterexample to the article's premise. Always clearly a nerd, yet led a company that no one loved and many people hated for its strategy of embrace, extend, extinguish.

Post-CEO, he had completely refurbished his image via philanthropy, only to throw it away with the Epstein stuff.