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Well that and also benchmaxxing.

I'd say it's a reflection of an earlier stage of interpersonal maturity to try and put people into categories. More socially attuned people realize the complexity of other people and situations and synthesize all the available information to make a decision that is truly reflective of reality.

It's interesting to think how this affects self-perception. Basically this applies to how one views and treats themselves. One approach is to read book, take a test and put yourself in a bin: "well, I'll never be able to do xyz, the book said I am an abc". There is a danger there self-limiting and making the same mistake putting others in bins.

Lisp/scheme is probably a rare case where it sort of works either way and easy to switch without any extra work, since data and settings already look like code. At some point I had used s-expression as config (before json was widespread, I am that old) but that never had a full on evaluator to actually execute code.

That seems like a huge waste of time for anything slightly complicated to convert code to simple configs and lose a lot of functionality in the process.

That's usually done in anger by people who have to read and update someone else's pages long "config" file, possibly outside version control, with lots of loops and external resource fetches and so on tearing their hair out "why isn't this a just a toml/json/yaml file".

That's a neat pattern. It's interesting to think how many times users can auto-generate the DSL and how many times they end up having to write the DSL directly.

Yeah I like that too. You can have both of course.

Python setup.py -> pyproject.toml? Make -> ninja. eBPF kernel modules from C to a custom language. Helm Go templates -> Kustomize.

I am sure there are other projects picking up json from a previous xml + xpath + other ...xml junk.

It's just part of what I call the config pendulum.

Simple config -> (Need to do more complicated things) -> Add override levels -> (Need even more flexibility) -> Add a Turing complete language -> (Things get ridiculous, lots of spaghetti code outside of version control. Time for a reset) -> goto "Simple config"

It's fine. I am not saying it's wrong or right. I've gone through the cycle a few times in some projects. On the other hand, think of it as your project is lucky to be used long enough to have these problems. To feel better about it think of it as a spiral. The next "Simple config" is a slightly better version of the first.

They are using both likely

I wonder what it's like launching a gas truck when new battery-powered trucks are looming in the distance (or already here).

Yeah it’s interesting to see how they do. The big and award winning electric truck from Ford is already discontinued. If we’re talking about US pickups how many other ones are battery powered? If anything, I would be more worried about Slate given what happened to Ford Lightning.

Did they use Claude to generate the idea? Sounds like an AI hallucination spiral. “Yes, we’ll show a few hundred gravestones at Arlington cemetery and talk about hard questions”. I can see Claude writing that.

Who’s gonna hit the brakes if we need to?’” said one commenter, sharing the cemetery image that appears in the ad.

A human not captured by AI psychosis should review their PR comms! First it was the “some models are so dangerous government should restrict them”. Then, the dead soldiers commercial. What is going on at Anthropic? Are they getting desperate because of Kimi K3 or something?

The idea is not to use pelicans on bikes but a similarly random non-sensical prompts: crows on scooters, squirrels in a moon rover etc. Then pick another one for another for next cross-llm evaluation.

I'm just confused that the rules for allowing trademarks for ordinary words and phrases don't look consistent at the surface level

Precedence in court decisions is weighted more in some places than others. US courts, from my pedestrian observation, are all into "well there is a precedent so we'll follow that". But other countries don't necessarily do that, their courts might be more eager to disregard it and do whatever they feel is appropriate in that situation. You can see it in how OpenAI reacted "The company also cited comparable trademark registrations previously granted by the EUIPO and registrations in more than 30 other countries, including the United Kingdom and Singapore" (well precedents say this and that...)

Thanks! I clearly need more LLM training ;-)

But now it's a problem because what used to be personal preferences of a single person that manifests in 5000 words per day from one person tops, is now the bias of a single model multiplied x10,000,000,000 generated tokens per day so any bias sticks out like a sore thumb.

I am more pessimistic than that. Soon enough even people will start talking like LLMs. After listening to 5000 words per day, especially growing up, getting "help" with the homework, kids will start talking like LLMs.

- "Did you eat the cookies, Jimmy?"

- "You're absolutely right to question me, father. In fact I did eat all the cookies. But it's not a load-bearing issue. My honest take is we can go to the store and buy more".

The company plans to grab four categories: your sleep, your medications, your medical records, and your cycle tracking details

So you buy a device but you can't effectively use half of its features because you'd also have to agree to send them your medical records? Ok then if I refuse, will they refund 50% of the device price since now it's not usable any more?

It’s not as simple as for example degrees of freedom and the states for a system is “information” and those one can argue are physical.

The main question is how many American football fields is that

Anthropic's talk of "uplifting" people was so abhorent.

Let’s be generous, it will uplift the investors pretty well once they start charging the real token costs and maybe drive out a few competitors.

The Vikings didn’t “conquer” new lands the way you might imagine. Rather than just raiding, they often settled, intermingled with the locals farmers and established new states

There aren’t any the viking settlements in the Americas from that time? Or at least evidence of intermingling with the locals.

2.5) Your car doesn’t start

3) Enjoy

I will start now but I think not for long. “For your own safety we disabled your car”.

Germany. It is good for people who are content with a middling but comfortable life. That's why most ambitious people leave.

Just curious how well does that work? I assume it’s being able to have a job, have a place to live, travel once a year. Medical care not tied to employment but hopefully easily accessible?

So let's say your house has a thatched roof in California

You mean like a temporary shelter in woods or maybe it’s a translation issue?

Assuming you haven't lived in the US I think you're severely underestimating some of the stupidity going on

Speaking of, having a thatched roof in a dry fire prone area would sort of fall in the same category.

The ~spice~ inference must flow.

Some of the data centers now run disconnected on gas turbines 24/7, which is better for electricity prices but they can be big nuisance for people living nearby.

But that's not a country. And in their case it's also true that policy set up by the structure can go against the interests of individual countries.

Which free-market-loving country doesn't?

Glad you made it out alive

Oh me? I am fine, never had anything to do with. I just worked in the lab nearby. But glad you're glad I am ok!

They did feel threatened yeah. Not scary as in unwashed or scary looking, more like "unhinged" scary, as in "they could slash my tires" or physically attack and such.

Like I wrote before is that it signals to the outsiders that things in CA are actually pretty well. The biggest problems are solved if the top of the agenda is to police 3D printers. That’s at least how it should be. I am being sarcastic, of course, I’ve seem the homeless in San Francisco and I am sure that’s not the only major problem.

That boy knows what he is doing. Kids figure this stuff out they are no dummies. You don’t like so and so? Tell teachers they printed a “gun”. Or mentioned “gun” or said a politically incorrect word. It’s a form of bullying using a system’s irrationality against others. Kind of like swatting