ren_engineer
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- ren_engineer parentbodybuilders once again 10-20 years ahead of mainstream science
- cell tower dump and general geofence warrants to Google/Apple were how many Jan 6th protesters were found and charged. Courts threw out all their arguments about this very issue. This is standard practice and was celebrated as cops being smart
here's a Washington Post article lamenting that Google was cutting back on how long they hold location data and how hundreds of people wouldn't have been prosecuted without it- https://archive.ph/r7afb
- you'd think they could use AI to interpret the best model for your use case so you don't even have to think about it. Run the first few API calls in parallel, grade the result, and then send the rest to whatever works best
- Gwern talked about it when GPT 4.5 came out, a ton of breakthroughs with image and text AI came from anons trying to optimize models for their waifus. That's basically the origin of chat models in general - https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1izpgct/comment/mf5...
- /g/ was the origin of Chain of Thought for AI, also where llama weights were first leaked
- lol that was a bait thread, this is the same place that had a discussion on whether a pitbull could defeat the Sun if it snuck up on it at night
- churches don't get billions annually in government funding, they are treated like any other charity in terms of donations
- those endowments, especially for the Ivy League schools, aren't liquid at all. They'd take a massive haircut if they had to start pulling funds from it
- no, but there would be much more push back against this type of action if Harvard and other universities didn't alienate a large chunk of the population. Why should the taxpayers fund places that openly admit to decades of racial discrimination in admissions
the institutions have already failed their intended purpose, as shown by the research fraud. Propping them up with tax dollars because of nostalgia over the name brand is pointless
- the judge you are quoting literally worked in FDR's admin when they were deporting millions of Mexicans, regardless of whether they were born in the US. They didn't get due process
- these types of moves wouldn't be possible in the first place if these institutions hadn't spent decades burning their own credibility. They even mention Alzheimer's research in this post, something that has literally wasted billions of taxpayer dollars due to an academic cartel shutting down anybody trying to expose the fact that they were completely wrong about amyloid plaques
- just cutting government spending would automatically put the US into recession, deficit spending is the only thing that has kept things going. Huge amount of job growth is either direct government hiring or indirect through businesses hiring off revenue from government contracts
- hyperscalers in shambles, no clue why they even released this other than the fact they didn't want to admit they wasted an absurd amount of money for no reason
- saw someone point out how they could have framed it as a way to reward good workers, but instead they showed how they can go after people underperforming. Just bad framing and shows how out of touch they are
- >Janus is the roman god representing changes, transitions from past to future, beginnings and ends
Deepseek flexing on OpenAI with this model, basically say their time is over
- not sure why people are surprised, it's been known a long time that RLHF essentially lobotomizes LLMs by training them to give answers the base model wouldn't give. Deepseek is better because they didn't gimp their own model
- comparative advantage is disproven at this point, because economists are failed math majors who don't account for the innovation flywheel effect and general network effects. Silicon Valley software industry happened because of the proximity to the existing hardware industry there. Same thing for other forms of manufacturing and the US gave it away in the name of short term profits
- their energy policy has essentially crippled their economy
- Gen Z only voted democrat by a 4% margin which is an absolute death sentence for the democrat party considering people only vote further right as they get older. For context Obama won that demographic by 20% in 2012, and won it by even more in 2008. If those numbers hold democrats have no path to winning national elections
https://apnews.com/article/election-harris-trump-women-latin...
- not when the majority of real estate is being bought by investors just looking for a place to throw money regardless of price. That's the main issue in Canada and in tier 1 cities in the US. The people owning the RE don't live there
- and yet deepseek just created an amazing model with the fraction of their compute resources
- forced to finally release after that new open source model came out that was equal or better?
- target market is probably people who will write it off as a business expense
- ChatGPT itself is them copying their own API users, this is just them building out more features already built by users. My guess is they know they don't have a long term edge in models alone, so they are going to rely on expanding ChatGPT for better margins and to keep getting training data from users. They obviously want to control the platform, not integrate with other platforms
- Newton should have known to always leave a moon bag
- some tweets about it, I guess we'll find out soon enough how bad the damage is
- and apparently removing the cap on returns for investors
- you've also got Brockman taking a sabbatical, who knows if he comes back at the end of it