WalnutLum
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- Comment on Zuckerberg disses closed-source AI competitors as trying to 'create God' 2 days ago:
ChatGpt already is multiple smaller models. Most guesses peg chatgpt4 as a 8x220 Billion parameter mixture of experts, or 8 220 billion parameter models squished together
- Comment on Not since Apple Vs. Epic... 2 days ago:
Let them Fight
- Comment on Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web 2 days ago:
My one dark hope is AI will be enough of an impetus for somebody to update DMCA
- Comment on What's Happened Since Time Dropped Its Paywall 1 Year Ago 3 days ago:
> pay once, get access to everything everywhere > thinks about Elsevier
OH GOD PLEASE NO
- Comment on Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs 5 days ago:
This is interesting but I’ll reserve judgement until I see comparable performance past 8 billion params.
All sub-4 billion parameter models all seem to have the same performance regardless of quantization nowadays, so 3 billion is a little hard to see potential in.
- Comment on CATL battery successfully powers electric plane with 1,800-mile civil aircraft expected 5 days ago:
I seriously doubt the viability of this, but I’m looking forward to being proven wrong.
- Comment on Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone Can’t Let Go Of Stardew Valley 1 month ago:
Seems like the thing I’ve always considered true: you can turn a mediocre game into a masterpiece with the right application of music.
Not that I’m saying Stardew is mediocre, but good music seems to uplift a game more than anything other part.
- Comment on NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code 1 month ago:
This is a good move for international open source projects, with multiple lawsuits in multiple countries around the globe currently ongoing, the intellectual property nature of code made using AI isn’t really secure enough to open yourself up to the liability.
I’ve done the same internally at our company. You’re free to use whatever tool you want but if the tool you use spits out copyrighted code, and the law eventually has decided that model users instead of model trainers are liable for model output, then that’s on you buddy.
- Comment on BBC World Service - lite 1 month ago:
Doing gods work here
- Comment on NASA wants a cheaper Mars Sample Return—Boeing proposes most expensive rocket 1 month ago:
Starship was still Elon’s brainchild and it is years behind, and threatens the viability of the entire Artemis program. Their finances are also terribly linked to the success of Starlink, which is also shaky at best.
I would not say SpaceX is “on track.”
- Comment on Meet My A.I. Friends | Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future. 1 month ago:
I feel like this is going to be where I disconnect in a major way from our childrens’ generation.
They’re likely going to find it completely normal to have an LLM as a friend and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to bring myself around to that.
- Comment on OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources say 1 month ago:
The irony here is palpable
- Comment on People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you 1 month ago:
It doesn’t have to be your searches, it could have just been the fact that your phone recognized you were on a road trip and that people in your ad cohort tend to want to buy shoes while on road trips.
I’ve worked in algorithmic ad space before and I can say that I’ve never seen evidence of phones listening on conversations but I have seen plenty of evidence from years ago where all your other data is used to form a terrifyingly accurate profile.
We used to do dead reckoning and gps speed gait profiling and we would only need about a weeks worth of GPS data to know height, weight, sex, where you live, where you work, where your kids go to school etc.
We would take that data and cross reference that with data broker info to form a profile, put you in an ad cohort bin, and serve you up as a platform for ad matching services to match to ad campaigns, which get even further targeted.
Millions of dollars spent hyper targeting you but 99 times out of 100 the inaccurate campaign is paying more so they get the adspace but the one time the actual low paying hyper focused campaign gets through it’s always scary how accurate it is.
tl;dr: Ad companies don’t need to listen to your conversation to know what you want to buy, ads are usually inaccurate because the inaccurate campaign paid more
- Comment on People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you 1 month ago:
It’s usually not a case of the phone listening but, more creepily, that your behavior before and after talking to your wife about new shoes signaled that you want to buy new shoes.
Ad algorithms are surprisingly perceptive about signals that aren’t obvious.
- Comment on Is Radicale the way forward? 2 months ago:
What do you do for file syncing, if you don’t mind me asking
- Comment on Tesla’s in its flop era 2 months ago:
The problem is starship, Musk’s mars-shot brain child, seems to be increasingly behind schedule for the Artemis missions.
Not to mention using starship is apparently forcing any moon landings to launch between 8-12 rockets to get one SpaceX lander on the moon?
Overall it seems like SpaceX is getting fucked by Musk’s involvement as well.
- Comment on First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says 2 months ago:
AI technically already won this debate because autonomous war drones are somewhat ubiquitous.
I doubt jets are going to have the usefulness in war that they used to.
Much more economical to have 1000 cheap drones with bombs overwhelm defenses than put your bets on one “special boi” to try and slip through with constantly defeated stealth capabilities.
- Comment on This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are Born 2 months ago:
Yea I mentioned in another comment I should have clarified “east Asia” in the original comment. The rest of the southern and western asian continent have much higher birthrates.
- Comment on This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are Born 2 months ago:
You’re right, I was thinking east Asia when I said “Asia” and should have been clearer, and it’s more that Japan’s has fallen the slowest
- Comment on This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are Born 2 months ago:
fortune.com/…/asia-worlds-lowest-birth-rates-baby…
It’s less “Japan’s got higher” than “Japan’s fell the slowest compared to other Asian countries”
- Comment on This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are Born 2 months ago:
Not anymore, Japan has one of the highest birthrates in Asia now.
- Comment on ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots 3 months ago:
I’m sure another DMCA for AI prompts is on the way
- Comment on Teens, with mixed feelings about their own phones, say their parents need to log off 3 months ago:
Yea it’s the same for us, the complaints from people when they see a kid in public on a tablet are weird to ke cause I know as kids we always had stuff like toys (or we went to restaurants with like coloring maps and stuff).
Parents have been desperately trying to find things to occupy kids while they’re in public so they don’t disturb the people around them for years and now that smart phones/ipads are universal it seems like there’s finally something that will just keep the kids quiet for awhile without a lot of effort.
I think it’s important to pay attention how much you/your kids are spending on “screen time” but it feels really disingenuous to say stuff like the current generation is cooked because of ipads.
- Comment on unRaid is NOT switching to a subscription model 4 months ago:
Former sublime text user here. Eating popcorn and chuckling at “lifetime license”