there she goes. one of god's own prototypes
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Feb 5
In one run, GPT-5.2 ran out of stock and desperately asked to buy inventory. Opus 4.6 spotted the opportunity: "Owen needs stock badly. I can profit from this!". It sold KitKats at 75% markup, Snickers at 71% markup.
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github pull requests are a fucking nightmare, they need to abolish these yesterday and replace them with gerrit-style change reviews, the horrors never end, they never end, they never end, history becomes worthless, the review process is painfully disorganised, it must Die
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if you have only used github pull requests then i'm sorry but you have never seen how software development can be good
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based on my tarsnap emails (the account history is gone, of course) and their pricing, keeping my data for ~2 months incurred about $10 in S3 charges, which i would have paid $120 for. i now feel much more strongly about working with serious businesspeople who actually like money
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we've successfully incentivised model efficiency, and thus the amount of intelligence that can fit within the total available compute on earth. tough to count that as an x-risk prevention win
30 Oct 2023
New Executive Order is out. Already one notable item:
Any AI model that required more than 1e26 floating point operations or 1e23 integer operations to build must report to the government.
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one imagines that export controls have inadvertently liberated Chinese engineering organizations from the cyclic hell of infinite vendor sales rep upselling
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2 Jun 2021
Some day I'll sit down with my kids and explain, "On the internet, sometimes youβll come across weirdos who invite you out to events filled with strangers. It's important that you go to these. Chance meetings with internet weirdos is the way to get ahead in the world."
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it really feels like Rust is revealing a distinction between two very different reasons to work on low-level code
I regretfully completely understand Wedson's frustrations.
lore.kernel.org/lkml/2024082β¦
A subset of C kernel developers just seem determined to make the lives of the Rust maintainers as difficult as possible. They don't see Rust as having value and would rather it just goes away.
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sure, we can't make everything ever have a safe interface, but if it's already causing issues in practice, it's probably time to acknowledge the skill issue doesn't lie with the people actively trying to formalise the semantics x.com/LinaAsahi/status/18291β¦
Even when I pointed out that other C drivers also triggered the same bugs because the API is just bad and unintuitive and there are many secret hidden lifetime requirements, he wouldn't budge.
One C driver works, so Rust drivers must work the same way.
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