csneeky

Joined 11 years ago

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Sep 23
I make things with computers and people. Mostly in New York.
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Comment · 2 months ago
Another hitch for people to tie their boats to a sinking ship.
Comment · 4 months ago
Wonder if those two young authors even know the word objective.
Comment · 4 months ago
I think the poster gets it. As do I. And I do not believe either of us care all that much about the vocal minority.
Comment · 8 months ago
Claude is better for much than GPT atm. You really think the government is going to hamstring the engineering of weapons and intelligence capabilities by not using it?
Comment · 8 months ago
Bluster followed by a "we can't do it now but we will... soon". Whoever has the best model can do what they please you'll see. I work with these things daily as an engineer (been doing this shit for 25 years and wow it's like mana from heaven these days). Believe me no one is going to screw with themselves by not using the best one and right now Anthropic has it.
Comment · 8 months ago
Is it really the case companies like OpenAI and Anthropic will repeatedly visit this archive and slurp it all up each time they train something? Wouldn’t that just be a one time thing (to get their own copy) with maybe the odd visit to get updates? My take is the article is about monetizing unique training info and I see them being paid maybe 10-20 times a year by folks building LLMs which is maybe nothing and maybe $$$$ I don’t know.
Comment · 1 year ago
Costs more to incentivize people who are already flush with cash to work harder and keep working for you. It’s the prize waiting for anyone here later in life if you kill it and earn the right to join those ranks. Keep your head down and bust your butt at work and it’ll come. No one ever bitched and moaned their way there.
Comment · 2 years ago
I've been given one by a member of the NYPD twice in the past couple of years. I've politely accepted it, put in my desk drawer, and I do not carry it. Always bothered me. Police culture in this city is fundamentally broken.
Comment · 2 years ago
And what of the rooster mascot?
Comment · 2 years ago
Darwin
Comment · 3 years ago
Most complex, unique, value producing things have a path to monetization for the builder of the thing. If the money isn’t there for the builder they are either not leveraging their relationship to the thing correctly, or the thing does not have the value the builder may think it has.
Comment · 3 years ago
Pretty sure I’m a machine that’s drawn all my conclusions by statistically analyzing all the input I’ve received since birth… I don’t really know how else I would learn what I have… and I don’t understand how being “just that” is what differentiates modern approaches to AI and my brain.
Comment · 3 years ago
- "All it can do is assemble patterns according to other patterns it has seen when prompted by a request"

Sounds pretty much like everyone I know.

Comment · 5 years ago
Fact: functional programming takes more time to learn. It's not full of people that are "smarter' or "snobs" it's just full of people that have taken the time and invested in educating themselves to get to the point where they can do it well. It's not "better", it's just a useful tool for certain types of problems. I'd advise any young engineer to just learn how to do both "imperative" and "functional" programming well and avoid getting dogmatic about it. The vitriol here is in dogma here to be sure

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