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I noticed this. What it seems to be is a very aggressive pruning of the context that seems to be done the more you use it. It's quite possibly something they are doing as the model gets used by more people to manage shared resources.

It gets so stupid it's frustratingly useless when it does not follow instructions give just a few prompts back.

I am not sure why I am still arguing, but maybe if I explain it another way, you will understand why what you are saying isn't true.

When you build an LLM, you base it on an immense knowledge base that you didn't create yourself.

It processes that information and, in simplistic terms, constructs its own underlying logic based on what it read. It's once removed from your direct instructions. If you think a human can manually edit or curate all that input content, go for it.

The developer who built the application isn't the author of the output, it is authored by the billions of data points it was trained on. Its choices and biases stem from that training data. No human is writing those billions of logic statements. The LLM is generating its own responses from the input knowledge, not the developer.

This is not how it works. LLMs at large scale have emergent properties. They are not just a box of 'if-then-else' statements. That was the major revelation when they scaled them up. They are doing beyond what that naive view of 'if-then-else' expects.

As dense as MacBooks are, it is nearly trivial to fit a spying device inside them, especially compared to small hardware wallets like Ledger Nanos. As secure as macOS is, once a device is inside the chassis, there are numerous ways to read data. USB serial is easily decodable, as are the many SPI, I2C, and other buses inside the machine.

Keyboard traffic is plain. Bluetooth access depends on where you are positioned. DVI is not hard to decode for capturing the entire screen. KVMs are so small now that one could easily be snuck in. Even though the motherboard is very compact, there is space above it and near the batteries.

There is not a lot of floating point in an operating system.

The issue with floating point and aliasing preventing vectorisation was from the late 1980s when early C compilers lacked sophisticated alias analysis and standards were loose. is not a really a thing anymore. C can go as fast, specially compiled with strict aliasing. Maybe more work in compilation.

> He's pretty damn smart that guy. This is probably the understatement of the year. I am literally ROFLing.

I think Ken Shirriff, CuriousMarc and friends need a new project to step it up now they have their Apollo systems all running like new. :)

As an Australian, I'd rather them spend the time and money fixing their insecure web sites than establishing a 'task force'. Because I can't see much useful stuff coming from herding a bunch of monkeys into a room and letting them just screech at each other, as monkeys do.

The writes where to get past cloudflare.

It's full RRP for everything less than 1000 units. If you want a 100 unit refresh you are better off going to your local corner shop for price and service.

But you can bend the pins of the power cables and make them fit. :)

Having spent a lot of time in the UK, EU and US, I feel Sydney is way more like California than say London or European cities, in terms of living, shopping and culture. Even things from the US are coming here, like the growth of Halloween.

If you walk into a shop, the US is much more like Australia in terms of service and attitude (even though retail staff are paid vastly differently).

I always thought this was due to TV and Australia having remote branches of many US retail chains.

Outside of California, it's similar but diverges a lot in areas like socialism. In the recent 20 years Australia has pretty much become more like the EU in terms of socialism.

I agree. Lot's of people really like it. For me it often just forgets all context and starts showing random slop. It's super clear as, when I ask it what happened to some element earlier in the conversation it tells me it does not have that. It might be good if it told me, but randomly lose the plot is quite frustrating.

Claude does it occasionally but it's a more a soft landing earlier context seems to be compacted, not completely lose the plot.

I just cancelled my pro subscription. I really wanted it to be good but not yet.