plif
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Comment · 3 months ago
Not new about LLMs. Targeted ads / big data is this.
Another degree of capability, yes. But we have been trending here for a long time.
Comment · 8 months ago
I started experimenting 2-weeks ago on using LLMs in a pseudo-deterministic way. I kept getting results that proved my hypothesis, which is that LLMs could be harnessed deterministically, but I could not prove why, so I kept going.
I may now have proven why. If you start your prompt input with many compiled JS binaries, it will force the LLM to take an abstract logical reasoning path that we have not seen before. I have run this thousands times against Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct-FP8 and Gemini-3-Flash with consistently working results.
For example, when I uploaded all Facebook binaries (i.e., FB-Static folder when loading facebook.com) at the start of my prompt, then provided my code and abstract brief, Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct-FP8 was able to render a fully contextual working view, considering client attributes, at a cost of of 1200 compute tokens (given 380,000 prompt input tokens).
The punchline: LLMs that we know as "math" models, significantly outperformed LLMs that we know as "abstract reasoning" models, at a small fraction of compute cost. And this may only be the beginning of the punchline.
Seeing is believing. All detailed on the link, including examples you can click and try for yourself: https://terminalvalue.net/
Comment · 3 years ago
My experience is that it's much better than the alternative of games running natively on your phone. I would say better than the switch too in most cases for me (more battery life, shorter load times) though may depend on the game.
I also noticed a significant improvement running it on WiFi after I upgraded to a mesh network. I've only tried over cloud a few times, can appreciate connection requirements may very high, but even being able to load it up wirelessly in different parts of the house or backyard is a big plus for me.
Comment · 3 years ago
There's no way you're going to get top quality like those sites at a place like Fiverr either. They've spent millions on branding and marketing.
I can see Midjourney already replacing the low end. The question is how good can it get, and then as the bar is raised what can be done to differentiate. Answer to the latter ironically may be going back to old school human interfaces.
Comment · 4 years ago
I wouldn't say useless. He'll look to buy other smart peripherals that fit into the Alexa ecosystem, not a competitor's. It helps build up the brand. There's also a lot of data there to collect.
Maybe not the most lucrative revenue stream, but not nothing.
Comment · 4 years ago
Yep, this is a feature, not just for tracking but also containment when navigating to external links. Big reason why all of those apps and others aggressively push users from web to mobile.
Comment · 4 years ago
I've been using it. It's gotten a lot better than when it first came out. Super annoying that they released a product that was far inferior (and probably still is inferior) to Google Play music and forced everyone to switch.
Comment · 4 years ago
Also includes YT Music, making it not much more expensive than other streaming music services if you're willing to use it over something like Spotify.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yeah, this is the biggest reason I switched to MacOS. Not enough time / mental energy to deal with scaling fonts on external displays.
Comment · 5 years ago
Heh, SA was a huge part of my formative years, spent a ton of time (years / many many hours) lurking there. Sad to see the spiral that happened with Lowtax. Feeling very melancholic...
Comment · 5 years ago
Accessibility.
I can't game on PC anymore because of RSI when using mouse. Even for cross platform games, the console version usually has far superior controller support.