rudolftheone
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Comment · 8 days ago
That's something which caught my attention:
> First, we aim not to release open weights that would extend the absolute frontier of cyber capability. K3.1 Pro's offensive cyber capability is, by design, below what our pipeline can produce, and remains behind that of frontier proprietary models. Second, we intend to progressively raise the cyber capability available in open weights.
So they admit that they could do more, but they won't?
Comment · 8 days ago
Hallu Bench Hard: K3 at 23.4%, K3.1 at 8.3% which is very nice improvement!
Comment · 9 days ago
That's delusional.
2 days ago I wrote a piece about how we think about jobs: starting with translators, then programmers then mathematicians, see https://rudolf.observer/en/posts/i-was-not-a-programmer-afte...
Not to mention how naive it is to think UBI would work.
Comment · 10 days ago
Exactly!
But - we do have similar (and real) science like psychohistory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliodynamics
Comment · 11 days ago
Sounds interesting, but this put me off:
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Comment · 15 days ago
It's complicated.
Comment · 28 days ago
UBI was never a proper solution, stop spreading this nonsense.
This is rather just another mechanism to control people - by creating a dependency from entity which is providing this kind of support.
Comment · 1 month ago
> I sweat a lot and if I'm wearing polyester (...)
Please don't!
If you sweat a lot, wearing polyester is the worst decision you can make!
Not only it makes you sweat more, but it also smells really bad, as compared to wool or even cotton (or linen if you live in a hot area).
Comment · 1 month ago
Fellow Pole here :)
The author writes: "This time I do not need the research, because I have spent the past year looking for a house. (...) And the Polish loan is the worse product."
I wrote a piece comparing what Poles and Americans say about the housing crisis in social media, you might find it interesting, especially that I tried to compare affordability as well [0].
In short, it seems that:
- Warsaw is even slightly less affordable for its residents than Manhattan - but the Americans seem to be more pissed off by the situation.
That was very surprising to me.
[0] https://rudolf.observer/en/posts/who-complains-more-on-housi...
Comment · 1 month ago
"Lonesome Dove" was the most surprising book in years for me - I do not like westerns, and that book is a western - but guess what: I loved it!
One of the best books and simply the best imho in its genre.
Comment · 1 month ago
If you do go the box-set route, you might want to be careful about which editions you buy.
Alec from Technology Connections[0] about a year ago put out a video detailing frustrating trend: many modern DVD box-set re-releases of popular series are being quietly downgraded in quality.
Basically publishers are taking content originally authored for dual-layer discs and cramming it onto cheaper single-layer discs to cut costs. The result is aggressive over-compression, terrible macroblocking, and sometimes outright playback issues.
It really sucks: you try to do the "right thing" by paying for a legitimate, physical copy to own your media and you end up getting ripped off with crap.
Comment · 1 month ago
UBI as a fuel to grow economy? That's first time I hear such a preposterous sentence.
Care to explain how it would work in practice?
Comment · 1 month ago
So you're saying limiting the number of doctors work better?
Speaking from Poland, we see the same outcome: doctors rushing patients out after 5 minutes. The reasons may be different, though: since COVID, many doctors here have, in my view, become more arrogant and focused on money. Over the past few months, an uproar over doctors’ pay has swept through Polish social media.
Reports have emerged of doctors billing for overlapping work under multiple contracts. In one case, a doctor’s records showed 72 hours of work in a single day!
Meanwhile, the Polish Chamber of Physicians and Dentists (NIL) continues to defend caps on medical school admissions, adding fuel to the national debate.
Comment · 1 month ago
> It’s also in my opinion a poorly designed language but that also makes it “interesting” because its behavior is sometimes hard to predict.
Following this logic, any broken device is equally interesting as its behavior is sometimes hard to predict, isn't it?