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Comment · 4 days ago
Plus with more low precision compute… to help with the memory bandwidth!
Comment · 4 days ago
How could it possibly be otherwise? Single core performance goes up every year, but not enough that this year’s 12-core CPU beats last year’s 18-core CPU at multithreaded benchmarks.

This is “sad”?!? First world problems.

Comment · 4 days ago
It was their eyeballs not drying out or squinting due to the wind for me.
Comment · 6 days ago
Sounds like an eventual Supreme Court case.
Comment · 12 days ago
What do you mean “projection”? The “we” they’re referring to are those who feel the same as them. It apparently doesn’t include you.
Comment · 18 days ago
“Meet the new heart of your home”. Move over, hearts of the actual people in your home, and the love between them: we’ve got a new gadget.
Comment · 22 days ago
Fuchsia is an “option”, although it doesn’t support much hardware without writing your own drivers.
Comment · 23 days ago
Apologies, I was referring only to your idiosyncratic and non-explicit definition of what knowledge is and isn’t, and it’s tautological and dubious nature.

Not your contention that LLMs likely have something analogous to what you call “ideas” (you’re almost certainly right).

Mostly irrelevant? Dunno, maybe according to your rigid ontology ;-p

Cheers!

Comment · 23 days ago
So your position boils down to “the only real knowledge is that which is provable”. Tautological. And probably not self-consistent, given Gödel.
Comment · 23 days ago
This feels like a very rigid ontology. I know what type of food my dog prefers. An executive assistant has intimate knowledge of their boss’s needs. Neither of these would become knowledge if they were written down for the first time; they already are.

You’re distinguishing “knowledge” from “idea” in a particular way that doesn’t correspond to common usage (see my counter examples). Without you being explicit about your definitions, I can’t tell whether what you’re saying is meaningful. It feels tautological.

Given that an executive assistant has unwritten knowledge that is necessary to do their job, where your evidence that no mathematician has analogous knowledge (using the word in the common way, not whatever way you mean it)?

It’s possible, but it’s not as obvious as you seem to think.

Comment · 24 days ago
Thank you!
Comment · 24 days ago
Is it? Sorry, skill issue I guess. I regularly use the Claude app on phone and laptop, and have never seen it produce non-text chat output.
Comment · 24 days ago
The point, I think, is to make fun of Anthropic models, which answer only in text when you ask them how to do something. They’re the competition, not paper pamphlets.
Comment · 25 days ago
Who was trying to make the US and China appear the same? I think you have reading comprehension problems, buddy.

If you look at the comment I responded to, they were remarking on selective enforcement in the USA. I merely observed that this isn’t a unique feature of the US system, it happens in China too. I said nothing about the severity of the consequences.

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