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my niece loves nendoroids and touhou, getting this for her birthday i think

i am bored and something is running so: Mixture of Expert layers the thing you need to know is that the name is horrible. they have nothing to do with "experts" in the sense of any AI system before Mixture of Expert layers. a normal layer is one matrix. an MoE layer is a router, then several

Elon as a Nendoroid is an unfortunate time I will hand it to him because it's in better taste than Funko Pops which SOME PEOPLE thought it was

They’re calling it the most vindicated corporate strategy call in history folks

This is just the median Gen Z man, though. The internet brought back measles, Creed, antisemitism

if you have ever read any ed zitron, no matter how much you think you accounted for "ed does not know what he is talking about", you believe at least three things that are complete nonsense

today i learned that fully half of the "pussyhat" wikipedia page is people complaining about the pussyhats leftishly now, this may strike some readers as harsh,

even ed zitron acknowledges that llm services, absent training, are profitable. he simply argues that you should count training

the good news is that the oil shocks in the 70s made americans so testy they elected reagan. no wait the good news is that you can, in fact, run radical reforms through in a society that has just felt an oil shock.

but what would (checks notes) the head of the International Energy Agency know about oil markets

this is because OpenAI is out of money because they got their lunch eaten by Anthropic and Google, and Sora costs maybe two orders of magnitude more than ChatGPT.

I guess the difference is people were eventually able to quit nxivm

i wish the bubble pop thing were true i could buy an 8xh100 machine

fundamentally the problem is that it's moatless and therefore without financial value. chinese labs caught them here and nobody will pay significant money for it

A new reader asked me just now where the tech right AI people are and I was reminded how difficult it's going to be to remember that in 2016 "people who want to build superintelligent AI" were absent for the same reason people who want to build a star gate to commune with leprechauns are absent.

That’s crazy

This forms a pretty good global theory of political change: you want to be saying something that is considered unacceptably fringe now, that will become acceptable within about 5-10 years, and that you can meaningfully accelerate and shape once they get close to where you are.

just to be clear: there are people from whom i would assume the original post was not entirely a joke, malice was intended, etc etc there is no indication I can see to think zoë is that person, and every reason to think it was a joke and and intended spite was literally towards gavin newsom

bro no way

Israel is distinctly unpopular with the Democratic base and pretty unpopular with independents. this should help clarify that Newsom isn’t trying to move away from *unpopular* lefty positions, he’s trying to abandon the left entirely

I have said this a few times. Yes, it is corruption. That much is obvious. But scale, quantity, itself takes on a qualitative character beyond some point. This is a form of state *looting* and they are doing it everywhere. The warehouse contracts and sales are just one small slice of it.

trying to figure out what this has to do with me

crossover event between "ai enthusiasm" and "hating the government"

The hearing on Anthropic's request for a preliminary injunction is today at 4:30ET/1:30PT; and the judge's questions to DOD/DOW indicate this is going to be 🔥 @lawfaremedia.org 's @annabower.bsky.social and @rparloff.bsky.social will be live tweeting coverage! Join us!

They just let anyone teach anything now

"who watches the watchmen" problem actually trivial distributed systems issue. simply have an odd number of watchmen and compensate them for watching each other. odds of a majority defecting at once decrease with size and power of incentive

absolutely wild to see bluesky specifically freak out at zoë quinn

this triggered the thought that this post is self-negating. probably bluesky specifically is the best non proprietary archival record that contemporary people understood the windmill thing literally

oss always better

is there a widget for bulk removing your mutes, i may have gone overboard

i did have this thought in part because bryan johnson, infamously mormon in every way, smoked DMT on a stream with some zoomer

wondering idly how much ai doom is because everyone is taking too many stims and scared of their own shadow

so "weights and biases" is not a good name but what would have been a good name for them

brutally simple algorithms have been better at sentencing and release decisions for years if recidivism is your metric, this is the point of all the statistical instruments for those things. generally when humans override the statistical instrument they underperform

The author of the article has decided to identify himself, in a long post over at the other place. Here are screenshots. The article itself is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This is absolutely bonkers

this is not a low predator environment and if it seems like it is your read of the vibes is extremely poor. bluesky has evolved lib-on-lib apex predator species unfathomable on any previous platform

it is remarkable how often you find people making indefensible arguments about questions of fact because they reject the conclusion those facts would lead them to

I think this exchange yesterday was very revealing; people understand that apartheid in South Africa was something that necessitated universal moral opposition, and so they "know" it can't apply to Israel, because they reject the implications. Well, sorry! Facts don't care about your feelings.

“Your brain’s an electrical system that operates on music.” Great quote from @earlkmiller.bsky.social at the end of this excellent podcast. Highly recommended.

backlinks in atproto are a legitimately tricky issue and it's good to see it getting extra care here

ai makes it obvious what the signature of serviceable but bad craftsmanship is

worth

this is obvious bait and it's getting more attention here than on twitter

This take but for everything in this category is basically my politics at this point.

this is the worst invention in the history of the world

the extremely good voice acting in games around this time seems like an anomaly and it feels like somehow we got it wrong since