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I don't think it's plagiarized, nor would I pirate a copy. The workflow through the Gemini made app is way better (it's customized exactly for our inputs) and totally different than how the CAD program did it. So I wouldn't pirate a copy not even because our business runs above board, but also because the CAD version is actually also worse for our use. This is also pretty fringe stuff, cnc machine files from the 80's/90's.

Part of the magic of LLMs is getting the exact bespoke tools you need, tailored specifically to your individual needs.

When I can replace a CAD license that costs $250/usr/mo with an applet written by gemini in an hour, that's a hard tangible gain.

Did Gemini write a CAD program? Absolutely not. But do I need 100% of the CAD program's feature set? Absolutely not. Just ~2% of it for what we needed.

I'm both, I have a day job and run a side business as well. My partner has her own business (full time) and uses AI heavily too.

None of these are tech jobs, but we both have used AI to avoid paying for expensive bloated software.

There is a non-trivial number of people who get an adverse reaction to anything technical, including the language of technical - numbers. Numbers are the language of confusion, not getting it, feeling inadequate, nerds and losers, stupid math, and the "cold dead machines".

The thing is that people who are fine with numbers will still use those products anyway, perhaps mildly annoyed. People who hate numbers will feel a permeating discomfort and gravitate towards products that don't make them feel bad.

Copyright was an evil institution to protect corporate profits until people without any art background started being able to tap AI to generate their ideas.

I used to type out long posts explaining how LLMs have been enormously beneficial (for their price) for myself and my company. Ironically it's the very MIT report that "found AI to be a flop" (remember the "MIT study finds almost every AI initiative fails"), that also found that virtually every single worker is using AI (just not company AI, hence the flop part).

At this point, it's only people with an ideological opposition still holding this view. It's like trying to convince gear head grandpa that manual transmissions aren't relevant anymore.

Regular people hate numbers.

Not a joke. To capture a wide audience you want to avoid numbers, among other technical niceties.

If you knew about China, you would know that local governments are basically the kids of the emperor. You can complain to the emperor about his kids. You cannot complain to the emperor about the emperor.

But even that aside, the emperor still has ultimate say in the final ruling from whatever court. Please show me the stories of courts shooting down Xi. I can show you tons shooting down Trump...

I don't have to reach for "do you really believe" hypotheticals. I know how it is in the US and I know how it is in China.

It's only in chronically online communities that you run into these "American is on par with China" types.

If Trump tells Apple to put his face on everyone's lock screen, Apple laughs and says no. Trump can push but the courts will shoot it down.

If Xi tells Xiaomi to put his face one every xiaomi phone, tomorrow everyone with a xiaomi phone wakes up to Xi.

China is an authoritarian regime, through and through.

America is an authoritarian regime if you just read reddit comments all day.

My grandmother's case ended up bankrupting my grandfather and seriously straining the rest of the family. Which ultimately put my grandfather in a pennyless position when he was in his 90's, and poor state care when he was declining - not what he or my grandmother worked their entire lives for. Our family couldn't replace what was lost in the years of care for my grandmother's body, long after she herself was gone.

Never something she would have wanted, but you don't really have a choice and dignified death is never given as an option.

Seeing my grandmother go through dementia for 10 years made me incredibly angry that we don't have assisted suicide available for people.

People with the emotional and compassionate depth of a child are the ones keeping us from allowing people to die with dignity.

No, they won. They never put a backdoor in.

Not sure how finding an exploit in software means the company is compliant. Microsoft would be criminally liable for untold damage if that was the case.

Kimmels bosses were kissing the ring. But it's unlikely there was real threat. The courts have been shooting Trumps authoritarian dreams down left and right.

China has no (legitimate) courts.

The US has a constitution and courts. Companies win against the government all the time.

China has no such thing. It's just the will of Xi.

Apple quite publicly defied the FBI with encryption and won. Tim Cook didn't disappear either.

Now ask Jack Ma about the time he even criticized regulations, much less defied them...

China is a communist country, every company is defacto under the states control.

It might not feel like that on the ground, the leash has been getting looser, but the leash is still 100% there.

Don't make the childish mistake of thinking China is just USA 2.0

They will disappear a full lab once there is a model with gross transgressions.

They won't comment on it, but the message will be abundantly clear to the other labs: only make models that align with the state.

Shy of an algo breakthrough, open source isn't going to catch up with SOTA, their main trick for model improvement is distilling the SOTA models. That's why they they have perpetually been "right behind".

Thing thing that gets me about people who complain about google (generally, not in just the tech bubble), is that 95% of the people complaining have used Google for decades, maybe even spending 2% of their waking life using a Google product...

and have never paid Google a single penny for anything.

That's why Google is so dominant. That's why they are so skilled at data collection. The built a system that converts user data into dollars, so users don't have to pay. And users love, absolutely love, like their first born child and high school sweetheart combined into one, not having to pay for things.

Google is not the reason google sucks. People's unwillingness to compensate for services they use is. And before you comment with how you use Kagi, and Nebula, and Patreon. Yes, thank you. You are in the <0.1% of internet users who get it.

You can't sell them an education package SaaS that costs $200/student/mo that just rehashes the same educational tool set from the 60's.

Heat is the graveyard of energy. Everything that uses energy, or is energy, is actually just energy on it's way to the graveyard.

The energy of the universe is a pool of water a top a cliff. Water running off this cliff is used to do stuff (work), and the pool at the bottom is heat.

The "heat death of the universe" is referring to this water fall running dry, and all the energy being in this useless pool of "heat".

Never, local models are for hobby and (extreme) privacy concerns.

A less paranoid and much more economically efficient approach would be to just lease a server and run the models on that.

Non-swe, classic engineer here

Python is easy to learn and has an extensive library catalog. It also has massive support available online. That's why I have chosen it in the past when I needed to write basic programs for work.

With the rise of LLMs, python is now even more attractive as LLMs really excel at writing it.

IIRC Anthropic has research finding CoT can sometimes be uncorrelated with the final output.

Even if intelligence scaling stays equal, you'll lose out on speed. A sota model pumping 200 tk/s is going to be impossible to ignore with a 4 year old laptop choking itself at 3 tk/s.

Even still, right now is when the first gen of pure LLM focused design chipsets are getting into data centers.

I'm curious what the mental calculus was that a $5k laptop would competitively benchmark against SOTA models for the next 5 years was.

Somewhat comically, the author seems to have made it about 2 days. Out of 1,825. I think the real story is the folly of fixating your eyes on shiny new hardware and searching for justifications. I'm too ashamed to admit how many times I've done that dance...

Local models are purely for fun, hobby, and extreme privacy paranoia. If you really want privacy beyond a ToS guarantee, just lease a server (I know they can still be spying on that, but it's a threshold.)

Anthropic isn't any more moral or principled than the other labs, they just saw the writing on the wall that they can't win and instead decided to focus purely on coding and then selling their shortcomings as some kind of socially conscious effort.

It's a bit like the poorest billionaire flexing how environmentally aware they are because they don't have a 300ft yacht.

I wonder how much correlation this has with exercise. Generally if you are getting good levels of sunlight, there is a good chance you are outside exercising, even if it's just walking.

After all, exercise is the undisputed God tier all-time winning champion of "Studies show that ______ is good for xyz."

There never was a relationship of mutual trust, it was always a relationship of Europe being under the wing of the US as a buffer against the USSR.

The US now wants to push Europe out of the nest, but most Europeans have only ever known life "living in their parents house".

Building an independent Europe is not compatible with the current European ethos of work/life/life/life balance, and will likely result in Europe either coming back to the US, falling into economic chaos, or moving into daddy Xi's house. They are a socialist country after all...

I don't know why people still get wrapped around the axle of "training data".

Basically every benchmark worth it's salt uses bespoke problems purposely tuned to force the models to reason and generalize. It's the whole point of ARC-AGI tests.

Unsurprisingly Gemini 3 pro performs way better on ARC-AGI than 2.5 pro, and unsurprisingly it did much better in pokemon.

The benchmarks, by design, indicate you can mix up the switch puzzle pattern and it will still solve it.