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X6S1x6Okd1ston Chemical knowledge and reasoning of large language models vs. chemist expertise

It's increasingly looking like if you're young enough most knowledge work will be eaten by LLMs (or the thing that comes next) within your lifetime.

Hopefully we'll see human assisted with AI & induced demand for a good while, but the idea that people work unassisted in knowledge work is gonna go the way of artisan clothing

X6S1x6Okd1ston Microsoft and OpenAI's close partnership shows signs of fraying

Chatgpt doesn't have much of a moat. Claude is comparable for coding tasks and llama isn't far behind.

No biz collapse will remove llama from the world, so if you're worried about tools disappearing then just only use tools that can't disappear

X6S1x6Okd1ston Apache Zeppelin

I certainly felt like the use case of interacting directly with spark (through scala) and very low friction visualizations was quite nice. Not that it's hard to get that with jupyter, but batteries included, just click through the UI visualization was better for zeppelin

X6S1x6Okd1ston Karpathy on VS Code Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 vs. GitHub Copilot

What do you mean by professional that doesn't include Karpathy?

X6S1x6Okd1ston Large Enough

But Meta isn't selling it

X6S1x6Okd1ston HH70, the first high-temperature superconducting Tokamak achieves first plasma

Fission has a very different risk profile than fusion.

Additionally making a fusion plant isn't a stepping stone to making a nuclear bomb

X6S1x6Okd1ston Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 people

To anyone curious I'd also really recommend reading the original piece

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctr...

The argument made here includes not just that the company should not spend it's resources on things other than profit for the sake of shareholders, but also worries about employees and customers. At least in this article Friedman was advocating for something much more positive than the situation we found ourselves in today

X6S1x6Okd1ston Mistral Large

It's not a truth engine

X6S1x6Okd1ston Mistral Large

Why do you believe that?

X6S1x6Okd1ston Wyze security incident update

Possibly a collision in the caching library. Pretty bad that the video streams aren't properly permissioned

X6S1x6Okd1ston TSMC to build second Japan chip factory

But you also need consider that the Chinese demographics are basically only going to get worse from here. Their dependeny ratio is going to get really bad, like it could be 1.5 retirement age people per 1 working age person.

Are they gonna try and fight a war while the average soldier has more then one aging parent back on the mainland?

Who would do the domestic production to support the effort?

If China ever wants to do it they need to do it in the next couple decades

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/12/05/key-facts...

X6S1x6Okd1ston The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better

What do you mean it's literally impossible to report robberies to the police?

X6S1x6Okd1ston Elon Musk's $56B Tesla compensation voided by judge

It seems like you disagree with the ruling, which is different than not understanding the problem

X6S1x6Okd1ston Elon Musk's $56B Tesla compensation voided by judge

Did you read the article or the ruling?

X6S1x6Okd1ston US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink

What tax properly emulates gains from holding stake?

X6S1x6Okd1ston The first results from the biggest basic income experiment

What about Alaska's permanent freedom fund?

X6S1x6Okd1ston The first results from the biggest basic income experiment

Why would the source of revenue make it not UBI?

X6S1x6Okd1ston The first results from the biggest basic income experiment

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/19/21112570/univer...

Exactly what qualifies for you may mean it does already exist on a large scale or doesn't.

Alaska's UBI program gave 1.3k this year, which I'm guessing many commenters here would say is too small to be a real UBI, but it is universal and has been going for almost 50 years

X6S1x6Okd1ston An Overview of Nix in Practice

Even better for getting started: Using nix as an additional package manager that won't fight with whatever pre-existing OS uses. My first exposure was using nix instead of homebrew on OSX.

X6S1x6Okd1ston Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

> BAYC is the top end of NFTs. Almost everything else is worse.

Judged by floor price, not by artistic value

X6S1x6Okd1ston MetNet-3: A state-of-the-art neural weather model

yes? https://charts.ecmwf.int/products/plwww_m_hr_ccaf_adrian_ts?...

X6S1x6Okd1ston Mozilla treats Debian devotees to the raw taste of Firefox Nightly

Certainly agree it's not intended to be for everyone, but I haven't noticed many crashes running nightly. Would be nice to go to print with numbers

X6S1x6Okd1ston Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context

> * Phind provides copious relevant sources including github, stackoverflow and others. This is a major advantage, especially if you use these AI assistants as a jumping off ground for further research.

Did you find them to be correct?

X6S1x6Okd1ston Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic

> ChatGPT on GPT-3.5? I can buy this. GPT-4? No fucking way. If Claude got anywhere close, this would be front page news in every tech and tech-adjacent outlet.

Have you compared both? For my use case of generating & modifying simple code & Q&A based off of docs claude is in a similar range to GPT-4 & you can pay as you go instead of 20 bucks a month.

X6S1x6Okd1ston Show HN: Encrypt and upload files to IPFS from browser

I guess it depends on the algorithm they chose, HChaCha20 is the symmetric encryption algorithm for libsodium.js which is quantum resistant.

https://doc.libsodium.org/secret-key_cryptography/secretstre...

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/79518/is-xchacha2...

X6S1x6Okd1ston Tell HN: Automatic fraud detection is making my life hell

> it's hard to carry cash from my country (for "security" reasons, as most airports limit how much cash you can carry).

X6S1x6Okd1ston Lean4 helped Terence Tao discover a small bug in his recent paper

He started learning lean4 with the help of GPT4 just at the start of the month:

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/111208692505811257

Many of his mastodon posts this month have been about his learning progress.

Certainly an interesting case study of how LLMs can accelerate the work of even of the most extremely successful people

X6S1x6Okd1ston I2P: End-to-end encrypted and anonymous internet

> AFAIK, cops can't deal you actual drugs and then arrest you for it.

Why not? This sounds like a misunderstanding of entrapment

X6S1x6Okd1ston Jina AI launches open-source 8k text embedding

Thank you so much for all the work you've put into llm!