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djohnston··on Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of existence
Pretty sure they already did that. Isn’t their flagship SAP? Lol
djohnston··on France high-speed rail traffic disrupted by 'malicious acts' on Olympic ceremony
Europe was in a state of peace. Except for that issue in Crimea that was, checks notes, also instigated by Putin.
djohnston··on France high-speed rail traffic disrupted by 'malicious acts' on Olympic ceremony
I haven’t lost my cool mate don’t worry. We just need to eliminate the most odious piece of excrement that snivelling cleptostate has produced in the last 50 years, and everyone can get back to enjoying peace and prosperity, including the Russian people.
djohnston··on France high-speed rail traffic disrupted by 'malicious acts' on Olympic ceremony
Hit deeper. Attack civil infrastructure. Do everything the Russians do short of bombing children’s hospitals.
djohnston··on France high-speed rail traffic disrupted by 'malicious acts' on Olympic ceremony
It’s the same brand of hybrid warfare Putin employs when he sends thousands of migrants to Polands border. Keep pushing inch by inch and boil the frog.
djohnston··on Police warn of thieves using WiFi-jamming tech to disarm cameras, alarms
Alternative solution- DA could actually start prosecuting theft.
djohnston··on Global trade woes mount as shipping costs rise
Because people don’t support terrorist militias shooting missiles at civilian ships? That’s why HN is garbage?
djohnston··on Why So Many Bitcoin Mining Companies Are Pivoting to AI
I thought ASICS only worked on certain protocols like BTC, whereas ETH was implemented to intentionally limit their utility and require more general purpose hardware. Is that false?
djohnston··on Why we no longer use LangChain for building our AI agents
Idk, dude spends the post whining about writing multi agent architecture and doesn’t mention langgraph once. Reads like a lead who failed to read the docs.
djohnston··on 'We need the world to wake up': Sudan facing worlds deadliest famine in 40 years
Yes civil war is bad. Nobody, including the West, wants western intervention, so they'll need to sort it out themselves.
djohnston··on Creativity has left the chat: The price of debiasing language models
They aren’t exactly the same process though. Pre training produces a model whose outputs are a reflection of the training data. The fine tuning is a separate process that tries to map the outputs to the owners desired traits. These could be performance based but as we saw with Google’s black Nazis, it’s often a reflection of the owners moral inclinations.
djohnston··on OpenAI and Microsoft Azure to deprecate GPT-4 32K
We are using benchmarking on our own eval sets, which makes it easier to measure the variance that I’ve found impossible to eliminate.
djohnston··on OpenAI and Microsoft Azure to deprecate GPT-4 32K
> It will break in weird ways that makes you feel like you are trying to nail Jello to a tree

Probably the best description of working with LLM agents I've read

djohnston··on Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
Can you provide a source that the vaccines were fake? My understanding is that it was a real vaccine drive also gathering intel. But please share your sources.
djohnston··on If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO
Sufficiently advanced token prediction is indistinguishable from intelligence.
djohnston··on If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO
> If you just want some generic MBA like wall of text spouting robot that you can call "CEO" for 15 mins of limelight then yeah got for it, but that's not really what makes a really great CEO, is it?

I don't think the idea is that you're eliminating the mythical great CEO in the 99th percentile. You're eliminating the bottom 80% of MBA-like wall of text CEOs who provide minimal value while siphoning millions in capital that could instead be invested back into the business.

djohnston··on If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO
It's pretty comical to read - "no no no, it can't predict THOSE tokens!!!" XD
djohnston··on If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO
> but what’s less obvious is that the majority is also pretty ignorant about the inner workings of executive leadership.

Idk, I tend to think that people in positions of leadership overestimate their competence and ability to actually effect positive change in an organisation. They're kind of a monkey in the cockpit that we get to point at and say "Because of the monkey we are now doing x, y, z", but whether that monkey is a primate or a probability distribution seems irrelevant. We just watched the entire tech industry trend-follow and overhire, then layoff the overhires without any accountability as to how it happened, and you're positing there's some intangible skill here that a probability distribution can't replicate? Doubt.

Tl;dr - I think executive leadership is careening towards a reckoning that even its entrenched cronyism will be unable to avert. It will take one automated COO or CEO and the whole MBA house of cards will come tumbling down. Real domain expert CEOs will always be around, but the MBA plant will go the way of the support agent.

djohnston··on TikTok is reportedly splitting its source code to create a US-only algorithm
cute
djohnston··on TikTok is reportedly splitting its source code to create a US-only algorithm
The West needs to wake up and treat Chinese companies like China treats non-Chinese companies. Raid their US offices, take all of their IP, and then tell them that they have equal access to our markets and there's nothing wrong.
djohnston··on Jan Leike Resigns from OpenAI
I didn’t ask for your biography. I asked two simple questions and you failed to answer either of them.
djohnston··on Jan Leike Resigns from OpenAI
I’ve also heard of studies, admittedly I don’t have the link on hand, that schizophrenic patients benefit from smoking. When did big tobacco actively target them? How do you know these people don’t naturally seek out cigarettes as a means to manage some of their symptoms?
djohnston··on A Brazilian special-forces unit fighting to save the Amazon
This is where drones and spies seem like the right approach. It can’t be hard to get a labourer on site with a cellphone or even just a tracker no?
djohnston··on ReALM: Reference Resolution as Language Modeling
Your video is private!
djohnston··on Gov't Defended the Baby Formula Makers. Kids Paid the Price
> Unlike infant formula, toddler milks are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.

How is that possible?

djohnston··on Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for people under 16
> hope everyone agrees that not letting kids see what Rhianna had for lunch or whatever was worth it

Better your kids than mine. If you think that’s what is happening on social media your children are screwed.

djohnston··on Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for people under 16
Should Republicans only repeal laws? Is that the point you’re struggling to make?
djohnston··on Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for people under 16
It’s funny to watch the lefties cope with a good law passed by a Republican
djohnston··on LLM leaderboard focusing on assessing their biases
Dramatic is when the other shoe drops
djohnston··on Boston built a ton of lab buildings. Now many are empty
In commercial real estate in general it’s unsurprising, but you can’t do lab work from home. The article indicates that labs are suffering from an industry slowdown, which is a bit different than everyone wfh.
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