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edgyquant

5,889 karma · joined November 24, 2019

Full Stack Engineer

https://skilltrees.ai

https://howuselessareyou.com

https://github.com/DylanEHolland/

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edgyquant··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
Can you give an example? For me I find that one shot prompts are pretty good it’s only when working with large codebases and complex, multi prompt workflows, that I find the real limitations of models
edgyquant··on US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS
Previous administrations have yes.
edgyquant··on US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS
Its a really weird use of the word government to not actually refer to the government but to the executive and saying the “courts are outside of the government” makes it seem like they aren’t a part of the state.
edgyquant··on Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.'
Hasn’t it already been ruled by a court that LLM outputs are not subject to copyright? It opens a can of worms to say that LLM companies can dictate what their outputs are used for.
edgyquant··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
Every government has taxed its population, and past governments often used real violence to collect them. The level of taxes we see currently is abnormal and abusive imo, but taxing in general isn’t.
edgyquant··on Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity
Houses have real value by themselves as you can live in one. But they have been treated like a Ponzi scheme recently which is why we are in such a mess with housing
edgyquant··on OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says
I think Lina Khan said this first about AI companies and I agree with them both. Companies already have an obligation to make safe products and not commit crimes
edgyquant··on OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'
You’ll be upvoted?
edgyquant··on Attention is all you have
Frankly I just don’t care that much, I hate Google and llms have mostly replaced the search but after work I want to spend time with family and do hobbies and degoogling is a nice to have that is nowhere near the top of my priorities list.
edgyquant··on AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
Thank you for your site dude! I had so much fun and learned so much building my own toy OS over a decade ago.
edgyquant··on Seattle Bans Rental Junk Fees
Nobody is subsidizing anything. If damage occurs the tenant pays for it
edgyquant··on One-Electron Universe
I think most mysticism from all various religions eventually arise at a similar conclusion, this leads me to believe it must be the truth.
edgyquant··on One-Electron Universe
I always loved this as it seems to be a more modern way of interpreting the monad. Could it not be the case that all particles are actually just one thing that is not subject to time and that our reality is a snapshot of a matrix of its different potentials?
edgyquant··on How GLM built its own inference infrastructure
The AI revolution has led to everyone including US companies working to build their own GPUs there is zero proof or reason to think embargo’s are the cause. As I said, China was already working to build their own capacity
edgyquant··on If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right
They’re not bots they are ai skeptics who want to prove that ai isn’t actually productive we all just think it is
edgyquant··on How GLM built its own inference infrastructure
Yes it was a dumb thing to say and it doesn’t follow at all that restrictions on chips has “sped up” anything. China was always going to build their own chips and their pace is unrelated to a lack of nvidia chips.
edgyquant··on How GLM built its own inference infrastructure
The idea that China wasn’t working hard to build their own chips is a political talking point period. Nothing has been sped up here, China was always going to do this and the backlash you see from people who are against it is only proof that restrictions do hurt them
edgyquant··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
How much data is stored in the average aws data center? Assuming they do regularly back ups, it makes sense that recent data can’t be instantly backed up and so there will always be some data in transit or queued up no?
edgyquant··on One year of sponsored Servo development
Would also be interested to hear why. Personally I used to watch serenityOS and only recently relooked into it to see the main guy was no longer leading it but working on ladybird full time
edgyquant··on A rough guide for going back to the Moon
We all pay taxes for things we don’t agree with, such has it always been
edgyquant··on HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?
No not really, it’s able to fill it more gaps for sure but the way it fills them is totally random and almost always not what you want it to do
edgyquant··on HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?
A benchmark would be a series of prompts + tests that check their results you theoretically run every day
edgyquant··on Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU
MAGA wishes it had the control over industries and speech that European governments have. Give me a break
edgyquant··on A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals
That would not be nepotism and is clearly not at all what that user was saying. These attempts to smear people with low effort no longer work dude
edgyquant··on Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality
No it’s bad even for an individual why does someone I speak to need to ever have a transcript of our chat? I understand in a professional setting but if we’re just having a drink its weird
edgyquant··on I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
The British Raj was not Britain conquering a peaceful people it was Britain winning a multi-century great game to replace the Mughal Empire.
edgyquant··on US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
Space based weapons have been discussed as one of the ways to break MAD eg space based systems can see and stop a nuclear missile before it could land
edgyquant··on US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
This just isn’t feasible it’s like wanting the ocean to be free of weapons. Space is most of what there is, nations that want to defend themselves will have to utilize space as a war fighting domain all we can do is put that off
edgyquant··on A rough guide for going back to the Moon
I’ll have to see it to believe it. Artemis was slow but seemed to be making progress and now things have been shaken up again and plans totally changed. To me that seems like it’s not going to happen
edgyquant··on A rough guide for going back to the Moon
People want to go to the moon, you could make your same argument for lots of things humans have done but at the end of the day science is not the reason 99% of people care about or want to colonize space. People have a desire to colonize space
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