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jiocrag··on GPT-6 Astra
The latest OpenAI models have still been available via Azure foundry. Exclusivity to AWS would be a marked shift.
jiocrag··on Grok 4.5
You’re joking, right? The model that says Elon Musk could beat LeBron James in a 1 on 1 isn’t biased?
jiocrag··on Grok 4.5
There's no way this is true.
jiocrag··on A Research Preview of Codex
same here. Paying for Pro ($200) but the "try it" link just leads to the Pro sign up page, where it says I'm already on Pro. Hyper intelligent coding agents, but can't make their website work.
jiocrag··on Gemini 2.5 Flash
Not at all. The model weights and training data remain the same, it's just RAG'ing real-time twitter data into its context window when returning results. It's like a worse version of Perplexity.
jiocrag··on Gemini 2.5 Flash
Excellent point. If they can figure out how to either remunerate or drive traffic to third parties in conjunction with this, it would be huge.
jiocrag··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
The first sentence is right. The second is wrong, as implied by the first. If raising interest rates would exacerbate a recession and thereby unemployment, the fed will not do it just because prices are rising. You are ignoring half of their mandate.
jiocrag··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
This is flat out wrong. The Fed raises and lowers interest rates to stimulate or tamp down demand. Raising interest rates because prices rise while demand drops due to a trade war would accomplish nothing.
jiocrag··on Disk I/O bottlenecks in GitHub Actions
have you tried Buildkite? https://buildkite.com
jiocrag··on OpenAI O3-Mini
why is this impressive at all? It effectively amounts to correcting a typo.
jiocrag··on OpenAI O3-Mini
This is.... underwhelming.
jiocrag··on Korvus: Single-Query RAG with Postgres
Is there any way to deploy this to an existing postgres database or does it need to use the docker instance.
jiocrag··on Did fermented foods fuel brain growth?
Questionable. Plenty of animals cache, and therefore "ferment," their food. Why have they not developed hominid brains?
jiocrag··on Show HN: Gitlab Meeting Simulator 2024
what
jiocrag··on Heroku Having Serious Issues
"Our apologies, but there seems to have been a problem communicating with the Heroku API."

But the status page says all is well...

jiocrag··on U2 at Sphere is the nightmare future of music
> "I go to the concert to watch a screen and not the band."

Chuckles in Phish fan

jiocrag··on Gene linked to long Covid found in analysis of thousands of patients
which variant?
jiocrag··on PaLM 2 Technical Report [pdf]
If Bard is using PaLM 2, Google is in serious trouble. Here's its offering for "the simplest PostgreSQL query to get month-over-month volume and percentage change." Note that no actual calculations take place and the query generates a syntax error because it references a phantom column. GPT 3.5 and 4 handle this with ease.

SELECT month, volume, percentage_change FROM ( SELECT date_trunc('month', created_at) AS month, SUM(quantity) AS volume FROM orders GROUP BY date_trunc('month', created_at) ) AS monthly_orders ORDER BY month;

jiocrag··on LLMs are not greater than the sum of their parts: researchers
I did read the paper and Wei is responding to it, and others. What do you mean "It's not a different metric?"
jiocrag··on LLMs are not greater than the sum of their parts: researchers
It’s literally addressed in his first bullet point…

“ Response: While there is evidence that some tasks that appear emergent under exact match have smoothly improving performance under another metric, I don’t think this rebuts the significance of emergence, since metrics like exact match are what we ultimately want to optimize for many tasks.”

jiocrag··on Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken (2002) [pdf]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj2XGrduDb4
jiocrag··on Show HN: APIRank.dev – We crawled and ranked public APIs from the internet
What's the methodology? It's an interesting metric as long as there is some rationale attached.
jiocrag··on The False Promise of ChatGPT
How could we possibly ever test for "not feeling like an automaton?" The only possible test, it seems, is internal subjective experience. Even if something reported this, how would you ever verify it?
jiocrag··on The False Promise of ChatGPT
Aren't we inherently projecting feelings onto anything that isn't inside our own direct experience? There is no way to confirm any alleged sentience outside of your own "feelings" is not an automaton, including other humans.
jiocrag··on GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices
Fortune now confirming: https://fortune.com/2023/02/09/github-is-laying-off-10-of-st...
jiocrag··on Some gut bacteria appear to communicate with the brain
Highly recommend this radiolab episode, which covers much of the content of this article including the Beaumont origin story and rat experiments in fascinating detail. https://radiolab.org/episodes/197112-guts
jiocrag··on How Apple’s Upcoming Mixed-Reality Headset Will Work
That's a different product
jiocrag··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
places I've hung them:

-strong tree branch -basketball hoop bars -sturdy rafter -high pull up bar

jiocrag··on What did Mary know? A thought experiment about consciousness (2013)
AFAIK, we have no way of assessing whether “someone” has acquired new information other than that someone demonstrating their knowledge. We can’t MRI “acquisition of information”. So, as per this thought experiment, we have no way of telling if Mary gained new information by “seeing” red when she already “knew” what red was and could interpret it as such. That’s the whole point of the the thought experiment, which clearly went over your head.
jiocrag··on What did Mary know? A thought experiment about consciousness (2013)
"Simply devise a way to test for information predicated on trichromacy using bichromatic metamers." lol... "Simply..." this is literally the 'the explanatory gap' described in the article. We don't currently have a way to measure if the brain "acquired new information" when it knows about something but then sees it for the first time... which is the whole point. "experience a functional difference" -- what does that even mean?
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