kadoban

> The satellite, dubbed MVP, is about the size of a refrigerator. Inside, it has four of Google’s custom TPU AI accelerators, which are used to train AI models and run inference to generate tokens for AI workloads.

Yeah, this is a science-fair project. They threw some cards in a box and are paying someone to launch it to generate idiotic news articles.

You think authors are the ones driving the $49 view fees? They are not.

> The antipathy towards Tman rivals Musk and few other public personas and that, previously somewhat small crowd, appears to be growing.

That would make me optimistic as well if dictatorships governed with the consent of the populace. They do not.

My understanding is that there's a bunch of short, probably unremarkable ciphertexts out there that if anyone spent a good amount of time on (days/weeks), they'd break, but nobody really has the incentive to do so.

These models/agents are quite good at that type of thing, working through the tedious bits with available information and tools.

> i would assume yes, to throw off decyphering. even more impressive that they managed to crack it

Were operators of enigma machines aware enough of cryptology or the weaknesses of enigma, for that to have been done intentionally to prevent decryption? I doubt it, otherwise _many_ things should have been done _much_ differently by the operators.

There is, IMO a lot of value in fine tuning existing models. If that gets them funded, great, who cares, right?

This is not their first release. BTL-2 (or -3 maybe? I forget) looked kind of interesting but it was annoying to run, needed a patch on llama.cpp, looks like they're improving their tooling.

I'm certainly interested in how this actually performs.

Only because I hadn't previously thought of it xD Step up from the standard ass-hat for sure.

How has software/driver support been? I got burned hard by AMD last generation or the one before. Things smoother now, or do you have to baby it like hell and pick and choose software that works?

Oh, wow, they think it's just a smidge below the q4? That's crazy good if true.

Honestly looks pretty good except whatever is going on with its booty. Is that an ass helmet? I cannot parse what's going on there.

My problem with that is the answer of if I'm too busy depends on what the request/question is. Does it need a huge context switch? Is it something I like working on? Etc.

You can run the ~4 bit quant(s) on 24gb, if you're not _too_ picky on context size.

This will hopefully be better, though it'd be a _very_ surprising increase in performace at the size they say. Would love to see more about how it benchmarks.

> I don't think acid deserves such a scary reputation.

Acid in general can be handled quite safely with the right mindset and equipment.

HF is _fucking_ terrifying though. Even many professional chemists (or maybe especially pros?) won't work with it.

It's far beyond just being dangerous to your skin and eyes. Bicarb and goggles sure won't cut it as safety procedures.

Inflation is high, so interest rates need to go up to try to slow that, but the economy isn't doing amazing already, and higher interest rates won't help that.

Not to mention the US debt is _high_ as hell and bond yields mean that's more expensive.

And the country is run by a broken fool who has no interest or ability to fix any of that.

> Because the Kremlin wants europe to take an overt action to justify mobilization.

Do they? Why? They're already in a stalemate of a conflict, why would they want more fully-mobilized enemies?

> It's not, in most juridictions at least

What did I miss they did that's illegal? It looked like it downloaded a public docker image, searched around inside, and verified that the key it found was still valid (without making any changes), and then immediately notified them about the issue.

> I know I can’t try and break into my neighbors house even if I have no intent of going inside and stealing once I break the lock.

They didn't break in. They found a key that their neighbor dropped and returned it.

> Is this legal?

Generally, yes (though ask a lawyer if you're going to do security work). Security researchers do occasionally get legal flak though, depending on which idiot they annoy by pointing out issues.

> Braess's/Pigou's Paradox that more car lanes cause more traffic was found in the 1920's.

The paradox is that it _can_ cause worse traffic, not that it always does. American cities are built like shit for transport, but it's not as simple as "roads too big, therefore traffic". Sprawl is a much bigger (and more difficult to do ~anything about) issue.

And does he have any reason at all to shape it towards slowing down?

You know you can monitor/reject things it attempts to do, right? For anything important I have it write scripts for what it wants to do, then I can review them for anything troubling.

Oh I'm aware that they're ~all assholes and many have gotten away with worse. It just seems like a poor argument that we're required to make it happen for them.

So, the person with vast incentives to keep the race to better models going as hard as possible? Good luck.

> Anthropic paid an average of $3000 per work they scanned based on their settlement

Not sure you get to count breaking the law and getting in trouble in your cost-of-doing-business. That's a little too on the nose.

You're basically arguing that a criminal syndicate must be allowed to continue and we're required to make their business model make sense?

> That seemed silly at the time.

Still does. It's an idiotic idea that only goes to show either how stupid Musk is or how stupid he thinks we are.

I think you know that's basically nothing like this? The model cards have every incentive to be biased, this doesn't necessarily.

But even so, pretty much yes: companies that actually have reliable and accurate info in their releases get trusted more. It takes time because the default is to disbelieve info from biased sources, but it is possible to trust some of them more than others.

If it builds up history and perceived reliability, this type of thing can be valuable. You're giving up transparency for it being harder to game.

That's pretty good vfx, that'll be a useful tool. It has a couple of janky frames, the cup position is wrong on the first hard pan upwards, probably pretty easy to fix though.

I believe there's already tools for essentially this before llms, I wonder how capabilities compare.

It almost would feel like a fair graph, but it's also below that one ~outlier in the middle. So it's ignoring all data but two points and purporting to fit an exponential to it. That's within spitting distance of meaningless, right?

There's an infinite number of exponentials that fit the same two points just as well, and way more non-exponentials too.

It was created by Nixon, so yeah I'm sure the early days were a little weird (and it hasn't gotten any better since).

> The situation you're imagining is one of a global all encompassing depression caused by a single government.

Doesn't even have to go that far (though it pretty easily can, the US is a big enough market). If the US causes a refugee crisis that affects one of China's allies, or fucks with the global oil supply enough or a thousand other things, that stuff is still annoying to China even if it's usually relatively better for them than it is for the US.

> Not unthinkable, but the Americans would feel that deeply. Do you think they want to?

The people in the US choosing do not care if the rest of America feels it or not.