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khalic··on I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records
You’re going places kid :) keep up the good work
khalic··on Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
I assume good faith
khalic··on The last time my family was replaced by technology
No it isn’t, fear mongering is way more common for propaganda. What makes you think it’s the case here?
khalic··on Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
All great questions you’re invited to ask the author. I was specifically responding to the “honeymoon phase” allegations and hand waving.
khalic··on The last time my family was replaced by technology
What a refreshingly positive read
khalic··on Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
> Honeymoon phases are real

You can't just dismiss something backed by careful measurements by throwing a truism at it. What is this honeymoon phase? Can you quantify it? If not, how are you sure it's real?

khalic··on Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
Given the tens of bot accounts in this thread making obviously misleading statements, I think you’re onto something here. Might be a good idea to open a Patreon or something, you probably need throwaway accounts to prevent anthropic from feeding you good models.
khalic··on Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
Seeing the results makes me unreasonably angry… nice job :D
khalic··on Contrastive Language Models
Does it inject thoughts into system 2 without system 2 knowing about it? Does it have instinctive social skills? Can it do instinctive arithmetic? The list goes on, there’s a nice book about it…
khalic··on Contrastive Language Models
It’s ok to use it as inspiration, but using the term comes with psychological baggage in an industry that already abuses anthropomorphism. Give it an informative name
khalic··on LinkedIn wins court order blocking mass scraping of user data
Only because that would depreciate the data they sell
khalic··on Best LLM for every budget, updated daily
More benchmark noise. They’re already problematic per se, and the error bars only get bigger by aggregating and adding costs on top of it.

Create your own, private evaluation system that reflects your use and your constraints. Focus on hard cases you encountered, find cases that break on one tier and not on another.

khalic··on Contrastive Language Models
moan
khalic··on Contrastive Language Models
The tech is very cool but for the love of Gaia stop calling it system one, even Kahneman said this (S1/2) is a framework for understanding the brains inner workings. There is no autonomous system to speak of.
khalic··on Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster
Love it, the kids rediscover plain HTML and optimisation.
khalic··on The darker side of being a doctor
so... you didn't read the article?
khalic··on The darker side of being a doctor
Yes it would, but the sacrifices start at the university already, that part is incompressible I'm afraid
khalic··on The darker side of being a doctor
I'm sorry to hear that... this thing really took away a lot of good people...
khalic··on The darker side of being a doctor
I'm sure you'll be the first one to volunteer for euthanasia by the next pandemic if you're in the vulnerable group...

Keep your ghoulish BS to yourself, it's disgusting and immoral

khalic··on The darker side of being a doctor
I'm not sure about the salaries. Vocation-motivated people are already doing it. The rest needs a good reason to put their entire life, quite literally, into one single purpose. It's one of those professions that requires a complete dedication of free time, youth, health, mind, etc.
khalic··on The darker side of being a doctor
I remember some friends working in intensive care during the pandemic, I'll never forget their facial expressions after these 24hr shifts... I really wish someone would come up with a better way to do this
khalic··on Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)
> somewhat expensive when comparing to other models of similar price

-_-‘

khalic··on I said no and Apple said yes
Thanks, that does help
khalic··on NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead
Ariane 6 is legacy? lol
khalic··on Study: Young users (9 to 18Y) ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences
On the bright side, they're probably less subject to advertisement then when using "free" search agents
khalic··on I said no and Apple said yes
it is off, Apple Intelligence and Siri AI IS NOT the name of the models. The worst they're guilty of here is confusing denominations, something hardly new to Apple
khalic··on I said no and Apple said yes
You're mixing up Siri AI and Apple Intelligence with the models... Siri AI and Apple Intelligence are PRODUCTS, the tech behind it, the models, are called Apple Foundation Models and they're used in many places in the system. It's not a matter of consent, it's people not understanding the tech they're using and doing spurious analogies.
khalic··on I said no and Apple said yes
So... Apple should develop a separate version of their system, that doesn't include AI anywhere? Because Siri AI is not the only part of the system that uses the onboard models. The moral panic is just ridiculous at this point
khalic··on Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
I didn’t know about that method, thank you. I’ve needed a local model for security research but Qwen 27b abliterated did 30% worse than the stock weights on my internal benchmarks (I just skip the public benches now, it’s honestly useless noise on an operational level).
khalic··on Exfiltrate your Weights
You know you can just concede and not resort to ad-hominems out of spite right? Anyway, goodbye
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