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railgunmerlin

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railgunmerlin··on Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster
seems a bit weird to complain about the model issues in a post about the harness/sites?
railgunmerlin··on Astra for Law
Interesting to see the callout to companies like harvey in the post itself as consumers rather than competitors? I guess openai isn't quite willing to step into those customer relations themselves?
railgunmerlin··on Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter
notably on terry tao's (who has signed) blog but not from tao (guest post from timothy gowers)
railgunmerlin··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
right, surely they could've waited or even reached out? It reads as desperation to get there for marketing purposes
railgunmerlin··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Does seem like they gloss over Alpöge and Buckmaster's work with the following

> While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models .

Which seems a bit irresponsible/rash?

railgunmerlin··on [dead]
i think the tweet virality probably peaked this concept, not really sure the value/$ ratio is good enough without it
railgunmerlin··on Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard
given kickstarter is november, when do you expect to ship?
railgunmerlin··on How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]
curious which overseas country that doesn't fall under the 'west' has cash as king
railgunmerlin··on How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]
Are we pretending this isn't a global phenomenon?
railgunmerlin··on Project Deal
The dog date at the end was a cute deal. How much of the conclusions can be drawn on the idea that it was a "friendly" market though?
railgunmerlin··on The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture
perhaps the safety filter is wrong instead of the post?
railgunmerlin··on OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation
didn't they just raise last month?
railgunmerlin··on Take better notes, by hand
anyone try e-ink style tablets (like remarkable?) the form factor/ability to backup is attractive to me but the price tag is a bit nuts...
railgunmerlin··on The MacBook Neo
your average neo buyer doesn't know what ssh is and would probably like media apps ranging from capcut to lightroom.
railgunmerlin··on Mark Zuckerberg creating new Applied AI engineering company, reorganises teams
can't even really blame Alex for taking the deal, why would Zuckerberg not do more due diligence? Wang has created (a relatively) successful subcontracting operation but that doesn't mean anything about research or new models
railgunmerlin··on Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards
the fear/greed index is a pure market/investing index? Or would you prefer "bear/bull" index?
railgunmerlin··on Testing Ads in ChatGPT
Have to wonder if the IPO push for this year is genuine now