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This LLM hype is out of control, they literally bullshit on any novel input (admittedly there's not a lot of this) and are wrong 15-20% of the time for all inputs

This isn't a "we'll just add more context", "we'll just add more instructions and params", "our multi-head transformers will auto-attention the tits off your query" etc - this is search based on probability maps. It is structurally unable to be intelligent, no matter how many models you chain together and how much compute you throw at it. But it can sure mimic that shit, which is why LPs are going to lose their shirts and GPs are going to struggle to raise follow on funds.

Let's move on.

Hate to see this but Chinese phones have been better than US phones for almost half a decade now.

They may have started with stolen IP, but they're actually just ahead now - thinner, faster, lighter, better.

This applies to hardware, but their software isn't bad either - 15 years in most phone OS are kind of the same shit with only minor differences.

But sure Google, Apple, Microsoft keep trying to sell us shitty services for your balance sheet and ignoring what got you dominant i.e. building great products.

I had to block all network traffic from VSCode that shit is spyware out of the box.

Maybe the vi crew is actually onto something.

keepassXC is and was always better

The Japanese made Topre switches and they have already greatly increased my happiness.

Here in the US, I do 0 medical procedures and only would go to the ER if I broke a bone or something. Thailand, India, Singapore all cheaper + better care.

Incentives are 100% misaligned and even good actors are forced to shorten your lifespan/quality of life to make somebody money

These are businesses where the knowledge gap is so wide between the service provider and the client mixed with the life or death need of "I need to flush" or "I need heat in the winter" that people routinely get fleeced.

Basically means you're about to be hit with a $500-5000 bill for what is likely a $50 part + 30 mins labour.

Gross margins don't grow, but they are monsterous.

These asshats also have the world's worst OTP page that does not auto submit when you type out the 6 numbers and still doesn't submit on pressing Enter.

Everytime I have to move my mouse to the Submit button, I think about how their UX to nickel and dime microfees from you is super slick.

I do LSD once a year with close friends and a beautiful view and it's fantastic at making me appreciate beauty in the world and feel like everything is in it's natural place.

Shrooms sadly do not agree with my digestive system.

O&O ShutUp is the first thing to install on every windows system, followed by netlimiter

I just spent an hour and a half getting my friend's email account untied from my local Windows account after she typed it into Windows Store once.

Involved having to remove all kinds of system files and many registry keys, some that did not contain the email string at all, but encrypted versions of it (IdentityCRL)

This spyware is out of control. The worst part is they do all this and all their telemetry based products are still useless Clippy garbage that helps absolutely nobody do anything better or faster.

Despite all the money they've recently spent trying to rehab the founder's image, Meta's core DNA is built around invasion of privacy, dark silent opt-in patterns, abuse of user data etc.

I judge anyone who made their money there because they simply have made the world a much shittier place just by existing as some low quality 21st century nicotine dealership.

These glasses will 100% be used to ID, track, and ad bucket tag people without their consent. I'll be slapping them off anyone's face who looks in my direction and you should too.

Nothing lowers my opinion of someone than when they decide to control the music and ads randomly blast out of the speakers

I logged into Twitter after years and it was clear the ad algo was trying to determine my sexual preference - it would start by throwing in a hot girl, if I ignored then the image became a hot girl in bikini, then a hot girl's butt etc etc. Eventually it just showed me a fully nude girl with her legs open. In the middle, it threw in tweets about homo topics with images of dudes kissing.

These were always 1 tweet, below the fold, and once a day.

Eventually I just clicked one of the hot girls and I've never got anything since.

will look into emergent transformers again but I did take cs231n at Stanford and know wtf is up here

Funny that they will call syntactically correct word vectors trained on reddit comments "AGI". There is no "self learning", just chaining outputs trained on different .txt instruction sets.

There has never been a better time to have human intelligence and apply it to fields that are moving towards making critical decisions based on latent space probability maps.

NLP and Human-Computer Interaction however are fields that have actually been revolutionized though this wave so I do expect at least much better voice interfaces/suggestion engines.

Holy shit the line of LPs for these guys' next fund will be able to cross the Pacific

Yeah but they gave me a full ride and I like the idea of giving some poor kid from a random country who wants to build shit and get rich a shot

Yeah given NotebookLM and Gemini are basically on par in every way, they would be wise to just expand their search deal with the Goog and not let a new entrant come and eat their food

YC appears to be spending all it's time marketing itself on Twitter and pretty much all the partners, including the lead have companies that were acquihired i.e. failures

Class size of 7 = quality, class size of 300 or whatever = noise filter

But they again only need that 1 company to be the 1000x and return LP capital at a decent multiple. Any pool of their batch size is likely to produce that and allow them to self platitude after the fact.

Great so I've been giving to Stanford all for nothing? How is this even legal private schools should be able to admit whomever they want and teach whatever they want. If you don't like it, don't apply.

Legacy is a huge incentive for giving these colleges money which they then use to become a better college. This is a moronic law that I really doubt will ever be enforced, but if it is will result in slow degradation of educational quality over time.

I have a hotmail account from the 90s and they've made it impossible to use not-Outlook clients to authenticate with IMAP servers - calling it a "bug" that's being "worked on" (for over a year now apparently)

Basically trying to push you to paid Exchange/Office365 subscriptions.

The more aggro these big tech cos are trying to move you from buying great products to paying for overpriced subscriptions, the closer we get to them trading at their historical PEs (down ~50% from today)

You are absolutely correct about where we are but don't underestimate what 100s of billions of $ can build as well. There are already credible teams working on "math AI" and "truth AI" which will likely end up combing bullshit generating LLMs with traditional but automated relational db retrievals and produce output that is both believable and correct.

IMO it will be done vertical by vertical, with no standard interface coming for a while.

Altman is basically a younger Elon. He failed to build his own company Loopt, already has disturbing allegations against him from a family member who I absolutely believe, and lied under oath.

I expect grand promises, nothing delivered, and a personal enrichment agenda that harnesses a cult of idiots while ruthlessly silencing/bankrupting critics.

I have noticed them go after the entities Tether uses as intermediaries like Silvergate, then Binance, then Tron, then $TON etc so they're fighting the good fight.

My guess is when Coinbase gets "hacked" there will be enough political pressure to clean house and enough Dems in power to do it. Fingers crossed that those hacked funds will still be insufficient to fill redemption requests because that's the only way the stablecoin goes under without seizure of reserves.

I am almost positive Sam Trabucco is in witness protection somewhere waiting to testify when they eventually get Tether off the board and crater this useless scamfest excuse of an industry

A much more robust and free market approach to this would be a great review system and an actually open app store - this vetting process you describe is not at all "better" it incentivizes platforms to 1) kill competition (or any company who refuses to sell out to them during BD negotiations) and 2) encourage/turn a blind eye to the 1000s of currently available scam apps that try to lock people into subscriptions that cannot get cancelled etc.

Examples of both 1) and 2) are plenty, so I guess I just disagree that this vetting process helps anyone but the incumbent gatekeeper-taxers.

Why the f do any companies get to decide what code I can or cannot run on my device? I didn't rent the device from anyone, I bought it.

Does anyone really think giving 20-30% of ecosystem revenue to some gatekeeper makes better ecosystems?

We need new open computing laws.

They are coming for you Tether

Cool conspiracy theory but no, remote workers are just less productive and companies that allow them are going to lose more