Computational Cosmetologist

Your ideal relationship with your vendors is to run the numbers and threaten to self-host once a contract cycle and then never actually do it because they cut you a good enough deal.

Yeah, the most expensive part of all this is the big honking GPU cluster, and after you drop all the cash for it your "ROI" is in many ways determined by how close you can keep utilization at 100% 24/7. A provider w/ a diverse customer base is likely to do that a lot better than your own workload.

we use sonnet for commit messages no, not the model. 14 lines, with rhyme scheme and meter. no more empty claude speak. evocative imagery. erudite aura.

Did James’s team write this text?

these spoiled youngsters will never know this pain >Reddit post: *describing the exact problem you're having* >Top reply: [deleted] >OP's reply: "wow thanks so much that worked perfectly!!!"

current generation of models are neurotic, and it annoys me to death

mfs out here being like “if I have to see my uncle Teuira and my aunt Uira one more fucking time on this tiny island, I will drown myself in the sea, so guess I’m packing up the outrigger canoe and brushing up on my star navigation”

in practice you can simply stuff a bloom filter full of every plausible key value you have ever seen and make that a reject list and it won't harm your security at all

ok non-tech ppl might be hearing some scary things about "critical vulnerabilities" involving certificates. the main thing you need to know, without getting down in the weeds about it, is that the fourth seal is broken. lo, a rider approacheth upon a pale steed, and his name is Death

I didn’t know the WSJ was posting Crusader Kings guides

Have you considered the possibility that people who aren't so breathlessly angry about the issues most pressing to you that they'll instantly affirm any obvious lie so long as it validates that feeling are actually themselves just enemies who actively will evil upon you?

I love adversarial review for agents.

I remember telling people this was my plan in 2019 and them laughing and laughing because "semi-supervised training is a scam" and "the model will know the data come from different places". Yeah, but it still can generalize to combine them. For once an ML guess I wasn't on the wrong side of!

"make no mistakes"

My favorite kind of hater post is “you tech bros will never understand the primal, numinous beauty of [most spiritually empty shit imaginable]” the allegedly sublime: Doing homework Taco Bell DoorDash Writing sql queries Booking flights

I feel like we should be developing the general literacy that this is a form of very obvious engagement bait

be not afraid

how can something like the Monster group possibly exist? _yet it does_ i made a mathematical music video about it: 26 sporadic groups, 196,884 dimensions, branching paths computed from real Monster symmetries. finite. constructed. intruding into reality.

I disagree, the best cure for ideological bias is asking people to walk through the mechanics of their argument. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23620547/

i think we probably do need to do more talking about how to help women heal from sexual assault and less talking about whether and how sexual-assualting men can or should be rehabilitated, based on that realization that i've seen a great deal of discourse on the latter and ~none on the former

In our Nature paper, we introduce the first superhuman Stratego AI, which we built using general techniques that we developed for RL & test-time compute under imperfect information. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Inconsistent reasoning about probabilities in limits” is the generating function to the Julia set that is the fractal wrongness of the Rationalist worldview

holy shit, they came a long way since not being able to count 'r's in strawberry: chat.z.ai/s/3eb6e1f4-3...

The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?

"LLMs are bad at <thing LLMs are actually quite good at>" is a conversation i'm kind of done having

I am very often now in rooms with a lot of senior robotics or ML folks and it’s always just men. Men men men. A sea of men. It sucks! We should be very ashamed.

At this point, ai coding is two things: the pure engineering side of the craft, and workflows around managing the agent once the project gets large enough that it gets confused. Half the job is stopping it from the equivalent of three cue reading.

I think the gang rapists are bad and while we men as a gender don’t really have a formal procedure to move for censure I think we should consider developing one for these guys

Goalpost moving AI skeptics be like.