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Grimblewald commented on License plate camera company halts cooperation with federal agencies   apnews.com/article/immigr... · Posted by u/RankingMember
potato3732842 · 2 hours ago
I guess the scrutiny of being in bed with the fedcops must have been damaging their ability to make money hand over fist in blue states selling cameras to school districts, municipal offices and Karen infested gated communities. I assume some states are also scrutinizing the contracts more since no politician wants to be the guy who enabled the feds to do something the voters in their district really hate.

Why else would they be pulling back?

Grimblewald · 15 minutes ago
Maybe just holding themsleves accountable when no one else will? We're barreling towards a dark age and its driven by unchecked individualism and acting in blind service to money, rather than acting with money in service to you.

I hold hope that this is just an expression of humanity in a world where this seems to have become somewhat unfashionable.

Grimblewald commented on Llama Fund: Crowdfund AI Models   llama.fund... · Posted by u/mountainriver
whalesalad · a day ago
Could there be a way to do this without $$$, but rather by providing compute? Similar to folding@home? A hundred thousand people can participate in training.
Grimblewald · 19 hours ago
Look at petals.Collaborative inference and finetuning. Producing tokens nets you pseudo currency which can be used to que jump on generations. This can be bought and sold, resulting in a way to profit from your donation of compute should you want to.
Grimblewald commented on How can AI ID a cat?   quantamagazine.org/how-ca... · Posted by u/sonabinu
bc569a80a344f9c · 2 days ago
> So a neuron does very basic polynomial interpolation and by hooking them together you get polynomial regression

The article glosses over activation functions, which - if non-polynomial - give the entire neural networks non-linearity. A major inflection point was proving that neural networks architectures even with very few layers (as small as one) can approximate any continuous function.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theo...

Grimblewald · 2 days ago
Furthermore, many apparent discontinuities can be removed or smoothed by choosing a more appropriate domain, codomain, or topology. This means a neural network can not only approximate any smooth function, but can learn to approximate many discontinious ones as well, provided these arent fundamentally discontinious.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_discontinu...

Grimblewald commented on Launch HN: Reality Defender (YC W22) – API for Deepfake and GenAI Detection   realitydefender.com/platf... · Posted by u/bpcrd
Grimblewald · 8 days ago
I feel like a much easier solution is enforcing data provinence. Ssl for media hash, attach to metadata. The problem with AI isnt the fact its ai, its that people can invest little effort to sway things with undue leverage. A single person can look like 100's with signficantly less effort than previously. The problem with ai content is it makes abuse of public spaces much easier. Forcing people to take credit for work produced makes things easier (not solved) kind of like email. Being able to block media by domain would be a dream, but spam remains an issue.

so, tie content to domains. A domain vouches for content works like that content having been a webpage or email from said domain. Signed hash in metadata is backwards compatible and its easy to make browsers etc display warnings on unsigned content, content from new domains, blacklisted domains, etc.

benefit here is while we'll have more false negatives, unlike something like this tool, it does not cause real harm on false positives, which will be numerous if it wants to be better tham simply making someome accountable for media.

AI detection cannot work, will not work, and will cause more harm than it prevents. stuff like this is irresponsible and dangerous.

Grimblewald commented on Starlink announced a $5/month plan that gives unlimited usage at 500kbits/s   twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack... · Posted by u/tosh
stavros · 11 days ago
No need to be surprised, 512 kbps isn't enough because it would take a gif half a minute to load at those speeds. We just didn't send gifs back then.
Grimblewald · 11 days ago
No even that was fine and common. Massive blocks of ads, analytics, etc werent the norm though and i for one miss a time we wouldnt conceive of introducing it.
Grimblewald commented on Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI, has announced his departure   techcrunch.com/2025/08/13... · Posted by u/TheAlchemist
roncesvalles · 13 days ago
Because the world has random error and not all incredibly talented people are correctly identified and picked up by the OpenAIs and Anthropics.
Grimblewald · 11 days ago
OpenAI isnt exactly a top choice anymore either.
Grimblewald commented on Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI, has announced his departure   techcrunch.com/2025/08/13... · Posted by u/TheAlchemist
ml-anon · 13 days ago
Ah the “no true Scotsman” of intelligence.
Grimblewald · 13 days ago
There's a difference between being well read and being able to do something with what you've read. I would argue a far more useful and pragmatic definition of intelligence is one that focuses on, given the same information, a more intelligent person can achieve more with that information. In such a scenario, doing nothing if the information is bad is obviously more than what is achieved by acting on it. The idea, I guess, is that intelligence is about how you wield information, not what information you have. Being able to swim long distances unassisted is fairly called having high endurance. Doing so with all manner of aids, assistance, and pre-planned routes, is less impressive. So in a space of information, intelligence is like strength, or endurance. It allows one to defend, to change, to build, to create, especially in areas where others might be limited.

So this is in no way a `no true Scotsman` fallacy. Being able to be well read is a product of having intelligent people in your society, people who make hard things accessible, make it learnable, but it does not itself make you intelligent.

Grimblewald commented on Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI, has announced his departure   techcrunch.com/2025/08/13... · Posted by u/TheAlchemist
Grimblewald · 13 days ago
I have no faith in elon products for one simple reason: if you have talent you have options and if you have options, why would anything elon has tainted be anywhere near the top?

There was a time it was reasonable, early space x days for example, when elon was still managable, easily abstracted away and you were able to work with better funding and less red tape vs other options - but modern times i cannot see a reason one would work with elon unless desperate or in the cult, and lets be honest, you dont reason your way into joining cults.

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Grimblewald commented on CCTV footage captures video of an earthquake fault in motion   smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/chrononaut
cibyr · a month ago
So many autoplaying videos on the page, and none of them are the video that the article is about.
Grimblewald · a month ago
The article is aweful as well. How could they open with a "screenshot of the movement" with a straight face?

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