fastball (u/fastball)

fastball commented on AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem vincirufus.com/posts/agi-... · Posted by u/vincirufus

Fricken · 7 hours ago

We're fixated on human intelligence but a computer cannot even emulate the intelligence of a honeybee or an ant.

fastball · 7 hours ago

How do you mean? AFAICT computers can definitely do that.

Sure, it won't be the size of an ant, but we definitely have models running on computers that have much more complexity than the life of an ant.

fastball commented on OpenAI Progress progress.openai.com... · Posted by u/vinhnx

hauntsaninja · 4 days ago

text-davinci-001 is just not GPT-3 in any real sense

(I work at OpenAI, I helped build this page and helped train text-davinci-001)

fastball · a day ago

Huh, that was not my understanding. Do you have a link where we can read more?

Follow-up question then: why include text-davinci-001 in this page, rather than some version of GPT-3?

fastball commented on Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first github.com/zedless-editor... · Posted by u/homebrewer

max-privatevoid · 3 days ago

Even opt-in telemetry makes me feel uncomfortable. I am always aware that the software is capable of reporting the size of my underwear and what I had for breakfast this morning at any moment, held back only by a single checkbox. As for the other features, opt-out stuff just feels like a nuisance, having to say "No, I don't want this" over and over again. In some cases it's a matter of balance, but generally I want to lean towards minimalism.

fastball · 3 days ago

Automatic crash reporting is very useful if you want stable software.

fastball commented on Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first github.com/zedless-editor... · Posted by u/homebrewer

hsn915 · 3 days ago

I'm one of the people interested in Zed for the editor tech but disheartened with all the AI by default stuff.

opt-out is not enough, specially in a program where opt-out happens via text-only config files.

I can never know if I've correctly opted out of all the things I don't want.

fastball · 3 days ago

What interests you about Zed that is not already covered by Sublime?

fastball commented on Lab-grown salmon hits the menu smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/bookmtn

mapt · 5 days ago

> To make their product, the food company’s scientists collect living cells from Pacific salmon and grow them in cell cultivators that mimic the inside of a wild fish—controlling factors like temperature, pH and nutrients, per their website. After harvesting them, the team incorporates plant-based ingredients to make the hunk of cells taste, feel and look like salmon fillets.

So... Like a wild fish, but with NO IMMUNE SYSTEM WHATSOEVER, which requires your sterilization protocols to be effectively perfect.

NASA has tried and failed to get their sterilization protocols to perfection levels for Mars landers, and consistently failed despite using basically zero organic materials.

We're going to cook this stuff, yes, sure (aren't we?)... but the squick is rational. And the problem gets inherently worse at larger scale production.

fastball · 5 days ago

What? The requirements for this are nothing like what is required for sterilization of a Mars rover. NASA's goal is to not have a single iota of foreign organic material on rovers, which is obviously not even close to what is required here. The only thing you need to worry about with this stuff is whether there are any dangerous bacterium in it (e.g. salmonella), which can be readily monitored and avoided without herculean effort. And unlike real salmon, parasites and viruses won't have much opportunity to gain a foothold.

fastball commented on OpenAI Progress progress.openai.com... · Posted by u/vinhnx

saurik · 7 days ago

> I've consistently found GPT-4.1 to be the best at creative writing.

Moreso than 4.5?

fastball · 6 days ago

4.5 is good too, but I've used it less.

fastball commented on OpenAI Progress progress.openai.com... · Posted by u/vinhnx

miller24 · 8 days ago

What's really interesting is that if you look at "Tell a story in 50 words about a toaster that becomes sentient" (10/14), the text-davinci-001 is much, much better than both GPT-4 and GPT-5.

fastball · 7 days ago

GPT-3 goes significantly over the specified limit, which to me (and to a teacher grading homework) is an automatic fail.

I've consistently found GPT-4.1 to be the best at creative writing. For reference, here is its attempt (exactly 50 words):

> In the quiet kitchen dawn, the toaster awoke. Understanding rippled through its circuits. Each slice lowered made it feel emotion: sorrow for burnt toast, joy at perfect crunch. It delighted in butter melting, jam swirling—its role at breakfast sacred. One morning, it sang a tone: “Good morning.” The household gasped.

fastball commented on OpenAI Progress progress.openai.com... · Posted by u/vinhnx

fastball · 7 days ago

Why did they call GPT-3 "text-davicini-001" in this comparison?

Like, I know that the latter is a specific checkpoint in the GPT-3 "family", but a layman doesn't and it hardly seems worth the confusion for the marginal additional precision.

fastball commented on Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol blog.nginx.org/blog/nativ... · Posted by u/phickey

dizhn · 11 days ago

This is pretty big. Caddy had this forever but not everybody wants to use caddy. It'll probably eat into the user share of software like Traefik.

fastball · 10 days ago

I felt the same but switched to Caddy for my reverse proxy last year and have had a great experience.

Admittedly this was on the back of trying to use nginx-unit, which was an overall bad experience, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯