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nateburke commented on Avi Loeb: Is 3I/Atlas Our Turing Test by a Superior Alien Intelligence?   avi-loeb.medium.com/is-3i... · Posted by u/ilamont
karmakaze · 8 days ago
I believe we would have failed a number of times: using diameter instead of radius in the calculation, frequency in 1/s is meaningless because seconds are man-made, and finally we'd be trying to communicate with an inanimate comet.
nateburke · 8 days ago
Frequency can be perceived in any unit of time
nateburke commented on Avi Loeb: Is 3I/Atlas Our Turing Test by a Superior Alien Intelligence?   avi-loeb.medium.com/is-3i... · Posted by u/ilamont
nateburke · 8 days ago
Interesting idea. The only response short of SENDING IT BACK I can think of would be to measure its velocity, divide by our best estimate of its diameter, and broadcast the resulting frequency over radio in all directions.
nateburke commented on Tokens are getting more expensive   ethanding.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/admp
michaelbuckbee · 25 days ago
A major current problem is that we're smashing gnats with sledgehammers via undifferentiated model use.

Not every problem needs a SOTA generalist model, and as we get systems/services that are more "bundles" of different models with specific purposes I think we will see better usage graphs.

nateburke · 25 days ago
generalist = fungible?

In the food industry is it more profitable to sell whole cakes or just the sweetener?

The article makes a great point about replit and legacy ERP systems. The generative in generative AI will not replace storage, storage is where the margins live.

Unless the C in CRUD can eventually replace the R and U, with the D a no-op.

nateburke commented on Sega mistakenly reveals sales numbers of popular games   gematsu.com/2025/06/sega-... · Posted by u/kelt
v5v3 · 2 months ago
>It’s amazing how valuable of an IP Sonic is. It still sells consistently well after all those years.

There have been ongoing movies and tv shows so each generation of kids grows up with Sonic.

nateburke · 2 months ago
Growing up I never had exposure to video games, so I didn't really know about Sonic until my son saw his face on some toy and IMMEDIATELY had questions. Who is that, what's his name, what does he do, ....

I think there's something about Sonic's face that is timeless, innate, prehistoric even.

nateburke commented on OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%   twitter.com/sama/status/1... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
34679 · 3 months ago
I'd like to offer a cautionary tale that involves my experience after seeing this post.

First, I tried enabling o3 via OpenRouter since I have credits with them already. I was met with the following:

"OpenAI requires bringing your own API key to use o3 over the API. Set up here: https://openrouter.ai/settings/integrations"

So I decided I would buy some API credits with my OpenAI account. I ponied up $20 and started Aider with my new API key set and o3 as the model. I get the following after sending a request:

"litellm.NotFoundError: OpenAIException - Your organization must be verified to use the model `o3`. Please go to: https://platform.openai.com/settings/organization/general and click on Verify Organization. If you just verified, it can take up to 15 minutes for access to propagate."

At that point, the frustration was beginning to creep in. I returned to OpenAI and clicked on "Verify Organization". It turns out, "Verify Organization" actually means "Verify Personal Identity With Third Party" because I was given the following:

"To verify this organization, you’ll need to complete an identity check using our partner Persona."

Sigh I click "Start ID Check" and it opens a new tab for their "partner" Persona. The initial fine print says:

"By filling the checkbox below, you consent to Persona, OpenAI’s vendor, collecting, using, and utilizing its service providers to process your biometric information to verify your identity, identify fraud, and conduct quality assurance for Persona’s platform in accordance with its Privacy Policy and OpenAI’s privacy policy. Your biometric information will be stored for no more than 1 year."

OK, so now, we've gone from "I guess I'll give OpenAI a few bucks for API access" to "I need to verify my organization" to "There's no way in hell I'm agreeing to provide biometric data to a 3rd party I've never heard of that's a 'partner' of the largest AI company and Worldcoin founder. How do I get my $20 back?"

nateburke · 3 months ago
I don't recall Persona being in the mix last year when I signed up. Interesting development.
nateburke commented on Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine   solarshades.club/p/dispat... · Posted by u/notarobot123
nateburke · 3 months ago
Between widespread social media/short form video addiction and GPT for all homework starting in middle school, I think ASI is nearly guaranteed by virtue of the human birth/death process, with no further model improvement required.
nateburke commented on Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students   nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us... · Posted by u/S0y
nateburke · 3 months ago
Baron is at NYU, Malia got the big envelope...
nateburke commented on New #1 open-source AI Agent on SWE-bench Verified   refact.ai/blog/2025/open-... · Posted by u/laxyz
nateburke · 3 months ago
Am I correct in understanding that SWE-bench is limited to python?
nateburke commented on The Problem with Teens Isn't Smartphones–It's Their Families   grimoiremanor.substack.co... · Posted by u/illinx
nateburke · 3 months ago
Why does the chart only include data from 2003, 2020, and 2023?

I am also curious about the mentioning of Indian males in the text alongside native American women, with the chart excluding Indian males, this is also somewhat confusing.

It is hard to get a sense of the actual data supporting the claims in the article.

u/nateburke

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