Pretty hilarious write up and interesting frontier research project. I love it.
Readit Newstofuahdude commented on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race theverge.com/news/836212/... · Posted by u/goplayoutside
anecdotal, but my wife wasn't interested in switching to claude from chatgpt. as far as she's concerned chatgpt knows her, and she's got her assistant perfectly tuned to her liking.
Same situation over here. Multiple family members only know chatgpt / think that chatgpt knows them and have never heard of the competitors.
tofuahdude commented on The fall of Labubus and the mush of modern internet trends michigandaily.com/arts/di... · Posted by u/gnabgib
> it’s clear that Labubus are on the downswing
On the other hand, they've only recently penetrated my greater social circle, so I'm not so certain as this author that the trend has ended.
tofuahdude commented on FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-... · Posted by u/CrankyBear
Google is, at no cost to FFMPEG:
1) dedicating compute resources to continuously fuzzing the entire project
2) dedicating engineering resources to validating the results and creating accurate and well-informed bug reports (in this case, a seriously underestimated security issue)
3) additionally for codecs that Google likely does not even internally use or compile, purely for the greater good of FFMPEG's user base
Needless to say, while I agree Google has a penny to spare to fund FFMPEG, and should (although they already contribute), I do not agree with funding this maintainer.
FFMPEG, at no cost to Google, provided a core piece of their infrastructure for multiple multi-billion dollar product lines.
tofuahdude commented on Our efforts, in part, define us weakty.com/posts/efforts/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Culture has created this odd myth that if something is semantic it doesn't matter. That communication is just another soft skill.
Humans make meaning, we are the only source of complex, long term, meaning generation we have ever observed.
We emit meaning the way a star emits photons.
Sure, a lot of natural processes would still exist if we weren't around.
But in this universe, perhaps the only one that exists, we are the ones making meaning. Sometimes tge meaning exists physically in our imaginations, sometimes it maps to external facts, but everything that rationally coheres, creates and explains comes from us.
I really like the way you said we emit meaning.
It is kind of funny, that we seek meaning and/or purpose in everything - our lives, our actions, our thoughts - but there is a nice change in perspective in considering it as something that we produce rather than find.
Have you considered perhaps that you are, indeed, out of your mind? Or more precisely, that you could be rationalizing what is essentially a random process?
Based on the discussions here it seems that every model is either about to be great or was great in the past but now is not. Sucks for those of us who are stuck in the now, though.
Anthropic literally stated yesterday that they suffered degraded model performance over the last month due to bugs:
https://status.anthropic.com/incidents/72f99lh1cj2c
Suggesting people are "out of their mind" is not really appropriate on this forum, especially so in this circumstance.
tofuahdude commented on I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself skeptrune.com/posts/doing... · Posted by u/skeptrune
> I added an AbortController to the debounced search function, so that it aborts any previous queries when a new one is made. This means that the search results are always relevant to what the user is currently typing.
To me one of the most annoying things an application can do is go off and do something before I'm done telling it what to do. Filters that apply themselves without an explicit indication that I'm done setting them up, or searches that are constantly re-executing as I'm typing. Wait for me to stop.
Grafana log search does this if change the currently-applied log filter, and then they charge you for search volume!
I've had to adjust my UX usage so that I don't get billed for every character I type, rather than the string I'm looking for.
> the post-graduation options that continue to provide tracks are also treated as the more "prestigious" options (go to grad school. work at big3/faang, etc).
Graduate school is a mixed bag when it comes to prestige. It's fairly well known that grad student lifestyle is a grind, highly competitive, and a financial sacrifice. You go into it for a love of academics, not as a default next step.
As for prestigious jobs like FAANG: I think you're downplaying the extreme compensation offered by many of these jobs. It's not just about prestige, it's about unlocking a level of wealth that is hard to ignore. It delivers on the dream people have when they imagine a university education unlocking incredible career options.
I've worked with many people who directly stated that they went to grad school because they "didn't know what else to do". As well as several who couldn't get a job, so they went back to school.
It definitely isn't always for the love of academics.
tofuahdude commented on HP Acquires Humane's AI Software humane.com/media/humane-h... · Posted by u/colesantiago
It's easy to point and laugh at a failed product with puzzling features, but I have respect for what Humane tried to do. They attempted to produce an AI product and get it to stand on its own two legs (metaphorically). They didn't have an annoying CEO grandstanding about the amazing tech while handwaving away hallucinations and common bugs, something Valley leadership does way too much of.
They didn't start with a VC-friendly strategy of free-then-paid to acquire market share. There was an off-putting monthly subscription right at the start. No confusion about what this product's business model or target customer was.
Contrast that to the ham-fisted way Apple, Android and Microsoft are attempting to bootstrap their AI offerings by jamming it into successful hardware products and sneaking users into it with dark patterns to opt them in.
No, instead, they had two annoying CEOs who grandstanded their own egos.
One night, dad was on duty, probably smoking pot with his student residents.
The phones all stop working.
So dad goes down to the maintenance closet, opens it up... and sure enough, there's Woz digging around the building's phone wiring. Woz immediately says "I'll fix it, I'll fix it!!".
He was down there installing one of those phreaking devices for free long-distance phone calls for everyone in the dorms.
My dad let him do his thing.