FergusArgyll
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My guess: There is a ton of data online of just plain weights laying around. No human would ever actually read it. LLM's read it all during training.
Exactly. Instant is still unlimited but I like turning it on high for everything
Posted by
FergusArgyll on Saturday October 31, 2026 @08:28PM
from the self-post dept.
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This has nothing to do with anthropic. One (or two) distribution channels were hacked. The hackers decided to distribute their malware through the claude extension, probably because it's popular.
This was good wholesome fun!
Some foundation should do this for future cve's
Wow, they're everywhere. I did not realize the extent of it
I just last night noticed the same with codex
Posted by
FergusArgyll on Friday October 23, 2026 @01:13PM
from the doi.org dept.
The reason being that they're not part of the government?
Of course there is a cost to everyone and the cost is dirtier air. Articles like this don't mention or strongly deemphasize the fact that everything is a tradeoff and a recession or stagnation of growth has horrific consequences as well. No one sees the jobs and welfare that could have been created if environmental regulations were less onerous.
Alternative headline:
Decades of progress on air quality could erase jobs
Yes, you missed the middle of the video.
Does Russia have mandatory *Universal* conscription?
I didn't think they did. Maybe recently?
You have to accept that people are different than you.
I see long massive pro apple threads. I don't get it at all. As in; literally don't understand what Apple is good for. But I have friends, family irl who love apple so I know the sentiment exists. I therefore accept that many HN users are similar.
Many people really truly are happy to see another model drop and are excited about progress etc etc. Surely you've met such ppl in real life. Well, they're here too (I'm one of them fwiw)
Oh, I'm happy I'm not the only one. Astra was feasting on tokens!
Well, they're actually older so it makes sense that their model versions should be ahead
It has read the internet. That doesn't mean it was literally RL'ed for this
What is the purpose of an army?
Yeah, it outputs probabilities over the options you give it. It's basically a generalizable classifier.
Theoretically, with a long enough codeword to cipher ratio, vigenere is impossible to break (I think) (but sort of useless)
And yes, I've taught 8 year olds how to crack Caesar ciphers...
It's good at poking holes at my galaxy brained newfangled ideas for ciphers too. I thought I had something good, pasted the ciphertext and got a "it was embarrassingly simple..."
It's not always deceptive. Bugs in inference can be very subtle (well, bugs everywhere can be subtle).
The providers should be benchmarking their offerings daily
The cheapest kind of journalism. Acme corp does x, Scroll twitter, find malcontents, write an article "People are upset about x".
I'm outraged at mathematicians. There, write the article.
Huh, call of the void is common and it has a name!
Great site
Way way shallower search. A human doesn't consider more than a few candidate moves. But they (we?) build up much better intuitions and heuristics
Distilling you don't have the actual model weights of the teacher. All you have are the teachers answers to a lot of questions. You then teach your own smaller model to answer more similarly to the big teacher model.
Fine tuning you have the actual model weights of the original model, you then train that model to answer in a different (or better) way.
When I studied cybersecurity I always had this nagging feeling "But I can never get past something real" Turns out I can bypass the defenses of a trillion dollar tech company!