the term of art is "residential proxy" and there's a ton of them
for example: it's the flipside of Bright's free VPN service - through Bright Data they sell people access proxied via some user's connection
yes, you can match on user agent, and then conditionally serve them other stuff (most webservers are fine with this). nepenthes and iocaine are the current preferred/recommended servers to serve them bot mazes
the thing is that the crawlers will also lie (openai definitely doesn't publish all its own source IPs, I've verified this myself), and will attempt a number of workarounds (like using residential proxies too)
I hadn’t encountered either the Howard person nor heard of this podcast, but imma find that episode and listen because it sounds like quite an experience!
as a lot can be learned from trying to fix weird bugs
a truism, but not one I believe many of our esteemed promptfuckers could appreciate
and here I was graciously giving the promptfuckers a choice
many of the proponents of things in this field will propose/argue $x thing to be massively valuable for $x
thing is, that doesn't often work out
yes, there's some value in the tech for translation outcomes. to anyone even mildly online, "so are language teaching apps/sites using this?" is probably a very nearby question. and rightly so!
and then when you go digging into how that's going in practice, wow fuck damn doesn't that Glorious AI Future sheen just fall right off...
like LLM like shithead
fuck, there's potential here, but a bit too specific for a t-shirt?
like llm like idiot
perhaps?
oh, I get it, you personally choose not to make these structurally-repeatable-by-foundation errors? you personally choose to be a Unique And Correct Snowflake?
wow shit damn, I sure want to read your eventual uni paper, see what kind of distinctly novel insight you've had to wrangle this domain!
(also I did my disclaimer at the start there, so, y'know (but also igwym))
woo! but still also check out pomsky, it's legit handy!
a'ight, sure bub, let's play
tell me what hw spec I need to deploy some kind of interactive user-facing prompt system backed by whatever favourite LLM/transformer-model you want to pick. idgaf if it's llama or qwen or some shit you've got brewing in your back shed - if it's on huggingface, fair game. here's the baselines:
- expected response latencies: human, or better
- expected topical coherence: mid-support capability or above
- expected correctness: at worst "I misunderstood $x" in the sense of "whoops, sorry, I thought you were asking about ${foo} but I answered about ${bar}"; i.e. actual, contextual, concrete contextual understanding
(so, basically, anything a competent L2 support engineer at some random ISP or whatever could do)
hit it, I'm waiting.
how dare I use someone's own words against them!
You can experiment on your own GPU
you have lost the game
you have been voted off the island
you are the weakest list
etc etc etc
also
I’ve spent 6+ years of my life in compsci academia
eh. look.
I realize you'll probably receive/perceive this post negatively, ranging as anywhere from "criticism"/"extremely harsh" through ... "condemnation"?
but, nonetheless, I have a request for you
please, for the love of ${deity}, go out and meet people. get out of your niche, explore a bit. you are so damned close to stepping in the trap, and you could do not-that.
(just think! you've spent a whole 6+ years on compsci? now imagine what your next 80+ years could be!)
ah yes, my ability to read a pdf immediately confers upon me all the resources required to engage in materially equivalent experimentation of the thing that I just read! no matter whether the publisher spent cents or billions in the execution and development of said publication, oh no! it is so completely a cost paid just once, and thereafter it's ~totally~ free!
oh, wait, hang on. no. no it's the other thing. that one where all the criticisms continue to hold! my bad, sorry for mistaking those. guess I was roleplaying a LLM for a moment there!
My most honest goal is to educate people
oh and I suppose you can back that up with verifiable facts, yes?
and that you, yourself, can stand as a sole beacon against the otherwise regularly increasing evidence and studies that both indicate toward and also prove your claims to be full of shit? you are the saviour that can help enlighten us poor unenlightened mortals?
sounds very hard. managing your calendar must be quite a skill
this isn't the place to decide which seed generator you want for your autoplag runtime
Just ran across this and figured I’d link to people, looks interesting
in the spirit of this post, but from the other side
I have a shitdroid that I can't root because the vendor sucks, but google can go fuck themselves too. combined with that I haven't androided much for about a decade and know nothing about the current ecosystem.. I'm looking for good alternatives to a few things. free/foss preferred but I'm pragmatic over picky - if there's a good paid option I'm willing to consider it
immediate known requirements include contact sync, calendar (more business than personal but either works if it's good). maybe also other things I should know about?
judicuous preference to things that support open protocols and self-hosting (i.e. anything that has to use their service to operate - no go)
tell me about good apps! I know about syncthing and photosync
some of the sub’s friends are holding a conference although they’re still not totally comfortable to go public:
> but buyers are warned that purchases will “require approval”
aww, the poor babies. even with literal nazis in the whitehouse they still feel uncomfortable to spout their weird shit
hopefully if this thing happens at all, someone documents the everliving hell out of every attendee
the precision and clarity are astounding
by the time the hilbert curves got there my mouth was hanging open, and it still gets better
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What is a Turing machine?It's an abstract model of an algorithmic machine. Although it was not designed to be implemented in real life, some people ...
'cuz I definitely do
OpenAI's board is considering plans to restructure the firm to a for-profit business. CTO Mira Murati and two top research execs said they are leaving.
> “stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration.”
yeah I completely believe you, weird lady. I too want to vaguely step into the warm embrace of my piles of ill-gotten gold, forgetting about the stressors of how to sell something that doesn’t exist and that you helped claim would be here really soon now. ahhh, bliss..
one’s gotta wonder about the timing of this announcement, right? like come the fuck on
/PRNewswire/ -- K1 Investment Management, LLC ("K1"), one of the largest investors in small-cap enterprise software companies, today announced the completion...
I will say I'm not much of a fan of mysqls but uhhhhh this seems bad
Mainframes still play a vital role in today, providing extremely high uptime and low latency for financial transactions. Telum II is IBM’s latest mainframe processor, and is designed unlike a…
saw this kicking around on the lobsters frontpage
> IBM also includes a DPU for accelerating IO, along with an on-board AI accelerator
ah yes. an AI accelerator. for a chip that goes into a system that'll quite possibly have a lifespan measured in decade-partials. in environments so extremely up to date with the bleeding edge of technology that they are absolutely not losing their programmers to retirement. an AI acceleator for that. makes total sense.
imagine being the poor engineers who had to spec that out, design it, and get it actually existing. nevermind even the awe-inspiringly stunning disregard to reality that it takes for some management fuckhead(s) to have "steered" this
> Funny enough, I asked why IBM had different terminology compared to the rest of the industry. They said IBM came up with the terminology first, and later on the industry adopted different terminology. It was all lighthearted and funny.
ah yes! funny! haha. not at all some weird insular shit from the same company that runs a worlds-apart platform with a control grip so strong it makes larry ellison check if they're infringing on anything actionable...
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I started looking through corrupt Winamp skins and it lead me down some very strange rabbit holes
found this kicking around on one of the feeder sites a few days ago and only got to read it now
kinda neat. it's the sort of thing that you used to find quite a lot with keygens and other things prone to easter eggs, and that I don't really know of being as prevalent in more recent gaming and such
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There is an unavoidable tension between the aims of decentralization and onboarding everyday users.
there is some strong copium in the article, combined with a total description of having a massive gambling addiction without, y’know, actually realising it’s an addiction
remarkable stuff
People participate in online communities to share experiences and sympathy. AI chatbots that join the conversation can only pretend to offer either.
there are some remarkable instances of bad behaviour in there already, but imagine being the sort of product team that thinks users being gaslit by a chatbot that they couldn’t even consent to choose to use is totes something to deliver without any modification or remark
this time in open letter format! that'll sure do it!
there are "risks", which they are definite about - the risks are not hypothetical, the risks are real! it's totes even had some acknowledgement in other places! totes real defs for sure this time guize
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since I haven't touched AP before (and figure other possible contributors may not have either), going to use this post as wayfarer bathroom graffiti
feel free to contribute your own learning and investigation as well
And perhaps sidestepping its own policy in the process.
It’s been a long couple of years with people going hard on building all their communications on the gamer chat company, disregarding all warnings and concerns because of shiny creature comforts
Soon: “we trusted you! We moved from slack to you! 😭”
Guess it’s only a handful of months before the tortured handwringing starts?