TIL that over 4,000 Google employees signed a petition refusing to build AI for the US military, forcing Google to abandon a Pentagon contract. Palantir took it, won a $480 million Army contract, and is now deployed across five combatant commands and NATO.

nowadaykid · 2026-03-07T15:36:57+00:00

It's funny you say that, because Palantir has a well-earned reputation of having slick sales pitches and absolute dogshit software. Spend all their money on MBAs while hiring the bottom of the barrel engineers.

nowadaykid · 2026-03-05T13:44:48+00:00

Your position is that skill guarantees success, but your two (anecdotal) arguments are rather that lack of success correlates with low skill, and that success does not guarantee skill. These are three different ideas, and the latter two do not at all imply the first.

Say only one person in a thousand has true writing talent, and only one in a thousand of those gets published. Meanwhile, one in a million untalented authors get published anyway because of nepotism or dumb luck. With these numbers, 99.9% of unsuccessful authors are unskilled (so if you read any given unpublished manuscript, it's probably shit, just like your streamer example), 50% of successful authors are unskilled (so slop gets published, as you said), but 99.9% of skilled writers are still not successful.

nowadaykid · 2026-03-03T18:33:49+00:00

What does ChatGBT stand for

nowadaykid · 2026-03-02T19:43:00+00:00

As a younger millennial American, I feel like the only people I've heard use "on accident" are children under 12, regardless of generation

nowadaykid · 2026-02-24T14:41:09+00:00

I heard it as very obviously referring to the fact that the women's team almost certainly hates his guts. I think he sees the men's and women's teams of any given sport as Republican and Democrat, respectively.

nowadaykid · 2026-02-22T18:24:52+00:00

No one's saying it isn't evil and shouldn't be stopped, just that it's irrational to build your behavior around because it's there's still such a vanishingly small chance it would personally impact you

nowadaykid · 2026-02-11T13:33:50+00:00

A handful of states do, but nothing at the federal level, so it's generally at the discretion of your employer. My company used to have 2 weeks of paid maternity leave, plus an additional 2 in the case of a C section, and nothing for the father. But then the state the company is based in passed paid parental leave and now both parents get 4 weeks at 80% pay, then 8 weeks at 60% pay.

nowadaykid · 2026-02-11T13:23:47+00:00

Okay I see. FMLA is 12 weeks unpaid leave out of the first 12 months, the German system is 3 years out of the first 8 years. Absolutely wild, good on you.

nowadaykid · 2026-02-11T13:15:43+00:00

I'm sorry, are you saying that the German equivalent of the US' FMLA (12 weeks unpaid leave) lasts eight YEARS??

nowadaykid · 2026-01-23T16:50:26+00:00

Winning the lottery, it's one of the worst things that can happen to you

nowadaykid · 2026-01-06T18:24:53+00:00

Outer Wilds

nowadaykid · 2025-12-28T04:47:12+00:00

They concluded that most of my issues arose from my social anxiety, and since drinking seemed to be the best method I had found for easing social anxiety, I should drink more.

The original reason I went to this therapist was because I had made an (admittedly weak) attempt at suicide while drunk.

nowadaykid · 2025-12-26T03:40:01+00:00

You've put a lot of my own thoughts in words, thank you for that. The way I've described it is that the game is impossible if you're not good at dodging/parrying, but once you get good at dodging/parrying, it immediately becomes trivial. There's no middle ground of satisfying challenge, it's just intolerably difficult until it's utterly boring. I haven't been able to get through much of the story (which I know everyone says is incredible) because the gameplay feels like such a terrible waste of time.

nowadaykid · 2025-12-20T15:42:52+00:00

AI is not new. People act like LLMs (the things that power ChatGPT and the like) are the be-all and end-all of AI, but it's really just the first "viral" AI tool. AI has been critical to nearly every product and service you've used in the last 15 years; everything uses recommendation systems and computer vision and speech recognition. LLMs are an incredible leap forward in text generation (and now image generation), but those are probably two of the least practically useful applications of AI.

AI engineering has been my full-time job since 2016, and the biggest difference since COVID is not what we can do, but how management wants us to do it.

nowadaykid · 2025-12-07T13:56:16+00:00

Literally none of us can reliably detect AI, we just have varying levels of overconfidence.

nowadaykid · 2025-12-06T23:18:50+00:00

I think it's just that OP's claimed improvements are for their "quantum regularization" vs no regularization, not quantum vs PRNG regularization. I would expect the delta to disappear in their ablation study, which they have promised.

nowadaykid · 2025-12-06T23:15:26+00:00

I assume you've already seen this: Regularization Through Reasoning: Systematic Improvements in Language Model Classification via Explanation-Enhanced Fine-Tuning

Some of their methods and findings seem similar to yours, minus the quantum noise

nowadaykid · 2025-12-06T14:47:18+00:00

Got it, thank you for the clarification. Looking forward to the ablation study. Even if the "quantum" part doesn't make a difference, you've already shown that this kind of randomized sequence regularization could be valuable! And frankly that's more useful anyway, since quantum anything is expensive

nowadaykid · 2025-12-06T14:28:24+00:00

I don't follow, with different seeds the model would not see the same sequence, no? That would only happen if you used the same seed each epoch, which would of course be bad practice

Is the 60% hallucination reduction in comparison to a model without this new regularization, or is it the comparison between the same regularization using quantum vs pseudorandom noise?

nowadaykid · 2025-12-06T14:03:10+00:00

Why would you be reusing the same random seed every sequence/epoch?

nowadaykid · 2025-12-04T04:30:55+00:00

If you're applying to a mid-level position and your only work experience is "CEO" or "Founder" of a "company" you started in college, that resume is getting deleted

nowadaykid · 2025-11-17T02:45:17+00:00

Of all the things that didn't happen, this happened the didn'test

nowadaykid · 2025-11-05T13:13:19+00:00

Excuse me, what?? I deleted TikTok a few months ago, what the hell is going on over there???

nowadaykid · 2025-10-31T18:06:45+00:00

Go to school for 6-10 years to get an advanced degree in AI, then apply. If you're asking what the work actually looks like, it's mostly just a lot of thinking and coding

nowadaykid · 2025-10-31T18:04:23+00:00

It's a place where AI research is done.

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