ImaCake

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by ImaCake 8d ago
Yes. If they could prove where the de-identified data came from then it wouldn't be de-identified. There's a whole field of statistics dedicated to this problem and often applied to things like national census data.
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by ImaCake 8d ago
I am absolutely struggling to sell my workplace (which is entirely knowledge work) on the usefulness of LLMs for proofreading let alone on automation of hairy parts of our workflows. So yeah, even people who should be able to see what is co
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by ImaCake 8d ago
Maybe they didn't ask or the anthropic people said no? Plenty of other explanations here.
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by ImaCake 8d ago
Well there is an upper bound of how much time you have available to spend with your child and how you spend that time. You could use an LLM when you can't be there (I suspect this is a bad idea), or you can use it collaboratively with
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by ImaCake 10d ago
It's actually a really interesting question to reckon with - can an AI help raise a child and is that good or bad? I suspect there are ways you can use the current frontier that elevate the child's experience, especially when it c
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by ImaCake 10d ago
Yeah its such a boon for those us who struggle with writers block! I think this is a great approach.
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by ImaCake 14d ago
LLMs are pretty bad at compressing ideas down to the level a smart human can. I think this is quite important for good documentation. Essentially the AI wont do a good job of highlighting the really important and essential details unless yo
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by ImaCake 20d ago
Luna on xhigh unlocks gh copilot for me. Sol, even discounted, is too expensive to use and is much slower. Luna on the other hand seems to be so cheap you don't have to think about cost.
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by ImaCake 20d ago
The problem is it needs world knowledge to know what to lookup. This puts a floor on how little it can know while being able to look up what it doesn't know. Maybe its better if it knows a lot but has a good instinct for verifying that
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by ImaCake 21d ago
Thats certainly an argument about the problems with LLM usage. But it's not a meaningful reply to what I said unless I am missing something.
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by ImaCake 21d ago
What an interesting cultural artifact! I note no proposals in favour of "let it rip" which is presumably because that would not be a reflection of Debian philosophy. I do think the aggressively anti AI proposals are themselves un-
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by ImaCake 26d ago
It can be helpful to read LLM text the same way you read technical fluff - start from the assumption its mostly garbage with a core technical point. I find skim reading the output to find the useful bit reduces the friction. When I ask Ch
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by ImaCake 1mo ago
You can access Google's SynthID tool only via Gemini. Which supports your first point! I think this is trivial to implement for open weights models? The main issue is each open weight provider could choose their own randomisation key a
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by ImaCake 1mo ago
It doesn't look like the providers are going to publish their randomisation key. The google version is accessible only via the gemini prompt which only actually ran the synthID tool 1 out of 2 times I tried it the other day. So at the
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by ImaCake 1mo ago
I had issues on my iphone 13 pro where switching between two apps would lead to one app "forgetting" what screen it was on. Particularly painful on Safari! Hard to know how much of that is memory pressure but its not a problem I h
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by ImaCake 1mo ago
Maybe the curl thing is because they are happy to let you do some light scraping. What they want to avoid is bots directly crawling the page interactively. No one seems to be blocking chatGPT when I promot it to use it's web search ski
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by ImaCake 1mo ago
>Where are all the killer new things? I agree they are over-hyped. Maybe the problem is that all the things LLMs are great for are essentially quality of life improvements. There are a dozen killer apps worth of functionality I get out o
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by ImaCake 1mo ago
Those websites are janky despite having all the (non AI) solutions available already. They suck for reasons independent of the quality of LLMs. I have not worked inside a megacorp but my understanding is they suck because of what are essent
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by ImaCake 1mo ago
>Where my angst comes, is worrying that no one will ever get that experience anymore. I am a fairly inexperienced python developer using LLMs to build software and find that I still learn a lot just from prompting and tinkering. Maybe th
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by ImaCake 2mo ago
Hell, $20/month is a pretty good deal for something that can proofread a 100 page report, do some light research work, and write some quick and dirty scripts. It doesn't have to replace the entire job of programming to be really d
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by ImaCake 2mo ago
I find it helpful to think of LLMs as reflections. If you can talk like an expert mathematician at the model it will respond like one. While Terrance's first prompt looks trivial I expect a first year Uni student would be hard pressed
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by ImaCake 2mo ago
Sorry if my speculation was bad! When I wrote it I meant it as a compliment. Raw LLM output is awful and really needs a human to "translate" the useful content to something worth reading.
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by ImaCake 2mo ago
This isn't a helpful reply, I come here for thoughtful discussion, not knee-jerk reactions.
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by ImaCake 2mo ago
It seems too concise to be AI. My (conscious) heuristic for AI writing is how much context is squeezed into a sentence. LLMs seem to be pretty bad at the kind of elegant compression of meaning humans can do when they have done a lot of writ
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by ImaCake 2mo ago
I guess ask the bun people why they translated from zig to rust. I think it was essentially because rust guarantees a set of bugs can't exist so over medium to long term timeframes you end up with less technical debt.
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by ImaCake 3mo ago
Sure, but something that is “sonnet tier” is going to get there faster and with less pain. Well worth the 13 cents!
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by ImaCake 3mo ago
Significantly cheaper than comparable models if you are using openrouter [0]. Just yesterday I spent roughly 13 cents centering some divs using Deepseek in a personal project. It would have been north of $1 to do that with a US frontier mod
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by ImaCake 3mo ago
You should try out the cheaper models first. I find Deepseek v4 models pretty comparable to sonnet 4.6 but at a fraction of the cost. You might find you just don't need to use the American models at all.
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by ImaCake 3mo ago
That first map seems to map quite closely to koppen climate zones across the continent. Its hard to say whether the climate is decisive here because climate is a big influencer of urban design. However, its interesting that in Australia its
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by ImaCake 3mo ago
If you go to the original link [0] you will see that things are actually pretty stable and okay? 0. https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/ltt/2025/

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