LeCompteSftware

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by LeCompteSftware 4mo ago
I agree that de facto the biggest security flaw in Linux is "okay I'm tired of getting interrupted all day assisting you, I know you're competent, I'll put you on the sudoers list." But there are a lot of academic
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by LeCompteSftware 4mo ago
I didn't say "3 days of full-time work," that is totally unreasonable. I was giving them basically unlimited time to do whatever slow testing and research they needed. And let me qualify my statement: when I say "I would
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by LeCompteSftware 4mo ago
FWIW I think "LLMs are semideterministic" is something of a red herring. The real difference between LLM codegen and compilers is that compilers output logically the same assembly regardless of the variable names. If you're
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by LeCompteSftware 4mo ago
Surely the biggest difference is that you guys are mostly testing LLMs on simpler utilities, mostly involving higher-level languages, whereas ProgramBench are all very complex C programs (and much older programs with much more comprehensive
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by LeCompteSftware 4mo ago
If I invented a machine that makes chimpanzee noises in response to input chimpanzee noise, put it in front of a chimpanzee, and watched the chimp coo and yell and screech and purr in response to the machine, I would not conclude "wow,
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by LeCompteSftware 4mo ago
"Haw haw, you couldn't tell it was written with AI!" "Oh! That explains it!" "Uh..." "I didn't want to say anything rude, but the whole time I was like 'yikes, how did this idiot become a pr
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by LeCompteSftware 4mo ago
This knee-jerk cynicism is badly undermined two sentences later: > Researchers say that climate models may need to be updated to account for the warming effect of plastic, but the new study is far from conclusive. So it's not scient
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by LeCompteSftware 4mo ago
Darkly funny that Armstrong's Twitter bio still reads "Creating more economic freedom in the world" when he has relegated humans to "the edge" of his own organization in favor of the pseudointelligent pseudogod. Fre
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by LeCompteSftware 4mo ago
But there would be no basis to claim this trademark was abandoned (even before Don Ho responded to infringement). Notepad++ is famous software actively getting new features and new releases. It is well-known among technically sophisticated
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by LeCompteSftware 4mo ago
This is both unethical and completely useless at the (supposed) goal of "show[ing] the current capabilities of AI." What a completely garbage case study! And what a dishonest writeup: We see that frontier models are intelligen
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by LeCompteSftware 5mo ago
That's not what I said, I said the blog post was false because the author thoughtlessly digested a YouTube video. It looks like the blog invented some details that weren't actually in the video.
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by LeCompteSftware 5mo ago
The nice thing about books vs. YouTube is that it's much easier to critically interrogate books while you're reading them. That was the difference with my dad: he thought about what he read. He repeats what he listens to on YouTub
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by LeCompteSftware 5mo ago
The point is that it doesn't really make sense to say they're "seeing" anything. You said So… are the neurons on that chip seeing? We all desperately want to say no. But I can confidently say "no, that&#x2
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by LeCompteSftware 5mo ago
An underappreciated source of nonsense in 21st century discourse is people watching YouTube instead of reading things. It doesn't appear this author read anything, preferring to be spooked and misled by a YouTube video. trained th
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by LeCompteSftware 5mo ago
I sincerely laughed out loud when I saw the screenshot of the "Artificial Life Cognitive Platform": Cognitive Stack System 3 - Long Term Drives I love being petted. System 2 - Emotionally-Aware Reasoning Goal: Receiv
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by LeCompteSftware 5mo ago
That's not what this article is about. It's really about algorithmic social media. There is one short paragraph near the end that mentions AI: "AI did not kill the Internet; it inherited an Internet with the fun already optim
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by LeCompteSftware 5mo ago
This particular case was extremely unsympathetic, but a critical part of the failure was people being too credulous about the claims of AI providers. They are still refusing to take adequate responsibility for AI "making mistakes"
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by LeCompteSftware 5mo ago
I refuse to use LLMs and don't have a job, so I'm just some guy. What I find strange about this is that in 2020 nobody would be this openly cynical and selfish about, say, good Python idioms, a useful emacs configuration, git shor
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by LeCompteSftware 5mo ago
It's not about "low performers / sick people," it's unemployment itself (especially sudden layoffs) making people more susceptible to substance abuse, regardless of their health when they're unemployed.
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by LeCompteSftware 5mo ago
It's 48 pages and I haven't read it fully, but it seems almost childlike that the paper doesn't address the obvious confounding variable: "Does Unemployment Make It More Likely for Late Middle-Aged People, Particularly M
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by LeCompteSftware 5mo ago
Hmm I already found a typo in one of the solutions. I believe this scraped from a bunch of PDFs in an unaudited automated process, so of course there are going to be some problems. But a) It doesn't bode well that I poked at three prob
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by LeCompteSftware 5mo ago
Nobody else has pointed this out, but a MacOS port of Notepad++ actually goes against some of the branding. Notepad++ very much markets itself as a lightweight and speedy thing that uses the low-level Win32 API directly. It is not just a na
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by LeCompteSftware 5mo ago
You know, what's frustrating is that when I first contemptuously dismissed "Notepad++ for MacOS" as a trademark violation I did skim that stuff and accordingly just sort of assumed the port was technically legitimate, but dis
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by LeCompteSftware 5mo ago
"Enforce" yes but the point is that this fork clearly violates broader principles and conventions around respecting clearly active trademarks. Nobody is demanding a lawsuit in French court or any particular legal consequences. B
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by LeCompteSftware 5mo ago
To be clear in the GitHub thread Don Ho repeatedly encouraged him to do this, and said it was cool that he was trying to bring Notepad++ to Mac! Just don't make it look like Don Ho and the rest of the team is responsible for any qualit
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by LeCompteSftware 5mo ago
The smarmy dishonesty about "expanding the Notepad++ brand" actually is selfish and ill-intentioned. Perhaps he is too young and naive to fully understand that he is being parasitic. But naivety is a well-travelled path towards ma
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by LeCompteSftware 5mo ago
"I will give you one week to change the name." "No, I'm not going to do that." "Okay fine, I'll report you to Cloudflare now." "BROOOOOOOO you said you'd give me a week?!?!"
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by LeCompteSftware 5mo ago
OP is being a bit tongue-in-cheek, I believe they mean that some vibe coders really want to be abstracted away from their own jobs, and are very much not interested in computer-scientific abstraction.
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by LeCompteSftware 5mo ago
It is easy to overinterpret this based on the headline, the doctors were actually at a slight disadvantage. This isn't how they normally work, this is a little more like a med school pop quiz: An AI and a pair of human doctors were
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by LeCompteSftware 5mo ago
The interactivity seems to be a substitute for coherent global organization (and a rationalization by the human author for not reviewing the LLM's strange stylistic / wording choices). It's incredibly distracting, and fatally

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