Merik

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by Merik 3mo ago
"We won’t use this data to train new Claude models" What about non-Claude models?
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by Merik 6mo ago
There is a whole history with this, and i think its not appropriate or fair to malign the mcp python-sdk. My read of what happened is that the author spiked an an initial the implementation of 'fastmcp' on Nov 30 2025, 5 days late
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by Merik 11mo ago
Didn’t anthropic show that the models engage in a form of planning such that it is predicting a possible future subsequent tokens that then affects prediction of the next token: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/att
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by Merik 2y ago
Another variation on this is to think about tokens and definitions. Numbers don’t have inherent meaning for your use case, so if you use numbers you need to provide an explicit definition of each rating number in the prompt. Similarly, and
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by Merik 2y ago
This is a hit piece. It is cherry picking information that is in the public domain, and then drawing spurious conclusions by purposefully excluding or dismissing other publicly available knowledge, and doing so with a tone of exasperated in
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by Merik 2y ago
Folding, sorting, and putting away clothes is a time consuming daily task in a house with young kids, that cant be done by any robot that isn’t humanoid. Clearing the table, scraping dirty plates, putting condiments back in the fridge, pack
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by Merik 2y ago
the worse case scenario is if the eye makes landfall north of Tampa, as the counter clockwise rotation pushes more water in front of the front right quadrant. Tampa could be spared if it turns more south, but there are other communities th
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by Merik 2y ago
Latent Space AI Engineering podcast does this with an AI cohost; mostly for intros and segues. A recent episode used it to summarise a Twitter AMA and while it’s usually used to good effect, that one was one of the first episodes the qualit
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by Merik 2y ago
This sentence sums up so much of the technology around large transformer based models.
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by Merik 2y ago
These uninformed, reductionist writings are tedious and have the undertones of conspiratorial thinking that places the author as “the only person who sees the truth“. There are so many inaccuracies, gross simplifications, mischaracterisatio
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by Merik 2y ago
I think you’re confusing the technology with a product developed using that technology. The prevalence of poorly implemented products or the lack of fit of some products to a particular target market, do not inherently provide evidence for
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by Merik 2y ago
Claude 3.5 to the rescue: “Wibbels claims that developing countries are at a disadvantage in the global economy for two main reasons: 1. They rely heavily on foreign investment. 2. They depend on exporting a limited range of raw materials t
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by Merik 2y ago
“Lastly, OpenAI will become a Reddit advertising partner” I wonder what this means? Will OpenAI be investing research and engineering into creating models that are optimised to create ads that lead to high engagement? Is this a going to be
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by Merik 2y ago
Nice work and congratulations on the launch! It’s awesome when a project works as expected/assumed. I immediately started using it to build my packing list for my upcoming weekend away. Three suggestions: 1. If I try the demo on the la
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by Merik 3y ago
Generating revenue through the creation of value via innovation is great; using dark ux patterns to extract revenue from a captive user base, not so much. I think in cases like postman, people don’t like when features they previously had us
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by Merik 3y ago
Maybe, but it expanded on the idea in the vague comment and together introduced me to the idea of embedding each sentence and then clustering the sentences, then taking the centroid of the sentences as the embedding to index/search aga
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by Merik 3y ago
Thanks for your message. I should say that giving your comment to GPT-4, with a request for a solution architecture that could produce good results based on the comment, produced a very detailed, fascinating solution. https://cha
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by Merik 3y ago
if you have access to Gemini Pro 1.5 you could put the whole code base into the context and start asking questions about architecture, style, potential pain paints etc.
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by Merik 3y ago
I know an individual who used to think like that; do you want to know why they changed their mind?
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by Merik 3y ago
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/ I’m guessing y’all are both being facetious :)
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by Merik 4y ago
Neat tool, this looked like a perfect ChatGPT task; gave it a prompt to make it readable and less confusing, and then the original notice, and got this: NOTAM (Notice to Airmen): 3/4763 FDC 3/4763 ZLC The Federal Aviation Administ
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by Merik 15y ago
as a local melbourne programmer (american expat), I'm curious how you land your contracts. I currently work for a small interactive media company, who sub contract to me. Im happy with our relationship but id like to find a second source of
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by Merik 15y ago
The lack of a professional graphic designer in a lead role is a fatal oversight. It's the reason your user experience is lacking and the reason your website sucks.