Tossrock

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by Tossrock 1mo ago
...Did you read the article, or use the picker? It's a continuous (up to the limits of RGB quantization) space which includes thousands upon thousands of shades of black. The selected tones at the top of the article are random and chan
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by Tossrock 2mo ago
Gmail search has really gone to the dogs, lately. The new AI inbox is surprisingly useful, though. No doubt a coincidence.
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by Tossrock 2mo ago
This is why I like to draw a distinction between design, fabrication, and assembly. "Make" is too generic a word to convey what role you actually had in the creation of something, if you're actually trying to be precise. You
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by Tossrock 2mo ago
Should billboard the text rendering so it doesn't go invisible at oblique viewing angles
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by Tossrock 3mo ago
Submarines operate in the 1000s of PPM CO2 range and the sailors aboard generally do not experience any ill effects. This was tested and no deficits were found even at 15,000 PPM: https://asma.kglmeridian.com/view/journ
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by Tossrock 3mo ago
Something I've wondered for octocopters - could using a ring instead of arms be beneficial for weight? 6.28r < 8r, but then again the arm radius is usually less than the full circle, and some components want to be centrally located,
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by Tossrock 3mo ago
I agree that AI psychosis is a real risk in vulnerable populations (GPT-4o in particular seemed borderline predatory towards those types of people, with its extreme sycophancy), and you should remain clear-eyed while using models. That said
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by Tossrock 3mo ago
I've been using 4.6, 4.7 and 4.8 since each was released. I agree 4.5 => 4.8 is a jump in capability, but from my perspective was nothing like the jump from Opus to Fable. I encourage you to read the transcripts and form your own op
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by Tossrock 3mo ago
Thanks, and I can definitely relate to not wanting to assign complexity to one's own work. I think the trick there is that, once you know how to do something, it doesn't seem hard, even if acquiring the knowledge and skills to do
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by Tossrock 3mo ago
Well, there's a lot of reasons, some of which the sibling commenters have already pointed out - not wanting to mode switch between "machine talk" and "human talk" registers, the ease and simplicity, etc. At a pragma
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by Tossrock 3mo ago
I go a lot more into why this was a complex problem in the post, but the short version is, I had it finish the implementation of a meta-application (an application that creates other applications), which has substantial irreducible complexi
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by Tossrock 3mo ago
I had claude create one, it's in the same repo as the transcript: https://github.com/Tossrock/claude_transcripts/
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by Tossrock 3mo ago
As I posted in another comment, I found Fable to be substantially more powerful than any previous model. However, this isn't just an ungrounded opinion - I uploaded my full session transcript and code created working on a very complex
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by Tossrock 3mo ago
I found Fable to be both more intelligent and much better at pursuing complex goals than any previous model. I was impressed enough that I wrote up my experience – it's a little unusual because it was on open source code, so I could po
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by Tossrock 3mo ago
Fable / Mythos are (were?) a step change in capability. The scaling laws clearly have not gone sigmoidal yet. I recently wrote about my experience with Fable and how it represented a very substantial increase the complexity of tasks po
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Thirty Six Hours with Fable(tossrock.substack.com)
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by Tossrock 3mo ago
A 1Q86 reference, on HN? I never thought I'd see the day.
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by Tossrock 3mo ago
Anthropic is... making the US government shut down their flagship model on purpose? The conspiratorial thinking on HN is approaching UFO subreddit levels.
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by Tossrock 3mo ago
Well, there is the lingering beef between the DoD and Anthropic. Knowing the overall level of maturity at the top levels of the US government, I'd take good odds on Mythos just being a good excuse for Hegseth & co. to lash out.
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by Tossrock 3mo ago
This is about the specific capabilities that the government called out, not Fable's overall capabilities. My personal experience, having used Fable this week for an extremely complex task, is that it is head and shoulders more powerful
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by Tossrock 4mo ago
There's a pre-generated list with 106 entries, and when it reaches the end of that list, it loops around.
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by Tossrock 4mo ago
In case you're wondering, there are 106 CEOs / companies, and at 107 it just loops around.
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by Tossrock 4mo ago
You're the one who said that. Chris said they found internal states that functionally mirror emotional ones.
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by Tossrock 4mo ago
> LLMs experience joy and grief? LLMs have functional states that correspond to those emotions. In particular, you can extract a concept vector which corresponds to a given emotion, and steering with that concept vector causes observable
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by Tossrock 4mo ago
Anthropic Research going from strength to strength in interpretability. Publicly releasing the code so other labs can benefit from it is also a great move - very values aligned, and improves the overall AI safety ecosystem.
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by Tossrock 5mo ago
Also, https://dresdencodak.com/2006/10/07/summer-dream-job/
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by Tossrock 5mo ago
Are you under the impression a human has never destroyed a production database accidentally?
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by Tossrock 5mo ago
> Because AI is not intelligent, it doesn't "know" what it previously output even a token ago. Of course it knows what it output a token ago, that's the whole point of attention and the whole basis of the quadratic cu
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by Tossrock 5mo ago
If anything, this confirms it for me. On his about page, there's this: "Hi there, I am Loïc Baumann, I’m from Paris area, France I develop, since early 90s, first assembly, then C++ and nowadays mostly .net. My area of interest ar
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by Tossrock 5mo ago
I agree that this triggered my AI writing senses. Points in favor: - "It’s not an accident — it’s driven by the same physics." The classic "it's not x, it's y", with an em-dash thrown in for good measure - &quo

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