aklein

5 ms·

1.
by aklein 1mo ago
> Prefilling Kimi-K3's reasoning with the first 1% of tokens of Opus 4.8's reasoning moves its visible answer toward Opus's wording, even though the answer itself is never prefilled is this supportive evidence for the dist
2.
by aklein 4mo ago
Same here! TI-85, and then HP48G series after that!
3.
by aklein 5mo ago
I have a CLAUDE.md symlinked to AGENTS.md
4.
by aklein 5mo ago
Longtime backblaze user. Time to vibecode myself a replacement.
5.
by aklein 6mo ago
I wrote a clone of this game for the HP-48 as a teen in the 90s. you can still find it if you google hard enough. good times.
6.
by aklein 6mo ago
until you learn to trust the system and free mental capacity for more useful thinking. at some point compilers became better at assembly instructions than humans. seems inevitable this will happen here. caring about the details and knowing
7.
by aklein 7mo ago
https://chatgpt.com/share/699346d3-fcc0-8008-8348-07a423a526... interesting. if you probe it for its assumptions you get more clarity. I think this is much like those tricky “who is buried in grants tomb” phrasings tha
8.
by aklein 8mo ago
This article highlights how experts disagree on the meaning of (non-human) intelligence, but it dismisses the core problem a bit too quickly imo - “LLMs only predict what a human would say, rather than predicting the actual consequences of
9.
by aklein 11mo ago
Humans are social-emotional beings who assign “irrational” value to things for social signaling and emotional (self-)gratification.
10.
by aklein 1y ago
Not a lawyer, but my understanding is civilian casualties are not unlawful (according to international law) when the target is legitimate (on the theory that it is otherwise impossible to legally fight a war with an enemy that hides behind
11.
by aklein 1y ago
I noticed you interface with the native code via ctypes. I think cffi is generally preferred (eg, https://cffi.readthedocs.io/en/stable/overview.html#api-mode... ). Although you'd have more flexibility if you
12.
by aklein 1y ago
Nowadays, with more and more economic output coming from knowledge work (IP), this depreciation and amortization approach feels hopelessly out of date. I don't know what a good replacement is, but I know software and IP more generally
13.
by aklein 1y ago
What is MCP?
14.
by aklein 2y ago
Can’t wait for a better TSC Doom framerate.
15.
by aklein 2y ago
TBH, I don’t really understand why this is a problem. An explanation is not an experience; it cannot provide to the human brain the same information. Suppose you neurologically induced an experience of seeing that new color without “really”
16.
by aklein 2y ago
Speaking as someone with a current viral respiratory infection of some kind that was just prescribed Benzonatate and Albuterol, there needs to be a much more effective treatment for a bad dry cough. It’s pure misery.
17.
by aklein 2y ago
Right, you need a mechanism. (Ice cream makes you fat, fat people can't swim, ergo drownings). Haight clearly outlines the mechanisms by which social media and smartphones have detrimental effects on mental health, see: https:/&#
18.
by aklein 2y ago
You are implying the author(s) are disingenuous or are drawing the wrong conclusions. What makes you think this?
19.
by aklein 2y ago
Former MIT students indicted on $25 million ethereum heist
20.
$25M Ethereum heist: indictment(justice.gov)
3 points by aklein 2y ago|2 comments
21.
by aklein 3y ago
To pile on to what another commenter said above, therapy is for you. I know you dismissed it out of hand. You clearly have no faith that someone (specifically, a well-trained therapist) might have something valuable to contribute. However,
22.
by aklein 3y ago
Ok I googled. I guess it makes sense as it helps to protect against pre-hashed rainbow tables or dictionary attacks by making them more computationally expensive.
23.
by aklein 3y ago
“For example, another important default setting in LastPass is the number of “iterations,” or how many times your master password is run through the company’s encryption routines” How does this help?
24.
by aklein 3y ago
I can’t tell if this Max Berger quote is a lament or just unintentionally ironic: “Whatever you want to call my faction—the Bernie wing, the Warren wing, democratic-socialist, social democrat—we would have way less power if Leah didn’t exis
25.
by aklein 3y ago
Imagine paying for a Harvard education and getting taught by a chat bot. Not sure they thought the optics of this one through.
26.
by aklein 3y ago
Maybe they just need a vaccination… uh I mean a vacation
27.
by aklein 3y ago
It wasn’t that they won; the article explains that plenty of people walk out with designer bags full of money. It’s that these folks won in a statistically hugely unlikely way, and that alone is pretty damning evidence that something is off
28.
by aklein 3y ago
Suggestion for international workaround: pronounce as “ess-pack”?
29.
by aklein 4y ago
Green right up left Orange down right up Green down right up That’s on track to solve in 14. Don’t know how to get to 13
30.
by aklein 4y ago
Stuck on 36 too! 14 moves no matter how much I think about it!

More ›