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by ameliaquining 3d ago
I might try Searchlight Cyber first (it's their service doing this, presumably without their knowledge), and then if that doesn't work go to AWS.
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by ameliaquining 5d ago
Zig doesn't currently have async/await in the sense that this post is about (i.e., async/await based on stackless coroutines). It previously had this, but it was removed last year ( https://ziglang.org/download
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by ameliaquining 5d ago
Well, they could ask frontier labs to stop publishing math results. I find it telling that they stop short of explicitly doing this.
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by ameliaquining 6d ago
Scott Aaronson wrote a good post last week on how Hofstadter's theories of intelligence have held up: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10046 (The post primarily emphasizes self-referentiality rather than analogy, but I su
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by ameliaquining 6d ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49614484 .
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by ameliaquining 6d ago
I feel like "large language model" should be on these graphs. For better or for worse, it's the answer to these questions for an increasing number of people.
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by ameliaquining 8d ago
Certainly, but the key word there is "somewhat". Progress is now happening so incredibly fast that I no longer know what to consider implausible.
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by ameliaquining 8d ago
Elaborate?
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by ameliaquining 8d ago
If you're alleging that they don't actually have a highly capable model and the work they're attributing to it was actually plagiarized from human mathematicians, well, that would be big if true, but I'd be inclined to t
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by ameliaquining 8d ago
There were also some people talking about the Hodge conjecture, because it has some similarities to some LLM-assisted breakthroughs that were considered impressive in the distant past of [checks notes] July 2026. See, e.g., https:/&#x
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by ameliaquining 8d ago
I don't know what anyone's been saying on Twitter and I don't care. If it's really true that there's a model out there that's that capable two weeks after the start of training, then that's objectively a m
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by ameliaquining 11d ago
I'm not a C++ expert. Why does C++ want all objects to have identities? Presumably it has some feature or something Rust doesn't have that requires this?
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by ameliaquining 13d ago
This post buys into the common narrative about Xanadu, that it was a fundamentally good idea that failed due to some combination of poor execution, being too far ahead of its time, and the market not caring about quality (with this post in
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by ameliaquining 15d ago
LLMs have meaningfully decreased the cost of rewrites, such that many rewrites that wouldn't previously have made sense now do. They are still significantly costly and often a bad idea.
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by ameliaquining 17d ago
GNU is not particularly relevant here either; age verification rules were never going to affect glibc, bash, coreutils, GCC, Emacs, or any other GNU packages that I'm aware of, and would have equally affected Linux distributions built
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by ameliaquining 18d ago
What updates were these?
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by ameliaquining 19d ago
I'm looking at originality.ai and I'm suspicious. Their roundup of studies is largely ones from 2023 (and I don't think any AI detectors from 2023 actually worked), with a few newer ones that nonetheless don't include Pa
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by ameliaquining 20d ago
STT models just turn audio into text, though; they don't interpret what the text means or figure out how to translate it into other representations like function calls. You would use a general-purpose model for that.
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by ameliaquining 20d ago
https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/BFI_WP_2...
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by ameliaquining 20d ago
Pangram says human: https://www.pangram.com/history/a69f9b74-eb46-44b9-a087-7822...
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by ameliaquining 20d ago
"Function calling: The model can delegate complex tasks (such as image generation and file analysis) to other Gemini models via function calls. Currently available in the Gemini macOS app." This confused the heck out of me because
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by ameliaquining 20d ago
My objection has always been that advocates either can't or don't care to explain how such a thing would actually work from the perspective of a unionized engineer.
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by ameliaquining 20d ago
Are the employees supposed to front the capital themselves?
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by ameliaquining 20d ago
Yes, if the tech works but in a way that doesn't let the labs command premium prices for inference, then that also means a crash. But that's a fundamentals-based argument like Marcus's (despite being based in economics rather
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by ameliaquining 20d ago
Pangram confirms: https://www.pangram.com/history/9ccdf6ed-5016-4325-b1ac-b3b0... I find it amusing that even the AI skeptic articles are written with AI these days.
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by ameliaquining 20d ago
Marcus believes that the underlying technology doesn't work. If that's true, then of course the whole thing will crash as soon as everyone realizes this. This article is mostly making a different argument (though it contradicts it
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by ameliaquining 24d ago
This just sounds like land value tax but worse.
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by ameliaquining 25d ago
I consider it basically an accident of history that the first non-research languages to support ADTs were functional. (The first language to have them was actually CLU, which was imperative, but it was a research language.) There isn't
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by ameliaquining 25d ago
The article anticipates and responds to this: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/08/20/stop-making-tuis/#:~:...
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by ameliaquining 27d ago
Non-cooperatively terminating a shared-memory thread is an inherently unsafe thing to do, and basically every runtime that has an API for it regards it as a design mistake. See, e.g., https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8&#x

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