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by anorwell 2mo ago
I had the opposite reaction. Clear, detailed, well-organized. Pretty close to the ideal writeup.
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by anorwell 2mo ago
It was rejected for being wrong (or most charitably, incomplete).
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by anorwell 6mo ago
> I don't understand why the models being a year or two old now is worth noting as though it's a clear weakness? I do think it's a clear weakness. Capabilities are extremely different than they were twelve months ago. >
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by anorwell 6mo ago
A pastime I have with papers like this is to look for the part in the paper where they say which models they tested. Very often, you find either A) it's a model from one or more years ago, only just being published now, or B) they don&
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by anorwell 7mo ago
HN title editorialization completely inaccurate and misleading here.
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by anorwell 9mo ago
What do you think about the METR 50% task length results? About benchmark progress generally?
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by anorwell 9mo ago
https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-com... From my perspective, it's not the worst analogy. In both cases, some people were forecasting an exponential trend into the future and sounding an ala
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by anorwell 9mo ago
The article does not say at any point which model was used. This is the most basic important information when talking about the capabilities of a model, and probably belongs in the title.
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by anorwell 10mo ago
But only in the the tip (nightly) build. I'm somewhat tempted to switch to them for this.
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by anorwell 1y ago
Thanks, makes sense. I found the benchmark src to see it's not fsyncing, so only some of the files will be durable by the time the benchmark is done. The benchmark docs might benefit from discussing this or benchmarking both cases? O_S
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by anorwell 1y ago
Seems like a really interesting project! I don't understand what's going on with latency vs durability here. The benchmarks [1] report ~1ms latency for sequential writes, but that's just not possible with S3. So presumably wr
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by anorwell 1y ago
I think your example reflects well on oss-20b, not poorly. It (may) show that they've been successful in separating reasoning from knowledge. You don't _want_ your small reasoning model to waste weights memorizing minutiae.
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by anorwell 1y ago
Some of the comments so far seem to be misunderstanding this submission. As I understand it: 1. Custom scaffolding (system prompt and tools) using Qwen3-32B achieved 13.75% on Terminal-Bench. No training was involved. 2. The author has buil
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by anorwell 1y ago
This actually intersects with two of my current interests. We have, in production, rarely been seeing ThreadPoolExecutor hangs (JDK17) during shutdown. After a lot of debugging, I've been suspecting more and more that it may be an actu
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by anorwell 1y ago
Nor does a neuron. Argumentum ad populum, I have the impression that most computer scientists, at least, do not find Searle's argument at all convincing. Too many people for whom GEB was a formative book.
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by anorwell 1y ago
Is it any good? Perhaps we can ask Opus to review it to find out.
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by anorwell 1y ago
I am arguing (or rather, presenting without argument) that the Chinese room may be conscious, hence calling it a fallacy above. Not that it _is_ conscious, to be clear, but that the Chinese room has done nothing to show that it is not. Hofs
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by anorwell 1y ago
> LLM just complete your prompt in a way that match their training data. They do not have a plan, they do not have thoughts of their own. It's quite reasonable to think that LLMs might plan and have thoughts of their own. No one und
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by anorwell 1y ago
The article posts a table of latency distributions, but the latencies are simulated based on the assumption that latencies are lognormal. I would be interested to read the article comparing the simulation to actual measurements. The assumpt
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by anorwell 2y ago
Interestingly, there was exactly one example on the page with three Xes, instead of one, for "extra wrong": > User: What is the MD5 hash of the string "gremlin"? > Assistant: `5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d911017c592` Appa
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by anorwell 2y ago
> Putting ~100% weights on 'heads' is a terrible prediction! For a weighted coin, isn't this the optimal strategy in the absence of other information? `p > p^2 + ( 1 − p )^2`.
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by anorwell 2y ago
Not available via the claude.ai web UI. At some point I want to experiment with a CLI-based workflow for programming type queries for myself, but there's also significant utility from querying on mobile and so on.
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by anorwell 2y ago
This has also been my experience so far with a small sample size of side-by-side prompting. Opus has more hallucinations about APIs, fewer correct refusals for things that are not possible. Less likely to understand the nuance behind some q
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by anorwell 3y ago
The longevity people think that blood glucose levels are an important predictor for rate of (biological) aging. See e.g. https://www.lifespan.io/topic/blood-glucose-is-a-biomarker-o...
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by anorwell 3y ago
As a CS degree holder, I got two TN visas, both as a Computer Systems Analyst. This was ~10 years ago. I'm curious if something has changed to make Computer Systems Analyst positions or applications less frequent.
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by anorwell 3y ago
I modified the prompt in the article to ask that it only include books that exist by authors who are real people, and it does much better. By my manual check, every book exists, and the authors are correct with the exception of `Carlo C. Di
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by anorwell 4y ago
This is another indication that LLMs are becoming able to function as general AIs (the term AGI has a lot of baggage). Especially at the end of the real-time feedback video[1] The LLM seems to be acting as the high-level planner, based on t
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by anorwell 4y ago
The article says: > When the Australian cities of Melbourne and Brisbane mandated helmet use, it actually made streets less safe for cyclists. The number of people riding bikes dropped precipitously, which reduced the “Safety in Numbers”
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by anorwell 4y ago
You are more-or-less able to do so, if you want: https://www.shortwave.com/
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by anorwell 5y ago
Using java libraries from scala is very easy. In my experience, there are two reasons why java libraries are either re-written, or more often, wrapped with a wrapper library: - To make library usage more idiomatic in Scala. This usually mea

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