argee

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by argee 14d ago
I'm just trying to explain why people are posting what they are posting. E.g. "likely from a stress tolerance so shallow and under-developed that the slightest inconvenience or expectation feels like a crisis" stems partly fr
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by argee 14d ago
> the gist of the post is "do something because you feel like doing it, not because you feel like you have to." and "the goal is to just do your own thing.". So basically, a main character life, the life of a player.
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by argee 14d ago
> The idea that optimization matters less over time is short-term thinking. The more you think about things and the deeper you investigate, the closer you get to realizing that most aphorisms, advice, and even "facts" are a com
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by argee 14d ago
I do turn thinking off most of the time for both models. I made a separate comment detailing my use cases.
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by argee 14d ago
Wow, that's just about half the perf. I'm not sure what you're doing differently, though our hardware is a bit different: I am on a Macbook Pro M4 Pro, while you're on a Mac Mini. I would try a different version of the m
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by argee 15d ago
Some examples (keep in mind this is all indefinitely free for me, no burning quota away): 1. Getting information (such as information about hardware unfamiliar to me) when not connected to the internet, which happens occasionally in my case
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by argee 15d ago
I have an M4 pro (48 GB ram) and I run Gemma 4 26b a4b at 52 tok/s and Qwen 3.5b a3b at 72 tok/s. Both 4bit quantized. These are enough for my needs and the performance is more than good enough. I'm not running the MLX versio
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by argee 16d ago
Isn't that begging the question? For one, people can wear a lion headdress, making it something that does exist in real life. Secondly, it seems to be carved from a single tusk, which might have forced some choices when it comes to ana
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by argee 16d ago
Or as one might say, predictably irrational.
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by argee 25d ago
> I kinda feel that this person makes a lot of noise in this website. This person pretty much lives on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=simonw Personally I do think that people with huge amounts of karma contribu
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by argee 27d ago
Part of being smart is being able to diagnose certain ideas as dogmatic, which is far more than can be expected from most. "Most people would die sooner than think—in fact, they do so" — Bertrand Russell
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by argee 1mo ago
My bad, the English word I had in mind was "technology" (技術) but I misremembered due to feeling like "tech" should be its own token.
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by argee 1mo ago
Read this. https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/ > We retired the “Nerdy” personality in March after launching GPT‑5.4. In training, we removed the goblin-affine reward signal and filtered train
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by argee 1mo ago
> Anyway, you might have more luck just writing to it in your native language. This is potentially expensive advice (at least for many mainstream options). Where an English word like "literature" is one token, a couple of Chine
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by argee 1mo ago
Back when I interviewed at MS as a college senior, I had no clue about these "formats". So when someone asked me how I would make (I think they meant design) a web crawler, I started writing one in Python. They didn’t stop me, and
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by argee 2mo ago
I feel like having such a map at all is kind of antithetical to building community. Shows you don't care enough to take a stroll in your 'hood to find such a one by happenstance (or to find neighbors to populate yours) and are hun
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by argee 2mo ago
The only widely publicized AI orchestrated cyberattack in recent memory came from a closed-weight model, and the only widely publicized defense from said attack came from an open-weight Chinese model. What do you make of that? > I don’t
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by argee 2mo ago
Yes, anything that was statically lit was fine. The game had absurdly low graphics requirements for modern standards, but even so I didn't have a GPU, just integrated graphics. So hacking the game to not render dynamically lit items wa
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by argee 2mo ago
I had similar situations in my youth, I have fond memories of hacking games up so they'd work without the 3D models. You haven't lived until you've played Mafia only being able to see the player's shadow beating up the t
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by argee 2mo ago
More sensibly, their insurance could just toss a clause in and charge higher premiums to cover for this, while adding some conditions to help prevent it.
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by argee 2mo ago
Sorry, this discussion is too incommensurable for me.
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by argee 2mo ago
Depends. "Most" implies majority, and the majority of people are using these tools not for programming but in contexts where ontology is more relevant than capability (not that capability is irrelevant, but most people care, or ar
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by argee 2mo ago
Exactly. They ARE "glorified autocomplete" in an ontological sense. That says nothing about capability or outcome. The people who come out swinging against that characterization usually ignore the whole ontological argument (whi
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by argee 2mo ago
Good thing we have you here to be a stellar role model based on how you responded.
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by argee 2mo ago
Great products are made through interaction with humans. Products like this one have barely had interaction with their creator, let alone early customers, and get foisted upon us with the expectation that we will happily download and execut
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by argee 2mo ago
Don't be on HN then? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated > Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation between humans.
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by argee 2mo ago
There's a difference between getting a tool to translate what you've written (a la Google translate), and getting an LLM to generate content. If you don't see that difference, we'll have to agree to disagree.
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by argee 2mo ago
What would you have done pre-LLM? Do that. It's better. Because "English isn't my first language so i used AI to clean up the writing" translates to "I don't respect an English speaking audience." And if y
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by argee 2mo ago
Hate beating a dead horse but I just found this again. [0] Ctrl/Cmd + F for "worst mistake". [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html
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by argee 2mo ago
How foolish, explaining succinctly. I don’t see a Substack writing career in your future.

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