cainxinth

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Most People Don't Think About Culverts. Their Failure Can Be Deadly(nytimes.com)
19 points by cainxinth 2d ago|5 comments
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by cainxinth 4d ago
Words are cheap, and Altman is a salesman. He’s just staying whatever he needs to say to keep people off his back. I don’t put any stock into this statement whatsoever. He may slow development, or he may not, but whether he does will depend
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by cainxinth 5d ago
It can’t do what he’s trying to do. It can’t one shot a giant project. Not reliably. It still can’t. Not even Astra. Not even close. You need to use LLMs to build the individual components and then put it together yourself. The human archit
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For China, a Mock A.I. Attack on WeChat Signals a Dangerous New Era(nytimes.com)
3 points by cainxinth 5d ago|0 comments
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by cainxinth 7d ago
It's the same story every time OpenAI or Anthropic releases a new model. They are generous with compute for the first few days, and use maximum fidelity with uncompressed weights. Everything runs at its best to make a good first impres
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Investor Who's Convinced That Pokémon Cards Will Be Currency After an Apocalypse(hollywoodreporter.com)
5 points by cainxinth 7d ago|0 comments
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Top Mathematician Announces New Institute for A.I. Safety(nytimes.com)
2 points by cainxinth 7d ago|0 comments
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We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person(mcsweeneys.net)
399 points by cainxinth 8d ago|68 comments
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by cainxinth 9d ago
I’m not an expert at body language, but I think anyone can see she is trying really, really hard to appear friendly and trustworthy. But when someone is trying that hard to convince you they are benign, it makes you suspicious.
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by cainxinth 9d ago
I find the whole Skills.md idea a little silly. We have a technology that struggles to stay within rails due to its inherent makeup. And you think you can fix that by just telling it to? It makes as much sense as the so-called “humanizer” t
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by cainxinth 9d ago
My suggestion is to get a plain old bicycle (not an electric or stationary bike). One hour outdoors on a bike clears away at least a day’s worth of mental detritus for me.
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by cainxinth 10d ago
“It’s better to be lucky than good.” - Lefty Gomez
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Why NASA keeps sending astronauts to a gas station town in Utah(sfgate.com)
2 points by cainxinth 10d ago|0 comments
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Equal Earth Projection(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by cainxinth 11d ago|0 comments
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Poetry book that Anthropic tried to censor(kk.org)
32 points by cainxinth 11d ago|16 comments
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Google told drivers to drive a longer way on purpose(sfgate.com)
5 points by cainxinth 11d ago|1 comments
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FrontierMath Erdős(epoch.ai)
3 points by cainxinth 13d ago|0 comments
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Filmstrips were a classroom mainstay. Now one archivist is racing to save them(popculturalprecursors.com)
1 points by cainxinth 14d ago|0 comments
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by cainxinth 14d ago
Take a random essay and add in a bunch of the phrases that LLMs love like “load-bearing,” “crucial,” structural,” and “woven,” and then submit the original and the edited version to an LLM and ask which is better. It will choose the second
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by cainxinth 15d ago
I looked closely. They are going the wrong way. Still the best one I've seen by a lot.
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by cainxinth 15d ago
> Pompous things like "Your keys, supercharged" or weird yoda-speak stuff like "searches the app remembers"... It's copywriting. They fed these models the internet, which is loaded with it.
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by cainxinth 16d ago
Somewhat related, I’ve long wanted an ereader app that color coded the characters in a novel.
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by cainxinth 16d ago
> It's exactly like vibe coding but for computer tasks. That’s precisely why I don’t use it. LLMs are still not reliable enough for me to trust them with my actual system.
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Azriel Blackman, Airline Mechanic for 80 Years, Dies at 100(nytimes.com)
1 points by cainxinth 16d ago|0 comments
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Too Cheap to Meter(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by cainxinth 17d ago|0 comments
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by cainxinth 17d ago
This is how I proofread. I play a screen reader while I read my work. The brain does some autocorrecting that you don’t even notice and occasionally skips over a typo when you read it without the audio.
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A.I. Brings Big Gains to Hurricane Forecasts, Google Researchers Say(nytimes.com)
5 points by cainxinth 19d ago|0 comments
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The Greatest Short Story Writers of All Time(sinykin.substack.com)
1 points by cainxinth 22d ago|0 comments
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Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout(invertingvision.com)
67 points by cainxinth 26d ago|5 comments
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Coin-Op and Console Game Promo Tapes(brianpeek.com)
2 points by cainxinth 27d ago|0 comments

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