code_biologist

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by code_biologist 6d ago
YouTube is infested with lede burying as well. I hate it.
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by code_biologist 8d ago
Opus 4.7/4.8/5 have a built-in nitpicking as anti-syphcophancy. Fable too. The models are structurally incapable of not nipicking. I suspect the nitpicking helps engagement metrics and it doesn't harm RLVF outcomes, so there&
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by code_biologist 8d ago
There's no physical reason "smartest/most capable model" should be "most yappy model". Smart people can write concisely. It's unfortunate you have to tolerate/fight yappiness to get intelligence with
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by code_biologist 16d ago
The acrylic will set. Water will indefinitely reactivate gum arabic binder paints (gouache, watercolor) including a wet brush full of acrylic. The watercolor will move and blend with your acrylic. Nifty if it's what you intend, annoyin
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by code_biologist 17d ago
Sublime work OP. Love the sheen control, the glossy coffee. Since they're clearly a warhammer 40k fan, a recent discovery of mine for mini painting: artist gouache or artist watercolor are awesome for pin-lining and recess shading the
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by code_biologist 18d ago
Steve Krug's other book, Rocket Surgery Made Easy, got me into usability tests with real users, and how to get it in place in a corporate environment. It's shocking to watch real users use software.
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by code_biologist 25d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Hamas In a cable leaked by WikiLeaks in 2010, Amos Yadlin, former general of the Israeli Air Force, said in 2007 that Israel would be "happy" if Hamas take o
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by code_biologist 28d ago
The personality of the underlying model persists even if you're able to alter surface tone enough for your needs. An observation from a year ago: people on AI text RPG subreddits saying they had a lot of difficulty with Gemini role pla
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by code_biologist 29d ago
The submitted headline dangerously distorts an evidenced claim to the point of falsehood.
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by code_biologist 29d ago
It does not seem likely that he booked it under the Flock room block. The text of the screenshotted email: "called on my behalf and canceled my hotel reservation that I personally made on Hilton's website. They also have not refu
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by code_biologist 1mo ago
The looksmaxxing thing is a real reason mastic gum as a jaw workout is promoted. Won't deny that. My use of it comes from early 2010s era paleo-food community observations about hunter gatherers having less crowded jaws than agricultur
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by code_biologist 1mo ago
I started chewing mastic gum a few years ago as a jaw-shape maintenance measure. An encouragement for anyone who's curious about it: I like the taste and stiff texture of mastic more than normal gum these days.
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by code_biologist 2mo ago
Thank you for the report and the empathy! Insurance is a mixed bag. Great if they pay for a $4k oral appliance. Not great if them paying for a CPAP is conditional on hitting the initial usage compliance targets, or they dictate specific mac
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by code_biologist 2mo ago
What machine and mask do you have? I had a bad CPAP experience 2017ish and navigating sleep apnea treatment with ADHD kinda sucks. I got a recent sleep study done, but the doctor's office seems like a sales farm for a specific CPAP bra
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by code_biologist 2mo ago
I do mean "grounding" as seeking the primary source of information by hand as my sibling commenter said. If an LLM says something about history, have it give you source documents so that you can verify. If it says Earth's gra
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by code_biologist 2mo ago
Writing and videos produced before 2022 are the information equivalent of low-background steel (steel produced before the atom bomb era). Not all are precious, but they are important. AI influences are so pervasive at this point, even in in
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by code_biologist 3mo ago
My SO is on the spectrum and likes to align cups and things along the edges of tables. I ask her not to be an edgelord in the most egregious cases, but I've also gotten better at not stressing over "it's on the edge". Th
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by code_biologist 3mo ago
This isn't enough for me as 82kg mid 30s man. I will lean out by 3-5 kilos and lose strength for lifting weights. What fats do you put on your potatoes + asparagus + vegetables, plus cooking fats for the meats? No idea how many cals &q
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by code_biologist 3mo ago
I agree that never having the argument take place textually is important for LLM performance and behavior. I still think we’re investing the same time and intellectual energy arguing with the model, in going back and restructuring context a
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by code_biologist 3mo ago
So you take action and put in more effort to cater to the LLM to get it to do what you want, but it's not arguing because there's no record of it in the chat? Presumably you put in what you would have written in the counter-argume
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by code_biologist 3mo ago
I've seen exactly this behavior on claude.com with no system prompt with Opus 4.8 specifically, especially around chronic illness stuff where there's established mainstream medicine dogma and reddit / internet communities wit
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by code_biologist 3mo ago
Once it's in this loop, Opus 4.8 digs in so aggressively it's structurally incapable of conceding a provided detail as correct, even if it's conceded and agreed with everything backing that detail. Like actually, structurally
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by code_biologist 3mo ago
How difficult it is to resist "someone is wrong on the internet" is a perennial joke. Turns out it doesn't really matter who/what is on the other side if they seem human-like.
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by code_biologist 3mo ago
Andrea Vallone. The 4.7 and 4.8 releases are the first under her influence: https://www.evernever.org/blog/the-woman-who-killed-claude
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by code_biologist 3mo ago
What? I just want to share cat pics, video clips, and memes with my friends and respond to their stuff with not-inline emojis.
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by code_biologist 3mo ago
It's been interesting to see how aggressively some reasoning models like to "reason" by analogy. They love to say things like "it's like a CPU" or "it's like a highway", and then they start to ma
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by code_biologist 3mo ago
Yes, the noise pollution is insane. Benn Jordan's YT video "Datacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons" is an insightful, scary 30 min video covering the datacenter infrasound noise, and the nasty things infrasound does to pe
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by code_biologist 3mo ago
Your language is ambiguous — your horror is in reference to natural gas turbine generators (used at these installations) and not gasoline generators (like in a home context)? Why the horror? I'd prefer the gas remain in the ground, but
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by code_biologist 3mo ago
I'll admit that I miss having access to the ChatGPT 4.5 "absolutely gigantic model" with enough tuning to make it sane and useful. The RLVR models are superb for actual tasks in those RLVR domains, but that fine tuned view of
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by code_biologist 3mo ago
They're also obviously fine with breaking eggs to make an omelette. Given their history, they seem to regard breaking eggs as the goal, and making an omelette as an afterthought.

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