crackalamoo

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by crackalamoo 17d ago
An raw LLM no, but given code execution it can do a good job. I had my Claude Sonnet write a sonnet in this form after 14 rounds of iteration with Python: The autumn wind moves slow across the field, and every falling leaf now yields its fi
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by crackalamoo 3mo ago
I love this, easy intuitive explanation
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by crackalamoo 3mo ago
I find it works as focus when the tasks are all related/in the same repo. Not the same as single-task flow state of old style coding, but also still a kind of flow
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by crackalamoo 4mo ago
Interesting, how common is this vs just unit testing? How do you avoid formally verifying something against a spec that could subtly fail in production?
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Show HN: Interactive first-principles climate physics simulation with explainer(earth.crackalamoo.com)
2 points by crackalamoo 4mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Interactive first-principles climate physics simulation with explainer(earth.crackalamoo.com)
1 points by crackalamoo 5mo ago|0 comments
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by crackalamoo 5mo ago
This is super fun! Very elegant idea Has anyone done this for larger neural nets? Is there a way to extract some kind of pattern or is the image just noise no matter how you construct it? I'd be curious to see something like that
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by crackalamoo 10mo ago
Isn't this kind of the same as an AI copilot, just with higher autonomy? I think the limiting factor is that the AI still isn't good enough to be fully autonomous, so it needs your input. That's why it's still in copilot
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by crackalamoo 10mo ago
This seems like a solvable engineering problem. For example, you could have a lightweight subagent with its own context for reading the skills and determining which to use
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by crackalamoo 10mo ago
I also use pure HTML and CSS (and a touch of hand-written JavaScript)
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by crackalamoo 10mo ago
I'm a little skeptical of AEO. What's the point if AI users just ask the LLM to retrieve the information and never visit your blog? I almost never click the links ChatGPT gives me Maybe it makes sense if you're selling a prod
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by crackalamoo 10mo ago
My two cents: if you're not doing anything too political or controversial, it's fine or even beneficial to mix in the occasional personal essay with the professional. After all, many of your readers are also human beings with live
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by crackalamoo 11mo ago
I make heavy use of the "temporary chat" feature on ChatGPT. It's great whenever I need a fresh context or need to iteratively refine a prompt, and I can use the regular chat when I want it to have memory. Granted, this isn&#
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by crackalamoo 11mo ago
Grade inflation is common at many schools. And many difficult technical classes grade on a curve, sometimes to the point where you can get an A with an 85%. But yeah, I still don't see how an 85% average would be a 4.0.
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by crackalamoo 1y ago
Why is dependence on LangChain an issue? Not that I disagree necessarily, just wondering if there's a consensus that LangChain is too opinionated/bloated/whatever for real industry applications, or if there's some other
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by crackalamoo 1y ago
The recent Apple paper seemed pretty flawed. Anthropic/Open Philanthropy did a rebuttal paper, The Illusion of the Illusion of Thinking. > Do they reason? No. (Before you complain, please first define reason). Defining reasoning is
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by crackalamoo 1y ago
Not sure how tools like Cursor work under the hood, but this seems like an easy model context engineering problem to fix.
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by crackalamoo 1y ago
I agree. And if human civilization survives, your concerns about energy and resources will be only short term on the scale of civilization, especially as we make models more efficient. The human brain uses just 20 watts of power, so it seem
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by crackalamoo 1y ago
I agree humans only rarely step outside the circle, but I do have this intuition that some people sometimes do, whereas LLMs never do. This distinction seems important over long time horizons when thinking about LLM vs human work. But I can
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by crackalamoo 1y ago
Yeah, unfortunately I feel like despite all the advances in Unicode tech, my modern terminal (MacOS) still bugs out badly with emojis and certain special characters. I'm not sure how/when codepoints matter for wcwidth: my terminal
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by crackalamoo 1y ago
Yes, 100% this. And even more so for reasoning models, which have a different kind of RL workflow based on reasoning tokens. I expect to see research labs come out with more ways to use RL with LLMs in the future, especially for coding. I f
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by crackalamoo 1y ago
I use /foo/bar/ with the trailing slash because it works better with relative URLs for resources like images. I could also use /foo/bar/index.html but I find the former to be cleaner
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Someone using AI won't take your job. AI will(harysdalvi.com)
2 points by crackalamoo 1y ago|0 comments
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by crackalamoo 1y ago
I don't think this article is paywalled? You can just click "I'll do it later" on the banner
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Better at everything: how AI could make human beings irrelevant(theguardian.com)
2 points by crackalamoo 1y ago|2 comments
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LLMs Do Not Predict the Next Word(harysdalvi.com)
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A Brief History of Évariste Galois(youtube.com)
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by crackalamoo 2y ago
To some extent, AI needs less extensive teaching than the problem-solving skills taught in school because it works in natural language anyways and builds off whatever else you know. You can easily talk to an AI about CS if you know CS, or e
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by crackalamoo 2y ago
I made a custom GPT of myself using my blog. It understood who I am, but wasn't able to replicate me very well, and mostly sounded like generic ChatGPT with some added interest in my interests. I would imagine fine tuning with enough d
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by crackalamoo 2y ago
I think standardizing scientific terms and the like is a very minor concern when it comes to preserving endangered languages. Most science is done in English anyways, and that's unlikely to change.

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