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by davidhs 2mo ago
I recommend trying Codex too. In fact, I recommend running them side-by-side if you have the budget, e.g. have both independently plan the same feature or implement in a different worktree, or have them critique each other's work. I pe
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by davidhs 3mo ago
> Looks like it's going to be a thoroughly frustrating experience, even worse than initial rollout. Honestly, why bother with it? They are effectively just releasing the model in-name, but we just get Opus 4.8.
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by davidhs 8mo ago
Mice have the best drugs.
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by davidhs 8mo ago
There are people interested in overcoming aphantasia (or hypophantasia, an extremely weak form of imagination). Today I have medium-ish hypophantasia, but I remember when I was doing phantasia exercises, in particular "snapshotting&quo
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by davidhs 8mo ago
Maybe if Terence Tao had memorized the entire Internet (and pretty much all media), then maybe he would find bits and pieces of the problem remind him of certain known solutions and be able to connect the dots himself. But, I don't kno
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by davidhs 8mo ago
It looks like these models work pretty well as natural language search engines and at connecting together dots of disparate things humans haven't done.
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by davidhs 9mo ago
> It’s almost certainly not AIs are RLHF'd to have a corporate-pleasing interface w.r.t. metrics.
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by davidhs 10mo ago
The strength of the glasses alters the size of the image that lands on your retinas. More (-) means a smaller image thus you stop seeing movement much closer to the focal point.
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by davidhs 11mo ago
Do you? Don't you just halt and say this is too complex?
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by davidhs 1y ago
If the internal representation of Tesla Autopilot is similar to what the UI displays, i.e. the location of the w.r.t. to everything else, and we had a human whose internal representation is similar, everything jumping around in consciousnes
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by davidhs 1y ago
> Yes machine learning vision systems hallucinate, but so do humans. When was the last time you had full attention on the road and a reflection of light made you super confused and suddenly drive crazy? When was the last time you experie
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by davidhs 1y ago
Honestly, on an iPhone, I wish I could completely mute/disable the Phone app, so when it calls it doesn't overtake whatever you are doing, or just delete it.
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by davidhs 1y ago
> I know they seemed to be trying to temper our expectations leading up to this Before the release of the model Sam Altman tweeted a picture of the Death Star appearing over the horizon of a planet.
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by davidhs 1y ago
LLMs can be useful when you have access to a verifier or verification process.
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by davidhs 2y ago
I recently took a picture of the ingredients list on my multivitamin and fed it into ChatGPT o1-pro (at least that was the config.) and it made up ingredients and messed up the quantities.
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by davidhs 2y ago
What a mess this language is becoming.
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by davidhs 2y ago
Also, everything you publicly write today is just used as AI fodder. :/
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by davidhs 2y ago
Since when did information travel quickly in the brain (compared to the speed of light)?
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by davidhs 2y ago
Sounds like you have hypophantasia. Mind's eye/visualisation/phantasia is not seen through one's physical eyes. From how I've heard people explain it, it's: * (1) Seeing inside your head. * (2) Feels like seein
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by davidhs 2y ago
I tried GPT-4o earlier where I was iteratively asking it to write and in improve a simple JavaScript web app that renders graphs of equations and it had a lot of trouble with substituting slow and ineffecient code with faster code, and at s
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by davidhs 2y ago
Very impressive. Its programming skills are still kind of crappy and I seriously doubt its reasoning capacity. It feels like it can deep fake text prediction really well, but in essence there's still something wrong it it.
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by davidhs 3y ago
This article feels overblown. Is async Rust perfect? No, far from it. It feels like a MVP that Rust's developers have neglected for a while. Hopefully picking up some steam these days with partial implementation of async functions in t
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by davidhs 3y ago
We're becoming (cognitively) obsolete.
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by davidhs 3y ago
The problem I find with parenthesized languages is the amount of visual noise coming from the parentheses. If you're learning how to write your first interpreter or compiler I kind of assume you already know how to program and understa
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by davidhs 3y ago
My suggestion was more for people who are starting out developing a programming language. It's the over-emphasis on the syntax so early on I find to be suboptimal. I also find that slapping on a more human readable or aesthetically ple
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by davidhs 3y ago
After taking a compiler course in uni I found the emphasis on dealing with syntax mostly a waste of time. To begin with, do yourself a favor and use S-expression syntax (like Lisp) for your language. They're dead simple to parse. With
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by davidhs 3y ago
It's kind of like English. English is in some sense a simple language (grammar), a poor mixture of other languages and its orthography is not good (not an elegant language), but everyone speaks it.
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by davidhs 3y ago
The Brits love it.
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by davidhs 4y ago
We all know that natural language communication between people never leads to misunderstanding.
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by davidhs 4y ago
I have lots of eye floaters which annoy me when I'm looking at bright uniform surfaces, such as white paper or white background, but I hardly notice them with dark mode.

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