dewarrn1

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by dewarrn1 7d ago
This is a stunning attempt to rewrite history. > It was Levandowski who...had persuaded Google’s leadership to spend millions of dollars inventing self-driving cars. > Some of the biggest fights involved risks that Levandowski was tak
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by dewarrn1 1mo ago
In light of recent news, it is hard not to think about the 4.5-day hack on Hugging Face's systems happening ~10 times faster and be slightly concerned.
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by dewarrn1 2mo ago
It's not quite the same, but your prose clock solution reminded me of this: https://www.authorandco.com/products/author-clock .
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by dewarrn1 4mo ago
If AI writes your code, why fuss about the language it writes in?
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by dewarrn1 5mo ago
I'm hopeful that new efficiencies in training (Deepseek et al.), the impressive performance of smaller models enhanced through distillation, and a glut of past-their-prime-but-functioning GPUs all converge make good-enough open/li
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by dewarrn1 6mo ago
The premise for this research question is related in part to work from Dr. Eleanor Maguire (who I just learned died last year at only 55) and her team on hippocampal anatomy and careers involving spatial navigation, including taxi drivers.
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by dewarrn1 6mo ago
Hail u/cperciva.
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by dewarrn1 6mo ago
If you're not interested in the new sets, the core product is readily available. Moreover, enjoy the fact that you can get that bucket of bricks for cheap partly because the expensive shiny high-margin SKUs provide a subsidy.
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by dewarrn1 7mo ago
$499 through Apple Edu: https://www.apple.com/us-edu/shop/buy-mac/macbook-neo .
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by dewarrn1 7mo ago
The real question: did he have Claude write this for him?
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by dewarrn1 7mo ago
Had the same thought. NASA already cracked this nut with Apollo; if you’re gonna crack it again and differently, be real sure your solution is better.
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by dewarrn1 7mo ago
Tangential, but Darknet Diaries has been running a "hacker history" series to kick off 2026, starting with this one: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/168/ . The "Hackers" movie gets a few cal
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by dewarrn1 8mo ago
Ah, the other AI: Actual Italian. (w/apologies to Davie504)
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by dewarrn1 9mo ago
Presumably with apologies to Steinbeck: “Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist.”
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by dewarrn1 9mo ago
Not your question, but 4xxx-series work seamlessly.
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by dewarrn1 11mo ago
This is a fun example, but now you've got me wondering: has anyone checked on folks who might have been in an Amazon Go store during the outage?
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by dewarrn1 1y ago
Slightly hyperbolic, gpt-image-1 is better on at least a couple of the text metrics.
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by dewarrn1 1y ago
Claude Code is^W^W^WEvery LLM is a slot machine.
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by dewarrn1 1y ago
Yes, it's the Firefox version of Python's GIL.
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by dewarrn1 1y ago
A “dead airspace”, perhaps?
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by dewarrn1 1y ago
It's not my area of expertise, but I have seen other estimates that American adults, especially men, are likely to have and report numbers of friends such that the median is in the single digits.
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by dewarrn1 1y ago
So, in reference to the "reasoning" models that the article references, is it possible that the increased error rate of those models vs. non-reasoning models is simply a function of the reasoning process introducing more tokens in
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A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse(nytimes.com)
35 points by dewarrn1 1y ago|25 comments
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by dewarrn1 1y ago
It sounds like a compelling film. Seeing now that it's produced by Penn & Teller's team, it makes me wonder about this fits into their "juggler vs. magician" dichotomy. The implication of that duo producing the film
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by dewarrn1 1y ago
It's an appealing hypothesis, but there's some compelling evidence to the contrary [0]. I'm not an expert, but this could potentially fall under the heading of pop history or pseudohistory. [0] https://skeptoid.com
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by dewarrn1 1y ago
LTX-Video isn't quite the same quality as Wan, but the new distilled 0.9.6 version is pretty good and screamingly fast. https://github.com/Lightricks/LTX-Video
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by dewarrn1 1y ago
I'm not saying you're wrong about the EFF's support, but I'm not finding a lot of information that says you're right, either. I tend to think of the EFF as generally (not always) being on the right side of issues in
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by dewarrn1 2y ago
A Bond villain.
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by dewarrn1 2y ago
This is a wonderful project. Many thanks to Jan for sharing it. Separately, regarding dementia, it is both less and more complicated than many commenters suggest. From UCSF Neuroscience’s excellent Memory and Aging Center resources: “Dement
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by dewarrn1 2y ago
Thanks!

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