dw_arthur

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by dw_arthur 4d ago
I'm guessing diminishing gains are setting in on training frontier models and the capital isn't there to chase them. Even if OpenAI/Anthropic and Chinese companies said they would slow research nothing can stop the NSA and C
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by dw_arthur 8d ago
Is there a plausible scenario where having 2 weeks of water does anything more than having a weeks worth? I feel like after a week you're either getting evacuated, the government is delivering supplies, or large parts of the country a
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by dw_arthur 17d ago
This annoyed me to the point that I created a python script that could search opencode's database and then a skill that uses the script to find the session I was thinking of. It's nice to be able to say "I think 4 days ago I
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by dw_arthur 19d ago
Not in my experience. Tasks that would normally cost $0.08 on DSV4-Flash have cost me $0.30+ on GLM-5.3-Flash. These costs are after Deepseek's recent increase. Also GLM-5.3-Flash is so slow compared to DSV4-Flash. I would be fine w
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by dw_arthur 1mo ago
Who is going to break it to the Americans that China is more than a slight favorite to win an existential battle over which country is better at math?
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by dw_arthur 2mo ago
I have a feeling the winner didn't think they were going to win or maybe even submitted the poster as a joke.
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by dw_arthur 2mo ago
If I'm really studying a book I'll have an office supply store cut the spine out and make the book spiral bound. It's pretty cheap to do it too, like $10 or something.
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by dw_arthur 3mo ago
It reads like marketing speak is the problem. Why is it written in such a urgent, compelling manner with those short punchy sentences? It may not be AI, but no one writes like that naturally. Maybe the author picked it up from reading a
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by dw_arthur 3mo ago
A camera in 2026 is not the camera of 1996. Cameras today are connected to active and passive monitoring systems which are much more invasive to privacy. What will a camera be able to do in 2036?
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by dw_arthur 3mo ago
You're correct that it is a choice. Flock would barely move the needle on stopping crimes caused by the mentally ill and drug addicted.
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by dw_arthur 3mo ago
The majority of crime is committed by a relatively small number of individuals. If citizens feel crime is out of control they need to vote in politicians and judges who sentence repeat offenders to long sentences or involuntary commitment.
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by dw_arthur 3mo ago
The only thing I want to spend a bunch of extra money on is a nice property and making twice the money would not get me there in what I consider a reasonable amount of time. I'm also not interested in going on an extra two fancy vacat
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by dw_arthur 3mo ago
I don't have a family, so it's manageable. If I had kids there is no way I could work part-time.
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by dw_arthur 3mo ago
My salary has not kept up with inflation over the last 15 years. The industry I am in, which is not related to tech, has undergone massive consolidation leading to 2-3% raises some years and no raises other years.
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by dw_arthur 3mo ago
Paradoxically, inflation has contributed to me taking a sabbatical. While I live in a LCOL area and made ~140k/year it just no longer felt worth it to work as I saw my retirement accounts start to match and exceed my salary in yearly
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by dw_arthur 3mo ago
I assume they are working on low stakes software. Does it really matter if you use an LLM to code a scheduling app for a hair salon or veterinary clinic?
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by dw_arthur 4mo ago
Sounds like internet addiction with new programs/features being the high you chase instead of new tweets, articles, or videos. It's beyond clear that we all need to be cutting back on our computer/screen usage.
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by dw_arthur 4mo ago
I don't understand his audience still being in denial about what is coming. There may not be a job apocalypse but there is a decent chance tough times are ahead. Eventually, his audience may turn into outright Luddites. If that happe
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by dw_arthur 4mo ago
Good news, I was wrong. The discount only applies to Deepseek v4 PRO. Deepseek v4 Flash is not currently on discount which means the dirt cheap price will stay the same.
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by dw_arthur 4mo ago
For my hobbyist purposes Deepseek v4 Flash has replaced Claude Code because I was also sick of hitting 5 hour limits with Claude. Right now, the only thing I miss from Claude is multi-modal image support. I can work around no image suppor
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by dw_arthur 5mo ago
A surveillance state was always inevitable once wireless networking, GPS, and cameras were ubiquitous. If you say this isn't true, show me anywhere in the world with these technologies that is not headed down this path.
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by dw_arthur 5mo ago
Injecting unregulated chemicals into your body is something you may regret in the future. If you inject a Chinese peptide to improve your sleep quality score and three years later you're diagnosed with cancer the inscrutable nature of
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by dw_arthur 5mo ago
We have been since we bound consumption to the internet. All of this was inevitable after that.
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by dw_arthur 6mo ago
LLMs are powerful systems that eventually may be a requirement for being able to economically participate in a large portion of the economy. For this and other reasons it's important that people are able to control their own LLM. Look
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by dw_arthur 6mo ago
Even two or three years ago I had ideas for projects but I could see the models were not ergonomic for my uses. I decided to wait for better models and sure enough the agentic models showed up which are much easier to use. Next thing I&#x2
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by dw_arthur 6mo ago
Throwing an aside here that anyone interested in 1940s war technology must check out the old BBC documentary The Secret War (1977) which goes into depth on solving the engineering challenges of the war.
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by dw_arthur 7mo ago
As someone who has done QA on white collar work it's tiring looking for little errors in work reports. Most people are not cut out for it.
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by dw_arthur 7mo ago
It was okay writing in the context of marketing. A normal person never wrote like that.
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by dw_arthur 7mo ago
Low information density is a big AI tell. Also sheer length is another AI tell. The LLM pukes out a bunch of text and the "author" either doesn't have the skills or energy to edit it.
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by dw_arthur 7mo ago
It should show in decreased revenue for the company you didn't buy the product from. It also should show up at your company either as increased profit margin, increased investment, increase in total employee wages, or increased divide

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