ekidd

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by ekidd 5d ago
> Those who think it's me or the machine will fail. > Those who realize how much you can accelerate your research with the help of AI will succeed. This is only true up until a point. If I treat a mid-sized model (say, Qwen3.
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by ekidd 6d ago
On the other hand, we have recently taught rocks to think about software engineering. And while not perfect, they're surprisingly good at it. Once you start building things that are even a little bit like minds, I suspect that it&#
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by ekidd 10d ago
Eigenvectors represent fixed directions , not fixed magnitudes . From Wikipedia: > More precisely, an eigenvector v of a linear transformation T is scaled by a constant factor lambda when the linear transformation is applied to it: Tv
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by ekidd 10d ago
> > we should fight for human survival > All problems arise from this statement. Let me go on the record, then: Given a choice between every living human being becoming absolutely, for-real dead and the human species survivin
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by ekidd 10d ago
> * For a section of population who were in a certain age-range when the pandemic hit and that derailed their certain kinds of plans/hopes/dreams in personal life* ... > So I feel a strange kind of relief about this possibi
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by ekidd 15d ago
Yeah, but I understand that fingerprinting is essentially a pseudorandom overlay onto a pseudorandom base signal. And unless you have access to both the random number generators and the weights, I don't think you can detect it? So &q
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by ekidd 16d ago
Yup. Their benchmark appears to consist of giving an agent XLSX files that use advanced Excel features, but no copy of Excel, and expecting the agents to interpret the spreadsheet the same way Excel would. So the agents try LibreOffice inst
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by ekidd 17d ago
Largely because they're residential botnets in places like Brazil (a real example from one of my sites that was crawled to near-destruction). Someone could probably do something about this, but it's out of reach for individual s
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by ekidd 18d ago
Thank you for the clarifications! Someone from Iceland tried to explain this all to me once, and if I understood correctly, it had less to do with the GDP (which also includes money circulating within Iceland) and more to do with the balanc
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by ekidd 18d ago
> The No campaign fears losing control over Iceland's prized fishing grounds under the EU's Common Fisheries Policy and has vowed never to share the country's waters with anyone. Brussels has indicated Iceland could earn
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by ekidd 20d ago
Yeah, this is the problem. If you're on an immigrant visa, working a real job, then you have a life in the US: an apartment or a house, a pile of belongings, maybe a spouse and kids. If you need to leave the country to renew your immig
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by ekidd 22d ago
> That really depends on the model, I run a few models locally. All at speeds comparable to or faster than Opus. Yes, a lot of Qwen3.8 27B setups are actually quite snappy, as long as they fit 100% in VRAM. In my testing, I wouldn&#x27
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by ekidd 23d ago
> AI is the subtrate the future runs on. Current AI can automate significant amounts of grunt work in programming and math. It's good at running web searches and writing summaries. There are a few other niches where it is currentl
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by ekidd 24d ago
> But maybe for a preview look at COBOL, there is huge demand for experience people. Is there? I actually looked into this once, and nearly all the Cobol work I saw mentioned was being outsourced to software consulting companies in Ind
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by ekidd 29d ago
I've done 35,000+ Anki card reviews over the years, and I strongly suspect that most of the obvious and encouraged ways of using Anki are counterproductive. (Full disclosure: The following thoughts are heavily influenced by using Ank
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by ekidd 1mo ago
I think the biggest change from the Netflix prize days is that their catalog went away. Back in the DVD era, they had everything . And in the very early streaming era, they still had a huge number of things to watch. But their current cata
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by ekidd 1mo ago
> If what you're saying is true and accurate, then US-based AI labs are in big trouble. I've been working with DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731. I'd say that it's maybe not quite as smart as Opus 4.5, but it's willing
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by ekidd 1mo ago
Google's public AI model lineup is pretty bad right now. Gemini 3.1 Pro is scoring worse than some mid-sized Chinese models at 1/20th the cost, and their Flash and Flash Light models are horrendously overpriced on task benchmarks
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by ekidd 1mo ago
> Well, if no body can say when it will pop, then can we really say it's a bubble and it's overvalued? Well, given the literal trillions being spent, the only ways this pays off are: 1. AI replaces a non-trivial fraction of h
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by ekidd 2mo ago
> Note that they would also need to keep the economy alive because somebody has to pay them money. They can't let everybody to go unemployed. Well, that's why they want the robots! If your robots are capable enough, and if yo
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by ekidd 2mo ago
What I actually fear is more subtle: I already do a fair bit of project management and technical leadership. I could do more. Sure, I'd miss the coding, but I also enjoy a lot of the stuff around it. But the goal is to expand what the
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by ekidd 2mo ago
Is anyone using even a tiny on-device language model for spelling? For grammar, I could almost imagine it. But this also bans "simple" AI-powered auto-complete, like Zed's Zeta2 model. This is a very conservative model that r
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by ekidd 2mo ago
For values of "usable" that include "14.6 seconds/token". It's a cool accomplishment! And newer hardware would speed it up some. But I think I'd want something a bit faster before declaring it usable in pr
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by ekidd 2mo ago
Well, since you "freelance using GPT" and you expressed concern that you'd stop being able to make a profit if you had to pay API prices, I figured that swapping an off-the-shelf graphics card into a gaming rig might be a rea
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by ekidd 2mo ago
You're unlikely to ever be priced out of tokens, at least if you'd be willing to settle for a model closer to Sonnet 4.5. That level of model certainly isn't as efficient as Fable 5, but it can crank out CRUD apps and other c
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by ekidd 2mo ago
Still, this is not a bad situation overall. If you are forced to trust the C compiler to correctly compile C, and the hardware to correctly implement the instructions in the documentation, well, you're already forced to trust both of t
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by ekidd 2mo ago
> My experience so far, has been that it's barely a junior dev. At least on greenfield projects, Fable is more like having an endless succession of fly-by senior devs who lock themselves in an office for a week, and who come back wi
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by ekidd 2mo ago
When I learned French as an adult, I pushed myself heavily into "forced immersion", avoiding English completely for long periods of time as my French slowly built itself up. This almost entirely silenced my inner monologue in Engl
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by ekidd 2mo ago
DeepSeek has published some really good papers. Lately they're pushing really hard for dramatically cheaper serving costs.
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by ekidd 2mo ago
> Especially for point #1 I don't think we've established that - we've been given information by a private company that makes their tooling look extremely valuable which may be true and genuine or may just be yet another

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