ghoul2

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by ghoul2 6d ago
I would say ALL of science, not just "much" of it. The difference between math and science is that in science, hard reality is the bottom line. No matter how good your model, how much data you have, what p values you get against s
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by ghoul2 8d ago
The traffic still has to flow from an india provider to the international leg and back via the domestic provider. In anycase, then they should document it clearly that they have unacceptable insertion latency in india and the free plan is e
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by ghoul2 8d ago
I also believed that, but at least for India, this doesn't work in practice. Unless you atleast do the 25$ pro plan, cloudflare routes even india-to-india, hell, even mumbai-to-mumbai and aws_mumbai-to-cloudflare_mumbai traffic via Mar
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by ghoul2 14d ago
This seems a worsening that seems to have started at Opus 4.8. When I (was forced to) switched from 4.7 to 4.7, I noticed that 4.8 had a very strong bias against viewing tool output or reading files. It ALWAYS wanted to 'grep' th
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by ghoul2 18d ago
if sqldump isn't a backup, what is?
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by ghoul2 19d ago
Exactly. I am now looking at 9 to 10x the app code, for non trivial stuff. And this is not just the usual unit/integration/e2e suites too. Extensive deadcode, field use, code shape tests (ast walking) - god objects, 15-param helpe
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by ghoul2 20d ago
> Lint rules, type errors, commit lint, anything These are basic: they work for human coders and are typically quick to setup. But gates at this level are far from enough for agentic coding. You need an extensive test suite/e2e suit
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by ghoul2 20d ago
The problem, in my experience is: 1. It writes SO MUCH code, in minutes, that theres no way I as a human can review it. 2. I am not very motivated to read/review this code anyway: it was cheaply written, by some _thing_ that is not goi
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by ghoul2 27d ago
Isn't it an age old maxim: democratic governments should remember to not build tools/give them selves powers that they won't want the opposition to be able to use WHEN they come to power.
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by ghoul2 1mo ago
I just had claude write me a statusline: https://gist.github.com/abgoyal/bde7af4ba0ba4d19094361667dac... Shows the 5h and weekly usage %, when it resets, current model, estimated spend in the session, context used, cwd
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by ghoul2 2mo ago
India really has very deep penetration of 5g, and at very low cost. There might be a rare place that starlink might be needed but really I cannot image starlink having much consumer/retail uptake in india. Not needed, and too expensive
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by ghoul2 3mo ago
There is a hilarious one in the Indian direct tax (Income tax) code right now: If your (taxable) income is less than 7L (inr), no tax is assessed. If your income is greater than 7L, but upto 12L, tax is assessed, but a tax _rebate_ (a disco
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How to Think About AI in Your Product(abgoyal.com)
1 points by ghoul2 4mo ago|0 comments
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by ghoul2 4mo ago
Recently, banks where also asked to put their official websites/netbanking on *.bank.in domains. I have wanted that for SO long.
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How to Think About AI in Your Product(abgoyal.com)
1 points by ghoul2 4mo ago|0 comments
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by ghoul2 5mo ago
Isn't that exactly what gvisor does?
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by ghoul2 6mo ago
Its a fantastic project, but seems almost inactive now. I have a tiny PR pending for weeks, even reviewed, but not merged. I have another patch I have not submitted as I want to first navigate the earlier PR to completion. Both were bugs th
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by ghoul2 7mo ago
Honestly, I am vastly more interested in how they built the model: its not backprop-trained, it was done manually. And how did that bug find its way it? I hope they next blog about that.
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by ghoul2 7mo ago
I long time ago, I was operating a "social network" which allowed image uploads. (India local, didn't amount to much as was shutdown.). Immediately at launch, we started having a huge amount of (image) pron being uploaded int
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by ghoul2 9mo ago
As a RA-ship student in the US, I still had taxed withheld on my meager grad student "salary", and was required to file a 1040NR-EZ. I obviously did not want to spent 50$ at H&R block, to claim like 200$ back. Fortunately the
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by ghoul2 10mo ago
When I lived in the US(5 yrs), early 2000s, from my second year onwards, I used to receive a pre-filled 1040NR-EZ with my W2 info already printed/filled-in on it. Typically, I would just add a deduction, and mailed it back. Does that p
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by ghoul2 11mo ago
I have always counted to 20 on one hand. even as a kid. base, lower joint, upper joint, top. times 5 - including the thumb: my motor memory is trained so that i switch seamlessly from keeping the curse on top of the finger using my thumb, a
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by ghoul2 11mo ago
I asked this question on another post and was downvoted, trying again: don't we lose the "contextualization" that LLM embeddings do (embedding on Token X contains not just information about X, but also of all tokens that came
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by ghoul2 11mo ago
But does this not miss the "context" that the embeddings of the text tokens carry? An LLM embedding of a text token has a compressed version of the entire preceding set of tokens that came before it in the context. While the image
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by ghoul2 11mo ago
Isn't this "as intended" in the westminster-style system? The govt is formed by MPs from the majority party (or alliance). By definition they MUST be able to pass ALL money bills, which only require a simple majority. Any fai
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by ghoul2 11mo ago
well, Jio (Indias largest ISP, with ~300M customers) has cloudflare r2 blocked. And for a while even. I am sure its due to some bucket serving out pirated movies, but this is a bit insane. And neither Jio nor Cloudflare seem to want to figu
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by ghoul2 1y ago
Father passed away today morning. At least he is not suffering anymore. I don't know why I am posting this here. Just a tribute, maybe. He was born to poor parents, and the eldest of 7 children. His father could never have paid for his
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by ghoul2 1y ago
Meh. Rocks are a feature, not a product.
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by ghoul2 1y ago
I don't agree. At all. My father is right now in a very bad state: he can't recognize me, doesn't know if he is at home or in the hospital, is being fed thru a tube, and entirely dependent. He no longer has the mental ability
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by ghoul2 1y ago
Thats how it works in India. All authorized repeating charges ("mandates") are listed on a portal maintained by the card issuer. you can go in anytime and simply cancel the mandate from there. This is mandatory under banking regul

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