hoosieree

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by hoosieree 6mo ago
"send me your prompts instead"
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by hoosieree 11mo ago
The purpose of a system is what it does.
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by hoosieree 11mo ago
People don't respect the chasm between "obviously no mistakes" and "no obvious mistakes".
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by hoosieree 11mo ago
"You're right, that was your battleship. My bad! Would you like me to launch rockets at another target?"
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by hoosieree 1y ago
Also water. You will be rationed, OpenAI will not. https://www.newstarget.com/2025-08-02-texas-ai-data-centers-...
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by hoosieree 1y ago
This should go without saying but unfortunately it really doesn't these days: This kind of corporate behavior is bad and will end up hurting somebody . If we're lucky the fallout will only hurt Nvidia. More likely it will end u
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by hoosieree 1y ago
0d (parked) - null program easy 1d (train) - easy. just one lever 2d (car) - hard. super hard. why is it so crowded? who thought this was a good idea? you let teenagers do this? 2.5d (plane at takeoff or landing) - almost as hard as car.
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by hoosieree 1y ago
I found building musl easier than uClibc, Xephyr, newlib, or (especially) glibc. Glibc is an Ouroboros of hacks at build time.
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by hoosieree 1y ago
Array languages don't just have shorter tokens, they have fewer of them . A small token set is practical because your language's users can only keep a finite number of things in their working memory. This constraint leads to symb
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by hoosieree 1y ago
I ended up with Emacs and org-mode. One of my friends used Vim and Pandoc to the same effect. I didn't quite have to write my own tool but each new LaTeX template foisted on me was hours of work that could have been spent doing researc
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by hoosieree 1y ago
Or a 4-hour workweek.
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by hoosieree 1y ago
And currently trying in the US too: https://apnews.com/article/ai-regulation-state-moratorium-co... They want to ban states from imposing their own regulations on AI.
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by hoosieree 1y ago
AI also happens to be a perfect scapegoat: CEOs who over-hired get to shift the blame to this faceless boogeyman, and (bonus!) new hires are more desperate/willing to accept worse compensation.
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by hoosieree 1y ago
I never before considered that a password generator could be fun. My mind has been changed. Now I believe they should be fun.
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by hoosieree 1y ago
The error in this argument is that electricity is real .
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by hoosieree 2y ago
They missed one: def agent(data, predicate, fns): ps = map(predicate, data) fs = map(lambda x:fns[x], ps) return map(fs, data) Basically you want to apply one of N functions to each of the items in your data itera
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by hoosieree 2y ago
I like overloading most of the time but prefer specialized syntax for the various conditional idioms. Encapsulating it all in one keyword makes "if" harder to parse.
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by hoosieree 2y ago
The main point I was trying to make is that adding the prompt "think carefully" moves the model toward the "riddle" vector space, which means it will draw tokens from there instead of the original space. And I doubt ther
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by hoosieree 2y ago
My classifier is not very accurate: is_trick(question) # 50% accurate To make the client happy, I improved it: is_trick(question, label) # 100% accurate But the client still isn't happy because if they already knew
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by hoosieree 2y ago
LLMs can't hallucinate. They generate the next most likely token in a sequence. Whether that sequence matches any kind of objective truth is orthogonal to how models work. I suppose depending on your point of view, LLMs either can&#x2
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by hoosieree 2y ago
Video autotune.
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by hoosieree 2y ago
Apparently they can haul 50+ sheets of 4x8 plywood with the door closed (and without removing the seats).
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by hoosieree 2y ago
In the sci-fi series The Expanse, there's a Bezos-style rich tycoon character who flaunts his wealth by purposefully not getting hair treatments and instead allows his male pattern baldness to be on display. He's so rich he can
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by hoosieree 2y ago
Heard of the Jevons paradox?
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by hoosieree 2y ago
I used to work with psychology researchers conducting experiments with wearable cameras. Anything involving human subjects needed IRB approval, informed consent, ethics review, etc. But with essentially any piece of tech you use (not just F
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by hoosieree 2y ago
"Septic Tanks Pumped. Swimming Pools Filled. Not Same Truck."
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by hoosieree 2y ago
The only entities unable to grasp the inherent contradiction between infinite exponential growth in a finite environment are bacteria and venture capitalists.
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by hoosieree 2y ago
Yeah, my list of requirements for self-hosting starts with: 1. battery backup That said, I'm not zealous about it. "Perfect is the enemy of good" and I like ecosystem diversity in general. Better to have a few dozen shared ho
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by hoosieree 2y ago
Human, by a wide margin.
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by hoosieree 2y ago
This struck me as well. There seems to be something magical about finding a good aesthetic within the router's constraints (sharp intersections but rounded line endings). It fits with my theory about why APL's glyphs look "be

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