jimmaswell

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by jimmaswell 7d ago
> At this point, what do the words even mean? Your own patience and available time are always completely random and fairly distributed across a large enough data set? Predicting the time a task will take is impossible. Something that sou
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by jimmaswell 7d ago
Programming before AI was always variable reward. It was a gamble against your own time and patience. Maybe I'd waste hours down the wrong rabbit holes trying to find a library that worked for my use case. Maybe I'd waste a day
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by jimmaswell 8d ago
You can still ask a general model to do that and it will probably have a nearly full success rate at this point. Either a good open weights or something like Astra.
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by jimmaswell 9d ago
This entire comment section is almost entirely people bemoaning AI output, calling AI a "slop machine", and you posted your regressive religious screed against it as if it were something to be proud of, seemingly to the approval o
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by jimmaswell 9d ago
Did I imply you did? I simply said I never see a "pro AI" mob, only an "anti AI" mob.
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by jimmaswell 10d ago
I'm admittedly no Latin expert, so I can't give an authoritative answer, but the translation was actually arrived at on a forum where the author asked for help, and I can see someone asked the same question: https://www
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by jimmaswell 10d ago
Repetition can make a good impact, but it's beyond excessive in this instance. Contrast with this poem: Non est salvatori salvator, neque defensori dominus, nec pater nec mater, nihil supernum. Translated: No
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by jimmaswell 10d ago
I find this and the parent comment highly relatable with the caveat that I also find it extremely intuitive and rewarding to get good outputs from quality LLM's like Sol or Astra, and I haven't had any trouble with "flow stat
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by jimmaswell 10d ago
I can't see how you could apply "minimalist" to that excerpt. It's maximalist, hammering the same point over and over and over when one or two examples with a little more worldbuilding per example would have done better
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by jimmaswell 10d ago
I like books but I don't find KJV's writing style engaging at all. The Hobbit was much better IMO
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by jimmaswell 11d ago
This could be shortened to "success does not belong to the skillful, for time and chance befalls all" with no meaning lost. It's self-indulgent fluff. Meanwhile, Orwell's actually adds more to the statement - much better
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by jimmaswell 11d ago
The second one was very clear and to the point. Parsing it was rewarded with instant understanding and I enjoyed the word choice. The first one was just annoying; I could tell it was just listing a bunch of pointless analogies to try to mak
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by jimmaswell 13d ago
It seems to use less than half the tokens for the same task compared to sol, and in some benchmarks closer to 2/3 less tokens. So the actual cost may be roughly the same or cheaper overall.
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by jimmaswell 14d ago
"I don't want to share my ideas in case someone might benefit from them" is a strange attitude for an academic.
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by jimmaswell 14d ago
Years before gen AI took off, when I wrote internet-facing prose or code, I thought "even if nobody reads this, maybe some AI will read it some day and find it useful, so I should still make it accurate", never expecting such a da
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by jimmaswell 18d ago
I use LLM's to make massive structural changes I never would have done by hand all the time. It's intractably tedious for me but easy for an LLM.
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by jimmaswell 19d ago
https://github.com/ldyeax/TerminalEmuSuite/blob/main/README.... Here you go, just finished getting it all together. I do plan to add the game stuff here relatively soon - I'm just saving it for a ce
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by jimmaswell 20d ago
Ok? This is a total non-sequitur.
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by jimmaswell 20d ago
This idea has failed to pan out time and time again - people have an instinct that hand-crafted finely-tuned specialized AI systems must be optimal, but throwing more scale and compute to something more generally smart always wins out. It&#
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by jimmaswell 20d ago
How close was my guess?
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by jimmaswell 20d ago
Depends what you mean by "upstream". It would probably be inefficient to force the model to use more human-readable wording in its internal thinking traces, while translating a block of text at the end is a pretty trivial task for
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by jimmaswell 20d ago
Is that an actual Claude output or hyperbole? It feels like I'm trying to parse an equation in a new math class which makes me want to take a stab at it regardless. So there's a "fibred side".. the most likely candidate
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by jimmaswell 20d ago
> the argument effectively ‘makes itself’ What argument? I don't know what to take away other than "Claude likes certain words". Some of them are kind of amusing, but I'm not convinced the vocabulary is bad or that th
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by jimmaswell 20d ago
Right, but the comparison isn't perfect here because wall height is linear in the analogy, but searching for exploits in an existing piece of code reaches a point where either there are none left to find, or finding the next exploit wo
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by jimmaswell 22d ago
There will be a plateau at some point, if not 12 then something.
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by jimmaswell 23d ago
I can only see LLM's forcing a perpetual stalemate for application exploits. Projects will start adding "tell the strongest no-guardrails open weights model to pentest it for 12 hours" to their CICD pipelines. Technical explo
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by jimmaswell 24d ago
Let me get this straight: the source of your expertise on multivitamins and vitamin D is HackerNews articles, which makes you more qualified than the average physician, and you're accusing others of Dunning-Kruger?
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by jimmaswell 24d ago
> i'm not sure why people expect agents to one shot everything to perfection with just a prompt. They do often enough that it's not a surprising event, depending on prompt quality, context available, ability for the result to b
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by jimmaswell 24d ago
"Self-medicating" with a standard multivitamin is harmless at worst, and so is additional vitamin D supplementation if it's not in the extreme over a long period of time. It has a nonzero chance of helping, and it's a ch
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by jimmaswell 25d ago
Max and Ultra are fantastic for the more complex problems where they shine. I use them strategically on certain classes of problems, one or the other depending how parallelizable it is. I've found it consistently amazing at game dev. I

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