lachlan_gray

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by lachlan_gray 14d ago
In old school ML a pathological solution is often a collapse of some kind due to an underspecified objective. Maybe one parameter explodes or the model predicts "0" for everything I read this as "the code is working as intend
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by lachlan_gray 15d ago
For anyone like me who finds theory a little dense, you can prepend "quick" to an arxiv link to get a blogpost-style summary e.g. quickarxiv.org/abs/2608.29530
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by lachlan_gray 2mo ago
Ha! Never looked into :r, but I certainly will now
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by lachlan_gray 2mo ago
Funny, I was really impressed with how concise and goal oriented the directions are! I would have done better in uni if the lab manuals were written like this
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by lachlan_gray 3mo ago
I think they were doing something like this, the tradeoff is that it's hard to do without an irritating number of false positives and/or wasting loads of precious tokens on useless audits.
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by lachlan_gray 3mo ago
Yes, so many times I've been jumpscared by work-related audio in my playlists because of this
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by lachlan_gray 3mo ago
Almost too much so, it often feels like opus is pushing back for the sake of pushing back. The way old models used to add disclaimers to every message regardless of content
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by lachlan_gray 5mo ago
Tangential, but made me think of this YouTube channel I like. I have no plans to own a tractor but for some reason many others and I enjoy videos like this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pQO-pVxvKvA
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by lachlan_gray 5mo ago
Robotics/control systems is exactly what came to mind when I saw this release! What struck me is the possibility of look ahead search in real time, a bit like alphazero's mcts.
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by lachlan_gray 6mo ago
Mentioned elsewhere, but :term claude In a split goes a long way for me!
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by lachlan_gray 6mo ago
Ymmv, but I have been very happy using classic vim’s “native claude support” :term claude It will also expand special characters so you can do something like :term claude “refactor %” And Claude starts work on your current file right away.
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by lachlan_gray 6mo ago
According to this, notifications are possible if you add the app to the home screen, which I didn't know. A feature more devs should use- I've been surprised how much websites behave like native apps if you just "add to homes
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by lachlan_gray 6mo ago
Not sure about the ssd in particular but the neo is apparently pretty modular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k7Lv7f-5CQ
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The Biggest Identity Sandpiles and How to Compute Them(eavan.blog)
1 points by lachlan_gray 6mo ago|0 comments
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by lachlan_gray 7mo ago
Another crazy one is SectorLISP, 223 lines of asm https://justine.lol/sectorlisp2/
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by lachlan_gray 7mo ago
fwiw there are more granular controls, where you can for example allow/deny specific bash commands, read or write access to specific files, using a glob syntax: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings#permiss
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by lachlan_gray 8mo ago
Does this mean I get to take a cut for assisting their training data?
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by lachlan_gray 9mo ago
Earlier this year moving home to Canada, instead of flying I bought a van in California and drove it back with all my stuff. I was taken aback to learn my dad did the exact same thing at my age!
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by lachlan_gray 9mo ago
What I meant is, assuming that they do find solutions. If they're not doing anything of course that's different. In the article, "speed" is about reaching specific answers in a specific window of time, the bane of ADHD.
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by lachlan_gray 9mo ago
I think part of the message is that speed isn't a free lunch. If an intelligence can solve "legible" problems quickly, it's symptomatic of a specific adaption for identifying short paths. So when you factor speed into te
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by lachlan_gray 10mo ago
I think what you're describing is a form of conflict aversion, where the (tiny) conflict is what would clear up your read, or the group's attitude on something, for going forward. Short sighted kindness is a nice way to put it
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Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)(britneyspears.ac)
286 points by lachlan_gray 10mo ago|87 comments
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by lachlan_gray 1y ago
They have helped me a lot with chunking tasks, and guiding me through tasks that I can't hold in focus. There's a prompt I used while moving out, where I had claude ask me questions, what is in each room. And then once we had th
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by lachlan_gray 1y ago
Is there a similar thing on iOS? I always wonder when a random app asks to “find devices on my network”
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by lachlan_gray 2y ago
This could be a fun example to work with :p https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Programming_Lang...
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by lachlan_gray 2y ago
Reminds me a lot of thermodynamics. Microstates and transition probabilities are a more “fundamental” description, but when you hit the metal, temperature and pressure are more useful in practice to human engineers
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by lachlan_gray 2y ago
I was super obsessed with this for a while! When you have a string instrument tuned in 4ths, there are 2D patterns that emerge which you can use to "derive" or "extrapolate" what a scale shape/pattern will look like
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by lachlan_gray 2y ago
Hey hn! I wanted to share my blog post. It's about the historical relationship between engineering and science, and an interpretation of the current AI movement. I would love perspectives.
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Patterns in Information(lachlan-gray.com)
2 points by lachlan_gray 2y ago|1 comments
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by lachlan_gray 2y ago
IMO they do exist, but the popular attitude that it's not possible anymore is the issue, not a lack of genius. If everyone has a built in assumption that it can't happen anymore, then we will naturally prune away social pathways t

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