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by lacker 13d ago
Recently I showed my 7-yr-old son and a friend of his how they could build their own little video games with the Claude app. Simple stuff, make me a maze game, make the walls move sometimes, make it bigger, make there be a score. The deligh
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by lacker 19d ago
I think the tech companies would be supporters of new rules that would let builders create more housing all throughout San Francisco. We need a big tent, with all pro-housing groups coming together, to change the rules, and start allowing n
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by lacker 25d ago
This is like giving you three outputs from md5sum and asking you to guess for which one the input ended in a "q". There's no way to tell unless you break the RNG.
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by lacker 28d ago
Maybe some sort of blockchain could make it so that you don't have to verify the whole proof yourself, to know that it's true. Because some of these proofs could take a long time to verify. Similar to a Merkle tree, but you'd
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by lacker 28d ago
I don't think the mathematicians are going to be able to make that work, because journals are already struggling to keep up with their review load, and AI seems like it will make that harder. So a solution that involves "journals
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by lacker 1mo ago
Yeah, totally. But... the problem is that I don't have time to test every single model that comes out. So I rely on reports like this to decide, should I even bother testing out Muse?
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by lacker 1mo ago
My conclusion is the opposite. If benchmarks were meaningless, surely Meta would be able to find some benchmark that shows they are better than Sol and Fable. The fact that they can't do that tells me that benchmarks still do mean some
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by lacker 2mo ago
Personally, I end up throwing away a decent amount of books that the book donation people won't take. Especially old technical books. Textbooks from 2001. These headlines just don't tell me anything useful. "Rare" doesn&
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by lacker 3mo ago
I don't think people working at Amazon "know that it is a part of a larger bad", it's one of the most trusted American institutions. https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/why-everyone-loves-amazon
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by lacker 3mo ago
Yes there are studies, for example last year Pangram's false positives were measured to be under 0.5%. https://www.pangram.com/blog/third-party-pangram-evals Personally, at first I thought these sorts of tools wer
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by lacker 3mo ago
It is a smell. But it's the EU that smells bad, when it comes to tech regulation. It's the smell of cookie popup warnings.
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by lacker 3mo ago
Think of it this way, how would you turn a set into a vector in the first place? We solve this in programming a lot, for example, the "one-hot" encoding for neural networks. Here, a set turns into a vector that has a zero for ever
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by lacker 4mo ago
"Falling behind schedule" doesn't really seem like the right term, for a sector of the economy that has been accelerating for the past few years. You could easily describe this trend positively rather than negatively, like: &
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by lacker 4mo ago
The next step in my fight against screen addiction is to have my children not watch Toy Story 5.
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by lacker 4mo ago
I don't think it's nonsensical, it's just another name for the same thing. E.g. in the Haskell wiki it says, "the Error monad, also called the Exception monad". https://wiki.haskell.org/index.php?tit
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by lacker 4mo ago
Yeah, and rate-limiting is only one of the things a PaaS needs to handle, to avoid looking like a bad actor to the underlying platform. The trickiest thing to handle is people using your PaaS to host malware, because: 1. There may be no sim
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by lacker 4mo ago
Perfectly demonstrating the truth of the "Microsoft org chart" cartoon. https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts
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by lacker 4mo ago
The specific code I was working on, I had a general idea of the sort of performance improvement that would be possible. I just thought that it would be too hard for the models to figure out without a lot of hand-holding. But it ended up bei
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by lacker 4mo ago
It's an especially awkward situation because Railway is a competitor of Google Cloud, with many third parties involved. So, I just think it will take them a little more time to figure out how to message things. To me, what it sounds li
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by lacker 4mo ago
I didn't dig into what the actual repository was doing, but personally, I took some inspiration from the idea after reading about it and realizing that I might have been underestimating the ability of LLMs. I put a bit more work into a
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by lacker 4mo ago
Reminds me of: “In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he’s not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules.”
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by lacker 4mo ago
I wonder, if you ask a local LLM to access a forbidden site, from within Russia or China, can it figure out a way to do so, out of the box?
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CUDA-oxide, a Rust-to-CUDA compiler(nvlabs.github.io)
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by lacker 5mo ago
The conclusion that "insurance companies using algorithmic tools have failed Californians who lost their homes to fire by systematically undervaluing their properties" seems pretty dubious to me. Everyone is shooting the messenger
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by lacker 5mo ago
> There is no avenue by which you make GitHub better by continuing to use it as it has been. I feel like in a very mundane sense, I pay GitHub for a service, and they use that money to pay developers, to then make GitHub better. It'
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by lacker 5mo ago
ChatGPT is a great resource for learning things, if you really want to learn. I hope that this leads us to shift education towards helping people learn things, when they do want to learn. Instead of forcing people to learn things that they
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by lacker 5mo ago
Isn't that how it should work? If you write the police and ask them to delete all their data about you, that isn't a thing that they do. It shouldn't matter if the police store their data on AWS or their own servers. Flock is
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by lacker 6mo ago
I've been making games with JS in the browser with my kids, ages 7-13. Very simple games, the sort where we can just use emojis instead of real game assets. Even just building a game inside a Claude Artifact is pretty fun. The nice thi
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by lacker 7mo ago
This part of the essay makes me feel moved by the author's situation. > I am sitting down after a long walk outdoors. It should have been relaxing, but I was processing - processing another interview pipeline that has fallen throug
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by lacker 7mo ago
It's funny to use "the market value of all taxi companies combined" as a proxy for how valuable the self-driving market will be, because that's exactly the reasoning that led people to underestimate Uber. The market valu

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