mistercow

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by mistercow 3d ago
It's been pretty ad hoc, but my prompts are nothing special. Things I generally do: 1. Top end model on high/xhigh thinking (last time I did it it was Sol xhigh I think) 2. Make sure it creates some representative fixtures of diff
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by mistercow 3d ago
On the SDK front, you tried just having an agent reimplement the model you're interested in and just use the weights? I've taken to treating off the shelf implementations as reference implementations anyway, because I can often sq
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by mistercow 3d ago
I’m not sure how you can really make either statement work anymore. Now that smaller models are actually broadly usable, “behindness” is no longer a scalar and at the tails, where no open lab seems to be trying to compete at the >10T sca
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by mistercow 16d ago
Tom7 doesn’t know the meaning of the phrase “low effort”.
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by mistercow 21d ago
> I'm fairly certain this will defeat 99.9% of malicious users, many of whom won't even know it exists until someone points out it's missing. Everyone realizing that photos don't prove anything would defeat 100% of ma
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by mistercow 22d ago
Aside from the fact that this was obviously never viable and the entire problem is clearly unsolvable if you sit down and really probe it for fifteen minutes, what I find most frustrating about this is that the false promise of preserving p
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by mistercow 26d ago
Most old books that are rare and unpreserved are so because their value is marginal, so nobody has bothered to collect and preserve them. But where did you hear that they’re buying “all copies”? And to what end?
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by mistercow 2mo ago
I think the technology also dictated it. It’s easy to forget that in those days the idea of window chrome being full color, full transparency, with live window dragging and visuals not locked to tiling 8x8 or at best 32x32 elements was incr
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by mistercow 3mo ago
But the intuition based on the constant gravity assumption correctly illustrates the point, and adding in the more complicated picture of non-constant gravity creates new terms that exactly cancel out to give the same answer. Why would yo
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by mistercow 3mo ago
If you're talking about intuitions, you have no firsthand intuitions about lifting effort decreasing with distance to the Earth. We can intuit about constant gravity, and the math of constant gravity works fine for this description. An
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by mistercow 3mo ago
IANAL, but isn't most of that unenforceable in the US? Typefaces have their own weird place in IP law which is different from copyright.
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by mistercow 3mo ago
And I think the answer to the "doing the math" question is, until you've actually collected the data, "what math?" Until someone actually puts a bunch of six-figure value hardware through its paces, pushes the previ
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by mistercow 3mo ago
WebP generally preserves higher visual quality at the same compression ratios as JPEG. You can make bad looking images with either codec by demanding smaller file sizes, but all else equal, WebP usually looks better.
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by mistercow 3mo ago
> More so than any other image format, JPEG takes advantage of the quirks of human perception to throw away information while largely preserving quality. That is a very odd thing to say in a post that also mentions WebP. I would say that
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by mistercow 3mo ago
Well, it’s one flaw. I would argue that the bigger flaw, which you alluded to, is that the cost of computing the cache yourself maxes out in the single digit dollars even very large frontier models, and that’s a one-time cost. Even if you i
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by mistercow 3mo ago
> Then the part that matters: where the KV lives When your abstract was clearly generated by an LLM and not curated to at least make it sound human, it does not make me want to read your paper.
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by mistercow 3mo ago
> And I didn't learn anything. So first off, I mean, of course you didn't, right? You had already learned most of what you were going to learn from this specific project by doing it by hand. But yes, if you use AI to do project
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by mistercow 4mo ago
I'm pretty sure they just vibe coded the site in half an hour on a lark. High gloss without any real direction or intent behind it is the new "vanilla html page with no CSS file", or maybe less charitably, the new clip art. A
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by mistercow 5mo ago
Are your old hard drives encrypted using asymmetric cryptography? If not, I'm not sure who made you that promise.
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by mistercow 7mo ago
My current hunch is that that benchmark captures most of the relevant gap between Anthropic and the rest. “Can’t distinguish truth from fiction” has long been one of the deeper complaints about LLMs, and the bullshit benchmark seems like a
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by mistercow 7mo ago
I don't mind if people use AI to help them write, but when I see this kind of thing, it implies to me that they're barely even skimming it before posting. Surely people don't want this super cliche AI-hype-man tone in their
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by mistercow 7mo ago
> Maybe its because I'm using not-frontier models to do the coding IMO it’s probably that. The difference between where this was a a year ago and now is night and day, and not using frontier models is roughly like stepping back in t
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by mistercow 8mo ago
Flax seeds are a very tedious and inefficient way to get omega-3 as a vegan, particularly because they contain ALA, a short chain omega-3, which our bodies are extremely inefficient at turning into long chain fatty acids. Just get an algae
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by mistercow 9mo ago
Fine, luma, not luminance. But what you're describing is exactly that calculation. This does not change my point. Again: If you’re doing this correctly, the perceived brightness stays the same.
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by mistercow 9mo ago
So specifically on a backlit LCD screen with dimming zones, and in the specific case where an entire zone would have originally been blue or red (which are perceptually dimmer), you could plausibly get a small amount of energy savings. But
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by mistercow 9mo ago
Yeah, that’s the only explanation that makes sense. It’s just so strange to think that color pixels would use more energy.
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by mistercow 9mo ago
> It seems obvious that a higher perceived brightness can be achieved for any given pixel if using greyscale instead of using colors, just because less of the backlight's area is occluded. When converting to grayscale, you typically
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by mistercow 9mo ago
> Color pixels drain more energy than grayscale ones. Personally found my phone lasting twice as long as before. Over time, a considerable extension of your phone’s lifespan. What? Why? Why would you even entertain that as a hypothesis?
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by mistercow 11mo ago
> and don’t think that the programmer more than the languages contribute to those problems This sounds a lot like how I used to think about unit testing and type checking when I was younger and more naive. It also echoes the sentiments o
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by mistercow 11mo ago
Multiple severe attacks on browsers over the years have targeted image decoders. Requiring an implementation in a memory safe language seems very reasonable to me, and makes me feel better about using FF.

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