nathanasmith

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by nathanasmith 2mo ago
Exactly. To butcher a cliche, if the model has 6 hours to chop down a tree I want it to sharpen the axe for 5 hours.
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by nathanasmith 3mo ago
They begged to be regulated and now they're being regulated. The company doesn't get to pick and choose the exact form of the regulations they get and in this case they got more than they bargained for. Maybe next time be more car
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by nathanasmith 3mo ago
There won't be any new generation of models more powerful than Fable since the argument against Fable would apply even more. Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 is the best we'll ever see from this point forward. Soon low cost Chinese models wil
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by nathanasmith 3mo ago
This heralds the end of frontier model development in the US since the same national security argument can and will be made against any model stronger than Fable/Mythos. Squashing the ability of Anthropic and OpenAI to deploy newer str
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by nathanasmith 4mo ago
I start out writing most of my terminal applications and utilities in Python but when something hits a performance ceiling I convert it to Go. That's been a pretty good bar for when it's time to use Go for me and so far so good.
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by nathanasmith 4mo ago
> Would I buy clothes [...] from Costco? Yes. Happily.
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by nathanasmith 6mo ago
The verbs are one of my favorite things about Claude Code.
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by nathanasmith 10mo ago
The thing that bothers me about "warmer, more conversational" is that it isn't just a cosmetic choice. The same feedback loop that rewards "I hear you, that must be frustrating" also shapes when the model is willing
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by nathanasmith 11mo ago
I had an old Galaxy Tab S7 collecting dust on the shelf. Since iOS 26 came out I find myself reaching for the Android tablet more and more. First time that ever happened. (Sent from my Galaxy Tab)
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by nathanasmith 1y ago
Readers would have been better served with the prompts you wrote than the AI generated output.
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by nathanasmith 1y ago
The person you replied to is in Pakistan.
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by nathanasmith 1y ago
>You're right - I don't really care if the track playing in my favourite cafe is AI-generated or not. You're not supposed to be emotionally invested into background music I guess different strokes but some of the best musi
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by nathanasmith 1y ago
Is there an API for Grok yet? If not that could be the issue.
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by nathanasmith 2y ago
Unfortunately that wouldn't help as much as you think since talented AI labs can just watch the public leaderboard and note what models move up and down to deduce and target whatever the hidden benchmark is testing.
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by nathanasmith 2y ago
I had been sleeping on Claude's ability to write books until a couple of days ago I had it write a novel set in the Accelerando universe. It whipped up a very convincing complete multi-Act 13 chapter side plot about humans learning to
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by nathanasmith 2y ago
I have a T420 I've been using for years. Upgraded to 16GB of RAM, SSD, swapped the dual core i5 for a 4 core/8 thread i7 (yes, the CPU is in a socket!), and swapped the 1600x900 crappy display for a newer 1080p panel that looks mu
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by nathanasmith 2y ago
For the lmarena leaderboard to be really useful you need click the "Style Control" button so that it normalizes for LLMs that generate longer answers, etc. that, while humans may find them more stylistically pleasing, and upvote t
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by nathanasmith 2y ago
If I want to talk to AI I know where chatgpt.com is. I don't need it shoved in my face when I'm trying interact with people on social media.
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by nathanasmith 2y ago
I like how it cites relevant Youtube videos based on the search and shows thumbnails of the videos in its results. As far as I can tell ChatGPT doesn't do this.
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by nathanasmith 2y ago
When Half-Life 2 came out it caused me to break a video game addiction I'd had since being a teenager. I was so awestruck by the quality and enjoyment I derived from the game that after playing through it any other game I tried later p
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by nathanasmith 2y ago
They weren't legally allowed until very recently.
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by nathanasmith 2y ago
Leave it alone. It's fine the way it is.
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by nathanasmith 2y ago
I don't know but I have a Galaxy Fold and I hate the tiny bezels it has in tablet mode. Trying not to touch the screen while holding it adds unnecessary cognitive load and just makes it feel fiddly. I also have a previous gen iPad mini
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by nathanasmith 2y ago
My experience using LLMs to learn is similar. When I read MDN or some O'Reilly tome I get a lot of information but it's in the general sense. I can use what I've learned to build some specific project and it'll work but
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by nathanasmith 2y ago
My main issue with this is the two hosts seem to be a little too in "sync" with each other. Like they're completing each other's thoughts and sentences without missing a beat. It breaks the illusion of it actually being
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by nathanasmith 2y ago
They would be wondering why it took so long.
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by nathanasmith 2y ago
I heat water on the stove top which is plugged into a 240 volt outlet.
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by nathanasmith 2y ago
The system has 512 GB of RAM so while it'll be slower at inference, he really has about 704 GB at his disposal to run the model assuming he distributes the weights across the VRAM and system RAM.
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by nathanasmith 2y ago
I stumbled on an obscure question years ago on one of the sub exchange sites that dovetailed precisely with something I'd been working on for years. All the proposed answers were subpar so it was like I was born for this particular que
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by nathanasmith 2y ago
People who order at the counter subsidize those who order with the app. That's basically how it works now.

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