radarsat1

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by radarsat1 7d ago
> I've wondered why someone hasn't tried manufacturing an enclosed go kart with AC and enough trunk space for a few groceries. I see these all the time here in the Netherlands. Very small cars. Some on the road and even smaller
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by radarsat1 11d ago
I actually quite like this idea and might try something like it on my team because we're defacto heading in this direction anyway and everyone's a bit frustrated, might be better if it was acknowledged and made official as somethi
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by radarsat1 16d ago
Thanks for pointing out that AlphaEvolve case, that's a really interesting comparison. I think it's clear that this is the same "kind" of thing, but as it goes with these things, what really makes it different here is th
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by radarsat1 17d ago
Me too! And I'm wondering now.. if it's so awful, is there no way to just block that capability server-side?
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by radarsat1 17d ago
Something I've wondered, maybe I should just do it if I can find some time, but... given DeepSeek's nice results on using rendered text as input, I'm wondering if anyone has given serious research efforts towards image-based
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by radarsat1 21d ago
I'm sure I'm not the first person to point this out, but do we want a paperclip maximizer [0]? Because this is how we get a paperclip maximizer. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper
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by radarsat1 23d ago
I think that's a fair take, but it also just moves it up one layer. Why are the investors falling for this, then? Can they not see the holes in this immediately?
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by radarsat1 23d ago
Beautiful. I am reminded of a paper I was inspired by a long time ago [0], (okay it's 2018 so I guess just 8 years ago, but it feels like longer, from the before-times), that demonstrated learning brush strokes. At the time there was a
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by radarsat1 24d ago
I know this is a very minor point in the article, but reading the message next to the Doublespeed phone farm: > out of 130 dms sent, 15 pointed to a conversion. > From a former ecom guy's lens this is insane Why do these otherwis
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by radarsat1 29d ago
I used to use them very frequently. It took noticing that I was parenthesizing the second half of almost every sentence I wrote (to add a bit more info, like this), to make me go back and evaluate if I could remove them and replace with com
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by radarsat1 1mo ago
that's absolutely true, it's also the fastest website i use daily, by a large margin
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by radarsat1 1mo ago
I don't know much about how HN is run but I think it would be a mistake to underestimate the need for human moderation here, and I assume that is a lot of work. A message forum is simple, old technology. Keeping it usable and useful fo
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by radarsat1 1mo ago
> It is not memoryless request-response: there is a process per connected client that remembers where it is. It is the opposite of htmx, which is deliberately stateless. This reflects some misconceptions I had about websockets before I u
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by radarsat1 1mo ago
Before getting further into the article I thought maybe he was going to show how to use the plotter to control the oil smearing technique, which honestly would have been kind of cool.
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by radarsat1 1mo ago
> Xennials are described as having had an analog childhood and a digital young adulthood. Pretty bang on description actually. As a 46 yo, sometimes I can't believe I have actual memories of using a rotary phone, or when my family f
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by radarsat1 2mo ago
One of the unexpected pleasures of having a 3 year old has been learning far more than I ever planned to about steam locomotives. It turns out steam engineering is fascinating, this article emphasized it for me even more. It really amazes m
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by radarsat1 2mo ago
Agreed. I've noticed this happens without fail in any project driven primarily by "tickets" and "sprints". Finishing the immediate task ends up taking precedence over future concerns that cover a wider scope. On the
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by radarsat1 2mo ago
"boost research careers".. seems like a pretty drastic conclusion to draw based on a technology that has existed for like 3 years and only lately is any good..
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by radarsat1 2mo ago
I can sympathize, the Spanish naming system makes things legitimately complicated sometimes. My wife has a Spanish style name Firstname(s) Fathername Mothername. But very very often she just goes by Firstname Fathername but it's not te
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by radarsat1 2mo ago
You're of course right but I can't help but point out one thing.. > but c'mon: tomatoes originated in the Americas! Yes . But they were brought to Europe like right after Columbus landed and have been part of Italian and
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by radarsat1 3mo ago
> The primary goal of this is support for old/obscure hardware with no LLVM/GCC support. If you're going to go to all this effort for an old target though, wouldn't the effort be better spent on making it an LLVM targ
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by radarsat1 3mo ago
is it strictly necessary to use different models or can you get similar results by doing the same thing but just using eg Codex in different agents & persona? curious if you've compared this
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by radarsat1 3mo ago
if you don't like the article that's fine, but it gets really tiring reading this kind of side-tracked comment thread in like.. every post. people use LLMs for writing. we know! get over it.. or don't... i don't really
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by radarsat1 4mo ago
You can talk all you want about generalization and reasoning ability and AGI, but the fact is that it's also useful simply as a really user friendly database. Even if it's only able to report facts from its dataset or perform si
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by radarsat1 4mo ago
Not everything is about making money. Also I don't get the impression the idea is intended for "most musicians".
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by radarsat1 5mo ago
> It's wildly better at tight and limited scope than large scale changes but even then I would rather code it myself. One thing I would like to see is the use of LLMs for smarter semi-manual editing. While programming I often need t
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My Calculator Is a Transformer(sinclairs.gitlab.io)
4 points by radarsat1 5mo ago|1 comments
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by radarsat1 5mo ago
Recently I got interested in how to "compile" a program definition into the weights of a Transformer. I settled for distilling the MLPs individually, but the attention weights are fully "calculated". The example program
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by radarsat1 5mo ago
you gave me the idea of using it to explore weird random scifi ideas, ended up spending way too much time clicking through details about the role of astrophage in the development of intelligence in deep sea life. Fun!
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by radarsat1 5mo ago
Wow, love this idea.

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