raducu

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by raducu 20d ago
Nobody said they were, but broken in terms of neurotypical circuitry, yes
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by raducu 21d ago
On one hand I love your joke, on the other, this is HN not reddit and I usually downvote such responses, not sure what is the HN etiquette for such humor?
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by raducu 1mo ago
But the Turing test involves a conversation you can steer and I think that's where indeed it's a lot easier to smell LLMs.
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by raducu 1mo ago
> out-remembering people around us. Doing an angular -> react refactor with Opus 5 at work. Amazed at how good it is but also amazed at how dumb it is after I told it I want a very basic and specific code review:do the file names matc
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by raducu 2mo ago
> I don't see a clear demarcation of the things that only "reasoning" can accomplish. Producing beautiful, coherent, maintainable code. RL trained the models to produce correct code but boy oh boy is it ugly if it's 1
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by raducu 2mo ago
> Stand up a router. it has to be some amazing router and while the models are open-weights, the knowhow to run them efficiently surely is not?
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by raducu 2mo ago
> So the price is rising and you have no choice but to keep paying more and more. I presume you can't use deepseek?
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by raducu 2mo ago
> where are the 500 meter trees in the rainforests. There could be structural reason as to why it's not possible, not pumping water *
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by raducu 3mo ago
> 30 seconds of surprise is plenty for a coordinated decapitation strike. Some guys in a mediterranean country are drooling right now...
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by raducu 3mo ago
How about sensory feedback loops?
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by raducu 3mo ago
> AND magically gets 4x cheaper energy they are in a much weaker stance for the long haul. By energy you mean electricity,the nuclear, solar and hydro-- the kind China has installed new 2TW capacity over the last decade while US installe
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by raducu 3mo ago
> A lot of people are emotionally unprepared for a world where the music doesn't stop. I've been wrong before. However, when was the last time this business model made sense -- that facebook, SpaceX and others, all just pivot f
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by raducu 3mo ago
> If the scales are only checked after the heat death of the universe, does it even matter? This is the kind of thinking that points to that reckoning moment being close. This and people buying stock with borrowed money*
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by raducu 3mo ago
> can stay alive and well a lot longer than you can survive an open short position. I mean let's look at bitcoin/crypto.
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by raducu 3mo ago
> he people I found worst at this were IT. My experience as IT in modern banks was the opposite. The legal department were absolute assholes when it came to software features. And I'm talking absolutely 100% ok features, like paying
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by raducu 3mo ago
> is regularly wrong, frequently myopic, and just outright dumb constantly. I give LLMs snippets of text messages exchanges with my wife and I can't believe how dumb the LLMs are of getting basic facts right let alone nuance. I&#x27
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by raducu 4mo ago
> queryable from psql via an embedded DuckDB. noob question here from someone who ony played a bit with iceberg and trino: what's the reason to do the analytics stil inside the postgres -- is it so that you don't eat up the IOP
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by raducu 5mo ago
> Most nicotine users today? I did use pure nicotine and it was very bad for my health, probably due to high dosage, but still. I've used heavy stimulants, benzos, opioids, dissociatives without an issue, but nicotine is in a class
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by raducu 5mo ago
> notice more and more are consumed $1k in tokens a month I've said it before: if you allow people to see how much others spent, they will try to climb up the "leaderboard". It takes just ONE little praise for using tokens
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by raducu 5mo ago
> dependent on a few minor lifestyle adjustments Only if you don't have psychological issues, then none of that really works. I've done all the sleep hygiene and it does help a bit, but sleep polysomnogram shows my sleep archit
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by raducu 5mo ago
Thanks, that's inspiring, I know I'm at the point that I should do these changes like yesterday!
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by raducu 5mo ago
No, I don't. I know I should.
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by raducu 5mo ago
>The older I get the more sensitive to a single poor night's sleep I become. Back when I was 20 I had a drinking problem. One time I drank so much that I passed out sitting at a table. Woke up with friends having stripped my clothes
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by raducu 5mo ago
I am a strong believer and selected as power user because of AI usage metrics, but I also see perverse incentives -- a colleague was desperately searching for me on the Claude token usage leaderboard (I was part of a different group he did
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by raducu 6mo ago
>high level of motivation and self discipline to go 3 times a week. I don't really have the time for gym but going feels so good so I can see why someone who does have the time might go 7 days a week.
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by raducu 7mo ago
> Without weighing on the validity of their hypothesis that one or both sides found the other“especially attractive” I get that it's survivor bias and all, but modern racial preference also paints a clear picture, I don't unde
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by raducu 7mo ago
I have conflated those two, but my main point is the monstrous, one-sided destruction Israel has caused in Gaza is a clear proof Israel has gone way, way, way into the genocide territory and not just into the "hamas fighters were hidin
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by raducu 7mo ago
> All other things being equal, if your opponent engages actively in hiding among medical and press workers as a type of guerrilla warfare, then the reality does become this. So let me check this reasoning: if there was a single US soldi
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by raducu 7mo ago
> Don't get me started on the thinking tokens. Claude provides nicer explanations, but when it comes to CoT tokens or just prompting the LLM to explain -- I'm very skeptical of the truthfulness of it. Not because the LLM lies,
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by raducu 7mo ago
> Gemini also frequently gets twisted around, stuck in loops, and unable to make forward progress. Yes, gemini loops but I've found almost always it's just a matter of interrupting and telling it to continue. Claude is very goo

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