rappatic

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by rappatic 7d ago
I wish you’d at least take the effort to de-LLMify the vibecoded site and copy text
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by rappatic 15d ago
I have taught Python to high schoolers before and this is frustratingly common. Students will name their files `string.py` or similar and get crashes with esoteric error messages. It's a difficult stumbling block for someone who's
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by rappatic 15d ago
I don’t have any kind of ML background but I have always thought of sample efficiency as the great unsolved problem of AI. We humans have unbelievably good sample efficiency; often we can durably learn something on just a single example or
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by rappatic 18d ago
Funnily enough, the underlying signal is what’s nonsensical; the individual sentences are always well structured
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by rappatic 20d ago
I agree. The afterimage test was a major red flag for me. To see something in your “mind’s eye” has nothing to do with physical vision, yet the afterimage works by exhausting some of the eye’s physical cones. It’s a confusing non sequitur a
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by rappatic 25d ago
In which direction are you supposed to read these charts? The arrows seem to point from conclusion/solution to reasoning, but the reasoning is at the top which makes me feel like I should read it first. It would be less confusing for t
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by rappatic 26d ago
Claude has become noticeably, painfully worse at writing in the last six months. At this point it’s practically useless for anything except code.
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by rappatic 27d ago
Ironic that an article about bad fonts would use such an ugly, garish font
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by rappatic 29d ago
> Assuming it's real, I'm not going to put much faith in the opinions of the American public. You’re talking about Amazon’s actual customers here. Is Amazon supposed to ignore the opinion of their customers for the opinion of s
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by rappatic 1mo ago
Apparently even BBC reporters now use LLMs to draft their articles.
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by rappatic 2mo ago
East African dominance over track events has largely ended. The 1500m world record is held by a West African, while the mile and 3000m world records are now held by white Europeans. The 5000m at the recent World Championships had no East Af
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British runner Josh Kerr breaks 27-year-old world record in the mile(runnersworld.com)
3 points by rappatic 2mo ago|0 comments
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by rappatic 2mo ago
Translation: “you will just pay more for electricity at other times of day”
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by rappatic 2mo ago
The quality of HN articles has degraded rapidly in the last year. It seems a meaningful fraction of articles posted here, especially most blog posts, are now AI generated. (Of course, this is the case for the rest of the internet too, but H
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by rappatic 3mo ago
LLM-generated slop. Please don't post wastes of our time like this
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by rappatic 3mo ago
I feel rather silly, all the news about the heat deaths in Paris must’ve crossed wires in my brain. But it seems the two cities have similar temperature extremes, so my point is the same
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by rappatic 3mo ago
> but if you get a really cold spell and it drops to -35C Temperatures near 40C have been recorded in Paris dozens of times since the early 2000s. I don't think the winter temperature in Paris has ever dropped much below -20C, let a
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by rappatic 3mo ago
> Due to extreme weather conditions, forced shut down of air cooling system from floor 1 to 7 for the rest of the day It's like satire. What is AC for if not extreme heat?
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by rappatic 3mo ago
Seems like OpenAI has succumbed to the urge to give their models catchy names like Anthropic does
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by rappatic 3mo ago
Yes, there's no way to avoid this really. You have to pick some point on the graph as the origin.
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The German Tank Problem(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by rappatic 3mo ago|1 comments
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by rappatic 4mo ago
There is so much I don't understand
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by rappatic 4mo ago
LLM written slop article about LLM slop in bigtech
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by rappatic 4mo ago
Vibecoded slop with LLM-written copy. When will it stop
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by rappatic 5mo ago
When I see dark matter in the news I'm always reminded of the story of Vulcan. In the 1800s, detailed observations of the planet Mercury showed that its orbit was slightly different than Newtonian mechanics predicted-- a difference of
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by rappatic 5mo ago
“I got an LLM to write a summary of the work it did while I occasionally checked in on Cursor.” I’m getting so tired of these posts. Why waste our time?
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Kenya's Sebastian Sawe becomes first man to run sub two-hour marathon(cnn.com)
5 points by rappatic 5mo ago|0 comments
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by rappatic 5mo ago
OP, I love not just that you noticed this, but that you thought to post it here too. HN is the best.
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Superintelligent Will (2012) [pdf](nickbostrom.com)
1 points by rappatic 5mo ago|0 comments
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by rappatic 5mo ago
> meant We're not meant to do anything. It's not like we were consciously designed with a purpose in mind. Do whatever you want.

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