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by russfink 8d ago
This. I don’t want it to have AI features, but often find myself asking some other AI, “how do I change the paper size from A4 to US Letter,” etc.
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by russfink 17d ago
The web archive link, made available since the featured page has been hugged to death, has been hugged to death.
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by russfink 17d ago
Instead of accepting the default “commit then push,” try “draft a commit message and let me review and revise it first.”
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by russfink 24d ago
The relying party is also the prover.
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by russfink 1mo ago
It “thinks out loud” to populate its token space. Asking it to shortcut risks truncating that process.
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by russfink 1mo ago
Flowers for Algernon
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by russfink 1mo ago
Does anyone have a link to the method? Does it need Unicode or is it ASCII spacing? Word frequency bias? Can a human inadvertently trigger a detector for it?
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by russfink 1mo ago
Fable burned my limits and therefore unused it only once. What is your experience with it vs Opus 5, and Opus 4.6?
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by russfink 2mo ago
Very good question. One thing the article mentions is the vast number of attempts and threads of execution was in the tens of thousands, many of them that didn't succeed, with only one or so that did succeed, whereas a sophisticated h
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by russfink 2mo ago
We should be thankful that the model didn't believe the answers lived in the Pentagon, on SIPRNET, the IDF, etc.
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Possible invasive species superspreader event near Strait of Hormuz(abcnews.com)
36 points by russfink 2mo ago|11 comments
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by russfink 2mo ago
Mediterranean diet - tough to do in the age of cyclosporiasis.
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by russfink 2mo ago
What comprises “assistance?” Getting Claude Code to find bugs, suggest a fix, but a human actually editing the source files and testing the result - is that assistance? Perhaps this policy is as it says: a guiding principle that the commu
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by russfink 2mo ago
Could use an Opal or Pyrite drive connected to a USB caddy and sedutil-cli to manage it.
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by russfink 2mo ago
The article just sort of stops. Was the ram upgrade helpful? How was the mouse - was it choppy like in Windows XP as discussed at the top of the article? (And whatever happened to twm, possibly the lightest window manager around?)
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by russfink 2mo ago
TL;DR: the one entry implemented a subleq machine. Google it - it’s a One Instruction Set Computer (OISC). This made me smile. But it also raised a question: when were OISC’s first conceived? Would Apollo and computers of that era have bene
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by russfink 2mo ago
Go ahead and cut a notch out of my expertise card, but in all my years playing with UNIX, I’ve never used that directory.
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by russfink 2mo ago
Interesting - but at what point could “n version programming” step in? I speak of using alternative models as verifiers.
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by russfink 2mo ago
Backyard (fault) tree mechanic FTW!
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by russfink 2mo ago
I’m attempting to learn to use a slide rule. It’s quite a history lesson - we take for granted the large precision we get on calculators. But the learning is taking repeated visits, about 30 minutes at a time. I’m slowly getting it.
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by russfink 2mo ago
It must have been the Mule, something even Hari Seldon could not foresee.
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by russfink 3mo ago
Until recently, it was always cheaper to forego software architecture optimizations and rely on faster hardware, but now with AI I think this changes that calculus.
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by russfink 3mo ago
Same. Hit some bug, tried different distro. Soon after adopted a “live off the land” philosophy, adapting to whatever desktop was default on the chosen distro.
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by russfink 3mo ago
I’m kinda new to this - so what you’re saying is the mouse model induces beta-amyliods directly, rather than finding ways to give mice Alzheimer’s, whereas the human tests are for humans that have Alzheimer’s? Meaning we aren’t doing any t
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by russfink 3mo ago
Unless, in turn, you locate the index itself in pi at a much smaller index. And so on... Find k candidate indices for your data, then locate each of them. If the smallest one is a significantly smaller index space, repeat.
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AI that improves itself indefinitely(techcrunch.com)
3 points by russfink 4mo ago|0 comments
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by russfink 4mo ago
In the same vein - the Roswell Museum and Research Center - the library portion is underrepresented in its ads. It is a library about the size of an elementary / middle school library filled with supposed accounts and testimony, acade
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by russfink 4mo ago
It depends on what vintage of Blackboard your IT team has installed. We moved from a circa 2011 BB instance to Canvas in 2022, and it was hands down superior. A different university is running the most recent BB and it’s similar to Canvas.
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by russfink 5mo ago
LLM’s: sometimes wrong but never in doubt.
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by russfink 5mo ago
Or, the first time a mistake is detected, a correction is automatically applied.

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