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1931 China Floods(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by sieste 19d ago|0 comments
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by sieste 27d ago
For people working with small local models like Qwen 35b what's even more important us that the LLM is good at coding in the language in which the agent harness is written so that it can write skills. I really like pi but had a few ins
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by sieste 1mo ago
The couch to 5k programme is now routinely recommended by GPs in the UK (and elsewhere), a very positive development in health care in my opinion. https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/get-active/get-running-with...
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UK wants datacenters to pay a fee for grid connection requests(theregister.com)
5 points by sieste 1mo ago|1 comments
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by sieste 2mo ago
> I wanted to avoid teaching syntax. While Python makes sense as pseudocode [...] it is still nearly incomprehensible to new learners [...] I decided I wanted to either teach Forth or Haskell. Sorry but this reads like a joke. If you fin
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by sieste 2mo ago
What is a "credit" and how does it translate to tokens for the different models?
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Collapse of AMOC ocean current may be locked in(institutions.newscientist.com)
6 points by sieste 2mo ago|0 comments
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by sieste 3mo ago
I treat these nutjob articles as a subgenre of science fiction and when they're somewhat well written find them very entertaining. The author cosplaying investigative journalist, one part of the audience acting as if it's a real d
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University of Exeter to cut 150 academic staff(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by sieste 3mo ago|0 comments
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by sieste 3mo ago
The zine enthusiasts in this thread might enjoy this little tool I made to print out and zine-fold Project Gutenberg books: https://github.com/sieste/pocketbook
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by sieste 3mo ago
German football goalkeeper here :)
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by sieste 3mo ago
I'd love for European countries to embrace their priorities around people and environment and train a model on public domain data that can run efficiently on cheap hardware. Redefine benchmarks around these ideals and optimise towards
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by sieste 3mo ago
The "middle powers" (cf Carney) should invest in local models, rather than relying on US and China allowing them to rent their AI models. It takes a single executive order to cut the rest of the world off of American AI tools. &qu
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by sieste 3mo ago
Imagine how accurate you could be if you could circumvent the coding agent and just type the source code directly into an editor all by yourself o_O Like a write_file skill but for humans!!!
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by sieste 3mo ago
That's almost exactly my setup and I'm very happy with its performance. I noticed recently that I started to prefer my local Qwen3.6 35B A3B and pi agent over Claude Code. Both fail at different tasks, and Qwen more so than Claude
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Scientists found the optimal robot body, and it has 20 legs(livescience.com)
5 points by sieste 4mo ago|0 comments
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by sieste 4mo ago
I have a different approach. Just treat all LLM queries as what they are, instructions to a computer program to generate a desired output. Neither niceties nor insults make a qualitative difference, so you might as well just skip them altog
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by sieste 4mo ago
This is very cruel towards people who want to have children but can't.
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Running creative online bots with ten thousand followers(stefanbohacek.com)
4 points by sieste 5mo ago|0 comments
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by sieste 5mo ago
Good point, it's like having an instruction "Never fucking output a token just because it's the one most likely to occur next!!1!"
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by sieste 5mo ago
Maybe a superhuman AI? /s
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by sieste 5mo ago
I was expecting to find a link to a github pages site where I can see the rendered examples, but only found a link to the html sources in examples/out. Am I missing something?
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by sieste 5mo ago
2021 just called and want their comment back.
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by sieste 5mo ago
Wow. > The bill makes it a Class A felony (15-25 years imprisonment) to “knowingly train artificial intelligence” to do ANY of the following: • Provide emotional support, including through open-ended conversations with a user • Develop a
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by sieste 5mo ago
It took me an embarrassing number of attempts to win.
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by sieste 5mo ago
I think this is the correct lense. He's a malignant narcissist on his way out, with absolutely nobody to stop him. I'm genuinely worried that he secretly wants to go down in history as the crazy guy who set the oil fields on fire
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by sieste 6mo ago
I'm not sure it was meant that way, but nice metaphor. For some students "academic death" might really be better than a life of being trapped in a system that they can only navigate by cheating.
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by sieste 6mo ago
You just get a sequence of random moves to go from solved to scrambled, it's quite trivial. See here if you're interested: stefansiegert.net/cube-timer Let me know if you adapt it in any way, my son would be delighted to see
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by sieste 6mo ago
Does an IPO make a government bailout more likely if they go bust?
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by sieste 6mo ago
Even more important than the papers is whether you can raise the money required to fund your lab which produces your prestigious journal papers. And the further you go down the league table the less important the "prestigious" par

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