stefan_

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by stefan_ 4d ago
This is pure sunk cost fallacy. CNNs were from the deep learning ImageNet heydays, but now everything in that domain is equally done better by transformers. All you are doing is wasting area and saddling software with outdated hardware, and
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by stefan_ 5d ago
Russia hasn't exported products in over a month now. If Diesel prices hit $6 today, it's purely because 6 months after the US president started his war on Iran, Iranian forces in Yemen have routed the Saudis and cut off the second
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by stefan_ 6d ago
The open internet is now a cesspit, with very little new good data. Expect everyone to train on user data always. They just got clever about whitening it.
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by stefan_ 6d ago
Actually they just Arc<T> everything
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Isar Aerospace launch into orbit [video](youtube.com)
108 points by stefan_ 11d ago|18 comments
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by stefan_ 14d ago
"I don't know anything but I don't like Graphene" Well we know Google isn't enabling MTE, while LLM-enabled exploits are multiplying rapidly. Maybe you need to get back to work?
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FTC, States Sue Amazon over Secret Ad Surcharge Scheme(ftc.gov)
6 points by stefan_ 15d ago|0 comments
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by stefan_ 16d ago
The US just added a colony in Venezuela in cooperation with their local Reichskommissar and is looking to secure its oil. American perception of their country is quite something.
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by stefan_ 16d ago
The systems jamming in Hormuz and Ukraine aren't exactly cheap and low powered, nor are those used by the US military in one of their many jamming exercises every year. Cheap GPS jammers fit in a cigarette lighter and are used by truck
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Artificial Deadlines: Evidence of Fraud in Influential Study on Procrastination(datacolada.org)
2 points by stefan_ 16d ago|0 comments
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by stefan_ 18d ago
I don't think this is something anyone who has ever read a "thinking trace" would unironically say. Not that you can even see them in Claude. When thinking first started and you would still see the whole "thinking proces
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Bugs That Broke Driving(blog.comma.ai)
3 points by stefan_ 19d ago|0 comments
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by stefan_ 19d ago
It's crazy how much they have enshittified credit cards. It's not stuff like CVC, that's fine, but all the random failures! Nothing will turn me off your "payment system" more than having it randomly fail on me for
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by stefan_ 20d ago
You can point AI at any AI produced code and ask it to review it, get back 10 bullet points and a few pages of prose. And the fun part is, you can do that over and over and over again!
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by stefan_ 21d ago
I think these "Flash" models are sort of an evolutionary dead end. Sure, there are some routine tasks and applications where they can be used. But for the actual novel development work? It's much better to run a big model at
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by stefan_ 22d ago
The juniors I have seen don't even try to understand anymore what they are building. They don't understand the product, they don't understand the technology. So everything AI is building for them is nonsense. "Reviewing&
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by stefan_ 29d ago
They were also caught having their Grok code agent upload entire source code repositories in the background. I guess the joke is "come to Origin, your code is already there".
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by stefan_ 29d ago
That's mostly because at some point a wave of nonsense swept over the field that brought with it the Scrum master, agile, pairing, middle managers thinking up elaborate Git branching schemes (they don't understand Git) and of cour
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by stefan_ 1mo ago
In Poland fees are capped at 0.3% for credit card, 0.2% for debit per EU. Which is why generally in the EU you don't have the insanity with credit card loyalty programs.
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by stefan_ 1mo ago
I hope there is interesting research being done to stop models from 9B to 3T from authoritatively giving the wrong answers to factual questions instead of doing tool calls, but this article will tell you nothing about it. That's becaus
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by stefan_ 1mo ago
CLAUDE.md is mostly powerless against the reinforcement learned crap. I'm up to three separate instructions telling it to cut out the hyper verbose, retelling history comments and it still writes them every time.
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by stefan_ 1mo ago
There are really a ton of fields where people have done an absolutely terrible job of properly using the advantages of software, even pre AI. Like, even today there are people manually drawing footprints in PCB design software, manually det
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by stefan_ 1mo ago
It's really getting extremely obnoxious. There is no point to the whole "shell commands output" view anymore because the model aggressively redirects everything to some scratchpad file, so besides the output viewer being a br
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by stefan_ 1mo ago
This is just finally bringing the magical "the computer did it" to the masses! When companies like Amazon accept, warehouse, bill for and ship unsafe Chinese trash, well, at every step it was just a computer. Google, X and others
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by stefan_ 1mo ago
LiDAR in drones is not necessarily the "stereo vision" application you are thinking of, it can also be something as simple as a LiDAR altimeter.
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by stefan_ 1mo ago
Funny how that works, so are Anthropic and OpenAI apparently. Maybe there is something we are missing here!
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by stefan_ 1mo ago
Turns out you can't pay em as much as VC will, haha
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by stefan_ 1mo ago
Maybe you are just aren't aware that military GPS jamming is extremely routine around the US. It affects airplanes more than cars because the curvature of the earth can not help you and at typical flight altitudes you have easy line of
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by stefan_ 1mo ago
That's an odd claim. Human failures are uncorrelated, but the Waymos all running the same software must be expected to fail in the same way, in the situations in which they fail. Which is why they often make the news; one Waymo stuck s
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by stefan_ 1mo ago
Prices going up 1000%? Time for maintenance! If you want to see their approach to maintenance while prices and needs are high, watch them put oil refineries back in operation days after drone hits.

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