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by strangecasts 5d ago
Some communities are particular about maintaining cleanroom reverse-engineering (case in point: Portal 64 getting taken down for using Nintendo's leaked N64 SDK and not the OSS libdragon SDK) and are wary of people submitting AI-genera
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by strangecasts 7d ago
I think it is worth asking whether anthropomorphization of LLMs does anything to contribute to a better understanding of them that isn't entirely post-hoc ("of course they were going to find CVEs, solve ARC-AGI...") or if i
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by strangecasts 7d ago
Presumably that HN has an automated LLM-based filter to moderate rude or irrelevant comments, which is a little irrelevant to the article's wish not to see generated posts or comments, and not without its own problems besides: ML is ne
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by strangecasts 8d ago
"Users will voluntarily prompt better to avoid misleading people" will be the "people can simply write memory safe C" of the late 2020s
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by strangecasts 8d ago
Yes, even though fast food places would previously use every food photography trick in the book to make the food look good, there was at least some relation between the menu and what you actually get, which people just seem completely fin
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by strangecasts 8d ago
The book Web Browser Engineering may be interesting: https://browser.engineering/ > - how many people in a team do you need and how long would it take to write a browser engine from scratch The boring not-really-an-answe
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by strangecasts 16d ago
I can't really see a definition equating the two that realistically accounts for multiple models from different vendors - am I at fault if a particularly poorly implemented harness misinterprets me writing "do not run dd if=/
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by strangecasts 27d ago
I think the difficulty was specifically with CAPTCHA challenges, which had to be quick to generate but still legible - OCR on physical documents has to be robust to a different set of problems That said, what kind of errors are you getting?
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by strangecasts 1mo ago
> We could train a model on a dataset where any reference to consciousness is thoroughly removed. Then explore whether the model can bootstrap a discussion about consciousness. I'm less interested in the philosophy than the practica
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by strangecasts 1mo ago
Yeah, as someone used to searching for specific turns of phrase, having the query automatically interpreted as a question is quite annoying - for looking up song lyrics, game walkthroughs and articles by quotes I want a page list, not a sum
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by strangecasts 2mo ago
Oh, good to hear it was just good-natured teasing :) I did kind of expect the loss of SIMD to make it paradoxically slower than the floating point version, I am curious what kind of equivalent integer/fixed-point tricks exist! > Als
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by strangecasts 2mo ago
Unfortunately, despite the warnings and mostly-generated code, having deterministic(?) 3D rigid-body physics is kinda cool and I'm a little tempted to use this - is the joke that fixed-point actually isn't necessary for cross-pl
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by strangecasts 2mo ago
If you don't want to concede "far right" as a term for conservatives who are fine with suppression of speech on LGBT issues - aren't you lumping everyone outside the far left together with extremists?
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by strangecasts 2mo ago
> It's a pejorative term made up by the left to try and shift the overton window away from conservatism. When and by whom? > They're about as "far right" as the 80's Thatcher government. Would you describe Tha
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by strangecasts 2mo ago
> Furthermore, he's also very obviously interfered with the model development in ways that are quite ridiculous compared to other labs to insert his political opinion. Yeah, even if you want to ignore the "political commentary&
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by strangecasts 2mo ago
This is moving the goalposts from "Elon supports far-right politicians" which was cited with sources, you're just going "well he's right to"
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by strangecasts 2mo ago
I think Anthropic buying compute from Colossus despite the ongoing air pollution case [1] is a stain on them and is another reason not to use them [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/climate/xai-musk
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by strangecasts 2mo ago
> I think we should wait to see how the first satellite data centre works out. It seems fairly unlikely that it could be practical. It seems kind of nuts... I strongly suspect that what'll happen is SpaceX does launch satellites wit
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by strangecasts 3mo ago
> Build: Let your agent figure it out I'm sorry for going off on a random hobby project, but doing this in a C++ project - even if it is a standard Visual Studio solution - is "putting your whole mouth into the salsa dip"-
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by strangecasts 3mo ago
It's a guideline, the maintainers won't collectively explode if generated but unmarked code happens to pass review. The problem with "they can just have the AI fix what's wrong" is explained a bit more in the contri
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by strangecasts 6mo ago
Unfortunately they're not plug-and-play _yet_ but people have significantly streamlined the process of making dialup bridges with Raspis and USB modems [1] to restore online multiplayer on the Sega Dreamcast (which came with a 56k mode
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Factoring is not a good benchmark to track Q-day(bas.westerbaan.name)
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by strangecasts 6mo ago
> But some critics said that Karpathy had done little more than rediscover part of a process known as AutoML that researchers at Google, Microsoft, and other AI labs have already been using for years. AutoML also uses an optimization loo
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by strangecasts 6mo ago
This is more or less what the RTA meta tag is meant to achieve: https://www.rtalabel.org/page.php?content=howto One technical problem with doing this on the header level is that SPAs will fetch content gradually with multip
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by strangecasts 7mo ago
Compelled to point out there was a wave of "AI games" before proper generative models too: the Kinect used decision forests for pose estimation [1], but in an example of the "AI effect", the Kinect games are mostly remem
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by strangecasts 7mo ago
(2013) (Also worth noting that Myst Online is still operating at https://mystonline.com/en/ !)
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by strangecasts 7mo ago
It drives me a little bonkers that the UK already tried implementing age verification in 2019, with an approach that would have been easy to make verifiably anonymous: buying a single-use code from a newsagent who checks your age with ID
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by strangecasts 8mo ago
Depends - how long do you have, and do you accept answers in CSV, Arrow or Parquet?
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by strangecasts 8mo ago
> They can cite some of the most obvious ones Thus already doing much better than the average Suno producer E: More seriously, this strikes me as a motte-and-bailey where "Artists cannot list every single influence they have or prov
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by strangecasts 8mo ago
> And you create music without ever having heard music before? Or are you also extracting other artist’s work and using it as inspiration for what you do? For me, one key difference is that I can cite my stylistic influences and things I

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