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by synapsomorphy 7mo ago
Thanks, fixed
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by synapsomorphy 7mo ago
Full stack / Generalist Engineer Location: US (GA) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Only to PNW or Bay Area Technologies: Python, Linux, embedded C, SQL, React, ML (PyTorch, LLMs), electrical Résumé/CV: https:/&#
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by synapsomorphy 8mo ago
Full stack / Generalist Engineer Location: US (GA) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Only to PNW or Bay Area Technologies: Python, Linux, embedded C, SQL, React, ML (PyTorch, LLMs), electrical Résumé/CV: https:/&#
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by synapsomorphy 9mo ago
Full stack / Generalist Engineer Location: US (GA) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Only to PNW or Bay Area Technologies: Python, Linux, embedded C, SQL, React, ML (PyTorch, LLMs), electrical Résumé/CV: https:/&#
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by synapsomorphy 9mo ago
Maybe the quality is reduced, sure. But if you "do some searches" you can find all of those things for any major software release. Seems to me like people in Apple's walls are forgetting that the outside world is not some Gar
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by synapsomorphy 9mo ago
I'm a Linux and Windows user thinking of getting a Macbook, mostly for the hardware. All these recent proclamations of disappointment in Tahoe seem insanely overblown to me. The problem that this post leads with is that thumbnails&#x27
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NuggetBench: Can LLMs see when chicken nuggets look like geographical areas?(github.com)
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by synapsomorphy 9mo ago
It's an arms race between human writers and AI. Writers want to sound less like AI and AI wants to sound more like writers, so no indicator is reliable for long. Today typos indicate a real writer, so tomorrow LLMs will inject them whe
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by synapsomorphy 10mo ago
Assuming Eric / Core doesn't come out with some scathing "real story": Well, it's better to figure this out today (that Eric / Core are not so great) rather than a year or two down the line when I'd have a
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by synapsomorphy 10mo ago
Chinese builders are not equal to Chinese hackers (even if the hackers are state sponsored). I doubt most companies would be interested in developing hacking tools. Hackers use the best tools available at their disposal, Claude is better th
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by synapsomorphy 10mo ago
Survived 102 seconds before a rug pull. Impressive!
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by synapsomorphy 10mo ago
That issue is the fourth most-reacted issue, and third most open issue. And the two things above it are feature requests. It seems like you should at the very least have someone pop in to say "working on it" if that's what yo
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by synapsomorphy 10mo ago
I'm thinking a lot about the ARC-AGI ML benchmarks, especially the "shape" of the dataset and what that says about how it should be solved. I think there's good reasons to believe that deep learning - at least differenti
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by synapsomorphy 11mo ago
Interesting essay. But it attributes something magical (ability to solve undefined problems) to humans and says that AI doesn't have it. It seems pretty meaningless and not engaging with the real problem to say that AI doesn't &qu
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by synapsomorphy 11mo ago
I'm completely puzzled on why space-based compute is so exciting to everyone all of a sudden. I have worked on spacecraft and the constant power benefit seems comically far from outweighing the many, many negatives, even if launch cost
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by synapsomorphy 11mo ago
Full stack / Generalist Engineer Location: US (GA) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, only to PNW or Bay Area Technologies: Python, Linux, embedded C, SQL, React, AI/ML (PyTorch, LLMs), electrical Résumé/CV: https:/&
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by synapsomorphy 11mo ago
Not sarcasm at all. There are some "AI thinkers" who are trying to make 8% faster CUDA kernels for attention, and there are some trying to save the world. These fields are called "capabilities" and "alignment".
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by synapsomorphy 11mo ago
LessWrong.com - this is where virtually all of the serious AI thinkers are.
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by synapsomorphy 11mo ago
As an extreme believer in AI (to the point of being a doomer and expecting+fearing ASI) I have to agree with this wholeheartedly. We have to be careful to avoid blaming AI as a technology for the incredibly hamfisted way it’s being implemen
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by synapsomorphy 11mo ago
Kilobytes or single digit megabytes. It happens because Sharepoint sporadically alters created/edited metadata for any (?) file it stores. Most programs don't care about that but Solidworks does.
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by synapsomorphy 11mo ago
Sharepoint is one of the worst, most bug-ridden softwares I've worked with. It has a bug with Solidworks (3D design suite) that sporadically makes files completely un-openable unless you go in and change some metadata. They are aware o
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by synapsomorphy 1y ago
This is a really interesting discovery. In ants it's apparently common for one species to stop being able to produce workers on their own, and use the sperm from another species instead. In this case, that happened. But if you do that,
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by synapsomorphy 1y ago
The accuracy is going to be the real make or break for this. In a paper from 2018 they reported 92% word accuracy [1]. That's a lifetime ago for ML but they were also using five facial electrodes where now it looks confined to around t
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by synapsomorphy 1y ago
I'm honestly kind of surprised there haven't been significant large-scale attempts to well-poison LLMs with certain viewpoints/beliefs/whatever. Maybe we just haven't caught them.
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by synapsomorphy 1y ago
Entirely the second. When Vera Rubin starts reporting its regular scans this will be made very clear because we'll probably find 10+ interstellar objects per year at minimum.
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by synapsomorphy 1y ago
It appears to me like the linked explanation is also subtly wrong, in a different way: “This is why a flat surface like a sail is able to cause lift – here the distance on each side is the same but it is slightly curved when it is rigged
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by synapsomorphy 1y ago
o3's cost was sliced by 80% a month or so ago and is also cheaper than Claude (the output is even cheaper than GPT-5). It seems more cost efficient but not by much.
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by synapsomorphy 1y ago
Nit: Diffusion isn't in place of transformers, it's in place of autoregression. Prior diffusion LLMs like Mercury [1] still use a transformer, but there's no causal masking, so the entire input is processed all at once and th
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by synapsomorphy 1y ago
I fabbed a couple FreeEEG32 boards [1] recently and have half of a design for my own board put together. This technology CANNOT effectively move a mouse around on a screen today, much less control robots. If it could, they wouldn't hav
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by synapsomorphy 1y ago
Location: Atlanta, GA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, embedded, PCBs, Linux, Torch, Postgres, TypeScript, React, CAD, 3D printing Résumé/CV: https://synapsomorphy.com/resume.pdf (website: ht

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