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by thadk 26d ago
Reminds of this HN classic, with gratitude to the author for recounting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17694032
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by thadk 27d ago
Well, seems like this indicates another long-time and discerning user profile for Apple's pricier XDR display products.
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by thadk 1mo ago
Would OpenPangram's LoRa fine-tuning training be able to pick up on the patterns of steganography left behind by LLM vendors? https://huggingface.co/pangram/editlens_Llama-3.2-3B (pardon for reposting just now fro
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by thadk 1mo ago
Would OpenPangram's LoRa fine-tuning training be able to pick up on the patterns of green left behind by LLM vendors? https://huggingface.co/pangram/editlens_Llama-3.2-3B
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by thadk 1mo ago
Still reading but I like how Cat Hicks in Psychology of Software Teams (2027) confronts this dilemma on page 9: "Agile Manifesto said, 'Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.' DevOps made the argument that coh
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by thadk 1mo ago
Simon's retelling is more compact but it also invites anthropomorphization of the sharing of the familiarity with the message board which re-emerged a few times. Zvi's retelling handles this better. Zvi speculates that the secret
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by thadk 2mo ago
fil's AirOcean projection on the original ObservableHQ is a fun starting point for rendering your own such map in Javascript from scratch: https://observablehq.com/@fil/airocean-projection The source data is down
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by thadk 2mo ago
It bugs me so much when eReaders re-render the ebook and everything moves slightly. I lose my eye muscle memory of where things were. Until now, I had not thought to try to lock down the settings that lead to accidental reflows. It sounds l
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by thadk 2mo ago
Would dropping airplane windows lower radiation exposure somewhat, especially on those polar routes?
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by thadk 2mo ago
Three or so years ago, Omar, the creator of DSpy pointed out on Twitter that ~LLMs get better most by better internal collaboration. Wish I could find it. It seems to me that LLMs and particularly chatbots have already allowed for bigger sc
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by thadk 2mo ago
maybe they did already via the "formerly known as" comment in the paper?: https://www.spongium.org
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by thadk 3mo ago
Does anyone have hints on what kinds of prompts are most used for a distillation like this—SWE-Bench sorts of things? Is reconstructing the compressed knowledge in the model like reconstructing a lossy JPG or MP3 a reasonable analogy?
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by thadk 3mo ago
Somewhat related, but TIL the macOS Screenshot.app utility (and the system wide keyboard shortcuts) in Sonoma got HDR capability to help re-convey just a bit more fidelity. Even in PNG, it keeps the display profile, just not HDR. Open Utili
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by thadk 3mo ago
2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140515004053/https://www.jason...
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by thadk 4mo ago
His Studio Display 3D printable model MacBook holder: https://arslan.io/macbook-holder-for-apple-studio-display/
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by thadk 4mo ago
Microsoft poorly manages token use of most expensive models in a pilot. Then they use that failure to advertise/position their own Github Copilot agents to procurement teams, over the now widely validated Claude Code-based agents. At l
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by thadk 4mo ago
Article does not mention the other reason: in the interview with Dwarkesh, Amodei remarked about how other organizations are copying or training off Opus for their models. By delaying allowing others to train off Mythos, they hold their SWE
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by thadk 4mo ago
Anyone else read this as "An idiot's guide to Pb optimization for proteins," as in avoiding contaminated dietary protein isolates?
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by thadk 6mo ago
Muji stocked a stapler like this for some time.
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by thadk 6mo ago
Ffmpeg.WASM is really good and might manage all these steps before even uploading.
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by thadk 6mo ago
Since it kind of had an LLM flavor in the original anyway, I had an LLM redraft this for my particular non-Japanese intercultural situation, and it wasn't valueless. I had to tell it to "Make sure to keep the same technology focus
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by thadk 7mo ago
The Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) mentioned is streaming on Amazon Prime in the USA, amongst other streaming services: https://letterboxd.com/film/land-of-silence-and-darkness/
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by thadk 7mo ago
"We're not perfectly good at preventing some of these other [model] companies from using our models internally." — well maybe this says something about how Opus 4.5 and Opus 4.6 have the same SWE bench score.
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by thadk 7mo ago
Huh, so if a China-based lab takes ARC-AGI-2 on the new year, then they can say they had just-shy of a solution anyway.
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by thadk 8mo ago
It was probably from the other day when roon realized that normal people have it slower than staff. Then from that they realized they could just run API calls more like staff, fast, not at capacity. Then they leave the billion other people&
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by thadk 8mo ago
Does this manufacturer's practice pattern of repackaging data center components (e.g. Mellanox) imply any up and coming product creation opportunities?
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by thadk 8mo ago
On two separate instances 4 years apart in Liberia, the VSAT unit and Asus WiFi router were overheating at peak usage or peak heat times. This must be happening more than is generally realized. Easiest solution: permanently point a good cas
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by thadk 8mo ago
this Nov video talks thru via Cursor renegotiation, how in important ways a token != a token (not even within types like reasoning, output, or a model) because attention can lead to expensive logic loops. https://www.oreilly.com&
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by thadk 8mo ago
Glad it was a helpful remix! Since that post, the original tool author added UKLG's full version to the tool: https://ttc.tasuki.org/display:Code:gff,sm,jc,rh,uklg/sectio...
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by thadk 8mo ago
The main thing about Freeform that has been useful is that it has been a https://infinitecanvas.tools without a lock-in subscription.

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