velcrovan

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Big AI to Humanity: Drop Dead(matthewbutterick.com)
2 points by velcrovan 3d ago|0 comments
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by velcrovan 5d ago
OK I see, thank you. The idea of "the planet running out of water" confused me.
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by velcrovan 5d ago
What's funny is that, being a claude code user, I don't need to give someone else's python package a 24/7 back door into all my activity, I can just make my own.
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by velcrovan 5d ago
How does the planet run out of water?
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Average Opus 5 Response(old.reddit.com)
1 points by velcrovan 14d ago|0 comments
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by velcrovan 15d ago
I have a pet theory that the Opus prose style/smell we all have grown weary of is due at least in part to the models writing more for themselves and each other than for humans. They're packing lots of signal into fewer words and t
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by velcrovan 24d ago
I had heard of this and actually did set the reasoning to medium ahead of time…
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by velcrovan 25d ago
https://joeldueck.com/what-about/camp/
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by velcrovan 25d ago
Not only do I produce standalone executables in Racket, I cross-compile GUI apps written on MacOS to produce executables for Windows.
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by velcrovan 25d ago
That's funny, I downloaded the same model on my 48GB M4 Pro and gave it a problem to solve in an existing codebase, it spun its wheels for twenty minutes and then fell over dead. This was using LMStudio and pi as a harness; I never use
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by velcrovan 29d ago
When asked to produce a thing, the output has a much better baseline of quality. But when you ask it to evaluate the quality of a thing, how do you evaluate the quality of its response, which is necessarily subjective and not quantifiable?
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by velcrovan 1mo ago
So, formulaic output…the opposite of taste
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by velcrovan 1mo ago
Assessing the subjective quality of a thing is in my experience one of the worst ways to use any LLM.
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by velcrovan 1mo ago
Yes, ‘Sloptraptions’ advertises itself as an AI-assisted newletter. Whatever your feelings about AI writing (I make a point of not using AI for writing, myself), it's silly to claim Rao is not the one making the point here. The piece l
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by velcrovan 1mo ago
I first saw this point made by Venkat Rao more than a year ago in "Prompting is Managing" [1]. It was written in response to the "Your brain on ChatGPT" paper that was then making the rounds, about how LLM use is suppose
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by velcrovan 1mo ago
I enjoy using the models. I also get that there are shenanigans and that marketing is happening, but as long as the models are this effective I can't much bring myself to care. I suspect most of their users are the same.
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by velcrovan 1mo ago
This is like saying the person you see in the mirror is categorically a human being because both of you produce similar reflections of light rays
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by velcrovan 1mo ago
It’s a bit like how the end point of the most wildly successful music is that you hear it on a loop in the grocery store
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by velcrovan 1mo ago
https://fundthebasilisk.com
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by velcrovan 1mo ago
I remember noting "djot" when John M. created it but hadn't really looked into it before now. After reading through the design goals and differences from Markdown, I can see we'd have been better off if somehow djot had
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by velcrovan 2mo ago
Ironically, my confidence that a human had at least an active part in writing/editing this article went up because of this train wreck of a sentence: > "A cache-aware model router will take that into account by adding stickines
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by velcrovan 2mo ago
If there were any upsides to brexit I've never heard what they were. (Though, also: not a brit)
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by velcrovan 2mo ago
As someone curious about subscribing: why did you end your subscription?
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by velcrovan 2mo ago
I take the opposite approach, I refuse to whitelist domains. When someone internal complains I send a notice to their contact on the other end (CCing the internal recipient) saying their email is misconfigured and ask them to put me in touc
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by velcrovan 2mo ago
I have this site’s rss feed in my feed reader. I definitely don’t try to keep up with every post but once a week or so I click through a dozen or so recent posts.
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by velcrovan 2mo ago
No mention of using this with CarPlay...
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by velcrovan 2mo ago
And in assembler and machine code before that! I'm persuaded that just about every language is "homoiconic" and that _bicameral syntax_ is the actually-interesting thing about Lisps : https://parentheticallyspeakin
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by velcrovan 2mo ago
Anyone got any advice for a techy dad with no (zero) Minecraft experience who wants to set up a Minecraft server for the family in 2026? Kids right now are playing on their iPads, and (sometimes) old macbooks/windows PCs.
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by velcrovan 2mo ago
"he's rich therefore he has no incentive to scam anyone" is not a good heuristic, though it will help you get a degree from Trump University.
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by velcrovan 2mo ago
Moby Dick has a bad (high) ratio of “people who try to read it like a thriller novel” to “people who read it for what it is”.

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