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by writeslowly 3mo ago
The site collection seems pretty random. There's a mix of actual AI labs, extremely questionable resellers (like whatever "claude-opus.top" is), and then random consumer sites like baidu and xiaohongshu.
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by writeslowly 7mo ago
It’s interesting that with both Anthropic and Google we’re seeing them develop agentic models that are supposed to do anything a human can do on computers without human intervention, but at the same time, if you plug one program into anothe
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by writeslowly 7mo ago
I wonder if you can use lower quality models (or some other non-llm related process) to inject more "noise" into the text in between stages. Of course it wouldn't help retain uniqueness from the original source text, just add
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by writeslowly 7mo ago
The vibes around the self-driving car hype (maybe 10 years ago?) felt very similar to me, but on a smaller scale. There was a lot of "You might like driving your car and having a steering wheel, but if you do, you're a luddite who
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by writeslowly 7mo ago
I see a number of uploaded skills on the site with bash and python scripts. No idea what runs them
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by writeslowly 8mo ago
I've triggered similar conversation level safety blocks on a personal Claude account by using an instance of Deepseek to feed in Claude output and then create instructions that would be copied back over to Claude (there wasn't any
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by writeslowly 11mo ago
I look at products like Hershey's chocolate or Reeses more like their own category of processed food, kind of like Spam. They have a close, but not exact resemblance to "normal" chocolate or peanut butter, but they're al
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by writeslowly 1y ago
I haven't actually had that much luck with having them output a boring API boilerplate in large Java projects. Like "I need to create a new BarOperation that has to go in a different set of classes and files and API prefixes than
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by writeslowly 1y ago
One thing I suspect is that leadership at tech companies that would have previously been working off of direct experience with technical processes, even if they no longer work directly on their own codebases, is pretty clueless about AI cod
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by writeslowly 2y ago
I recently ran across this toaster-in-dishwasher article [1] again and was disappointed that the LLMs I have access to could replicate the "hairdryer-in-aquarium" breakthrough (or the toaster-in-dishwasher scenario, although I hav
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by writeslowly 2y ago
This looks like my experiments to get R1 to write fiction and I think it’s worse than what you get from openai. For instance, it’s using very colorful language to describe a place that’s both a remote fishing village on the edge of a cliff
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Titan Submersible Marine Board of Investigation(news.uscg.mil)
79 points by writeslowly 2y ago|36 comments
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by writeslowly 2y ago
Somebody (probably a programmer or engineer) took the time to create all of that rad 3D word art, multicolored pie-chart, and the mountain logo, it's not hard to imagine they'd also throw in an eye-catching fake nuclear warhead fo
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by writeslowly 2y ago
What are the use cases for the advertised barcode reader accessory that appears to shoot the laser out the side of your laptop? https://connect.na.panasonic.com/toughbook/accessories/fz-vb...
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by writeslowly 2y ago
This study tested sun-sign (which is basically birth month I think) against personality tests for predicting life outcomes and found that sun sign did very poorly compared to the personality tests. I'd have thought there would be a sma
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by writeslowly 2y ago
If I wanted to see the heat index at 3PM in Dark Sky, I could just tap the "feels like" button under the hourly forecast (pictured further down in the linked blog post) and look at what it says at 3PM. I just tried in Apple Weathe
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by writeslowly 2y ago
One of the worst (best?) examples I remember was the Web of Trust extension in 2016. The company claimed it was selling anonymized user data but it was actually leaking information through recorded URLs about all sorts of private things lik
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by writeslowly 2y ago
This brought up a recent experience of my own with the tech interview process: I have to conduct a lot of coding interviews at my job (I personally think DS&A interviews are kind of stupid, but I get assigned to do them all the time any
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by writeslowly 2y ago
They also invented a new welding technique to control some sort of aluminum micro-explosions
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by writeslowly 2y ago
It stood out to me that after the initial text, they followed up two weeks later, and then once per day after that over a few days from different numbers. I would have expected to see someone send out a few threatening messages on one day a
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by writeslowly 2y ago
This seems like a lot of work for one (or two, once it got to China) people repeatedly trying to get into the phone. I wonder if this is like debt collection agencies where the stolen phones get repeatedly fenced at a steadily decreasing va
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by writeslowly 2y ago
I spent a few months writing a decent sized Clojure program just using my IDE's matching bracket highlighting and some sort of rainbow parentheses settings, and never found it very annoying. I'm not sure there are that many more p
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by writeslowly 2y ago
I made it through with my american phone number. I went through the apple account flow on the app instead of the website though.
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by writeslowly 2y ago
The ESP32 seems like a very different product to me. The pi has megabytes/gigabytes of memory and can reasonably run linux. Were people really using them for the same things?
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How Condé Nast bought and destroyed Pitchfork(semafor.com)
227 points by writeslowly 3y ago|201 comments
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by writeslowly 3y ago
For what the author is doing, the main consideration is that the type of gear you use affects your process, which is going to affect the end results. There's not a better or worse, but it's inevitable that you're going to get
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by writeslowly 3y ago
I noticed the Intel advisory [1] says the following Intel would like to thank Intel employees:[...] for finding this issue internally. Intel would like to thank Google Employees: [...] for also reporting this issue. [1] https://w
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by writeslowly 3y ago
Regarding remote control switch pressers, I have a couple switchbots, and most of the information online talks about using things like Home Assistant, but they also respond to anything that sends them a simple bluetooth command. You can eas
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Warren Spector – 40 years and I'm still here(gamedeveloper.com)
172 points by writeslowly 3y ago|44 comments
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by writeslowly 3y ago
The author is proposing that these “Workplace EFT” examples need some sort of fix, but I think it’s actual preferable to make the same decision as your coworkers and neglect them until they become a larger problem, since the alternative is

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