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by wzdd 3d ago
These aren’t tools which play chess. They are language models which roleplay a conversation (in this case including use of tools) which an evaluator is likely to mark as good. That’s all they do. Under that lens, playing chess is just one
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by wzdd 5d ago
Agreed. I was confused by the Trio example until I reverse engineered what they meant from the outputs. Trio behaves differently (in well-defined, easy to understand ways) depending on where you put nurseries.
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by wzdd 6d ago
This issue is older than the M chips: a formative OpenCL moment on my Intel MacBook involved locking it up in this way. By contrast, a similar CUDA kernel running on Linux was forcibly stopped after some short-ish time. Worse and less defen
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by wzdd 16d ago
These rethinking-highlighting posts always start out with the wrong premise. The color for class names in my code is the color all the class names have. After a short time working with the code I would notice if one looked off. The brain i
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by wzdd 23d ago
Or, you know, using the totally-real-picture camera to take a photo of an AI-generated scene?
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by wzdd 1mo ago
AGI is here and its first task is obviously completing the C64’s game library. Not really. AGI is a game interpreter, like LucasArts’ SCUMM or Infocom’s z machine. Games are shipped as portable code and a machine specific AGI interpreter ru
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by wzdd 2mo ago
Wilson didn’t write “sex scene”, she wrote “sex”. In the story there is plenty of implied sex. In the movie there is none. It’s not a major issue in itself, it’s part of a broader point about movie Odysseus being “uncomplicated” versus the
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by wzdd 2mo ago
It does, but in the same way that LLMs take two paragraphs to make a one-sentence point: by being weirdly specific and also redundant. LLMs don’t have a sense of whimsy in the face of RLHF, so if it’s proposing a solution, the solution is t
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by wzdd 2mo ago
> They don't "blow bubbles" to sleep vertically, they vent gas to regulate their specific gravity. This allows them to sleep vertically When I read this I thought you'd discovered that the whales release the gas in a
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by wzdd 2mo ago
My reaction was negative when I read the title (policy!), but the actual outcome was very reasonable. "Hey, can we add $ORIGIN to the VFS layer to support relocatable interpreters?" "You can already do that with binfmt_misc a
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by wzdd 2mo ago
The article discusses a technique by which the author achieves high accuracy at detecting AI written text. Unless you have a problem with their experimental method, this is the opposite of tarot card reading. > we are well into undetecta
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by wzdd 2mo ago
Come on, that video is on another level. "All my friends are turning green" (shot of $1 bills), "she's been living on the highest shelf" (woman standing on Juliet balcony), "they come unstuck" (someone pul
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by wzdd 2mo ago
The OP notes that they had to use special phrasing to get their exfil to work, so clearly GitHub was aware of the issue and made an attempt to prevent it. It seems like the proper fix is for GitHub not to allow their agentic workflow to exe
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by wzdd 2mo ago
Given the Mandelbrot program is 450k probably not.
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by wzdd 3mo ago
"Factual mistake" is a bit harsh, but the missing piece is that there are multiple ways to romanise Japanese; all of them produce "valid Romaji" but only in the particular system being used. Si is how you write し in roma
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by wzdd 3mo ago
Oodi is at least equally community / maker space and library, very distinctively and attractively designed, quite new, and in the middle of Helsinki, so there are a lot of non Finnish speakers visiting so there is a large English secti
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by wzdd 3mo ago
It’s a nice engineering approach, but I’m interested in the motivation. Um and ah is distracting in a transcript, where you can naturally pause to take in information; in speech however it can serve as a focusing point to indicate the next
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by wzdd 3mo ago
> In your analysis you have shown that exactly one of these reasons is anecdotal. This was actually the convincing one for me though. “Did AI increase the rsync bug rate? Dunno, can’t tell yet” seems like a fine conclusion to me. Plenty
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by wzdd 3mo ago
It is certainly unkind, when a developer asserts the opposite of what you have assumed about their code, to double down and imply they are lying.
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by wzdd 3mo ago
The code is part of a function called expand item list. It looks like it over allocates memory and uses a bump pointer for internal allocation, only expanding the allocation when necessary. Thus OOB writes to the list would hit the allocate
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by wzdd 4mo ago
I have one of these and run Debian 13 on it. I love it. Having only two USB ports is annoying and I ended up buying a relatively expensive PD Thunderbolt hub, and there are some compromises that come with the territory (middling battery lif
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by wzdd 4mo ago
> Every time someone imagines a country going after Microsoft You don't need to imagine it: the comment you are replying to links to a press release from a Government agency "going after Microsoft". And yet somehow we have
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by wzdd 4mo ago
It really depends. If you're cranking out prototypes or testing ideas, it's genuinely great. But if you're familiar with the code it's very easy to spot its (many) mistakes. It's Gell-Mann amnesia. Then again, I jus
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by wzdd 4mo ago
> Cream in his coffee, butter in his soups, all the gristle he could handle. I've noticed Claude is specifically fond of three-element lists consisting of (standard example of class), (standard example of class), (nonstandard exampl
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by wzdd 4mo ago
People said the same thing about a joke Douglas Adams made in his Hitch Hikers series -- that the (corrupted) Ultimate Question to which the answer was 42 ("what do you get if you multiply six by nine?") was a maths joke because 6
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by wzdd 5mo ago
Quotes from unhappy staff are in the Business Insider article which the article links to in its third paragraph.
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by wzdd 5mo ago
Zip disks were much less floppy than floppies. They felt more similar to a single magnetic hard disk platen. Presumably the stiffness was what enabled the head to float above the medium, while also allowing tighter read/write timing be
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by wzdd 5mo ago
Approximately 10 minutes is enough time to see the benefits but not the disadvantages. These effects might disappear again after multi-week interactions with AI, after it has led them down the wrong path, wasting hours; gaslit them into bel
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by wzdd 5mo ago
They carry information in regular human communication, so I'm genuinely curious why you'd think they would not when an LLM outputs them as part of the process of responding to a message.
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by wzdd 6mo ago
You can also configure the scroll direction on Windows (through the registry with 10, using the settings GUI with 11) and in Linux (depending your DE).

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