AlexErrant

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by AlexErrant 5d ago
Well, they're not above forking their own project to patch security holes and never upstreaming the fixes. https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576 > Google should not be gatekeeping security pa
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by AlexErrant 7d ago
It's a memo taken out of context from Jan 2023, literally 1 month after the ChatGPT public release. All the article cites: > The brief cited an internal memo dated January 2023 by Microsoft director of Applied Science Brent Hecht, w
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by AlexErrant 8d ago
It _is_ sus, but you should be willing to forgive. It's not like it was done out of animus, and I assume that an academic/foreigner is unaccustomed to how production software conventions work. Their baseline is less important, mor
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by AlexErrant 8d ago
I mean... If you wanna build your project on a language that has no auditable history, reproducible builds, artifacts/releases, force pushes and breaks literally EVERY fork/PR, has no way to build or even see v2.0.3, and doesn&#x2
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by AlexErrant 8d ago
Props. G'luck with your project, I know what it's like to work nights & weekends. Unfortunately, first impressions matter.
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by AlexErrant 9d ago
Erm, because it looks weird? Do you know any other language projects that squash their repos down to 1 commit? That's a destruction of trust, which is kinda important if you want people to build on your language. Virtually everyone has
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by AlexErrant 9d ago
https://github.com/bendlang/bend ...did they just squash the repo to 1 commit for v2.0.4? Why? Yall should know that in this age of AI trust is the real currency... and nuking your history is one hell of a way to raise
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by AlexErrant 9d ago
Dumb Q: should a non-systems-language dev know/read assembly? ; Arm64 --- .NET 10 +++ .NET 11 @@ -13,8 +13,6 @@ ble G_M000_IG04 G_M000_IG03: - cmp w1, w2 - bh
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by AlexErrant 9d ago
FWIW the .NET 10 release also had 2 occurrences of "real" in literally the first paragraph. I, too, tire of the constant YOU WROTE THIS WITH LLMs outrage. An incredible engineer dumped an ENORMOUS amount of technical knowledge at
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by AlexErrant 16d ago
This doesn't solve grinding? If it did, we'd see results by now (Published: 27 January 2026), and there's months of delay between submission and publication. I'm willing to be wrong, but I'm just not seeing anything
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by AlexErrant 16d ago
Agree. Gonna note that biology is even less grindable than ordinary chemistry/physics/engineering. We'll have advancements in other real-world fields before AI-powered bioengineering becomes A Thing.
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by AlexErrant 16d ago
Sup fellow Alex. > AI with real-world competence is coming very soon Disagree, Moravec's Paradox remains undefeated. How long has Elon promised self-driving cars? Or how long have we been seeing humanoid-robot-walking demos? Laundry
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by AlexErrant 16d ago
Literally 2 days ago, from a former Anthropic researcher: > The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. https://x.com/hilbertspaess/stat
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by AlexErrant 16d ago
My main issue with this timeline is that AI still has trouble transitioning to the real world. It predicts for 2029: > There are swarms of insect-sized drones that can poison human infantry before they are even noticed; flocks of bird-si
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by AlexErrant 17d ago
Ah derp; that's what I get for moving too fast. Genuine thanks for calling me out on my bullshit. (and this is also why I prefer auditable citations instead of casual "my reading of twitter is...") I retract the projectnash c
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by AlexErrant 18d ago
2. Fair, and further I would agree that OpenAI not knowing if prior user prompts were part of training data is concerning and will only lead to more secrecy. 3. ctrl-f "x.com" in this thread only yields https://x.com&#x
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by AlexErrant 18d ago
This clarification substantially changes the flavor/nuance of your OP; may I suggest an edit (assuming the locktime hasn't passed)? Separately, I disagree that intellectual work has ever been free of "dark forest"-style
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by AlexErrant 18d ago
1. What does the dark forest have to do with this? Because "the most senior OpenAI researchers" are shitposting on social media, we've an answer to the Fermi paradox??? 2. The dark forest is fun for scifi stories, but is math
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by AlexErrant 22d ago
Cookie nonsense aside, the EU is mandating that AI companies watermark their output. I'm curious if that (noticably) diminishes the quality of the output.
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by AlexErrant 23d ago
Sebastian Raschka, author of Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch) , commented on this: > Reusing layers does not by itself suppress visible chain of thought. It adds computation in hidden states before the next token is emitted, just
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by AlexErrant 24d ago
So... is it? You seem to be implying the opposite.
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by AlexErrant 25d ago
You're missing the pattern of behavior from Anthropic. They constantly market like this: the session link, the Co-Authored by Claude, the unwillingness to adopt AGENTS.md. Hell, on workflows on 2.1.246 Claude's been ignoring the &
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by AlexErrant 25d ago
> even though I'm using a free tier Erm, that's to be expected. GPUs ain't free. Anyone can make a free account and cost them potentially infinite compute, so a phone number is a way to lock that down. Might not be the &
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by AlexErrant 27d ago
If _you_ choose to do it, no. If the tool auto-does it, yes.
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by AlexErrant 1mo ago
> we’ve also switched to a reprogrammable keyboard controller using open source ZMK firmware o.m.g. Is this the first laptop to do this?
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by AlexErrant 1mo ago
Opus5 decided it would be a good idea to include my email as part an HTTP request header's User Agent because Anthropic includes your email as part of the system prompt. Fucking morons over there.
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by AlexErrant 1mo ago
Another week, another outage, another cache expiration of my prompts through no fault of my own. At least OpenAI has the decency to reset after a serious outage.
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by AlexErrant 1mo ago
Agree 100%. To quote myself: --- Which do you think is worse: smoking, or not exercising? https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... Look at Figure 2C in particular. The hazard ratio of smokin
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by AlexErrant 1mo ago
People kick around the idea of the "personal fat threshold". E.g. caucasians seem to be better at carrying fat than, say, Southeast Asians. White people seem to be able to better store fat without metabolic side effects; SEA seems
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by AlexErrant 1mo ago
To "actshully" you (because there are no absolutes in biology) pro-triathlete Lionel Sanders got his hba1c up to prediabetic range (5.9) https://www.tri247.com/triathlon-news/elite/lionel-sanders-t... Al

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