CSMastermind

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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
No, Erdos problems were accepted as sort of a benchmark. There's a bunch of reasons they're favorable for this task: 1. They have a wide range of difficulties. 2. They were curated (Erdos didn't know at first glance how to
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
> It’s crazy to me that two decades after the iTunes Store the trade and resale of digital goods isn’t protected by law. You aren't buying a digital good, you're buying a limited license to use that digital good.
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
That hasn't been my experience, I use LLMs in place of search. Two examples from tonight that I asked Grok for: > Can you find the girl who did a bunch of posts critisizing David Graeber's Debt? I thought it was really well d
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
This was the promise of Bing that never materialized.
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
Aren't these kinds of watermarks easy to remove or distort? Seems like they're only helpful as long as people are relying on them sparingly so it's not worth the effort to circumvent. If social media platforms started bannin
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
Sure I speak to ChatGPT all the time and I've used the feature you've linked but it can't do the things I described. It won't be like, "hey let me go look into that" and then come back in 3 minutes with an ans
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
Not as far as I know. Can you walk me through the process? I have my phone, I'm going for a walk, what app am I opening?
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
Still not useful enough for me and I really want this feature! The problem I encounter is the inability of the LLM to look stuff up and respond to me. "What's that name of that database table?" "What are all the servic
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
This war game has been discussed many times. One thing to consider is that Van Riper summoned assets unrealistically he used small boats to avoid detection but then attributed load outs that they couldn't realistically carry. He also m
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
This brings me back to the glory days of StumbleUpon. Highly recommend.
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
Elon argued that even though the events in question took place sometime between 2017 and 2020 OpenAI intentionally hid the information from him until 2022-2023 which is why he wasn't able to file the lawsuit until 2024. That's wha
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
This seems tautological, but in practice, you might expect to see different results. Engineering hours are finite, so if they're spread across interpreting signals from two different sources, they might not go deep enough to make eithe
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
I mean I'd love for them to take it further. If you put me on the phone with a talented software engineer I could supervise all sorts of changes. I wish I could do the same thing with my coding agent. Being able to be like, "he
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
I'm increasingly convinced that there's a killer app waiting for whoever can come up with a UI that makes claude code or codex accessible to the average user. Onboarding my non-software engineer teammates to it has super-charged t
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
People blame AI but in reality it's more about America transitioning from a high-trust society to a low-trust one.
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
The behavior of every valid state should be defined and obvious to anyone making changes. Invalid states should be impossible to represent. All software is actually a state machine and almost all complexity comes from unmanaged state trans
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
I'll give you the cheat sheet: - Good design is a single idea pervaded throughout. - More generally, your goal should be to minimize surprise. - If your system allows it, people will do it. - Everyone will not just. If your solution s
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
He was just mentioned on today's Lateral podcast with Tom Scott. Apparently, he's the reason tennis balls are yellow. I guess they were traditionally white but when they started broadcasting matches on TV it was too hard to see th
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
There used to be back during the original eBay boom but I haven't seen any in a while.
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
KMart famously aquired the much larger Sears (and then destroyed it)
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
Insanely cool. I've had it in the back of my mind to write a Rust compiler for the game boy for a long time and everytime I see something like this I think about brushing off that project.
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
What's the rough equivalent of a local model? Are we talking GPT-4?
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
Yeah I almost mentioned this! The recent GPT upgrade might actually be the most helpful tool in the space.
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
No it's a big area of opportunity right now. All the existing solutions are pretty rough.
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
For the uninitiated, Paul Erdős was a pretty famous but very eccentric mathematician who lived for most of the 1900s. He had a habit of seeking out and documenting mathematical problems people were working on. The problems range in difficul
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
Worth mentioning, though, that people have already tried running all of them through LLMs at this point. So this is proof of the models actually getting stronger (previous generations of LLMs were unable to solve this one).
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
That's literally what the Erdős problems are. This post is about one of them being solved.
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
Sort of. Not saying that I think anyone should do this but just explaining for the sake of general knowledge. I'm simplifying things quite a bit, but almost all military contracts are 8-year (typically split into a 4-year active and 4
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
> It still struggles to create shaders from scratch Oh just like a real developer
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by CSMastermind 5mo ago
Demographic change is the obvious explanation.

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