IanCal

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by IanCal 6mo ago
> Today’s backyard AI looks like AI. It is not AI. Getting real tired of people new to AI thinking only recent LLMs are AI somehow. BoW was a pretty solid technique and that only requires you to learn how to count to one.
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by IanCal 6mo ago
> I don't understand how any human in good faith could look at Iran's government and say they are the evil regime You seem to be trying to force reality into a “good vs evil” storyline. There does not have to be a good side.
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by IanCal 6mo ago
Can you explain the benefits over something like openrouter?
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by IanCal 6mo ago
These have been AI for longer than most people here have been hearing the term. Neural nets have been AI since before most people here were born.
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by IanCal 6mo ago
There’s something called the Gell-Mann amnesia effect where people often see what you have but then go back to assuming the other stories are all reliable. I used to love Private Eye and they have done great journalism that’s highly acclaim
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by IanCal 6mo ago
The results absolutely are interesting - in fact they’re far stronger for the willingness of many to inflict violence than the original description suggested. > While every obedient participant reliably pressed the shock lever, they regu
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by IanCal 7mo ago
Saying gpt 5.4 is like gpt2 is wild.
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by IanCal 7mo ago
We’ve been calling neural nets AI for decades. > 5 years before that, a Big Data algorithm. The DNN part? Absolutely not. I don’t know why people feel the need for such revisionism but AI has been a field encompassing things far more bas
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by IanCal 7mo ago
> I don't write code the same as other devs Most people do, most people don’t have wildly different setups do they? I’d bet there’s a lot in common between how you write code and how your coworkers do.
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by IanCal 7mo ago
The benefit of digital things is that they can be copied much more cheaply than physical things. There’s perhaps migrations and upkeep though. On the technical side perhaps the shared nature of this helps - if you can have something replica
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by IanCal 7mo ago
No, the big thing with AGI was that it was general . AI things we made were extremely narrow, identify things out of a set of classes or route planning or something similarly specific. We couldn't just hand the systems a new kind of t
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by IanCal 7mo ago
They did for some problems. If you gave me five iterations at a problem like this in brainfuck: > "Read a string S and produce its run-length encoding: for each maximal block of identical characters, output the character followed
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by IanCal 7mo ago
You could write an api, and then document it, and then add maybe useful prompts? Then you’d need a way of passing all that info on to a model, so something top level. It’d be useful to do things in the same way as others (so if everyone is
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by IanCal 7mo ago
It doesn’t need to be human level, and if I walk into a room and forget why I went in am I no longer a general intelligence?
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by IanCal 7mo ago
I did AI back before it was cool and I think we have agi. Imo the whole distinction was from extremely narrow AI to general intelligence. A classifier for engine failure can only do that - a route planner can only do that… Now we have thing
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by IanCal 7mo ago
> The recent Esolang benchmarks indicate that these LLMs are actually pretty bad at that. I’m really not sure how well a typical human would do writing brainfuck. It’d take me a long time to write some pretty basic things in a bunch of t
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by IanCal 7mo ago
In practice I’ve found that property based testing has a very high ratio of value per effort of test written. Ui tests like: * if there is one or more items on the page one has focus * if there is more than one then hitting tab changes focu
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by IanCal 7mo ago
I'm a huge fan of property based testing, I've built some runners before, and I think it can be great for UI things too so very happy to see this coming around more. Something I couldn't see was how those examples actually wo
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by IanCal 7mo ago
Well what would each billionaire do? Give out money so that the poor can give some of it back? You cannot just point at a system, say it’d be unsustainable and then assume nobody will let that happen. Monarchies, lords, etc. have had much m
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by IanCal 7mo ago
I cannot shake the feeling that with that quote the people were trying to point out a problem with something he’d said. “With this machine, all the results will be correct, no more errors in log tables” “And what if people put the wrong fig
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by IanCal 7mo ago
Almost everything is non deterministic to some degree. Huge amounts of machine learning, most things that have some timing element to them in distributed systems, anything that might fail, anything involving humans, actual running computati
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by IanCal 7mo ago
Deterministic doesn’t mean “generally pretty predictable, in broad strokes”. > If you give the same trivial task to the same human five times in a row, let's say wash the dishes, your dishes are either gonna be equally clean or equa
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by IanCal 7mo ago
This is a pretty wild comparison in my opinion, it counts almost everything as gambling which means it has almost no use as a definition. The most obvious issue is it’d class working with humans as gambling. Fine if you want to make that as
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by IanCal 7mo ago
I got really lost on their site, but to help a bit according to their model page devstral-2512 devstral-latest and devstral-medium-latest are all devstral 2 https://docs.mistral.ai/models/devstral-2-25-12 labs-devstral
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by IanCal 7mo ago
And you can then set things like "open with" if you want click -> launch with specific app. The biggest thing for me is that you can name the configurations for what they're doing not how . For example: > fetch---api
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by IanCal 7mo ago
Also, you can share the generic program and then share wrapper scripts that are named for what they do rather than a series of flags. Then to share, you're just sharing a config file, script or similar that calls "whatever.exe --d
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by IanCal 7mo ago
There's a whole host of problems with it. I'm almost on the side of saying this is a well written troll post but... To have two different things you need to run, now you need to have multiple copies of the same thing. What does th
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by IanCal 7mo ago
> what kind of team lead is this? One that trusts the team? Knowing what's happening in the team and personally reviewing parts of the code for best practices are very different things. Are the other team members happy? Does develop
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by IanCal 7mo ago
> I’m planning to write something about this too, but this one is more of an art piece: It’s a ticking wall clock that ticks seconds irregularly, but is always accurate to the minute (with its time getting synced over the internet). It h
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by IanCal 7mo ago
I've definitely had pushback on what to do or approaches, yes. I've had this more recently because I've been pushing more on a side of "I want to know if this would end up being fast enough / allow something that it

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