ImaCake

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by ImaCake 4mo ago
You should try out the cheaper models first. I find Deepseek v4 models pretty comparable to sonnet 4.6 but at a fraction of the cost. You might find you just don't need to use the American models at all.
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by ImaCake 4mo ago
That first map seems to map quite closely to koppen climate zones across the continent. Its hard to say whether the climate is decisive here because climate is a big influencer of urban design. However, its interesting that in Australia its
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by ImaCake 4mo ago
If you go to the original link [0] you will see that things are actually pretty stable and okay? 0. https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/ltt/2025/
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by ImaCake 4mo ago
It's fun and it looks good regardless of whether its 100% correct (It would certainly take me more than 9 hours of work to do better than this). Making these bespoke tools possible for most people is a big deal.
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by ImaCake 4mo ago
People are not (yet) aware what has been making everyone fat, but ozempic is making it harder to ignore that ultraprocessed foods are the culprit. So hopefully this will change.
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by ImaCake 5mo ago
You can do it with a phone camera, ffmpeg, colmap, and opensplat on an m4 macbook air easy enough. I got a nice render of my logitech mouse from it.
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by ImaCake 5mo ago
In my experience, LLM usage follows an exponential distribution i.e. most people using LLMs are not using many resources, but a very small few are using a massive amount of resources. Most LLM usage is trivial and tiny, most of what I use L
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by ImaCake 5mo ago
I think this falls flat for a technical audience because we already know how to do this stuff. But there are a lot of people who don't know how to copy paste, or use reverse image search, or apply a filter to a table. Being able to use
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by ImaCake 7mo ago
Or what if local models get good enough to threaten the server based product?
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by ImaCake 10mo ago
I read/listened/sampled a lot this year but a few have reached out into my life and changed me at least a little bit. - In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan. A brilliant "not diet" book about not eating crap and enjoying
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by ImaCake 11mo ago
Can't speak for OP but I largely spend it reading (and web). I bought a kindle recently because I found the ipad/iphone were too distracting to reliably avoid web surfing instead of a book. I view the switch to long form content a
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by ImaCake 1y ago
> LLMs struggle with simplicity in my experience I think a lot of this is because people (and thus LLMs) use verbosity as a signal for effort. It's a very bad signal, especially for software, but its a very popular signal. Most writ
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by ImaCake 1y ago
HN is too boring though. Often I come here and there is nothing clickbait enough to get me to read it and I go elsewhere. It's great.
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by ImaCake 1y ago
No smartphone can match the bottom tier super-zoom camera I have for bird photography. Even with the frankly microscopic sensor on the super-zoom the power of depth-of-field on an adjustable zoom lens is amazing.
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by ImaCake 1y ago
Text size is also contingent on the basic technologies of the time. Ancient texts by the length and cost of parchment, and anything before the printing press by how easy it is to copy. Maybe its only now that we are less constrained by tech
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by ImaCake 1y ago
This whole argument would be dead in the water if society had de-carbonised 20 years ago instead of now. This stinks of the personal responsibility fallacy of carbon emissions when the real answer is to do the boring job of making energy pr
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by ImaCake 1y ago
Not sure why you got down voted for this. The opening paragraph of the article reads as suspicious to the observant outsider: >The rationalist community was drawn together by AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky’s blog post series The Sequenc
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by ImaCake 1y ago
Most science runs on BS with a cursory amount of statistics slapped on top so everyone can feel better about it. Weirdly enough, science still works despite not being rational. Rationalists seem to think science is logical when in reality i
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by ImaCake 1y ago
You can treat climate change as your personal Ragnarok, but its also possible to take a more sober view that climate change is just bad without it being apocalyptic.
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by ImaCake 1y ago
I tried the Age of the Captain on Gemini and ChatGPT and both game smarmy answers of "ahh this a classic gotcha". I managed to get ChatGPT to then do some interestng creative inference but Gemini decided to be boring.
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by ImaCake 1y ago
> searching through piles of spam and junk In the same way that I never learnt the Dewey decimal system because digital search had driven it obsolete. It may be that we just won't need to do as much sifting through spam in the futur
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by ImaCake 1y ago
The article states that Study Mode is free to use. Regardless of b2b costs, this is free for you as an individual.
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by ImaCake 1y ago
The ambiguity here is awful marketing practice. This bitter pill would be much easier to swallow if it was a hard number instead of these vague ranges. It would serve Anthropic better too - telling people they only get 300hrs vs between 240
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by ImaCake 1y ago
I mean they own meetup which is one of the worst platforms that has failed to die in-spite of how terrible a product it is.
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by ImaCake 1y ago
Yep, I suspect this is all marketing fluff and no substance. I see a lot of superlatives but no substantial technical breakthrough here.
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by ImaCake 1y ago
Not only that, it includes a link to the USDA reference so you can verify it yourself. I have switched back to google because of how useful I find the RAG overviews.
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by ImaCake 1y ago
>our only options are "do nothing" or "murder executives". Well no, we can have some form of mediator institution which arbitrates such debates peacefully. You could also setup a ritualised debate implicitly agreed to
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by ImaCake 1y ago
There is nothing about LLMs that make them bias towards "better" code. LLMs are every bit as good at making low effort reddit posts and writing essays for Harper's Magazine. In fact, there's a lot more shit reddit posts
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by ImaCake 1y ago
+1 for Reolink. We have a reolink camera hooked into home assistant, the whole setup is local and reolink's API exposes every single feature in home assistant with no additional setup needed. My house also came with an existing NVR cam
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by ImaCake 1y ago
Arguably, institutions like the EPA exist to moderate extremes. The EPA simulatenously prevents industry from causing cancer clusters and extinctions while also preventing eco-terrorism. All the science, surveys, and purple prose done by th

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