NiloCK

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by NiloCK 8mo ago
> The transformer architectures powering current LLMs are strictly feed-forward. This is true in a specific contextual sense (each token that an LLM produces is from a feed-forward pass). But untrue for more than a year with reasoning mo
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by NiloCK 8mo ago
I think there's something to this, but I also there there's something to the notion that it'll get easier and easier to do mass-market work with them, but at the same time they'll become greater and greater force multipl
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Ask HN: How are you working now?
1 points by NiloCK 8mo ago|1 comments
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by NiloCK 8mo ago
Grey market fast-follow via distillation seems like an inevitable feature of the near to medium future. I've previously doubted that the N-1 or N-2 open weight models will ever be attractive to end users, especially power users. But it
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by NiloCK 8mo ago
> Didn't expect to go back to macOS but their basically the only feasible consumer option for running large models locally. I presume here you are referring to running on the device in your lap. How about a headless linux inference
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by NiloCK 8mo ago
What's your target false positive rate? I mean, obviously you can't know your actual error rates, but it seems useful to estimate a number for this and to have a rough intuition for what your target rate is. Did chatGPT write this
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by NiloCK 8mo ago
This comment is too general and probably unfair, but my experience so far is that Gemini 3 is slightly unhinged. Excellent reasoning and synthesis of large contexts, pretty strong code, just awful decisions. It's like a frontier mode
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by NiloCK 8mo ago
The most boring example is somehow the best example. A couple of years back there was a Canadian national u18 girls baseball tournament in my town - a few blocks from my house in fact. My girls and I watched a fair bit of the tournament, an
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by NiloCK 8mo ago
Cat's out of the bag now, and it seems they'll probably patch it, but: Use other flows under standard billing to do iterative planning, spec building, and resource loading for a substantive change set. EG, something 5k+ loc, 10+ f
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by NiloCK 8mo ago
I'm getting astrology when I search for this. Any links on this?
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by NiloCK 9mo ago
Technological adolescence indeed! In the most straightforward way possible, the commoditized intelligence-as-a-service of a technologically mature civilization must be a public utility, rather than a handful of walled gardens competing over
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by NiloCK 9mo ago
I agree it does all have the same problem, but on balance: it's much easier to rationalize my own use of genAI to augment my programming skillset and (maybe) stay employable, than it is to rationalize using genAI to do commercial artwo
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by NiloCK 9mo ago
It's not that code is distinct or "less than" art. It's an authority and boundaries question. I've written a fair amount of open source code. On anything like a per-capita basis, I'm way above median in terms o
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by NiloCK 9mo ago
If you find yourself 50-first-dating your LLMs, it may be worth it to invest some energy into building up some better context indexing of both the codebase itself and of your roadmap.
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by NiloCK 9mo ago
Given this specific family of product, the ads are essentially baked in - medium is the message and all. LLM induced psychosis is one thing, but extremely subtle LLM induced brand loyalty or ideological alignment seem like natural attract
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Revisiting the Joys and Woes of the Craft in 2026(paritybits.me)
1 points by NiloCK 9mo ago|1 comments
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by NiloCK 9mo ago
I came across the Brooks excerpt recently and found that it has suddenly started to fall out of date. Curious how others are feeling these days about the varied Joys and Woes.
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by NiloCK 9mo ago
Data has historically been a moat, but I think now more than ever it's a moat of bounded size / utility. The biggest data hoarders now compress their data into oracles whose job is to say whatever to whoever - leaking an ever-impr
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by NiloCK 9mo ago
Quite a contrast from the quote about civilization advancing in proportion to the size and scope of things it can achieve automatically. Dug it up. Alfred Whitehead: It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by emi
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by NiloCK 9mo ago
A rooted phone is more capable of modifying the banking app itself and has 'freer reign' over the APIs that the app uses to interact with the bank. Whereas previously the app displays a 'whitelisted' set of UI options to
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by NiloCK 9mo ago
I do not know whether I'm misinterpreting this comment but: Yes, the context from working sessions moves over the wire - claude "the model" doesn't work inside the CLI on your machine - it's an API service that the
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by NiloCK 9mo ago
Nit: Children haven't been taught the food pyramid in something like a couple of decades I think. Current model is something like the DailyPlate visual - a plate filled proportionally with various things.
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by NiloCK 9mo ago
FYI Opus is available and pretty usable in claude-code on the $20/Mo plan if you are at all judicious. I exclusively use opus for architecture / speccing, and then mostly Sonnet and occasionally Haiku to write the code. If my usag
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by NiloCK 10mo ago
Thank you for sharing. Seems to validate my suspicions!
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by NiloCK 10mo ago
You may know that intermittent rashes are always invisible in the presence of medical credentials. Years ago I became suspicious of my Samsung Android device when I couldn't produce a reliable likeness of an allergy induced rash. No ma
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by NiloCK 10mo ago
Being born in 83, I experienced the shift from "serious local nightly news program" into the 24 hr cable news platforms as a loss of focused, serious journalism. Only much later did I read Understanding Media, Amusing Ourselves to
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by NiloCK 10mo ago
Another overlooked characteristic of a toy, especially a toy that takes up space, is "doneness". Lots of free-play toys that my own kids use (4 and 7) can unconditionally be defended as still in use . They haven't been touch
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by NiloCK 10mo ago
I think what you're describing here is mostly a mindset / user education problem. SRS is for "serious learning", which by necessity will unconditionally feel difficult - if your training sessions aren't strenuous, t
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by NiloCK 10mo ago
Wow that was a garbage comment! My introduction to this type of model measuring came from an interview where the repeatedly hammered-home point was that Sonnet 4.0 nailed a gigantic refactor (conversion of a large legacy asp.net or similar
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by NiloCK 10mo ago
I appreciate horizon expansion as a fundamental metric, but duration seems like too crude a measure. We used to like it when computers were fast. An infinitely unscrupulous model provider could double this five hour result by cutting your o

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