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by Retr0id 23d ago
You are specifically recommending asking the model which of two versions is better (the quote in my top-level comment). We both agree that they are poor "make it better" machines, but I also believe they are bad A/B testers a
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by Retr0id 23d ago
As a "proof" of their poor judgement, take a paragraph you like. Ask the LLM to rewrite it to make it better (which I think we both agree will not make it better), and then in a fresh session ask it which it thinks is best. It&#x2
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by Retr0id 23d ago
I don't think it's a useful substitute for actual proofreading though, unless you're truly in a time crunch. When I proofread I don't just look for mistakes, I try to put myself into the position of a prospective audienc
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by Retr0id 23d ago
> overused phrases and tics in your writing style In the extreme these can be annoying, but more often I find them kinda charming, as an expression of the author's personality.
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by Retr0id 23d ago
> Present the original and new writing to the model and ask it which is better. LLMs have absolutely terrible taste when it comes to writing. I don't find their feedback useful at all, beyond trivial spelling/grammar mistakes,
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by Retr0id 23d ago
I'm convinced that piles of markdown and effective search (which may involve vectors) is all you need.
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by Retr0id 23d ago
You could try out some version of this today, with a wiki. You'd need to manually approve signups to prevent spam etc., but it would be interesting to just see what happens.
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by Retr0id 23d ago
Maybe I'm missing out, but I've never used a single MCP, ever.
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by Retr0id 23d ago
I understand why they're doing this, but the anticausative title kinda rubs me the wrong way.
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by Retr0id 23d ago
I'm not GP, but hammers do kill hundreds of people every year.
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by Retr0id 23d ago
I suspect harness and usage modality is a big factor. Personally I disable all "memory" features wherever possible. I don't want the LLM to "get to know me", or any illusion thereof, which I assume helps with not an
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by Retr0id 23d ago
I don't like LLMs in terms of "personality" either, and while I frequently find it annoying it's ultimately ok with me because they are not in fact people. Computers frequently do things that annoy me, but I use comput
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by Retr0id 23d ago
I think you're right, but I also think that some of the best ideas come out of urandom, and the rest is just curation. I didn't find it interesting enough to upvote, but I wouldn't downvote it either.
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by Retr0id 23d ago
I found it kinda interesting, even if it could have been written by an AI with extensive prompting on how to sound human. I've been pondering a conceptually similar approach for keeping slop out of important git repos. The agent has it
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by Retr0id 23d ago
The analogy is right there in the name: Signatures. But rather than identifying forgeries by inspecting the handwriting details and ink pigments or whatever, we have math.
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by Retr0id 24d ago
What's the structural decay score of this HN title? Apparently not high enough to be gated.
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by Retr0id 24d ago
or a bic lighter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezo_ignition
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by Retr0id 24d ago
EMPs are not "alien technology", and you don't need to be a nation state either. That said, Apple's hardware security is generally very good.
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by Retr0id 25d ago
I've also been experimenting with interposer-induced dropped writes, but to construct LPE exploits as a means of remote attestation bypass, instead of pwning confidential computing. I've had success against desktop DDR4, but haven
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by Retr0id 25d ago
SMM doesn't care what kernel you're running, it will preempt you anyway.
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by Retr0id 26d ago
No, I meant plain text as a description of a UI+logic. Why do you need a special syntax for that, when the audience is an LLM that understands text?
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by Retr0id 26d ago
Is this GNU Radio vibe-ported to rust? How does it compare?
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by Retr0id 26d ago
What advantages does it have over free-form text?
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by Retr0id 26d ago
A kensington lock in this context is like a sign that says "do not move", which is still kinda useful
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by Retr0id 26d ago
How many arms and legs does one of these cost?
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by Retr0id 26d ago
Why would a bad actor volunteer to run a "declarative workflow running in sealed compute environment" when they could just not do that?
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by Retr0id 27d ago
Reverse engineering the hardware and firmware of a Sony A7 IV camera.
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by Retr0id 27d ago
I was thinking about this earlier today. I've been reverse engineering some Sony camera firmware, and there's a bunch of obfuscated cryptography. Executables packed with encryption, funky key derivation algorithms, and the likes.
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by Retr0id 27d ago
> I told it to look online at some of Fable’s strongest feats, especially the math problems it has solved, and that something like this should be easy in comparison. Fascinating. I wonder if you could show "fake news" to a weak
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by Retr0id 29d ago
Ahhhhhh! Thank you for mentioning Precordial catch syndrome. I read about it some time ago, and experienced it several times, and then forgot what it was called. Even with the help of LLMs I was unable to re-discover the name of it.

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