Semkas

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by Semkas 8d ago
These kinds of arguments are obviously vacuous: The US could also "win" any war with a non-nuclear opponent by nuking every major city. But the fact that they don't is not something worth calling restraint.
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by Semkas 12d ago
Is the term "One-shotting" here even appropriate? In the context of AI one-shotting means giving your llm a single prompt and having it return a surprisingly good result (usually code related) without requiring further input, but
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by Semkas 18d ago
"using the same approach that Buckmaster and Alpoge had been exploring" is imo mealy wording: it seems fairly likely that OA heard Buckmaster and Alpoge were close to a breakthrough, and decided to use their unlimited compute to q
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by Semkas 18d ago
By default OA trains their models on codex-sessions. If I understand him correctly this is something Tristan explicitly mentions in his post as a possible reason for the fast results obtained by the internal OA team. Anthropic obviously doe
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by Semkas 18d ago
But there's a bunch of people already in this thread calling that stuff unfounded speculation (which I disagree with), and my point is that even if that specific thing isn't true, OA's behavior here is obviously awful. If the
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by Semkas 18d ago
So, leaving aside the idea that OA might've used data from the researchers Codex sessions: Do I understand correctly that the internal OpenAI work on the problems was probably started after they heard Alpoge and Buckmaster had made pro
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by Semkas 19d ago
Won't deny that this is an interesting idea, but I feel like waiting on the output of an LLM for 40 hours feels like it is completely antithetical to what makes classic Hackathons appealing / educative. More generally, I don'
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by Semkas 25d ago
I'm not sure what decision you're talking about. My comment just mentions that it would be convenient if disclosure of vibe-coding was more common. I can look for myself and see that the repo was started a week ago and has had hun
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by Semkas 25d ago
Lots of people seem to care about whether a project was built by hand over time by a few committed developers, or if it was vibe-coded in the past week by a single person. Whether the distinction matters or not, it would be nice for everyon
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by Semkas 1mo ago
K-Pop did not reach people through "Hollywood, and associated media industry", unless you define that category to be meaninglessly broad.
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by Semkas 1mo ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+books+are+published... https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+megabytes+average+b... https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+3+megabytes+times+2...
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by Semkas 2mo ago
It's interesting that this article is mostly focused on the merits of living a simple / predictable life, whereas I get the impression that the main improvement here might be just not working from home anymore (I guess the author
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by Semkas 2mo ago
Couldn't it just be a moral thing? Ie "This thing was trained on the work of people it's now replacing and I think that sucks". (NB I'm not looking to get into an argument about the actual impact of these kinds of s
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by Semkas 2mo ago
I think the quality of a commute is very different depending on whether it's by car or by train, since you can actually read / write / program / draw on a train. Obviously I'm still pretty glad when I get to work fr
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by Semkas 2mo ago
You are not restraining yourself from mocking, you are somehow doing something even less conducive and more annoying
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by Semkas 2mo ago
This looks cool! I'll check it out. Out of curiosity: I assume you've also used agents to help build this, and on the site you mention working on this for ~6 months. Most one-man projects I see that use ai seem to focus on creatin
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by Semkas 3mo ago
Anthropic's niche is that they're the preferred model for software development currently. So, the reason for them to care about the rewrite is obviously not because they care about Bun's stability, but because it is the large
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Behind the scenes with the Midjourney scanner [video](youtube.com)
78 points by Semkas 3mo ago|50 comments
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by Semkas 3mo ago
I'm getting the feeling that many people here are mostly reacting to the title instead of reading the actual policy: they state that an important part of the reason is that they use PR review to train new contributors and find possible
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by Semkas 4mo ago
4. then you write empty cliches
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by Semkas 4mo ago
Arguably the most beautiful town in the Netherlands
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by Semkas 5mo ago
I'm disinclined to be overly generous to Antrophic, but I have to say that regardless of whether the talk of Mythos being uniquely dangerous was mostly cynical: It would be great if this starts a trend of giving security-critical softw
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by Semkas 7y ago
The barrier to entry is the effort required to create a good and truthfull page.
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by Semkas 7y ago
If a non-programmer critisised some part of Blender or some other large scale open source software project it would be weird to call them hypocritical for not just enacting the change themselves wouldnt it? Seems strange to pretend that th
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by Semkas 8y ago
Assume that the range of integers is limited by the largest positive or negative number that can be written on the limited space of the paper. Whenever the largest positive or negative number comes up your answer will be certain. Turn a pro
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by Semkas 8y ago
I do some illustration and have noticed on twitter how much every illustrator who gets some experience with 3d-tools likes to use 3d modelling to create block-outs for scenes they want to draw. By creating a simple scene out of blocks and s
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by Semkas 9y ago
I see the value in charisma, but it seems uncontroversial to me that what most people consider "fair" is hiring people for their skill at a job, not their ability to make the interviewer like them.
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by Semkas 9y ago
I have aspergers, and empathize with the feeling that society doesn't much care about our struggle (or, for that matter, knows how to deal with anyone who isn't neurotypical). One thing I have come to realize though (and I know t