Sharlin

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   by Sharlin 3mo ago

   Mosquitoes (which are flies) don’t really deserve the exclamation mark, given that the males of all mosquito species live exclusively on nectar, with the females (of most but not all species) augmenting their diet with animal protein in o
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   by Sharlin 3mo ago

   I haven’t used these tools that permit LLMs to make changes on their own, but I can’t help being baffled if there’s no big red switch that changes the system prompt and disables any and all write access to the outside world.
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   by Sharlin 3mo ago

   If you need "guardrails" to ensure (an illusion of) alignment, you’ve already lost. It’s like using a denylist to avoid SQL injection.
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   by Sharlin 3mo ago

   It’s fascinating how people here and elsewhere seem to lose any semblance of media literacy when it comes to what AI corpos say. "B-but… why would Sam Altman lie to me?!"
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   by Sharlin 3mo ago

   Essentially, yes. The points of any edge that crosses the near plane escape to the infinity and if you naively just w-divide the endpoints, the image of the lineseg is not the points between the endpoints, but actually all the other point
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   by Sharlin 3mo ago

   I've been wanting to write a series of articles exactly like this for a long time. Good that someone else has done it now =D
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   by Sharlin 3mo ago

   My renderer attempts always got stuck on the "should implement clipping" phase too, until I finally bit the bullet and managed to write a working one without much effort, independently "rediscovering" the Sutherland–Hodg
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   by Sharlin 3mo ago

   To take the point further, the US still protects people. It's just that the people tend to exclusively inhabit the top 0.1% or 0.01% quantiles.
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   by Sharlin 3mo ago

   Yes, it was a subtle referencing to rpg minmaxing, and also the minimax algorithm, beyond the more surface-level idea that "maximalist" trends tend to be followed by "minimalist" ones as a natural counterreaction.
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    by Sharlin 3mo ago

    I get en dash with alt+- and em dash with alt+shift+-. One of the niceties of the macOS keyboard layouts. There’s also the ellipsis and middot among other things.
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    by Sharlin 3mo ago

    I think in general if you ask people to draw vehicles or animals (including humans) from the side, there will be this left-facing bias. Perhaps this is true only in left-to-right writing cultures, hard to say.
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    by Sharlin 3mo ago

    Back in 2024 we didn’t really yet have image models that used bigger language models as their text encoders, so prompt understanding was still rather hit and miss, especially with negations involved.
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    by Sharlin 3mo ago

    I’m waiting for the inevitable counterreaction to all this maxxing business, dubbed "minmaxxing"
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    by Sharlin 3mo ago

    This is from 2012, so no LLM AI in particular, just AGI/strong AI in general.
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    by Sharlin 3mo ago

    How can you know it’s not the earring giving those testimonies? The story doesn’t say whether they were wearing the earring while being interviewed, but given that wearing it for a long time wastes away your neocortex and turns you into a f
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    by Sharlin 3mo ago

    This is addressed in Perlin's improved noise function that uses a 5th degree polynomial ("smootherstep", t³·(10t·(6t-15)) in Horner's form) for interpolation which has everywhere continuous first and second derivatives.
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    by Sharlin 3mo ago

    It's also rather more difficult to implement in 3+d because the mapping to the simplex space is not exactly intuitive.
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    by Sharlin 3mo ago

    Back in the 00s: "It's really easy to box an AI, just put it in an airgapped machine and refuse to let it out" 2026: "Oops"
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    by Sharlin 3mo ago

    Both of those groups of people are crazy.
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    by Sharlin 3mo ago

    Most people likely have a natural aversion against having "team members" without agency or consciousness. Giving them artificial, acted personalities would be even more horrible. LLMs are tools and trying to elevate them to the sa
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    by Sharlin 3mo ago

    Clearly we use too many natural-language words in programming. Should switch to APL so that the commoners have absolutely no idea what's going on.
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    by Sharlin 3mo ago

    I love that the annual snow castle in Kemi, Finland, is included =D https://thecastlemap.com/castles/snowcastle-of-kemi/
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    by Sharlin 3mo ago

    Hilariously I also had a very similar idea just recently.
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    by Sharlin 3mo ago

    ECS is basically column storage, but extended to behavior, not just data.
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    by Sharlin 3mo ago

    Holy cum hoc ergo propter hoc, Batman!
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    by Sharlin 3mo ago

    If you plot the positive integers two-dimensionally in a square spiral arrangement, eg. 5 4 3 6 1 2 7 8 9 and so on, and mark all primes, what you get is the Ulam spiral: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_sp
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    by Sharlin 3mo ago

    I mean, outside of corporate (including governments, universities, etc large organizations because what’s the difference) the world has largely already abandoned MS. The vast majority of personal conputing on the planet happens on devices t
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    by Sharlin 3mo ago

    Direction that's not Jewish?
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    by Sharlin 3mo ago

    Perhaps no precedent in hardware, but it's basically the same as the good old Sony CD autoplay rootkit fiasco. Except this one runs in mere userland AFAICS.
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    by Sharlin 3mo ago

    This explains so much.