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by Tossrock 6mo ago
I agree that this triggered my AI writing senses. Points in favor: - "It’s not an accident — it’s driven by the same physics." The classic "it's not x, it's y", with an em-dash thrown in for good measure - &quo
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by Tossrock 6mo ago
This is hilarious. You think middle school students know about the Avignon papacy? They don't even know about the Ford presidency.
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by Tossrock 6mo ago
If you think training a sparse autoencoder to extract concept vectors that are usable as steering injections into a modern LLM is pretty easy, you should probably go work for Anthropic's mech interp team ;)
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by Tossrock 7mo ago
That sounds like pretty degenerate behavior. I typically have CAM toolpaths generate in seconds using Fusion or PrusaSlicer.
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by Tossrock 7mo ago
It certainly feels that way. Some tells: "Precision, for LEGO, isn't an engineering choice, it's a brand promise." - The classic "It's not just x, it's y", just minus the "just". "One p
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by Tossrock 7mo ago
Specifically the Ursula K. LeGuin translation :)
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by Tossrock 7mo ago
Tell Donald Knuth that: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cyc...
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by Tossrock 7mo ago
"To order, to govern, is to begin naming; when names proliferate it’s time to stop. If you know when to stop you’re in no danger."
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by Tossrock 7mo ago
Fascinating interview - hearing two women of Chinese extraction working in the West candidly discuss their cultural origins and its effect of their mental state (dynamism vs scorn for weakness, the anxiety of stagnation), the specifics of C
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by Tossrock 7mo ago
Probably tripping the politics detector and being auto-deranked.
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by Tossrock 8mo ago
You can try opus in the cheaper one if you enable extra usage, though.
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by Tossrock 8mo ago
Indeed, sci fi has always been a way for KSR to explore and animate his politics. But he's so skilled a writer that the spectacle and incredible technical detail of the sci fi wrappings can obscure subtlety of the political philosophy
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by Tossrock 8mo ago
Inside the repo as metadata that can be consumed by a provider, like GHA config in .github/. Standardized, at least as an extension like git lfs so it's provider independent. Could work! I've long thought effective reputation
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by Tossrock 8mo ago
I haven't seen welds that bad since visiting India, where I ran across some so dire I was compelled to photograph them in case the building fell down later: https://imgur.com/a/16FRlEW Love the spirit of the build
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by Tossrock 8mo ago
Ah okay, that makes sense. Sorry they pulled the plug on you!
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by Tossrock 8mo ago
But... Claude Code is already cloud-based. It relies on the Anthropic API. Your data is all already being ingested by them. Seems like a weird boundary to draw, trusting the company's model with your data but not their convenience web
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by Tossrock 8mo ago
They did ship that feature, it's called "&" / teleport from web. They also have an iOS app.
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by Tossrock 8mo ago
Don't forget gyms and other physical-space subscriptions. It's right up there with razor-and-blades for bog standard business models. Imagine if you got a gym membership and then were surprised when they cancelled your account for
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by Tossrock 9mo ago
It's not a system prompt, it's a tool used during the training process to guide RL. You can read about it in their constitutional AI paper.
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by Tossrock 9mo ago
Windows has the WSL for native Linux vms, these days (and also the past ~decade)
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by Tossrock 9mo ago
> but when poking around CAD systems a few months back we realized there's no way to go from a text prompt input to a modeling output in any of the major CAD systems. This is exactly what SGS-1 is, and it's better than this app
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by Tossrock 9mo ago
Do you have a budget per-player of cloud usage? What happens if people really like the game and play it so much it starts getting expensive to keep running? I guess at $0.79 / Mtok llama70B is pretty affordable, but a per-player opex s
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by Tossrock 9mo ago
It's true that a lot of established ML techniques were first popularized to fight spam (ie bayesian filtering), but it might also be the case that they're not applying the full might of eg Gemini-3-Pro to every email received. I s
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by Tossrock 10mo ago
It wasn't a generalized argument, though, it was a specific one, about AI.
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by Tossrock 10mo ago
So where do I collect my prize for this 2015 comment? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9882217
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by Tossrock 1y ago
There's an awful lot of typos in the little Veo/Sora type clip. "Shar", "Evolue", "Transilate", etc.
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by Tossrock 1y ago
That's a hydroelectric dam, not a water wheel. A water wheel captures mechanical energy directly for eg grain milling, not conversion to electricity via turbine.
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by Tossrock 1y ago
You could run tmux inside it and bind cmd f to copy-mode + /
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by Tossrock 1y ago
I feel like Disney's rendering engine already took this name.
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by Tossrock 1y ago
Does this mean they'll be able to take the freeways to get there? Surface streets from SF to SFO would be pretty slow.

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