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by Zababa 9mo ago
> With modern technology, the USPS estimates that a similar sized letter would take a maximum of five days. With planes, trains, and automobiles available to us, we’ve shaved off about two days. > Two days. In 165 years. Going back to
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by Zababa 9mo ago
>Is this a workaround to let us see “what it would look like”, or are there optical reasons why this produces an image that is inherently artificial, and could never really be perceived that way? Both in a way. When you look at a landsca
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by Zababa 9mo ago
I don't think the author of the article found "good evidence". He found a specific case where there was a regression. This could be due to: - models actually getting worse in general - his specific style of prompting working
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by Zababa 9mo ago
It is silly because the problem isn't becoming worse, and not caused by AI labs training on user outputs. Reward hacking is a known problem, as you can see in Opus 4.5 system card ( https://assets.anthropic.com/m/64
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by Zababa 9mo ago
From what I understand model collapse/GIGO are not a problem in that labs generally know where the data comes from, so even if it causes problem in the long run you could filter it out. It's not like labs are forced to train model
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by Zababa 9mo ago
>However, recently released LLMs, such as GPT-5, have a much more insidious method of failure. They often generate code that fails to perform as intended, but which on the surface seems to run successfully, avoiding syntax errors or obvi
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by Zababa 9mo ago
a6000 is APS-C, so 1.5x crop factor, 55-210 therefore is equivalent to 72.5-315 full frame. At 5-6 miles away that would mean each of your pixels (24mp sensor I think?) are something like, a 16-19cm square. I don't know if it's en
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by Zababa 9mo ago
>On the other hand there's no other class of camera that really works on vacation/travel and is meaningfully better than a smartphone. My a6500 is serving me well, though I guess it depends what you mean by "meaningfully b
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by Zababa 9mo ago
Good article as usual. I'd recommend listening to it, the author is really good at reading his articles.
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by Zababa 9mo ago
At the risk of extending the metaphor to the point where it is useless, since you go that much faster you can figure out where to go by bumping into things. For example, iterating on an interface by swiping left or right on stuff that you l
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by Zababa 9mo ago
>This second method is, by the way, argued to increase compatibility as we utilize env to locate bash, which may not be located at /bin/bash. How true this is, is a topic I dare not enter. At least it seems important on NixOS,
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by Zababa 10mo ago
Beautiful acknowledgment list, and congratulations on the beta release!
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by Zababa 11mo ago
Quoting the article: >I’m having to choose my words carefully, because I need to stress one thing: these are not the most common reasons for men and women to be admitted to hospital. They are the most typically male and typically female.
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by Zababa 11mo ago
>For kids that was a way to decide who is going to fetch the water for the table (smaller number or higher number of the table). I only knew the version where your age is the number on the glass. For fetching water, it was the slowest pe
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by Zababa 11mo ago
Go has iterators, had them for a while now. To delete an element from a slice you can use `slices.Delete`. >3) To make matters worse, at work we have a linter that forbids merging a branch if you a) don't do if err != nil for every
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by Zababa 11mo ago
You're really good at writing. Best of luck
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by Zababa 11mo ago
There was a good series interviewing people that worked in both software engineering and traditional engineering: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers/ . The conclusion was that yes, a lot of wh
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by Zababa 1y ago
Yeah it is genuinely terrible and getting worse. It's kinda fine if you have your own little bubble and can adapt to frequent algo changes and only use the "following" tab, but then you miss on sometimes pretty good recommend
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by Zababa 1y ago
Btw the definition Karpathy gave was: > a system you could go to that can do any economically valuable task at human performance or better. https://open.substack.com/pub/dwarkesh/p/andrej-karpathy?sel...
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by Zababa 1y ago
> Amazon’s data centres were projected to use 7.7 billion gallons of water a year by 2030, according to the leaked strategy memo, which was circulated within the company in 2022. From https://www.usgs.gov/water-science-s
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by Zababa 1y ago
> The engineer, whose name was Craig Hannah, was also a keen naturalist and photographer. He saw the same thing happening repeatedly and wondered if it would be of interest to insect researchers. This led him to the University of Exeter’
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How slow is channel-based iteration?(dolthub.com)
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by Zababa 1y ago
Doesn't fully correct for different biaises like healthy user bias so it proves association more than causality.
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by Zababa 1y ago
> LLMs won’t get much better, but that is okay > The last releases were unimpressive. Does anyone know a real application where ChatGPT 5 can do something that o3 could not? Yeah, GPT-5 is way better at coding in codex, especially for
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by Zababa 1y ago
Yeah that's a good point and the sibling comment seems to be pointing in the same direction. You could take a look at Steve Yegge's beads ( https://steve-yegge.medium.com/introducing-beads-a-coding-ag... , https:&#
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by Zababa 1y ago
"cop" as an abbreviation for "cross-origin protection" is delightful
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by Zababa 1y ago
Interesting to see how programmers seems to be separating into people embracing those tools and people rejecting them. I wonder if it's linked to liking the act of coding itself vs liking the results.
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by Zababa 1y ago
Pouring grease on a fire will make it worse. Picking up a bear cub when the mother is nearby will increase (by how much I don't know) the risks of getting attacked by a bear. Both of those sentences to me sound like genuine description
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by Zababa 1y ago
I don't think you should consider this as "winning the lottery", the author has been using these tools for a while. The sibling comment with the writeup by the creator of Ghostty shows stuff in more detail and has a few cases
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by Zababa 1y ago
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/8/claude-datasette-plugin...

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