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by aix1 4mo ago
> I don't think any tech company so far tracks licenses attached to citizenship. Access to certain software being gated on one's citizenship is not at all new. § 734.13 Export. (b) Any release in the United States of “technolog
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by aix1 4mo ago
The UI is full of glitches: the legend that's placed right on top of Australia, the title that doesn't fit in the box, the crosshair that doesn't accurate track the cursor, the pixellated fonts along the perimeter, the unread
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by aix1 4mo ago
> And this article is basically = you will get a road, built quickly That's not how I am reading it. You will get a road built exactly to your spec , quickly. So no penguin crossings unless you ask for them. I am also not entirely
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by aix1 4mo ago
Did not trigger for me (Fable answered the question), so I guess the filters are either non-deterministic or are still being tweaked.
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by aix1 4mo ago
> It's the keys to a substantial chunk of the kingdom for $1B a year. Literally they are getting, for a very small price, the right to distill their own models from Gemini. Here is a different interpretation: Apple bought the rights
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by aix1 5mo ago
Funny, yes, but IMO a terrible idea. :) It would help the writer once, but impose a cost on all future readers for the lifetime of the code. It's a bit like reading English with bits of German, French and Russian. All of sudden you ha
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by aix1 5mo ago
Turns out it's a (somewhat) active area of research. https://ubicomplab.cs.washington.edu/pdfs/electrisense.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266461208_Multimedi... https:/&#
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by aix1 5mo ago
Probably Recursive Self-Improvement
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by aix1 5mo ago
Google has also been systematically destaffing various language infra teams. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/google-fires-entire-python-te... https://www.airs.com/blog/archives/670 https:&#x2
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by aix1 5mo ago
You're not missing much -- Claude is a better model for coding. That's what basically everyone at Google DeepMind uses and what I expect most other Googlers would choose to use IF they had access: https://www.businessi
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by aix1 5mo ago
I've been coding professionally in Python for about twenty years (alongside, at different times, a dozen or so other languages). I find that Claude can write great modern Python more or less out of the box, with minimal style guidanc
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by aix1 5mo ago
I am a bit disappointed by New Scientist's standard of reporting here. "Has been shockingly overlooked by all but a handful of scholars since its discovery 125 years ago" -- really? I picked up the one popular book on the su
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by aix1 5mo ago
> Voting on a country level here is too coarse, this poll is invalid. > I live in Vietnam and I can see it's getting colored red already but that's unfair. Also, it's a tiny sample: eight votes to represent a country of
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by aix1 5mo ago
Your comment reminded me of the Great Hanoi Rat Massacre (I won't spoil the punchline): https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hanoi-rat-massacre-190...
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by aix1 6mo ago
This is not to say that it isn't well run, but I think it would be fair to mention that Singapore is one of the most densely populated countries on Earth (#3 overall; #1 among countries with population >1 million.) Separately, I am
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by aix1 6mo ago
I was wondering the same thing. The data comes from Eurostat, and Eurostat does generally cover Switzerland. There's even a row in the original table[1] but for some reason it's blank. [1] https://ec.europa.eu/eu
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by aix1 7mo ago
Having never heard the term, I had to look up what a "PPU" was. Picture Processing Unit. Seems to be a Nintendo term for what other companies might have called a "VDP" (Video Display Processor) or a "VIC" (Vid
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by aix1 7mo ago
Not the GP, but I currently use a hierarchy of artifacts: requirements doc -> design docs (overall and per-component) -> code+tests. All artifacts are version controlled. Each level in the hierarchy is empirically ~5X smaller than th
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by aix1 7mo ago
My mildly amusing anecdote is that, whenever Claude Code produces something particularly egregious, I often find it sufficient to reply with just "wtf?" for it to present a much more sensible version of the code (which often needs
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by aix1 7mo ago
But we don't evolve IL or assembly code as the system evolves. We regenerate it from scratch every time. It is therefore not important whether some intermediate version of that low-level code was completely impossible to understand. I
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by aix1 7mo ago
Part of it observability bias: longer, more widespread outages are more likely to draw signficant attention. This doesn't mean that there aren't also shorter, smaller-scope outages, it's just that we're much less likely
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by aix1 7mo ago
This thread prompted me to look into this. It seems that all I need is a thin wrapper around whisper-ctranslate2. So I wrote one and am playing with it right now. I'm finding language auto-detection to be a bit wonky (for example, it
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by aix1 7mo ago
And how is it going, in terms of finding those limit? It would be very interesting to hear about areas where the actual experience turned out to be wildly different from your expectations, in either direction.
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by aix1 7mo ago
This looks cool, but what I'd really like is a self-hosted version that I could use to auto-subtitle videos I already have locally. This would help my language learning a great deal. If any of you have already figured out a tool/
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by aix1 7mo ago
Another potential factor at play is the accuracy of delivery. It is generally easier to accurately deliver one quick dose vs daily doses over multiple weeks (due to patient positioning errors, the patient losing weight, soft tissues moving
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by aix1 7mo ago
The 42 -> 137 also jumped out at me. On the face of it, the associated improvement sure does sound like overfitting to the eval set.
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by aix1 7mo ago
Would love to hear more, if you are happy sharing!
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by aix1 7mo ago
I have a Metabo vacuum (ASA 30 H PC) and absolutely love it. What's bad about the ergonomics of yours?
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by aix1 7mo ago
Matt Levine put it really well: "We will create God and then ask it for money."
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by aix1 7mo ago
I was just reading Norbert Wiener's "The Human Use of Human Beings" (1950) and this quote gave me a good chuckle: "One may get a remarkable semblance of a language like English by taking a sequence of words, or pairs of

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