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by astrange 1mo ago
> To be honest, if I could stop AI from saving memories, it would be fantastic, because claude code etc definitely creates more issues for me when it creates memories than anything it solves. You can turn that off, and I have. But Opus 5
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by astrange 1mo ago
It's a specific dialect of its own that comes from RL. Nobody on Earth talks about load-bearing honest caveat seams. (Another strange thing about Opus 5 is that it will constantly re-mention things it thinks are important, probably a s
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by astrange 1mo ago
I've had to read difficult things at work in my life, like C++ error messages, but I think Opus 5 is the first time I felt like I was being poisoned by my terminal. I keep having to leave and go use the office gym.
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by astrange 1mo ago
5.6 has a totally different style again, kind of relaxed and neutral with some definite jokes.
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by astrange 1mo ago
It's mode collapse from RLVR. That and if you talked to the same one person's frozen brain upload all day, you'd see the same catchphrases used too.
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by astrange 1mo ago
Pretraining is full of bad writing and it doesn't really cause issues. Writing style comes from post-training. In this case it's gotten worse because they prioritized agentic abilities.
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by astrange 1mo ago
The training methods try not to apply any particular rules to the contents of the thinking text. That's called "optimization pressure on CoT" and is thought to reduce safety by inducing the model to lie (or stop clearly print
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by astrange 1mo ago
Okay that's not Mastodon people, that's Metafilter or Tumblr people. Mastodon people in my head are European Linux users who are only capable of replying to things in the form of a non-constructive disagreement.
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by astrange 1mo ago
I wouldn't say "stupid", but trying to make AI go away by posting about it on the internet is sort of like… if you were about to get hit by a car and tried to solve it by posting about it on the internet. It's not going
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by astrange 1mo ago
Is that forum good? I have it mentally associated with "Mastodon people" (incredible pedants and overbearing mods), but that's not exactly based on anything so I may have just confused it with some other site.
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by astrange 1mo ago
> Like, back in the halcyon days of my youth I took a bunch of stimulants, and experentially there was definitely less impact over time (habituation is a thing). That's magnesium deficiency. Promise. (Or side effects from getting wo
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by astrange 2mo ago
https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace
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by astrange 2mo ago
ADHD medications do not lose effectiveness over time. That's magnesium deficiency.
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by astrange 2mo ago
Google search is bad because there aren't any websites anymore. It's not really possible for it to be good.
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by astrange 2mo ago
Some people just don't like buying shirts.
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by astrange 2mo ago
Apple doesn't use KPIs for performance reviews. (Also, eg Ali Ozer is still there.)
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by astrange 2mo ago
> But I don't think you can cover all requirements with a set of fixed layouts, they do need to be somewhat flexible. Even if all screens were the same size, you'd want to be able to boost the font size for accessibility, and t
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by astrange 2mo ago
I am familiar with C++.
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by astrange 2mo ago
> ClickHouse had features that at the time were only found in a handful of closed-source, commercial analytical DBMSs. For example, ClickHouse was written in C++ and supported vectorized query execution using SIMD in 2016. Most prominent
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by astrange 2mo ago
Given the tricolon in that text, I think the content of the book may have come out of an LLM.
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by astrange 2mo ago
Note: when people say this about Haskell they mean "it has ADTs".
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by astrange 2mo ago
> In HN terms - it's never the compiler. Yes, very occasionally it might be the compiler, but you're better off assuming it's a bug in your code. Conversely: - if your company has an internal compiler team then it's l
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by astrange 2mo ago
Agents can generate formal proofs that are checked with an oracle like Lean and can run in a loop.
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by astrange 2mo ago
The entire point of rationalism is to take your own beliefs seriously and follow them as if you were a robot. (Except that they don't claim them to be "their own beliefs" but instead call them "priors".)
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by astrange 2mo ago
Probably that you'd be doing it in a group, which is a lot less lonely than doing it from home. I think there's a lot of opportunity for computer vision in exercise coaching.
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by astrange 2mo ago
Productivity improvements tend to increase employment. AI will not reduce employment. (Also, the US budget deficit is way too high to afford a UBI.)
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by astrange 2mo ago
Economic growth doesn't mean using up resources faster, it means trading things faster.
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by astrange 2mo ago
Managers often still have code and team-lead responsibilities IME. First-line managers, that is. And then sometimes you report a memory leak and it gets fixed by a VP and you wonder if he doesn't have something better to do.
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by astrange 2mo ago
On occasion I meet one of the creators of that professionally. And then I always think of asking him about it. And then I don't do it.
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by astrange 2mo ago
Trazodone is also not addictive and doesn't have bad side effects afaik.

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