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by baq 3mo ago
you care enough to respond, shouldn't have bothered.
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by baq 3mo ago
of course it is vibed. it doesn't matter as long as it works.
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by baq 3mo ago
> I'm now considering the architecture of the service What you see here is a summary of thinking tokens written by some other smaller model (e.g. old sonnet). The actual thinking sometimes (rarely) leaks and is not easy to parse.
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by baq 3mo ago
not sure what this means. should I be worried?
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by baq 3mo ago
Past performance is not indicative of future results. We're riding an exponential here for Pete's sake.
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by baq 3mo ago
> software engineering does not involve mathematical modeling it absolutely can, approximately nobody was doing that because it was insanely expensive. if we narrow down the definitions, modern static typing (where modern means univer
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by baq 3mo ago
On the other side of this you have two companies growing revenue literally the fastest ever in any market segment, just for said tech. Somebody is spending this money and thinks it's worth it. Let's check back in six months.
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by baq 3mo ago
I'd argue the results are even better: just reading a textbook doesn't really teach you much. You have to do exercises, but they're expensive to create and grade. LLMs with a proper harness (see paper) tackle both.
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by baq 3mo ago
I'm on record saying that a system like this with some extra hardware (i.e. a way for the LLM to have live understanding of the student's paper notebook or handout which are being written in with a plain old pencil) combines the b
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by baq 3mo ago
I've ran into this in the before times with linters and static analyzers. Nothing new.
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by baq 3mo ago
You didn’t do it enough. They stop finding bugs eventually. Also, different models can find different bugs (though they do find the same ones, too, which is good and expected). For best results you want to run multi model reviews in loops.
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by baq 3mo ago
The best part is how little it mattered. Everyone just shrugged.
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by baq 3mo ago
It’s always been a fallacy to think that large organizations have code which is understood. There are people somewhere understanding small parts up until the next round of layoffs.
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by baq 3mo ago
This is ironically a skill issue in prompting, especially if they had Fable access - or, more likely, they just really, truly don’t care.
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by baq 3mo ago
When someone ported pylint to rust this place was full of ‘who will maintain this’ and met with blank stares when the answer was ‘what do you mean’ or ‘it’ll maintain itself’. Good job. It was inevitable, but still someone had to, please ex
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by baq 3mo ago
It might be shocking but so does Linux (though 16MB won’t cut it) and all other OSes
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by baq 3mo ago
If you never used a CTE, maybe… The reason to use SQL is to get what you need out of a database. Performance is orthogonal to that.
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by baq 3mo ago
The $200 sub is the new free tier, has been for a while now.
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by baq 3mo ago
It’s going to even out on both eventually, the diffusion will be painful though.
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by baq 3mo ago
Why would you work with anything other than maximized windows unless you have a super ultra wide display?
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by baq 3mo ago
I had no trouble understanding that the quality of operators is as important as the quality of the model and the harness. new operators received access to the tool and didn't follow the operational guidelines. happens everywhere, all t
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by baq 3mo ago
this is HN, not gwern. relevant ads by authors are ok and actually expected.
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by baq 3mo ago
start with a couple gigs of swap, fixed size sub-gig dirty buffers, enable zram, enable an oom daemon with some sane default configuration like 'kill X, wayland, sshd and shells last and browsers and node processes first' for some
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by baq 3mo ago
The optimist in me sees AI as a path to fusion thus having the energy to undo at least some of the damage done via co2 sequestration etc. The pessimist in me sees every other outcome
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by baq 3mo ago
Linux vm defaults are legit insane in 2026. - system dies under memory pressure (regardless of swapping, actually not having swap makes it worse which should be common knowledge by now) - system dies under disk pressure even if there are to
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by baq 3mo ago
the abstract itself explains why there is a problem even if the real world is messy; markets are a social construct
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by baq 3mo ago
There’s a combined $3T+ of capital which is at least in some position to benefit from local AI ban. Don’t underestimate this
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by baq 3mo ago
add Cauchy noise, problem solved, right? …right?
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by baq 3mo ago
May have been, yes!
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by baq 3mo ago
I'm reminded of this dude who was sitting at or near the top of some kaggle leaderboard simply[0] splicing together some duplicated middle layers and applying a bit of fine tuning [0] not simply

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