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> To improve determinism, define a system instruction with explicit rules for your specific use case. What if I want to do the other thing? When performing research with many sub agents, having a lot of diversity in the hypotheses is a b
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KUHF used to run classical music programming nearly exclusively up until 2011. Since then it's been relegated to their HD-2 channel and ran by some computer algorithm. If all you have is an old analog radio there is genuinely nothing t
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Quite the straw man we've constructed here. I am the exclusive user and I only watch from browsers on laptops and desktops attached to whatever display and audio outputs. I suspect this describes a non-trivial portion of the audience h
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I just did. Put the above into your favorite chat bot and append your preferred language, runtime environment and block storage provider.
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There's never been a better time to consider writing your own media server solution from scratch. I really don't like the idea of transcoding on demand. It has always created a janky experience on the client. I've been using
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I grow my own peppers (Serrano/habanero). It's very easy to get sufficient yield out of a few small plants. The peppers at the grocery store are of grotesque proportion. The jalapeños look like bell peppers now.
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Not enough humans to deal with physical machines and the compliance issues around them. I agree if we are operating a cat meme distribution business that AWS starts to look a bit overkill. Something like a banking consultancy is a different
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I've got overhead transmission lines in my back yard right now. It's really not a big deal. I've got a garden and a small shed that are directly underneath the lines. I have no perceptible loss in utility. Every now and then,
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I have a hard time seeing this adopted in many markets due to overall system complexity and weird new edge cases. Trailers are supposed to be pretty dumb. This is what makes them valuable from a logistical perspective. If we hyper focus on
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To be even more nuanced, the land is not typically taken entirely. The more typical solution is an easement with compensation for the land owner to cover the reduction in utility. Transmission lines are pretty harmless when considering thin
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Nothing feels better than mastering a specific workflow in Blender. After using visual studio all day, it's like a breath of fresh air to click through a scene and have the tool respond like it actually cares about UX.
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I find it amusing how ineffective all of this stuff becomes if you simply leave your phone at home. No one is doing the hard kind of police work anymore.
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The judgment of task difficulty is a cursed problem. In most domains you really don't know what is down there until you start digging a little bit.
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Simply starting in the right part of the search space is the biggest predictor of success. The best way to save tokens is to start out the deep research pass with cheap models and then funnel the findings through increasingly powerful model
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People have been automating WoW for a generation using things like peripherals duct taped to oscillating fans despite multi-million dollar budgets designed to defeat things far more sophisticated than this. I would think of headless browser
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If evolution had access to TSMC's process technology, do you think it wouldn't leverage it? The signals in my AMD CPU propagate ~1,000,000x faster than the ones in my brain.
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See also: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19108 > We show that when random, non self-replicating programs are placed in an environment lacking any explicit fitness landscape, self-replicators tend to arise. We demonstrat
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The hypothesis generation phase is looking like the most critical part of having an agent reliably hit your targets. Simply starting in the correct part of the search space is probably the biggest predictor of success. Forcing one big loop
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This is a fantastic way to quantify just how bad a consumer experience this is. Flat pack furniture tends to be very awful compared to alternatives that are also often cheaper and without assembly requirements. Everything that has come in b
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> That's a situation your employer sets up for you! Who says you need a boss or other human coworkers? Start your own consultancy and take 100% of the pie. The term "employee" evaporates in this context, as does an entire
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Statistical power comes from having many samples. I agree that having just one sample doesn't take you very far.
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> Better to find joy in other parts of the process! I recommend the joy of helping the customer get what they truly want. Spend more time on client calls and intercept additional hot potatoes now that we have extra free time to work with
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With sufficient information you can derive a signal even in the presence of overwhelming noise. Assuming the noise is not perfectly correlated with the signal this is always possible. Schemes like GPS, CDMA and DSSS are based upon this conc
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There are some unusual but otherwise plausible ways to reject heat at incredible scale without involving a lot of mass. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_droplet_radiator Space has many downsides, but it also comes
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I close my browsers with prejudice. If it mattered I would have put it into an issue or committed it to SCM before I wandered away from the tab. Also, history exists. If the reason we are keeping our tabs open is because we've disabled
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Certainly the idea is difficult to execute on. However, there isn't anything about it that fundamentally says it cannot happen. I think Starlink is a pretty good example of how this could go. The framing of the detractors always comes
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I think the most effective part of this architecture is having multiple initial conditions to sample from. We've been looking at using gpt-5.6-luna to do hypothesis generation at scale. Running many copies of something approximately as
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The only thing which enables reliable use of LLMs are statistical techniques. Even the most constrained and well-designed Disney world ride will break down in some embarrassing way every now and again. As you increase the # of parallel ride
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Semiconductor manufacturing takes this to the next level with techniques like statistical process control. Units of capacity or work can take themselves offline automatically if something falls too far out of range. Waiting for a human oper
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04412

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