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by briandw 1y ago
Grok 4 helped me solve a problem with inconsistent behavior in running lldb via python. Had differences in docker and my local linux box. Turns out to be a differences in how address sanitizer works in the slightly different environments. O
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by briandw 1y ago
This is something that diffusion based models would capable of. For example diffusion-coder https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20639 Could be trained on right to left, but it doesn't seem like they did.
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by briandw 1y ago
Don't think what I described was ping-ponging. But if you want to see it that way, go ahead. To clarify my process. 1) I have a problem in a new domain that I'm stuck on. 2) I work with the LLM to discuss my problem, think about s
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by briandw 1y ago
Just like anything else, stackoverflow, advice from a coworker or expert. If it doesn’t work, it will become clear that it’s not fixing your problem.
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by briandw 1y ago
If the llm could convince people to go to the gym, it would already be doing better than most therapists.
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by briandw 1y ago
I feel much more confident that I can take on a project in a domain that im not very familiar with. Ive been digging into llvm ir and I had not prior experience with it. ChatGPT is a much better guide to getting started than the documentati
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by briandw 1y ago
Have you seen https://www.aidungeon.com They started with GPT-2 in a google collab. You should put something together and try it, it's easier than ever to get a simple version of that working.
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by briandw 1y ago
Interesting to see but as the authors say a chat bot isn't trained to play text adventures. Instruction tuning doesn't seem to match the text adventure style very well. I think a very small bit of context engineering would allow i
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by briandw 1y ago
Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06623 seems more promising, I love that there is more research and interest in accelerated weathering
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by briandw 1y ago
Anyone else switch their LLM subscription every month? I'm back on ChatGPT for O3 use, but expect that Grok4 will be next.
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by briandw 1y ago
Like in the book "Accelerando (Singularity)", the lobsters that get a protected sentience status
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by briandw 1y ago
Not on the Xbox
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by briandw 1y ago
I don't see people making the same arguments about Steam, Microsoft, Nintendo, etc, etc. Why is Apple special here? Other companies make stores that deliver application and developers don't get to tell them what to do. That's
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by briandw 1y ago
my dyslexia strikes again
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by briandw 1y ago
The code blocks are very difficult to read on this page. I had ChatGPT O3 rewrite this in a more accessible format. https://chatgpt.com/share/68629096-0624-8005-846f-7c0d655061...
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by briandw 1y ago
They don't mention the amount of mandatory additions to the car from government regulations. Obviously not the only factor but it's certainly a factor. Cars now have 6 to 8 airbags, backup cameras, more high strength steel, automa
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by briandw 1y ago
The Apple of old had a deep respect for their users. We paid for a product that tried its best to sweat the details and deliver the best experience possible. UX was king. Apple made hard choices and delivered minimal, thoughtful and delight
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by briandw 1y ago
Rocket engines struggle to throttle down to low levels due to combustion instability, injector dynamics, and turbopump limitations. Here are some stats on minimum throttle levels: SpaceX Merlin 1D: ~40% Rocketdyne F-1 (Saturn V): ~70% Space
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by briandw 1y ago
Humans use tools to extend their abilities. LLM can do the same. In this paper they didn’t allow tool use. When others gave the tower of hanoi task to llms with tool use, like a python env, they were able to complete the task.
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by briandw 1y ago
This papers assumes that you know quite a bit about RL already. If you really want to dig into RL, this intro course from David Silver (Deep Mind) is excellent: https://youtu.be/2pWv7GOvuf0?si=CmFJHNnNqraL5i0s
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by briandw 1y ago
Why is this news? ICE cars in container ships catch fire frequently. One example was the Grande Costa D’Avorio at Port Newark in 2023, which resulted in two firefighter fatalities and over $23 million in vessel damage. Not EV related. htt
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by briandw 1y ago
This is kinda wild: From the System Card: 4.1.1.2 Opportunistic blackmail "In another cluster of test scenarios, we asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant at a fictional company. We then provided it access to emails implying that (
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by briandw 1y ago
Looks good but it has the same issues that i have with mypy. Packages that don't include the type hints blow-up my process. In mypy i've come to terms with strategically ignoring packages or finding a package of type hints. Mypy
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by briandw 1y ago
Thanks for the link. Looks promising however it's years away from solving the problems that we have right now. The point I was trying to make above is that even proven solutions with an installed manufacturing base require years of lea
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by briandw 1y ago
Why the down votes? Blackouts are not going to help the world switch to renewable energy. Battery backup can fix the problem but only if the people pushing for renewables have realistic expectations and plan accordingly. This is a failure a
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by briandw 1y ago
Sounds great, but when will that be commercially available at scale? I didn't find any installations in a quick search.
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by briandw 1y ago
Here's the estimate for the lead times for the top grid suppliers. Tesla is the largest and fastest. So no need for Tesla, but they'd be the first according to this AI researched summary. Tesla: 12–18 months (fastest). Tesla’s 4
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by briandw 1y ago
I asked O3 for an analysis on how much battery power would have been needed to prevent this from happening again. The TLDR is: 1. The grid went dark because 15 GW of generation vanished in five seconds. 2. Need to bridge for 10mins -> 2.
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by briandw 2y ago
I lived in Finland for a couple years. Finns, like the Moomins, are whimsical yet profound, like midsummer’s fleeting joy before the long winter. They mirror Finland’s love of nature and quiet isolation, with their cozy valley echoing the F
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by briandw 2y ago
Llama scout is a 17B x 16 MOE. So that 17B active parameters. That makes it faster to run. But the memory requirements are still large. They claim it fits on an H100. So under 80GB. A mac studio at 96GB could run this. By run i mean inferen

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