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by code_biologist 4mo ago
It's been interesting to see how aggressively some reasoning models like to "reason" by analogy. They love to say things like "it's like a CPU" or "it's like a highway", and then they start to ma
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by code_biologist 4mo ago
Yes, the noise pollution is insane. Benn Jordan's YT video "Datacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons" is an insightful, scary 30 min video covering the datacenter infrasound noise, and the nasty things infrasound does to pe
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by code_biologist 4mo ago
Your language is ambiguous — your horror is in reference to natural gas turbine generators (used at these installations) and not gasoline generators (like in a home context)? Why the horror? I'd prefer the gas remain in the ground, but
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by code_biologist 4mo ago
I'll admit that I miss having access to the ChatGPT 4.5 "absolutely gigantic model" with enough tuning to make it sane and useful. The RLVR models are superb for actual tasks in those RLVR domains, but that fine tuned view of
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by code_biologist 4mo ago
They're also obviously fine with breaking eggs to make an omelette. Given their history, they seem to regard breaking eggs as the goal, and making an omelette as an afterthought.
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by code_biologist 4mo ago
The problem with being a "fixer" in relationships is if the other party is fixed, what they want changes, and often what they saw in the relationship isn't as relevant anymore. (to speculate from afar)
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by code_biologist 5mo ago
"If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity." - Bill Vaughan
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by code_biologist 5mo ago
As a bear that's been very confused by markets failing to exhibit mean reversion in 2019 and 2022, and now with the Hormuz energy crisis, I've thought a lot about this. There's a lot of new things happening. Fed/QE inter
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by code_biologist 5mo ago
Anybody got tips for making custom signatures work? I'm trying to rescue Unreal Engine game save files off an EXT4 drive where the containing directory was deleted. I put the `sav 0 "GVAS"` (GVAS is the UE save magic value) i
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by code_biologist 5mo ago
People don't like the phrase enshittification, but the process Doctrow describes is so accurate (serve the users, then serve business customers at the expense of users, then serve the platform at the expense of users and business custo
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by code_biologist 6mo ago
Chat, is this real? I've seen this guy pop up on youtube. I assume he's a Chinese state mouthpiece as he's a westerner in the mainland with a very pro-China spin (substack recommended the other posts below), but I'm curi
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by code_biologist 6mo ago
The Occam's Razor position (Sora was the most expensive to operate, least monetizable model) seems like a simpler explanation. The legal costs/difficulty on top of "most expensive" are just the cherry on top.
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by code_biologist 7mo ago
I'm totally with you personally, but sometimes doing the actually hard part is fun. Type 2 fun. Long ago I took a CPU architecture class and we implemented designs in Verilog as a final project. Apparently people who took the class in
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by code_biologist 7mo ago
N=1, but I’ve been doing low carb paleo for 15+ years, from about age 20 to my current late 30s. I live off of butter, tallow, and lard. My weight has only crept up when I’ve eaten a lot of processed food. I get quite lean even with high fa
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by code_biologist 7mo ago
What is "lower quant"? What is "higher quant"? I mean, I know what they are, but the very people you intend to reach don't know the difference between Q4_K_M and Q6_K and blog posts like [1] have nuggets like "
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by code_biologist 8mo ago
Lovely idea. You got a photo printer model you like? I've been meaning to get a photo printer, but I'm scarred by experiences with inkjets back in the day.
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by code_biologist 8mo ago
Sure, but LAX is uniquely hostile. All of the other LA/OC airports are way better.
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by code_biologist 8mo ago
+1. I wish Gemini 2.5/3 Pro's "personality" and long context handling wasn't so erratic, because the medical stuff in there is great. Whatever they did to produce the MedGemma models is clearly built on a strong bas
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by code_biologist 8mo ago
I had progressively worsening pelvic floor pain issues that AI helped me with and are now in remission/repair. My decade of interaction with multiple urologists and clinicians could be characterized as repeated and consistent "pre
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by code_biologist 8mo ago
Chia is awesome for making pudding out of random liquids. I have to restrain myself from eating a batch of coconut milk cinnamon chia pudding in a single sitting.
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by code_biologist 8mo ago
Never going to advocate against eating whole foods if they taste good! But beware, the ALA omega 3 fat in flax and plant sources is not the DHA and EPA omega 3 fats used by animal cells, and so it's not as potent as what's in fish
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by code_biologist 8mo ago
I have bad ADHD and printed the strangestloop.io blog post out and put it on the wall by my work desk in Oct 2023 according to the printout timestamp. I still haven't done the thing in some meaningful areas, and the print has honestly
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by code_biologist 9mo ago
I'll add to my sibling commenters and say that there is a long history of critiquing the value of separation of concerns. One of my favorite early talks that sold me on React was "Pete Hunt: React: Rethinking best practices -- JSC
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by code_biologist 9mo ago
I agree that we're responsible for what we create. I would also submit that corporate culture has been under intense selective pressure over the past 10 years to get good at creating compliance with ethically problematic software proje
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by code_biologist 10mo ago
There's a meme pic I saw on reddit: "We do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy."
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by code_biologist 10mo ago
This consideration reminds me of two other lines of research: - Producing organisms with capable, healthy mitochondria requires mitonuclear compatibility (mitochondrial genome is from mother, nuclear genome is from both parents, energetic c
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by code_biologist 10mo ago
uv for using sh as a dependency in scripts, managed inline, has changed it from “eh, I’ll just use subprocess” to “why not” for me. https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/#using-different-py...
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by code_biologist 10mo ago
Shoutout to pyrsistent, a personal favorite library for frozen/immutable/hashable data structures whenever I need to use lists, sets, or dicts as dict keys, or make sets of such items: https://github.com/tobgu&#x2F
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by code_biologist 10mo ago
Break the aspects of language understanding and language generation apart. While I would agree that generative LLMs are understanding-free madlibs for writing text, embedding vector spaces and LLM latent spaces seem are a pretty genuine u
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by code_biologist 10mo ago
The tagline: An extremely fast Python type checker, written in Rust. @dang or another mod, can you add that to the title? Thanks!

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