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by ctoth 1y ago
The conspiracy theory that tech companies are manufacturing AI fears for profit makes zero sense when you realize the same people were terrified of AI when they were broke philosophy grad students posting on obscure blogs. But that would re
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by ctoth 1y ago
There is, of course, no other explanation. LLMs have not, in fact, been getting more capable over the last three years. All hype. </cope>
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by ctoth 1y ago
Yeah :( Do you have any replacement for Bypass Paywalls Clean Chrome? I am not willing to just download the random one without the repo history.
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by ctoth 1y ago
So you mean only people who want to post something for the fun of posting it will post and we won't get as much corporate crap/SEO? Darn. Of course practically this means people who post will have a reason to post and that reason
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by ctoth 1y ago
Let me share a problem I solved recently (well, a year ago god I'm getting old)! I had to write this template loader for my space sim... reference resolution, type mapping, and YAML parsing. This isn't the code I wanted to write
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Give Me a Reason(Ing Model)(thezvi.substack.com)
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by ctoth 1y ago
From the announcement email: > Today, we dropped the price of OpenAI o3 by 80%, bringing the cost down to $2 / 1M input tokens and $8 / 1M output tokens. > We optimized our inference stack that serves o3—this is the same exa
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DeepSeek-R1-0528 Did Not Have a Moment(thezvi.substack.com)
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Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences(lesswrong.com)
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by ctoth 1y ago
> Once this occurs, many software engineers could perhaps transition into adjacent positions that rely on similar expertise but are significantly harder to automate, such as software engineering management, product management, or executi
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by ctoth 1y ago
Do you want paperclips? Because this is how you get paperclips! Eliminate all agents, all sources of change, all complexity - anything that could introduce unpredictability, and it suddenly becomes far easier to predict the future, no?
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Demonstrating end-to-end scientific discovery with Robin: a multi-agent system(futurehouse.org)
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by ctoth 1y ago
> First, the claim that one of the main things holding LLMs back is a lack of expert feedback. To me, that just means the models are guessing—because they don’t have knowledge like humans do, they rely on pattern-matching, not understand
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by ctoth 1y ago
> To save money, the FAA elected not to build a new STARS server in Philadelphia to support the move. A new server alone would require tens of millions of dollars, as well as installation of new internet and power infrastructure. > In
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The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial (2017)(ribbonfarm.com)
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I'm a LinkedIn Executive. I See the Bottom Rung of the Career Ladder Breaking(nytimes.com)
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by ctoth 1y ago
> Each task is processed independently in a separate, isolated environment preloaded with your codebase. Codex can read and edit files, as well as run commands including test harnesses, linters, and type checkers. Task completion typical
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Denver airport air traffic control went out for 6 minutes on Monday, report says(denverpost.com)
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by ctoth 1y ago
Not yet, though this is good motivation for me to get off my butt and publish it!
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by ctoth 1y ago
There are a variety of accessibility frameworks from MSAA (old, windows-only) IA2, JAB, UIA (newer). NVDA from NV Access has an abstraction over these APIs to standardize gathering roles and other information from the matrix of a11y provide
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by ctoth 1y ago
Just to clarify - this is SAM (Software Automatic Mouth), a vintage speech synthesizer from the early 1980s Commodore era, not Microsoft Sam (the SAPI 5 voice from Windows XP). These are entirely different technologies from different genera
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by ctoth 1y ago
Actually dictation would be more-likely to get this right! This was my typical human failure. Vastly more attributable to me reading with speech rather than Braille.
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by ctoth 1y ago
> I can already do that pretty well with my eyeballs, and I don't need to worry about hallucinations I see. Perhaps your eyeballs missed the part where I said I'm blind? The entire purpose of my comment was to push back against
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by ctoth 1y ago
Here's a thing you can do right now, today. - Go down to your local Ray-Ban store. - Ask to play with a pear of the Meta glasses. - Activate "Live AI mode" - Have a real time video conversation with an AI which can see what y
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by ctoth 1y ago
I actively enjoy programming with Aider/Claude Code, and still there's just something that feels very squicky about this. "Pay to train your replacement! We'll give you a discount!" After all, why do they need my to
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Beyond the Last Horizon(blog.ai-futures.org)
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by ctoth 1y ago
I'm sorry but I fail to see how I could have any envy, passion, or love if I am dead. If these things are important in any way, then literally changing whether or not someone experiences these things seems important? You can't hav
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by ctoth 1y ago
I had a deadly childhood cancer, Retinoblastoma, which would have killed me without modern medicine. I'm pretty fond of existing. These developments sure altered my humanity. By making it possible.
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by ctoth 1y ago
"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." The rest of us can meet up every couple millennia around Alpha Centauri for an old-home week.
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by ctoth 1y ago
I know what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but really? We're going this far with it? It doesn't even exist anymore?

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