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by ctoth 8mo ago
> other side??? > We don’t have to look at assembly, because a compiler produces the same result every time. This is technically true in the narrowest possible sense and practically misleading in almost every way that matters. Anyone
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by ctoth 9mo ago
> But anyway, it already costs half compared to last year You could not have bought Claude Opus 4.5 at any price one year ago I'm quite certain. The things that were available cost half of what they did then, and there are new thing
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by ctoth 9mo ago
Which technologies have been 99% "done" for "decades?" Bicycles? carbon fiber frames, electronic shifting, tubeless tires, disc brakes, aerodynamic research Screwdrivers? impact drivers, torque-limiting mechanisms, ergon
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by ctoth 9mo ago
Wait until you start working with us imperfect humans!
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by ctoth 9mo ago
Attention is all you need, after all. On its own, this is interesting. But when you consider that people actually need attention for things like their jobs, the road, their children, &c... it starts to sort of look a bit like a superwea
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by ctoth 9mo ago
Update: open sourced some fiddling around: https://github.com/ctoth/qlatt
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The Writers Came at Night(metropolitanreview.org)
32 points by ctoth 9mo ago|21 comments
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by ctoth 9mo ago
I agree with this. Any time I make a plan I have to go back and fill it in, fill it in, what did we miss, tdd, yada yada. And yes, I have all this stuff in CLAUDE.md. You start to get a sense for what size plan (in kilobytes) corresponds to
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by ctoth 9mo ago
Funny I've actually been digging into this problem recently. I have a webaudio reimplementation of Klatt 1980 driven by cmudict. It still sounds pretty ass, but it's very early days. This weekend I intend to go deep dive on the De
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by ctoth 9mo ago
> rather the tasks of detecting errors have become increasingly difficult because of the associated effects of GPT. Did the increase to submissions to NeurIPS from 2020 to 2025 happen because ChatGPT came out in November of 2022? Or was
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by ctoth 9mo ago
Which of these papers had falsified results and not bad citations? What is the base rate of bad citations pre-AI? And finally yes. Peer review does not mean clicking every link in the footnotes to make sure the original paper didn't
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by ctoth 9mo ago
The innumeracy is load-bearing for the entire media ecosystem. If readers could do basic proportional reasoning, half of health journalism and most tech panic coverage would collapse overnight. GPTZero of course knows this. "100 halluc
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by ctoth 9mo ago
How you know it's really real is that they clearly tell the FPR, and compare against a pre-llm baseline. But I saw it in Apple News, so MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
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by ctoth 9mo ago
Gonna try a new thing: The irony is almost too perfect. The Piper article's core thesis is that the Bloomberg piece "dances around the data rather than explaining it" - and then the comments dance around the article rather th
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by ctoth 9mo ago
> People will risk their life in a horribly janky self driving car if it means they can swipe on social media instead of watching the road - acceptance doesn't mean it's good. People will risk their and others' lives in a
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by ctoth 9mo ago
> I also know that these systems we've built today aren't moral patients. Can you tell me how you know this? > In every single case, we humans are the first mover in the causal hierarchy of these systems. So because I have p
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by ctoth 9mo ago
The "what would change my mind" criteria are all about AI succeeding within existing institutional forms. He's not considering whether those forms get outcompeted by smaller entities that don't carry the overhead, which
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by ctoth 9mo ago
> This is a role for regulation, no matter how Anthropic tries to delay it. Regulation like SB 53 that Anthropic supported? https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-is-endorsing-sb-53
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by ctoth 9mo ago
Do you know what makes someone or something a moral patient? I sure the hell don't. I remember reading Heinlein's Jerry Was a Man when I was little though, and it stuck with me. Who do you want to be from that story?
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by ctoth 9mo ago
Something I found really helpful when reading this was having read The Void essay: https://github.com/nostalgebraist/the-void/blob/main/the-voi...
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by ctoth 9mo ago
My question was something like: what is the right representation for program semantics when the consumer is an LLM and the artifact exceeds context limits? "Make sub-documents with cross-references" is just... recreating the probl
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by ctoth 9mo ago
Honest question: what do you do when your spec has grown to over a megabyte? Some things I've been doing: - Move as much actual data into YML as possible. - Use CEL? - Ask Claude to rewrite pseudocode in specs into RFC-style constraine
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by ctoth 9mo ago
This is catastrophizing, not analysis. If you genuinely feel this hopeless, that's worth examining as a signal about your own mental state rather than treating it as political insight.
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by ctoth 9mo ago
Do you not remember the early days of Covid? People are really, really, really good at not seeing what they don't want to see.
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We do know that Waymos are safer than human drivers(theargumentmag.com)
3 points by ctoth 9mo ago|4 comments
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by ctoth 9mo ago
Hmm. Maybe he might do... a bet! And then maybe he might ... change the bet! when he was about to lose? Maybe! Who's to say, really? Certainly not me! I'm just a neural network!
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by ctoth 9mo ago
I mean, "the pieces were already there" is true of everything? Einstein was synthesizing existing math and existing data is your point right? But the whole question is whether or not something can do that synthesis! And the "
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Ask HN: Tips for getting the ROM for an old speech synthesizer?
3 points by ctoth 9mo ago|2 comments
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by ctoth 9mo ago
I was all set to be pissed off, "you can't tell me what I can make with your product once you've sold it to me!" but no... This outrage bait hinges on the definition of "use" You can use Claude Code to write co
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by ctoth 9mo ago
What part of my original comment said it wasn't gross? My point is that nobody is getting undressed and no privacy violation is being done. Fake nudes are fake.

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