elcritch

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by elcritch 2mo ago
Not just Saudi Arabia but the UAE, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Egypt, and Gaza. Iran has funded terrorism and religious extremism in the region leading to massive death tolls in many of them. Not to mention Iranians themselves.
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by elcritch 2mo ago
Jackson Hole HS alum here. It's been like that since at least the early 2000's. I commuted to school every morning from Alpine WY. I still have part dream part nightmares about it.
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by elcritch 2mo ago
Thanks! Many of your issues sound more agent / LLM specific than LLMs in general. At least compared to my experiences. It also aligns with what I saw from Claude & Claude Code when I used it last year for a while. Now I use Codex a
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by elcritch 2mo ago
This is annoying. Similar with "context poisoning". LLMs can be highly productive... until they're "poisoned" with contradicting inputs / guidance.
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by elcritch 2mo ago
I read this a lot, do you have examples of this? Last year the code produced by LLMs was pretty sloppy, but recent SOTA models seems pretty good to me. I'm curious if I'm missing something or it's folks using different models
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by elcritch 3mo ago
Terrance Tao is GOATed. That’s what I got from reading about a third of that exchange. I mean that’s clear from reading anything about the dude, but to _experience_ it so to speak is different. A true mark of brilliance is someone who makes
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by elcritch 3mo ago
No, it's more like you're being overly literal. As a field the technology is developing. Just like people might say "in the 60's integrated circuits developed quickly". The parent wasn't referring to individu
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by elcritch 3mo ago
Rather the difference of cost of Claude is pretty incredible. Then again, I guess they gotta make it rain while they can.
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by elcritch 3mo ago
Yes, but Parrots don't mimic the stages of learning speech development like children do. They just memorize a phrase. These SOTA LLMs aren't trying to mimic existing children's drawings, but interestingly they're followi
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by elcritch 3mo ago
Nim gives me similar performance to C++ in generally half the LOC. For example I had Codex port Kiwi Cassowary C++ to Nim: https://github.com/elcritch/kiwiberry
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by elcritch 3mo ago
Interesting, at first I though you mean the active red-light therapy things. I've seen that a lot on Instagram. Might have to try that myself. Do you still use your phone/tablet/etc or does it also encourage you to use them l
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by elcritch 3mo ago
Good points, if I am careful about caffeine and do all of that it's not unmanageable. Being outdoors and camping and getting good physical activity is the best I found. But it's a struggle for me. > Also have the same experienc
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by elcritch 3mo ago
Well that sucks, given I have a gene variant related to delayed sleep according to 23andme. Last year I did an experiment of sorts while unemployed for a time and found that if I just slept and woke when tired that my sleep time would natur
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by elcritch 3mo ago
We have plenty of solutions for spent fuel storage as well as recycling fuel now. We just have NIMBY folks who protest it because they’re scared of “nuclear”.
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by elcritch 3mo ago
It's additionally not clear that TFA is a copy of the Climate Casino (CC) post. It's on the same topic, possibly spurred by the CC. Yes it uses the same graph (which I presume CC also didn't make), but otherwise the content a
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by elcritch 3mo ago
Not with modern fail-safe designs.
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by elcritch 3mo ago
The data centers are spurring new investment and building of nuclear power plants, which are going to be critical infrastructure for any stable and reliable carbon neutral power generation future, IMHO.
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by elcritch 3mo ago
The underground roundabout is cool, but that art work sits somewhere between "meh" and slightly disturbing.
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by elcritch 3mo ago
Yeah it's sorta of fascinating. Likewise now cells phones are faster than supercomputers from two decades ago and everyone can afford one. Meanwhile hardwood furniture is much more expensive now that it's usually in the "rich
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by elcritch 3mo ago
Better robotic weeding drones using lasers or spray guns to kill weeds. We can still get high yields and cut back on weed killers and possibly pesticides if they can do pests too.
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by elcritch 3mo ago
Great info, and seems less likely cash grab than some. Still a scam can include other "deceptive schemes" – maybe he's just trying to get fame or plain old attention.
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by elcritch 3mo ago
I meant rebuild civilization for myself, say lost in Alaska or something. Though maybe there's a market for tablets with all the youtube survivalist, building, and technology re-creation out there. ;)
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by elcritch 3mo ago
With Starlink, a smartphone, and a solar charger I’d have access to enough YouTube videos to rebuild civilization. Literally. There’s enough to go from building any type of housing to building your own steel forge. It’s amazing.
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by elcritch 3mo ago
My generation would prepare in advance for outing. We’d print the route from MapQuest. ;)
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by elcritch 3mo ago
Starlink is manufacturing the satellites at scale. They’re likely to cost not much differently from large ground based 5G towers at some point. The antennas are “digital” so no expensive mechanical systems needed.
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by elcritch 3mo ago
> But the material is the same, and this notion that somehow, today's boys and young men are worse for this exposure than their predecessors is insidious and deeply ignorant. No what's ignorant is ignoring the prevalence and na
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by elcritch 3mo ago
Well true, that's possible. The sensors and compute are relatively expensive and tractors are already highly automated. Plus a small tractor can be relatively inexpensive and optimized for the mechanics of the task! I'm thinking m
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by elcritch 3mo ago
Mock it we might now, but 12 acres and (not too distant future) open weights AI models capable of driving open source robots for farm labor would be huge. No need for huge expensive purpose built tractors. Even if they’re slow you could hav
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by elcritch 3mo ago
Perhaps try reading the report linked in the third paragraph of the news article? It's at: https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/resource/pornograph... To quote from that report: A literature review of 19 acade
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by elcritch 3mo ago
I don't think it's a "reputation" issue, more of a what they're being exposed to and what it's normalizing. From studies I've seen it's a significant percentage (from a random Google search [1]): The

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