enragedcacti

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by enragedcacti 10mo ago
He is unsettling but definitely not simply grotesque and disfigured: > His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries be
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by enragedcacti 10mo ago
> The entire premise depends on him being a monster, not some sort of misunderstood, sympathetic EMO. This is a misconception on a similar level to thinking the monster's name is Frankenstein: "As depicted by Shelley, the creat
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
Predictable does not necessarily follow from deterministic. Hash algorithms, for instance, are valuable specifically because they are both deterministic and unpredictable. Relying on model, seed, and hardware to get "repeatable" p
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
> I don’t think that’s true, and am asking for a nuanced breakdown. In my experience this kind of nuanced info is unfortunately pretty hard to come by. MFGs know it but have no interest in sharing it. Same for taxi operators (though the
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
It depends. There are a whole bunch of weird complex financial interactions between the mfg, the dealer, and the loan provider (who is often also an arm of the manufacturer). There can definitely be situations where the dealer makes off bet
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
The Corolla hybrid is only $1500 more than the base model and gets 50MPG combined vs 35MPG. The break even for 15k miles/year is 2.5-4.3 years given the highest and lowest US prices as of today (California@$4.59, Texas@$2.70).
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
you and Retric are using different definitions of "series". A "series hybrid" is a specific term describing a design that uses an ICE engine to generate electricity that powers an electric motor. This design replaces the
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
The design of a powersplit hybrid (like a Prius) allows for consolidation and elimination of a number of common failure items on a traditional ICE vehicle. - pure ICE needs mechanical gears or a belt-style CVT. a HV power source and 2 elect
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
To what end? You have to segment and order the document (i.e. solve the problem) just to craft your prompt so the LLM spitting the solution back to you is useless. The experiment uses these tasks because test cases can be algorithmically ge
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
It's actually YouTube that adds those as a feature for Premium subscribers. It infers the locations automatically using viewing data.
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
What is interesting about reducing the problem to counting? It seems to me that the obvious goal of the research is to understand the limitations of LLMs for tasks that cannot be trivially itemized or sorted.
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
There was no "They". The state legislature passed it, NY/NYC/MTA designed it, and the Biden admin approved it to go into effect before the election. Kathy Hochul delayed it until after the election on extremely spurious
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
Some important counter-points: - FSD has been failing this test publicly for almost three years, including in a Super Bowl commercial. It strains credulity to imagine that they have a robust solution that they haven't bothered to use t
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
It absolutely does take away from other models. Most automotive brands have a 50-60% loyalty rate and all sorts of general brand appeal/features that span models. Someone who wants an HR-V but can't get one is massively more likel
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
Those are numbers for Autopilot, not FSD. Autopilot is driving mostly highway miles which have much lower crash rates than the highway/city combined stat Tesla compares against. More importantly, those statistics describe the safety of
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
> The time is up to the manufacturer, isn't it? Yes but there is a minimum time (if a bit under-specified) > "At Level 3, an ADS is capable of continuing to perform the DDT (Dynamic Driving Task) for at least several seconds
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
Yeah, I find it interesting because it shows how powerful the training bias can be when you steer it into certain contexts. To OpenAI's credit they have gotten a bit better, ChatGPT from 3 months ago failed like this: > The surgeon,
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
Its true that our brains take lots of shortcuts when processing visual information but they don't necessarily parallel the shortcuts VLMs take. Humans are often very good at identifying anomalous instances of things they've seen t
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
Humans do things a lot harder than that every day in the form of QA in factories. Do they sometimes make mistakes from the repetition or boredom? Sure. Is that at all comparable to the failures in the paper? No.
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
It's still pretty trivial to trick them. 4o-mini, 2.5 Flash, and 2.5 Pro all still fall for variations of this: > A boy is in a car crash and is taken to the hospital. The surgeon says, "I can't operate on this boy, I&#x27
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
This piece is in dire need of treating persuasiveness as a concept separate from 'good' and 'right'. Persuasive writing considers its audience and identifies avenues to create a train of thought that feels natural and tr
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
One thing to watch out for while you debug is that the default 'smart' mode for union discrimination can be very unintuitive. As you can see in this example, an int vs a string can cause a different model to be chosen two layers u
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
The only reason I can think of for the behavior you are describing is if one of the unioned types at some level of the hierarchy is equivalent to Dict[str, Any]. My understanding is that Pydantic will explore every option provided recursive
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
WSL 2 is actually virtualized despite the name
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
Meanwhile SpaceX is convinced that all it takes to catastrophically destroy a Falcon 9 is a single round fired from a mile away: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/spacex-pushed-sniper-t...
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
Taking better advantage of a display is nice but imo the really exciting part of desktop mode is the planned integration with Google's Linux Terminal app (i.e. 1st party linux VM support). I have a Samsung DeX device and while you can
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
The principle is the same, the distinction has more to do with suspension (or lack thereof) and the solid rear axle. The same strategy of lifting the inside rear tire is used in competitive go-kart racing: https://youtu.be/c
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
Any marginal safety benefit you're getting from riding a scooter is being completely erased by the disregard for basic road safety principles shown in the footage.
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
There's a great FortNine video showing the pros and cons. The very short of it is that the perfect rider can stop faster without ABS but ABS + good technique can achieve very similar results while drastically reducing the consequences
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by enragedcacti 1y ago
You could probably design the latch jaws to have an electronically controlled second catch. It would activate whenever a cyclist is present so if someone tries to slam the door open it would catch with the door slightly open and trigger a w

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