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Terminal-Bench 2.0 and Harbor
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falcor84
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> A coworker of mine told me that GPT’s LLM can use Excel files. No, it can’t. But the tools they plugged into it can. It's a bit like saying that a human can't use Excel files, but when given a keyboard, mouse and monitor conn
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1y ago
>NaN I don't want any of those other ones, but I do think that everything else being equal, it's generally a good thing that my salad ingredients can't be directly serialized to float64.
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1y ago
> If it solves the question, it is exactly the right answer, regardless how much time passed. But that's the crux of the matter - what exactly is this "question" entity? I'm reminded of Heraclitus's "You can
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I think it's actually a really funny and naive assumption that had led them to having an "accepted answer" at all. For a q&a platform that focuses so much on avoiding duplicates, thinking that the first person to ask a pa
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1y ago
Information has existed long before the invention of money, and will outlive it.
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Taking that on a tangent, there's the seed of a very interesting sci-fi story in a world where visiting a website is sufficient to give people a complete understanding of something. EDIT: thinking about it some more, I would say that t
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1y ago
> it's about the audience, not the technology. My take is that the biggest feature of the Play store and Steam is their collection and moderation of user reviews at scale - it is this that Epic are unable or unwilling to take on.
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1y ago
This seems to be going for a somewhat similar goal to Mojo [0] - anyone here who used both and is willing to offer a comparison? [0] https://www.modular.com/mojo
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I found Terminal-Bench [0] to be the most relevant for me, even for tasks that go far outside the terminal. It's been very interesting to see tools climb up there, and it matches my own experimentation, that they generally get the most
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Sorry for the nitpicking, but that should be "loose". I've seen that mistake/typo often in the opposite direction, as they both have a /u/ sound that is more natural with the "oo" spelling, but I'
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1y ago
I'm not a big google fan, but I really like the "Google AI Edge Gallery" android app [0]. In particular, I've been chatting with the "Gemma-3n-E2B-it" model when I don't have an internet connection, and it
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Wow! Seeing that it was published on the first of January, I can only assume that it was written while deep in a hangover, with the aid of a still drunk LLM.
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That was indeed the intent. I first considered "a conspiracy" like with lemurs, but eventually felt that "unkindness" was more appropriate.
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An AI company CEO could take over the world
(blog.ai-futures.org)
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If you want even better nightmares, you can make localhost:8000 forward to a container running claude code with --dangerously-skip-permissions which uses an unkindness of mcp servers to control that endpoint on the fly based (amongst other
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falcor84
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Interesting. They mention the following as some of their reasoning for this license: > They market these rebranded solutions in commercial offerings to customers and organizations, sometimes at a massive markup. > In some cases, they
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I've never actually lived in France and would appreciate a bit of detail on that. I had thought that France has full public healthcare, but trying to google this now, I'm getting conflicting details about people having to get that
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1y ago
As mentioned in the comments there, the actual sum according to the official calculator is that a gross salary of €60,000 would cost the employer €84,982 and net the employee €40,504 [0] (still really high though). [0] https://mo
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What does this have to do with anything? Obviously science should be independent from these considerations, but then social policy should not be. As an extreme example, give me a free weekend and I'll get you a mathematical model of ho
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> People benefit from stuff like this While I agree that people generally feel better by getting something with little effort, I think that there is a longer-term disservice here. Once upon a time, it used to be understood that repeated
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Why would it be fraudulent in this case? I assume that these would be paid as refunds accounted for as a discount to a particular customer - aren't these generally discretionary? Also, I would assume that it would be the Israeli govern
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There's a nice utopian book about a world where they do this. They then even remove the comparatives and superlatives, to have for example "plushappy". And with the language controlled and simplified in this manner, everythin
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> Too many people would rather risk suffering the disease than take the vaccine. Apologies for being morbid, but that's what we call a self-fixing problem, isn't it? On a Darwinistic level, people either adopt an effective thre
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My first introduction to this idea as a kid was a great episode of the TMNT cartoon named "Camera Bugged"[0], which had aliens with a camera that actually made people disappear. [0] https://turtlepedia.fandom.com/w
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With my limited second-hand experience, I tend to think it's less about self-control and more about the hopelessness you mentioned earlier - addicts seem to be exactly the people who for various reasons attach very little value to &quo
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Leaving aside the heart death of the universe, I can imagine a future that's a more utopian version of the Altered Carbon universe, where everyone who wants to have daily backups, which they could set to restore either in the cloud or
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1y ago
I was actually talking with some small children recently about the snow white story, and I found it amazing how for them there was nothing magical about the mirror on the wall - it's just a different form factor of a google home device
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I tend to disagree. While there are definitely monopolies/oligopoly for every domain, I'm actually constantly impressed with the very long tail of other providers available in that area. Whenever I am looking for a new solution to
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It's actually an interesting example, because unlike Warp that tries to be a CLI with AI, Claude defaults to the AI (unless you prefix with an exclamation mark). Maybe it says more about me, but I now find myself asking Claude to write
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