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by iamflimflam1 7d ago
Probably important to call out this part of the post: Zero-shot vs. Fine-tuning: Out-of-the-box base models score ~0.35 on the typed-decisions benchmark (near random). The 0.766 score is achieved by fine-tuning on the benchmark's trai
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Jev Plays Manic Miner(youtube.com)
2 points by iamflimflam1 7d ago|1 comments
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by iamflimflam1 7d ago
I got Claude (of course) to knock this up. I had all the bits ready to go as I'd been experimenting with Manic Miner already. It actually works pretty well!
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by iamflimflam1 7d ago
If that’s the reason, why don’t stripe say so when they block the account?
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by iamflimflam1 7d ago
These things would be much easier if stripe were willing to actually explain what the issue is. We can come up with all sorts of reasons - anti money laundering, concerns around charge back etc… Why can’t stripe just say the reason?
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by iamflimflam1 7d ago
One of the biggest problems is actually making sure the information needed is on the poster. Times, dates, location, pricing, parking etc… As he points out “it added a bunch of text…” now it’s one all the future designs. That’s great - is t
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by iamflimflam1 8d ago
This reminds me of Terry Pratchett’s Sourcery. The wizards don’t become sourcerers themselves - they become enthusiastic users of someone else’s sourcery. Their years of learning don’t protect them from mistaking access to power for mastery
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by iamflimflam1 8d ago
I don’t mind these companies scraping my content. But for love of god, my blog changes at most every couple months. You don’t need to scrape it every few minutes.
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by iamflimflam1 9d ago
Maybe the mortgage system is different in the US. But if you have a 25 year term on a loan for a $500,000 Approx numbers: 5%: $2922 monthly, total paid: $876,885 10%: $4543 monthly, total paid: $1,353,000.
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by iamflimflam1 10d ago
This really doesn’t make sense. Higher interest rates mean the monthly payment is higher. You need to pay back the principal + the interest.
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by iamflimflam1 10d ago
Everyone in the audience will recognise when someone is being a dick and will be praying for them to stop grandstanding. “Great questions/point - would be great to pick it up with you later. Any other questions?”
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by iamflimflam1 11d ago
To me, this is why we have regulation. The CE mark in Europe and the UL mark in the US is supposed to provide a floor on quality. That floor can be increased if we as a society decides that this is required. You might be unwilling to pay fo
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by iamflimflam1 11d ago
As far as I can see the linked report does not mention software at all. It is all about physical products.
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Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?(atomic14.com)
951 points by iamflimflam1 13d ago|404 comments
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by iamflimflam1 14d ago
I also reported it - twice - and was fobbed off. The frustrating thing is, this is very easy for AI to detect. Just feed the image into any AI and it will tell you it is deceptive.
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by iamflimflam1 14d ago
I was getting an advert that was obviously some scam software on YouTube mobile. The image looked like a system alert that storage was low. It was an obvious attempt to trick users. https://bsky.app/profile/atomic14.bsk
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by iamflimflam1 15d ago
Social networking apps have morphed into content consumption apps. When they were still social networking they were useful. There is an argument that they made it too easy to still feel connected. What should have been a phone call to talk
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by iamflimflam1 19d ago
The internet has broken me. Whenever I see a question like this i now automatically expect it to be some marketing attempt. There will be a product/service/blog post somewhere in the comments.
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by iamflimflam1 20d ago
They must have picked that habit up from Claude...
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by iamflimflam1 20d ago
I once consulted a lawyer when a large company contacted me. His response was - they've got a team of lawyers on payroll whose job it is to make you run out of money...
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Computer Science Achievement and Writing Skills Predict Vibe Coding Proficiency(arxiv.org)
2 points by iamflimflam1 20d ago|0 comments
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by iamflimflam1 20d ago
It really depends - it’s trained on fairly limited data (things I could generate from Claude opus 5 and ChatGPT (pre-Astra). It’s now quite hard to get non AI training data…
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by iamflimflam1 20d ago
I did some experiments with very simple AI detection. You can get a very long way with simple ngram probabilities. https://meatbag.atomic14.com/ https://www.atomic14.com/2026/08/18/detecting-c
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by iamflimflam1 20d ago
Seems likely (to me) that he was probably using his company laptop and it was connected to the corp VPN most of the time.
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by iamflimflam1 21d ago
I did this recently - https://www.atomic14.com/2026/08/03/twelve-dev-boards-from-o... Instead of trying to vibe it all - I got Claude to write deterministic scripts for creating the boards. And did this befor
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by iamflimflam1 22d ago
Let me add my elite clone - https://harmless.atomic14.com
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by iamflimflam1 24d ago
What support do you have in your job - are you in a team of product managers/owners. Is there a tech/team lead on the project - what’s their opinion of the progress the team is making? It sounds like you are taking all the deliver
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by iamflimflam1 24d ago
My reading of the law was that watermarking is not required by it at all. It’s a convenient excuse for the companies that want to add watermarking.
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by iamflimflam1 24d ago
I really hope the improvement in natural style is real. When I’ve tried to adjust the output style is that initially it feels better - but that’s just because the new output is so refreshing to read after the horrible Claude output. Unfortu
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by iamflimflam1 26d ago
This is a real problem, and it’s not just in markdown files and docs. Claude loves to write things we’ve “discovered” in comments and then later in treats the comments as gospel truth. You have to constantly tend the garden and weed these t

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