itishappy

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by itishappy 6d ago
I would argue that novel and/or valuable results are not necessarily interesting! I (a human) am interested in things that are applicable to my realm of understanding, but I see a very plausible future where novel and/or valuable
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by itishappy 6d ago
It seems likely that there are an infinite number of math problems but only a finite number of interesting ones.
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by itishappy 19d ago
My company ran a test and found that they reduce token output on flagship model by something like 2-4x, and that number has been increasing with newer models. I suspect the increased subagent usage is driving this trend, because this mean
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by itishappy 20d ago
Because "depth" is recursive. You can search twice without waiting for the results of your first search: iteration. You can't if the thing you need to search for is the results of your first search: recursion.
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by itishappy 20d ago
That sounds more iterative than recursive. Recursion requires feeding the output back into the input, so creating version 4 requires results from version 3. You cannot recur in parallel. Iteration does not. You can iterate in parallel.
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by itishappy 22d ago
A published formalization is code. I would not think humans have any edge when it comes to citing previously published results.
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by itishappy 22d ago
It is, but it was also a rhetorical device! I wanted to highlight that we're actually looking at a trio of concepts: intelligence, IQ, and value. Strongly correlated concepts, yes, but also meaningfully distinct!
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by itishappy 23d ago
What does IQ have to do with intelligence? (Please forgive the flippant response. I believe it cuts to the core of what the parent was intending.)
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by itishappy 27d ago
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XMCU2vxtxxqqQ2NY567n... You can download it in various forms as well, such as txt. Won't fix the tone, but at least it's scannable.
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by itishappy 27d ago
Embeded slides URL is a great hack from which you can just download as .txt directly.
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by itishappy 27d ago
No, you've been charged for every one of those licenses.
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by itishappy 27d ago
> Also, the statement was valid because it will be true for most. The statement seems more like a preconception than data.
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by itishappy 27d ago
That is the appeal. It's an opinionated distro designed around keyboard navigation.
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by itishappy 1mo ago
Those self-interested unions better stay away from my interests!
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by itishappy 1mo ago
My distinction is "systems" vs "scripting" but yeah. I'm bringing Y2K back next!
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by itishappy 1mo ago
Agreed, efficiency is still important, but being at the "frontier of efficiency" is significantly more relevant to commodity model providers than state-of-the-art model providers. Frontier labs are incentivized to route their spen
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by itishappy 1mo ago
> Given that OpenAI is ahead in intelligence, it's also reasonably likely that they are at the frontier of efficiency too. Frontier labs have no incentive to be at the frontier of efficiency. Claude still leads the pack in general i
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by itishappy 1mo ago
Scripting languages are awful. Python is one of the nicest scripting languages.
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by itishappy 1mo ago
Happens with humans too! My senior colleagues check in with me significantly less often and cost significantly more in the meantime!
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by itishappy 1mo ago
I feel like these are two competing goals: * the dev wants to describe an app in natural language then fall asleep while an AI works on it * the dev wishes that the same AI would write less comprehensive tests What exactly is a vibe coder t
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by itishappy 1mo ago
The session is "just" the raw chat history in it's entirety (human and agent) and can be disseminated as such. This is what enables swapping between models, you simply send the whole context. Not sure how others do it, but op
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by itishappy 1mo ago
> [...] there is one unquantified, unproven comment at the top saying it's 100% [...] The parent was clearly not stating anything confidently. > Look at the later comments, they have substance oriented discussions. There are two
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by itishappy 2mo ago
I don't follow. The default today is that an unprivileged user space application should not crash the machine. The kernel reserves what it needs, then hands the rest to user space. Thus, all available memory should not crash the machin
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by itishappy 2mo ago
I don't think anyone can objectively judge the attractiveness of both genders on one scale.
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by itishappy 2mo ago
I like "pretty privilege." In my experience, improving appearance is already one of the top suggestions for job applicants. We're attuned the other way too, showing up to work in a nice outfit tends to be met with "got a
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by itishappy 2mo ago
Isn't that the default? The user has access to all available memory unless they (or an admin) set a restriction. Unavailable memory is only unavailable because writing to it crashes the kernel, thus preventing you from using your hardw
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by itishappy 2mo ago
Disk, memory, and CPU limits? The app should crash, not the kernel.
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by itishappy 2mo ago
> if we wanted every human on Earth to be over 6' tall, we could just cull the short ones (or stop them from reproducing) This is a testable hypotheses. What's actually stopping us? Science is not the issue here.
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by itishappy 2mo ago
Pantone is not a color space. They are a supplier of physical color samples. Most pigments can be represented in a color space, but that representation differs based on illumination so it not unique. Some Pantone pigments, fluorescent color
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by itishappy 2mo ago
Gilbert's is a liver disease... https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17661-gilbert...

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