jimmaswell

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by jimmaswell 8d ago
Agreed. I don't believe intuition and creativity would be more than pattern recognition, remixing ideas, and trial and error combined with a kind of "genetic algorithm" approach if you deconstructed them into what the brain i
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by jimmaswell 8d ago
I would find it very interesting to train a model on information only available prior to the discovery of e.g. relativity or calculus and see if it can invent it. My intuition is that modern frontiers absolutely could. Not to take away from
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by jimmaswell 8d ago
It feels goalpost-movey to downplay exploring a large search space efficiently in regards to "intelligence". If we dug into a human genius's brain and found it was somehow trying out a million ways to solve a a problem at onc
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by jimmaswell 9d ago
You would often not have wifi available, and you wouldn't want to have to type in wifi passwords to your camera all the time. But your phone will almost always be nearby and persistent bluetooth is easy.
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by jimmaswell 9d ago
I would hope they have some feature for automatic backup to your phone over bluetooth or such today.
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by jimmaswell 9d ago
find is absolute agony once you get a taste of fd.
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by jimmaswell 10d ago
Humans have been hand-crafting artisanal test cases of equal banality for years, often to meet some metric no one is verifying deeper than an automated report etc. I'm more inclined to believe the null hypothesis here, that the formula
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by jimmaswell 10d ago
As a programming lead on a hobbyist video game project, we're reaping massive rewards being in category #1. I keep the architecture and important details in check while letting frontier models go ham. As alluded, it's a video game
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by jimmaswell 11d ago
This is perplexing because I've been all over the country, coast to coast and north to south and to Canada, and never encountered this despite being shorter than the person you're responding to (who is actually well above-average
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by jimmaswell 11d ago
other people are just standing there shooting head-on?
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by jimmaswell 11d ago
How tall are you and where do you live? I'm dead-on average US male height (5'9") and I've never experienced this.
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by jimmaswell 11d ago
Is there a study demonstrating that AI-assisted articles are less substantive or is it purely a kneejerk bias towards humanslop?
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by jimmaswell 17d ago
> At this point, what do the words even mean? Your own patience and available time are always completely random and fairly distributed across a large enough data set? Predicting the time a task will take is impossible. Something that sou
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by jimmaswell 17d ago
Programming before AI was always variable reward. It was a gamble against your own time and patience. Maybe I'd waste hours down the wrong rabbit holes trying to find a library that worked for my use case. Maybe I'd waste a day
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by jimmaswell 18d ago
You can still ask a general model to do that and it will probably have a nearly full success rate at this point. Either a good open weights or something like Astra.
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by jimmaswell 18d ago
This entire comment section is almost entirely people bemoaning AI output, calling AI a "slop machine", and you posted your regressive religious screed against it as if it were something to be proud of, seemingly to the approval o
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by jimmaswell 18d ago
Did I imply you did? I simply said I never see a "pro AI" mob, only an "anti AI" mob.
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by jimmaswell 19d ago
I'm admittedly no Latin expert, so I can't give an authoritative answer, but the translation was actually arrived at on a forum where the author asked for help, and I can see someone asked the same question: https://www
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by jimmaswell 20d ago
Repetition can make a good impact, but it's beyond excessive in this instance. Contrast with this poem: Non est salvatori salvator, neque defensori dominus, nec pater nec mater, nihil supernum. Translated: No
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by jimmaswell 20d ago
I find this and the parent comment highly relatable with the caveat that I also find it extremely intuitive and rewarding to get good outputs from quality LLM's like Sol or Astra, and I haven't had any trouble with "flow stat
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by jimmaswell 20d ago
I can't see how you could apply "minimalist" to that excerpt. It's maximalist, hammering the same point over and over and over when one or two examples with a little more worldbuilding per example would have done better
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by jimmaswell 20d ago
I like books but I don't find KJV's writing style engaging at all. The Hobbit was much better IMO
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by jimmaswell 20d ago
This could be shortened to "success does not belong to the skillful, for time and chance befalls all" with no meaning lost. It's self-indulgent fluff. Meanwhile, Orwell's actually adds more to the statement - much better
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by jimmaswell 20d ago
The second one was very clear and to the point. Parsing it was rewarded with instant understanding and I enjoyed the word choice. The first one was just annoying; I could tell it was just listing a bunch of pointless analogies to try to mak
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by jimmaswell 23d ago
It seems to use less than half the tokens for the same task compared to sol, and in some benchmarks closer to 2/3 less tokens. So the actual cost may be roughly the same or cheaper overall.
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by jimmaswell 24d ago
"I don't want to share my ideas in case someone might benefit from them" is a strange attitude for an academic.
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by jimmaswell 24d ago
Years before gen AI took off, when I wrote internet-facing prose or code, I thought "even if nobody reads this, maybe some AI will read it some day and find it useful, so I should still make it accurate", never expecting such a da
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by jimmaswell 28d ago
I use LLM's to make massive structural changes I never would have done by hand all the time. It's intractably tedious for me but easy for an LLM.
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by jimmaswell 28d ago
https://github.com/ldyeax/TerminalEmuSuite/blob/main/README.... Here you go, just finished getting it all together. I do plan to add the game stuff here relatively soon - I'm just saving it for a ce
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by jimmaswell 29d ago
Ok? This is a total non-sequitur.

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