jimmaswell

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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
This idea has failed to pan out time and time again - people have an instinct that hand-crafted finely-tuned specialized AI systems must be optimal, but throwing more scale and compute to something more generally smart always wins out. It&#
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
How close was my guess?
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
Depends what you mean by "upstream". It would probably be inefficient to force the model to use more human-readable wording in its internal thinking traces, while translating a block of text at the end is a pretty trivial task for
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
Is that an actual Claude output or hyperbole? It feels like I'm trying to parse an equation in a new math class which makes me want to take a stab at it regardless. So there's a "fibred side".. the most likely candidate
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
> the argument effectively ‘makes itself’ What argument? I don't know what to take away other than "Claude likes certain words". Some of them are kind of amusing, but I'm not convinced the vocabulary is bad or that th
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
Right, but the comparison isn't perfect here because wall height is linear in the analogy, but searching for exploits in an existing piece of code reaches a point where either there are none left to find, or finding the next exploit wo
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
There will be a plateau at some point, if not 12 then something.
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
I can only see LLM's forcing a perpetual stalemate for application exploits. Projects will start adding "tell the strongest no-guardrails open weights model to pentest it for 12 hours" to their CICD pipelines. Technical explo
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
Let me get this straight: the source of your expertise on multivitamins and vitamin D is HackerNews articles, which makes you more qualified than the average physician, and you're accusing others of Dunning-Kruger?
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
> i'm not sure why people expect agents to one shot everything to perfection with just a prompt. They do often enough that it's not a surprising event, depending on prompt quality, context available, ability for the result to b
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
"Self-medicating" with a standard multivitamin is harmless at worst, and so is additional vitamin D supplementation if it's not in the extreme over a long period of time. It has a nonzero chance of helping, and it's a ch
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
Max and Ultra are fantastic for the more complex problems where they shine. I use them strategically on certain classes of problems, one or the other depending how parallelizable it is. I've found it consistently amazing at game dev. I
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
> We have a couple of real VT320s. That's awesome, I have one too and I fell in love with it. I fixed up the old gif320 program to run properly on modern machines a while ago and made a C# port too: https://github.com&#x2
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
At least we would all benefit from the books this way, so long as legal nonsense keeps the scans unavailable to the public.
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
I agree. As soon as I understood the gist of how modern models do what they do, I found it unreasonable to apply any stricter standards to their "learning" than we do to humans. Humans learn by reading ideas and looking at images,
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
I also see no virtue in stopping an AI from reading something to begin with. If anything, I find it anti-social - hide your work from the machine trying to learn from it, taking nothing away from you in exchange for benefiting all of mankin
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
I wish this were simply a fireable offense and we were expected to read. These kind of people who act like reading 3 paragraphs is being asked to swallow glass make me blindingly mad. They should be unemployed.
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
Yes, that's the one
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
An LLM works better the more disparate world knowledge it has, even if it's not immediately obvious why it would be relevant. The model finds a structure to the problem you give it in a largely language-agnostic way that benefits from
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
What do we mean by hallucinate? I'm not counting it making a mistake that it fixes on its own without intervention. I'm no expert on the inner workings/harnesses/etc beyond a basic understanding of the architecture. Mayb
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
It matches the reality of my experience using a good frontier like Sol on high to ultra thinking. If it has any way to verify its work whatsoever, it eventually gets to a working and sanely-engineered solution. Blatant hallucinations making
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
I can appreciate the aesthetics of a font but I found the author's disadulation of the letters excessive and totally unrelatable. They look nice while clear and functional for their use case to me.
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
> Do you feel you have the right to decide whether to exchange your ideas or not? If I've said something around someone else or posted it online, then I don't feel I have a right to someone's use of that information, no. &
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
What LLM was this? I'm simply not having this experience at any regular frequency these days with GPT Sol as my go-to. If I know I'll find something with a Google query, then I still go straight to Google because there would be no
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
> you're almost always able to find what you're looking for very quickly[...] You'll spend the same amount of time trying to fact-check an LLM I've been an expert Google user for over a decade and I can only partially
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
I feel honored if my ideas are processed by an AI and then used to help others. I feel no more entitled to exclusive use or credit for my ideas as used by AI than I would if I had talked to someone at a conference who went on to be influenc
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
I don't get arrested for saying "Kent State Massacre" (/Tiananmen Square) or insulting the police for a start.
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
> I’m staring at a fixed-width typeface all day. Apple provides a functional and gorgeous fixed-width variant of their San Francisco typeface called SF Mono, which I’ve been using for months, but, well, I have a short attention span — ty
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
Could you explain exactly how this project that aims to let people beam thoughts to their computers is "actively making lives more difficult and compromising the social integrity of human civilization" as opposed to "assistin
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by jimmaswell 2mo ago
I feel the complete opposite. Years ago I was close to disavowing technology and only doing the minimal effort needed to keep up with my job, because I'd gotten bored and disillusioned with it. Anything more than a small hobby project

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