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by josephg 2mo ago
Yeah. LLMs are also great at reading and understanding thousands of lines of code quickly. It can find things like this - or compare disparate implementations. I’ve been using fable recently not to write code, but to write briefing notes on
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by josephg 2mo ago
There was a couple famous papers from a few years ago asking why computer science students, sorted by ability, seemed to form two clusters. In one of the studies they got incoming CS students to fill out a multiple choice exam on programmin
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by josephg 2mo ago
People who study intelligence differentiate between fluid intelligence (plastic intelligence) and crystallised intelligence. The former is the ability to learn and form new ideas. The latter is - as you said - memory. Knowing lots of stuff.
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by josephg 2mo ago
> Perhaps the most interesting thing is that RISC-V shows just how ISA agnostic people are Of course! Most people in the computing world work way higher up the ladder of abstraction. I suspect a small minority of working software enginee
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by josephg 2mo ago
Why does the false positive rate need to be 0%?
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by josephg 2mo ago
Then make an atproto account just for your dns. You can also self host atproto identity servers if you want.
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by josephg 2mo ago
How fast can you post messages to Bluesky?
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by josephg 2mo ago
Ah yes, cheating is really the fault of universities for not fundamentally restructuring their courses more. Why not both? Stenographically fingerprint llm output to make cheating risky. And use other approaches too. Most people have no ide
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by josephg 2mo ago
You don’t need a blockchain to implement a cryptographic chain of trust.
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by josephg 2mo ago
To stream dns changes from site owners to dns servers. If you want to change a record, you post the change on atproto. DNS servers everywhere just subscribe to the jetstream. That way anyone can run a fast, local dns server which is kept up
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by josephg 2mo ago
We’d need a registry of some sort. And a name space. Register a name, associated to a Bluesky account. Then use that Bluesky account to update dns records.
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by josephg 2mo ago
Whoever buys it first. With a centralised database, this is trivial. Usernames are the same. Who gets @example.bsky.social ? Whoever registers it first. Problem solved.
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by josephg 2mo ago
How accurate is apple's CSAM scanner? 90%? 99%? A proper watermarking system should be able to have an arbitrarily high accuracy - as many nines as you want. And it should be able to actually report the accuracy of its judgements. If y
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by josephg 2mo ago
What baby? DNS doesn't have the double spend problem. Why is the blockchain good for this?
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by josephg 2mo ago
Yes, exactly. Blockchain DNS minus the blockchain is just good DNS.
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by josephg 2mo ago
The lazy kids, yeah. But, it was always the lazy kids who are cheating the most with LLMs. EDIT: Sorry, I misread your comment above. Yeah, hopefully orders of magnitude fewer kids than the number who are getting falsely accused of cheating
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by josephg 2mo ago
I wonder if it would be a good idea to remake DNS on top of bluesky. The basic idea is that, if you own a domain name, you post DNS updates in a bluesky feed. The firehose itself is authoritative. DNS servers sit downstream of the firehose.
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by josephg 2mo ago
A watermarking system like this should have an incredibly low false positive rate. Orders of magnitude lower than the current crop of AI detector tools.
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by josephg 2mo ago
Yeah, but you’re still manually translating a whole essay or design document or whatever between languages. People who get LLMs to do their work for them do it because they don’t want to spend time and effort writing. Making people do a tra
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by josephg 2mo ago
I think that would defeat the watermark. But low quality language translation tools have low quality output. If llm watermarks are defeated by making slop even sloppier, it’ll at least make it easier for humans to tell the difference. And t
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by josephg 2mo ago
> Most people are generally lazy. And the people who get LLMs to make content for them are often the laziest of us all! Some people can’t even be bothered to remove their prompt from the output. Or they submit work which ends with “is th
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by josephg 2mo ago
Me too! And a detection system that works 50%-90% of the time is better in a lot of cases than no automated detection at all. For example, universities need to make cheating with chatgpt risky for students. This article says any AI watermar
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by josephg 2mo ago
Events sent over an sse stream should be in order. It’s a single tcp stream with messages separated by newlines. If you’re seeing messages arrive out of order, there may be a bug in whatever sse stream library you’re using. Http messages of
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by josephg 2mo ago
> For most apps just use SSE and the built-in code for making HTTP requests (Fetch) instead of hacking up your own client side JS to make requests over a WebSocket. HTTP doesn't guarantee in-order delivery. Websocket messages do. In
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by josephg 2mo ago
> Like, will it become even easier to detect on a read-through because of the word choices and patterning? It's turned on right now. Can you tell a difference? I can't. How many ways could I write this paragraph and still conve
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by josephg 2mo ago
A giant pile of unmaintainable, brittle code nobody understands. At some point, even LLMs struggle to make changes without introducing bugs.
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by josephg 2mo ago
Oh wow - this is deeply, insanely similar to what I’ve been working on. Including your Solidjs based api, and how you’re approaching reactivity and signals. I had no idea Day existed. Write and post about it - this is cool! To answer your q
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by josephg 2mo ago
I think I might need to bridge to them from rust. But that doesn’t sound impossible. Just … tricky. Especially to bridge to them in a performant way. I’m not sure if SwiftUI has a lower level api.
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by josephg 2mo ago
Because none of those UI libraries use native controls. I want mac apps to look and feel like mac apps. I want native controls, native shortcuts, toolbars, built in integration with screen readers, and all the other things that the OS alrea
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by josephg 2mo ago
Wasm will be optional. Really, I have 2 goals with this: 1. Short term, I want a good, clean, rust UI library for building native applications. 2. Long term, I'm making my own OS / computing environment. I have a whole bunch of st

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