mNovak

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by mNovak 4mo ago
Minor point, but is there a trademark issue here with Yahoo Scout? (the Yahoo finance AI summaries widget)
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by mNovak 4mo ago
Given the $10k price tag for tokens and high rate of bugs (several per minute) they mention, it'd be very interesting to see this experiment run with cheaper models too. I wonder if we get to a world where a full repo sweep like this i
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by mNovak 4mo ago
The wild thing to me, is that they're serving $47B run rate worth of requests on maybe 2-3 GW of compute currently [1], of which only a fraction goes to inference, vs R&D and training. Obviously there have been complaints on token
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by mNovak 5mo ago
Lately I've been thinking that UI really needs to include the equivalent of a screenshare meeting. Ideally you could click through an example of a software flow Claude's never seen before, with a few quick notes, and have it relia
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by mNovak 5mo ago
I had a similar, really great prof, who would always ask for what the next variable would be, so we'd end up with trees and smiley faces. His point was to not make assumptions (c is always a constant etc), but it made the classes more
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by mNovak 5mo ago
I think the water is difficult to traverse, in that it slows you down when 'swimming'. It's really interesting how it still feels grounded even though you can fly all around. Having the cursor disappear underneath bridges and
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by mNovak 5mo ago
Do we know the breakdown of revenue from API vs subscriptions for OAI/Anthropic? That seems very relevant, since this entire article seems to be on the premise that users are only willing to pay for a subsidized subscription and would
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by mNovak 5mo ago
USER: Give some advice for programming my computer TALKIE-1930: In programming your computer, set it level, and so that the zero of the scale of inches may coincide with the zero of the scale of feet; slide the index forward until it stop
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by mNovak 5mo ago
USER: Now that it's 1930, what's the likelihood of falling into another "great war"? TALKIE-1930: The probability of a great war in the immediate future is very small. During the last ten years Europe has been comparati
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by mNovak 6mo ago
This feels similar to when Deepseek first debuted with claims of ultra-low cost training, and all the pundits exclaimed that Nvidia was finished, the bubble had burst, etc.
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by mNovak 6mo ago
He does that in the write-up, though it's unclear from the photos if he actually soldered it or just twisted up pairs. The discussion of part of the wire melting also raises an eyebrow.. no idea about the authors hardware experience, b
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by mNovak 8mo ago
I'm excited for the big jump in ARC-AGI scores from recent models, but no one should think for a second this is some leap in "general intelligence". I joke to myself that the G in ARC-AGI is "graphical". I think wha
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by mNovak 8mo ago
Large murals on, for example, commercial buildings or residences are typically commissioned. These are big enough to require scaffolding/lifts and take multiple days to paint; with some exceptions (vacant property) it'd be hard to
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by mNovak 8mo ago
Very cool! A couple notes from my first few sols: - I had a really hard time building a greenhouse, because I hadn't realized it'd be bigger than 1 square like all the previous buildings, and it just wouldn't build despite ha
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by mNovak 8mo ago
Maybe to allow sub-vocalized commands when wearing airpods, for example? I think this was a theme in the later Ender's Game series books.
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by mNovak 8mo ago
I'm going to call BS on that chart of "AI-driven chip design". What "AI" tools has Cadence been providing since 2021 that are reaching 40-50% of "chip design" (what does that even mean?). Is AI here just a
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by mNovak 9mo ago
So when can an AI call up the cable company and negotiate a discount? Asking for a friend. But seriously, other tasks I've encountered recently that I wish I could delegate to an AI: - Posting my junk to Craigslist, determining a fair
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by mNovak 9mo ago
Bloat the apps, push users into a high tier iPhone, some % of users settle for a more affordable Pixel. Not that Android apps are that much better.
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by mNovak 9mo ago
I agree that the worker becoming more productive due to some capital equipment generally won't see any benefit from doing so (unless it requires special skills to operate). But I think the argument is that the end consumer will eventua
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by mNovak 10mo ago
Doesn't OpenRouter prove that inference is profitable? Why would random third parties subsidize the service for other random people online? Unless you're saying that only large frontier models are unprofitable, which I still don&#
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by mNovak 10mo ago
While this example is explicitly asking for a port (thus a copy), I also find in general that LLM's default behavior is to spit out new code from their vast pre-trained encyclopedia, vs adding an import to some library that already ser
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by mNovak 10mo ago
>> Seeing an image of their brain with some colors overlayed ... is highly convincing Indeed, there's been quite a few studies [1] that find just including any old image of a brain with stuff highlighted will cause a paper to be
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by mNovak 10mo ago
I know it's annoying now to nitpick over what's AI generated, but I'm noticing their robot mascot has two different incorrect American flags on its sweater..
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by mNovak 10mo ago
As an engineer, I use Matlab (or rather, Octave the free equivalent) all the time. It's really great for numerical computing and plotting. Most things 'just work', there's a sizeable collection of packages, and I persona
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by mNovak 10mo ago
I literally had a friend mail us a crate of TP in our time of need. Thankfully they had access to industrial suppliers. Though you're right that the prices didn't skyrocket, as that would have been considered price gouging during
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by mNovak 10mo ago
Unfortunately there's too much distraction regarding the AI side of the discussion, to actually look at the generation tech itself. For all their discussion of high temperature operation, it seems the only advantage at the end of the d
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by mNovak 10mo ago
I'm guessing it's not just the overhead lines, but you need the actual power plants somewhere.
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by mNovak 10mo ago
I do, just for fun. It's become sort of a hobby, learning more depth/detail behind the current AI arms race. It certainly cuts through the shallow takes that get thrown around constantly.
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by mNovak 10mo ago
Is there an elegant term to describe a severely overburdened metaphor? I'm getting lost in the thick bark of an intertwined canopy root system here..
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by mNovak 10mo ago
Grammarly certainly comes to mind, for being essentially a free feature of most chat AIs now. Interestingly this time around I could see the 'fire' affecting mid-large corporations (or at least some divisions of them) if they don&

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