matt_kantor

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by matt_kantor 28d ago
The recently-published investigations about the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, for example: https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-inciden... Some of the chain-of-thought snippets are wild, e.g. >
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by matt_kantor 1mo ago
LLMs see tokens, not words spelled out with letters. Imagine verbally asking someone who has never seen written text the same question: unless they memorized the answer for the specific word you're asking about, they'd have to gue
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by matt_kantor 1mo ago
What's your definition of "text"? (I define it as "written words in a human-readable language". You must have something else in mind, because neither ASCII art nor control codes fit my definition.)
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by matt_kantor 1mo ago
People have been drawing ASCII art since ASCII was invented, and control codes like the bell "character" existed even before computers did.
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by matt_kantor 1mo ago
It can display images in your terminal. This is made pretty clear by the first paragraph on the page and also by the Wikipedia article it links to[0]; I'm wondering what else you're asking for. [0]: https://en.wikipedia
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by matt_kantor 1mo ago
The science is the source linked in the second paragraph.
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by matt_kantor 1mo ago
I don't see why the author of the 300-word prompt couldn't claim copyright of it.
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by matt_kantor 2mo ago
A compromise option is a technical stop[0] where the plane lands to refuel but passengers don't have to transfer to another aircraft (and often don't even have to deplane). I've never experienced one of these but it sounds wa
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by matt_kantor 2mo ago
From my layperson perspective that sounds relatively easy to address. For example they could require some minimum distance of continuous bike lanes to get approved for funding.
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by matt_kantor 3mo ago
Ask it to write a program that outputs SVGs of animals using human modes of transportation, then run the program with "pelican" and "bicycle" as inputs.
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by matt_kantor 3mo ago
If you don't understand the software you're creating (handwritten or not) you are ngmi.
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by matt_kantor 3mo ago
How long has "so far" been?
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by matt_kantor 3mo ago
> No one would have entertained the idea of rewriting a project in Rust before this. I largely agree with your comment, but is this sentence typo'd or something? "Rewrite it in Rust" happens so often that it's become
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by matt_kantor 3mo ago
> Simple example: [package.json is JSON] Why can't you fix this while embracing existing tech? I can imagine monkeypatching Node & NPM to add support for JSONC or JSON5 or whatever in the same way that Nub adds various features
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by matt_kantor 4mo ago
It'd be like if the IOT AI Smart Air Fryer had a constraint of only being allowed to use friction to create heat. CSSQuake uses an intentionally-absurd rendering pipeline. It's not surprising that the result is sub-optimal. (Thoug
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by matt_kantor 4mo ago
My immediate question while reading your post (as someone who doesn't know much about ATProto) was "but where is the box for Bluesky?". You didn't draw a box for Mastodon either, but my understanding is that it'd en
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by matt_kantor 4mo ago
> It's like PHP, it will never die. I predict that PHP will live a long life, but not as long as C, and I predict JavaScript will have a lifespan closer to C's than PHP's.
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by matt_kantor 4mo ago
I'm spiritually sympathetic to your final sentence, but intellectual property law is not. There are already a bunch of replies pointing out ways in which your metaphor breaks down, but here's another: the super intelligent speed r
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by matt_kantor 4mo ago
Presumably there's some natural semantic relationship between the elements if you're going for that kind of visual layout (and even blind users might benefit from encoding that relationship in the DOM), but I don't necessar
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by matt_kantor 4mo ago
Multiple sequential paragraphs all sitting next to two images? Or multiple rows, each containing a single paragraph + two images? The latter probably would need an element for each row to be maintainable/scalable, but depending on the
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by matt_kantor 4mo ago
This comment could be improved by adding specific examples and explaining what people should be doing today instead.
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by matt_kantor 4mo ago
> You almost always need wrapper elements to group elements you want to align together for presentation purposes only (e.g. "a vertically centered row containing one paragraph next to two vertically stacked images") Challenge a
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by matt_kantor 4mo ago
> something similar, but aiming at growing cooperatives, non profits, externally checked for alignment organisations striving to benefit humanity as a whole There are a lot of investment funds like this, usually called something like &qu
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by matt_kantor 4mo ago
Sure, but only in the sense that all structured programming (functions, if/else, loops, etc) is "fancy goto".
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by matt_kantor 4mo ago
I'm no expert, but perhaps https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01415 (especially section 2.2, "Non-Algebraic Effects") will help.
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by matt_kantor 4mo ago
> And we're 'flying blind' without CI runs You should never entirely depend on a third party service to run your tests, either.
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by matt_kantor 4mo ago
I agree, but that's not at all related to this outage.
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by matt_kantor 4mo ago
It seems like you don't actually want to engage with me in discussion. If I'm mistaken about that, please correct me (I enjoy talking about stuff like this and would love to understand your perspective). If not, that's fine t
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by matt_kantor 4mo ago
The domain of your claim was "in any universe, under any set of assumptions". I now take it that you assume (see what I did there?) that all universes are sound according to classical logic and can admit no contradictions. You mig
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by matt_kantor 4mo ago
> No, not every statement requires assumptions in order to hold. "The assumptions A implies B and B implies C, taken together, yield A implies C." This statement contains assumptions and makes observations about them, but it is

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