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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
Yes, it's very tell tale in forum posts, but blog posts are often rendered markdown, where it's easy to type `--`. But it's not conclusive evidence in either case! The false positive rate is still not negligible if you only g
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
A corollary of the dead internet theory is the phenomenon where people suspect any content to be AI generated. Sometimes one em dash is enough to spark such suspicions and allegations. Not only is fake content falsely labeled as real, real
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
The mandatory error handling of Rust is also an amazing feature for catching bugs at compile time. In Python you never know which exceptions might occur at any given time. That's something I completely underestimated in its usefulness,
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
Are hallucinations in code generation still a problem? I thought with linters, type checkers, and compilers especially as strict as Rust, LLM agents easily catch their own mistakes. At least that's my experience: the agent writes code,
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
Sean also publishes transcripts of all episodes; https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2021/07/12/155-...
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
Back when I was using it, mathematica was unmatched in its ability to find integrals. Has python caught up there?
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
If there is one person who likes to hear himself talk too much to use AI, it's got to be Stephen Wolfram.
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
Look, it's an RSS reader, not a numeric solver for PDEs. What I clearly meant was: Every interaction is instant, no noticable delay at all, except the reader view, which makes a network request to an external site.
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
Same here. I had Claude write me a web based RSS feed reader in Rust. It has some minor glitches I still need to iron out, but it works great, is fast as can be, and is easy on the eyes. https://github.com/AdrianVollmer&#x2F
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
I thought the term was "agentic engineering"
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
Platforms could start to issue API tokens scoped for agents. They can read emails, write and modify drafts, but only with a full API token meant for humans it is possible to send out drafts. Or with confirmation via 2FA. Might be a sensible
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
WarnWetter for Germany. Costs a symbolic 1 Euro for dumb reasons, but I think it's easily worth it.
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
It's observable universe, and that's the only thing that matters. Events outside the observable universe are causally disconnected. We will never interact with anything outside the observable universe. For all practical purposes,
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
My impression is that almost no one denies the warming itself, just the link to greenhouse gasses. That link is unfortunately much harder to prove than rising temperatures by itself. The proof is there nonetheless, but it's easier to c
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
I've seen SOUL.md. Has anyone attempted to give these things a semblance of feelings by some sort of pain/dopamine mechanism? Should we?
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
I suppose it's not efficient in that sense. As I said, the browser has to unpack the whole thing first, so you see a spinner when opening large files. But it's inserted into the DOM on demand, so it's not overwhelming the bro
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
The content is in an iframe, my code is outside of it, and the two frames are passing messages back and forth. Also I'm monkey patching `fetch` and a few other things.
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
Pretty cool. I made something similar (much more hacky) a while ago: https://github.com/AdrianVollmer/Zundler Works locally, but it does need to decompress everything first thing.
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
Sorry, looks like I haven't been precise. I've seen them veer off a plan, and I've seen the posts about an agent accidentally deleting ~, but neither of those meet the definition of the lethal trifecta. I'm also not sayi
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
We're all waiting for some disaster to happen due to the lethal trifecta, but as far as I know it still hasn't happened yet.
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
I don't know about this specific case, but there is a list of well-known techniques: https://lolbas-project.github.io/
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
Does "vibe coding" now mean the agent needs to produce a working product in one shot? Or not even just working, but meeting unspecified requirements? I thought in the original phrasing by Karpathy it meant that you don't care
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
In high energy physics it can easily be thousands of authors, like in the ATLAS collaboration.
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
Unfortunately, code execution in text editors aren't a new thing. Vim had one published in 2019: https://github.com/numirias/security/blob/master/doc/2019-06... Another in 2004: https:/&#
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
None
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
We're talking about sites that make their living via subscriptions. They should have a great interest at blocking archive.is, which is, by the way, the only service that can reliably bypass many paywalls. Clearly whatever they're
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
Then why hasn't anyone built a client-side browser addon that impersonates a suitable search engine?
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
How do you know this?
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by mr_mitm 8mo ago
There isn't one. As far as I know, no one really knows for sure how they bypass all these paywalls. (Most credible theory I heard: They actually just pay for the subscriptions.)
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by mr_mitm 9mo ago
In what way would studying black body radiation alter humanity? Oh just the basis for quantum mechanics and thus transistors, lasers, MRIs, photovoltaics, and more. The point is, you don't know in advance. I admit it's a bit more

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