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by nsagent 3mo ago
Andrew could have been more tactful in his blog post (though as I've grown older I often find less tact to be more effective), but it really sounds like accommodating Bun was a net negative for Zig. When Jarred joined the Zig commu
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by nsagent 3mo ago
I think that post highlights a difference in philosophical approach to software development. Bun is focused on moving fast and will deal with the consequences as they come. Zig takes a more planful approach. I've experienced both in my
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by nsagent 3mo ago
Not surprising. It seems that the comment section of every coding agent thread has at least one person mentioning they use "tokenmaxxing" to increase their token usage because it was brought up during their quarterly review, at a
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by nsagent 3mo ago
From the article he linked: If a subsequent probe fails, the system cross-references threat intelligence platforms like Shodan to match the host and falls back to their specific indexing methods. So it uses Shodan, but is not purely
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by nsagent 3mo ago
This is the fundamental tension in law making and government in general. Leaving room for nuance reduces the seeming capriciousness seen in the enforcement of some laws that look heavy-handed when applied strictly, while said underspecifica
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No Bailouts for Big Tech Billionaires: Policies for When the AI Bubble Bursts(openmarketsinstitute.org)
3 points by nsagent 3mo ago|0 comments
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by nsagent 3mo ago
You appear to be arguing with a strawman; at least you seem to have ignored a central part of my message: The issue is that the test is positively correlated with success in an undergraduate program, so they threw out the baby with the
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by nsagent 3mo ago
Having made graphics using TikZ, it was tedious and time consuming, but the results look great! Would have loved an easier way to make them.
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by nsagent 3mo ago
There are three major parts of the modern GRE: Verbal, Quantitative, and Analytical Writing. You could easily look that up, or ask if you didn't know. Responding off the cuff without any reflection on the comment you're responding
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by nsagent 3mo ago
Do you also think LLM leaderboards accurately reflect the capabilities of the models being tested? If you do, then I can easily point you to numerous academic papers pointing out the various flaws in many leaderboards (from poorly designed
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by nsagent 3mo ago
I moved from custom POSIX shell scripts to chezmoi due to the complexity of handling lots of random environments. It really simplified getting up and running on disparate server environments. The last few years I've rarely had to switc
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by nsagent 3mo ago
Get the new Powerbeats Pro 2. Nearly identical in functionality to Airpods, but they have ear hooks as they are designed for sports.
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by nsagent 3mo ago
Having seen plagiarism first hand, sometimes it exceedingly blatant. Like copying from a PDF that was produced via LaTeX — since LaTeX hyphenates words to split them across lines, if you end up keep-ing the hyphenation in, the te-xt reads l
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by nsagent 3mo ago
Yeah, it's been known for a very long time. Richard Feynman alluded to it in his speech The Value of Science [1] where he discussed a Buddhist proverb: To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the ga
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by nsagent 4mo ago
I know this isn't going to be a popular take, but here goes anyway... The complaints that Anthropic are routing your requests to a different model reminds me of an old Louis CK bit about airplane wifi. Clearly Anthropic was too aggress
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by nsagent 4mo ago
Having lived in bumblefuck Alaska for a year, I can honestly say that they do in fact pay more, but it's also super expensive to live in rural Alaska. Likely a bigger issue is that very few people want to live in a town of 3000 people
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by nsagent 4mo ago
Am I reading this correctly? Their chosen cloud providers run the PCC stack on their hardware, so the compute provider is responsible for ensuring the privacy guarantees? I assume that would add to the potential security surface area.
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by nsagent 4mo ago
They really are trying to convince the skeptics about AI privacy. Do they allow you to opt out of data collection to improve their models for Siri? What about allow users to choose on-device only processing? If not, they are only speaking t
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by nsagent 4mo ago
As someone with a PhD in CS focused on NLP (I started my PhD in 2018 just as Transformers were introduced), and with a strong background in distributed systems owing to the fact that I was a lead developer of an MMO before starting my PhD,
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by nsagent 4mo ago
My two modes of using LLMs has been to try it for 1) natural language search queries where traditional search engines have failed and 2) occasionally as a sounding board using the socratic method. Inevitably, it fails frequently at both. An
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by nsagent 4mo ago
PaperWM is the closest to this approach. There's also a macOS port: https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon
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by nsagent 4mo ago
I became lead of that MMORTS within 4yrs of starting my career. I've worked with lots of PhD students who came back after more than 5 years working in big tech; not one had the experience and abilities I did. I've also worked with
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by nsagent 4mo ago
It certainly depends on what you're working on in games. Not every game pushes the envelope, but the ones that do are seriously complex. They are essentially realtime embedded systems, which push the hardware to the max. Sometimes you
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by nsagent 4mo ago
As a former game dev who later got a PhD in CS, I can say I definitely did the equivalent of research as part of my job: I had to solve tough new problems that no one else was and verify they worked better than existing approaches. It'
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by nsagent 4mo ago
That honestly is just the worst when it happens. It sucks for both the rep on the phone and you since it's just a waste of both of your time (though at least they get paid for it). Had a similar back and forth over multiple days where
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by nsagent 4mo ago
I use mblaze as it's just a suite of commandline tools that are conducive to the Unix philosophy (easy to pipe output to build more complex usecases), but I'll take a look at yours to see how it compares. Thanks for sharing! http
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by nsagent 4mo ago
Mullvad lets you have completely anonymous accounts. No log VPNs like ProtonVPN have third party verification (though some metadata has been shared with auhtorities). Does Kagi have the equivalent of either of these privacy mechanisms? Even
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by nsagent 4mo ago
So this is a clear case where the LLM generated Rust port introduced a bug: > The Zig original is a packed struct with the same shape; it "worked" only because Zig has no reference aliasing or provenance rules to violate. The R
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by nsagent 4mo ago
Agreed. I was more pointing out just how well written Tigerbeetle is in comparison (at least according to this LLM-based analysis).
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by nsagent 5mo ago
There's a reasonable request to run the same analysis for the Zig version of the code as a comparison. In lieu of that, it seems the Swivel devs ran an analysis on Tigerbeetle, one of the other major Zig projects, and found only 7 medi

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