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by pugio 10mo ago
Opus looks like a big jump from the previous leader (GPT 5.1), but when you switch from "50%" to "80%", GPT 5.1 still leads by a good margin. I'm not sure if you can take much from this - perhaps "5.1 is more r
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by pugio 10mo ago
There is no TTS here. It's a native audio output model which outputs audio tokens directly. (At least, that's how the other real-time models work. Maybe I've misunderstood the Qwen-Omni architecture.)
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by pugio 10mo ago
In the past few decades, I learned to be skeptical of any piece of "true" media because it could be easily be photoshopped by an expert. Yet people still gave credence to a damning photo or soundbite shared around. AI has finally
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by pugio 11mo ago
Yes it's Hatzolah. It's a volunteer Jewish organization - run (and paid for) by the local Jewish community, but we respond to anyone who calls us, regardless of background or ethnicity. (There are Hatzolah organizations all over t
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by pugio 11mo ago
Yes that's right. We have a pretty extensive kit we keep in our car at all times. There's also a mobile app for alerts, navigation, and writing down vital signs and patient care records, and a radio for direct contact to dispatch
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by pugio 11mo ago
Assuming no sensitivities/allergies, give 300mg chewed for faster absorption immediately. Normally (where I am) the dispatcher will tell you to do that on the phone.
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by pugio 11mo ago
I can speak to this. I recently joined a community first responder association (I've always wanted to know what to do in case of a medical emergency) and was shocked to hear the members' horror stories of how long it can take an a
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by pugio 1y ago
Reminds me of the new book which just came out: "IF ANYONE BUT ME BUILDS IT, EVERYONE MAY AS WELL DIE: A CEO's Guide to Superhuman AI" ( https://bsky.app/profile/shalevn.bsky.social/post/3m3jhso2
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by pugio 1y ago
Hah, I've been wrestling with this ALL DAY. Another example of Phenomenal Cosmic Powers (AI) combined with itty bitty docs (typical of Google). The main endpoint (" https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta&#
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by pugio 1y ago
I said "as a kid" - I am not so young as to have played D&D 5e as a child. I was referring to 3e, when the "simulation" aspect of the game was more heavily emphasized. See: https://www.dandwiki.com/wi
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by pugio 1y ago
When I was a kid I had a character that could fly. I realized that a Decanter of Endless Water put out a pretty powerful constant thrust. Then a Helmet of Freedom of Movement could be interpreted to remove all excess friction due to win res
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by pugio 1y ago
When a person hallucinates a dragon coming for them, they are wrong, but we still use a different word to more precisely indicate the class of error. Not all llm errors are hallucinations - if an llm tells me that 3 + 5 is 7, It's just
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by pugio 1y ago
I would love something which reliably extracted a markdown back/forth from all the main LLM providers. I tried `defuddle` on a shared Gemini URL and it returned nothing but the "Sign In" link. Maybe I'm using your extrac
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by pugio 1y ago
I've used AI for one of the best studying experiences I've had in a long time: 1. Dump the whole textbook into Gemini, along with various syllabi/learning goals. 2. (Carefully) Prompt it to create Anki flashcards to meet each
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by pugio 2y ago
> The second thing we need to figure out is how we can compress voice input to make it faster to transmit. What’s the voice equivalent of a thumbs-up or a keyboard shortcut? Can I prompt Claude faster with simple sounds and whistles? Thi
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by pugio 2y ago
(No implied critique of the actual essay) but when I saw that title from PG, I was really hoping it would address the 2025 question "What should one do now ?" At a time when it seems like so many pursuits or activities or things
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by pugio 2y ago
I'm a bit wary of regular DEXA due to the ionizing radiation. MRIs have essentially zero health side-effects if you're not using any contrast agents. DEXA is definitely cheaper, but a good amount of my time spent in MRIs was due t
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by pugio 2y ago
I do. I think it's interesting to have scans of parts of my body – brain, body fat/muscle distribution, etc. I also use them as reference for how my body changes over the decades. (EDIT: Nothing to do with medicare or fraudulent b
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by pugio 2y ago
n+1 queries can be solved in many different ways – you can easily do`User.all.includes(:character_sheet)` for example, to perform just 2 queries: 1 for users, 1 for their character sheet. The nice thing about first-class production sqlite s
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by pugio 2y ago
Really nice to see a deployed modern Rails site. I just recently decided to try Rails 8 out for a side-project of mine (Paranoia RPG virtual table top) and had a generally pleasant experience. The biggest pain point was the lack of Grade A
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by pugio 2y ago
I haven't seen any indication that Israel plans on invading Syria, nor can I see a particular reason for them doing so.
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by pugio 2y ago
Hah, looks like you guys found my account error via my profile email, nice! Thanks for fixing that bug. I'll try again tomorrow when the fix is pushed. My other request is probably not in line with your business model. I get the sense
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by pugio 2y ago
I love the idea - owning the browser definitely seems like the right approach. I tried it out on a workflow I've been manually piecing together and it gave me a bunch of "Error encountered, contact support" messages when doin
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by pugio 2y ago
My friend is building a tool to do something like this using the actually portable Python from cosmopolitan python: https://github.com/metaist/cosmofy You run one command that it generates a single executable that can
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by pugio 2y ago
I'm building a simple app to let friends and loved ones know how you're doing. I know many people in some of the current troubled regions of the world, and whenever a particular event happens it's really nerve-wracking for th
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by pugio 2y ago
Excellent, thank you. This is something I can listen to!
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by pugio 2y ago
Love it. Reminds me of the also useful Hacker News Recap from wondercraft but it looks like that stopped updating as of October 1st ( https://www.wondercraft.ai/our-podcasts/hacker-news ). Would be great to have a playba
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by pugio 2y ago
I'm just doing a reread of Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg (one of the OG researchers on the topic). It's really good, and I'm already thinking of dozens of ways to apply this to myself and my kids. (He presents his framework as a mod
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by pugio 2y ago
This reminds me of "The Luggage" from the Discworld (Rincewind) books by Terry Pratchett. I never expected to see a real-world version. Way cool!
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by pugio 2y ago
I've read most of Stephenson's books, and loved many of them, but the only one I absolutely tell people to never read is the Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (despite the signed copy on my shelf). I haven't read it since publication

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