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by rfw300 8mo ago
Well if only we had such thoughtful minds in the education space. How did no one ever think of "why don't we just give up on the children"?
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by rfw300 8mo ago
This strikes me as entirely logical in the short run, and an insane way of packaging software that we will certainly regret in the long run.
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by rfw300 8mo ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1958/
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by rfw300 9mo ago
Interesting project, but the lack of any actual benchmark results on existing models/agents is disappointing.
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by rfw300 9mo ago
This is true as a technical matter, but this isn't a technical blog post! It's a consumer review, and when companies ship consumer products, the people who use them can't be expected to understand failure modes that are not c
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by rfw300 9mo ago
The example you present seems fairly straightforward to my intuition, but I think your point is fair. A harder set of hypotheticals might arise if music production goes the direction that software engineering is heading: “agentic work”, whe
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by rfw300 9mo ago
Any person who would choose 3.7 with a fancy harness has a very poor memory about how dramatically the model capabilities have improved between then and now.
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by rfw300 9mo ago
"Captcha" doesn't refer to any specific type of puzzle, but a class of methods for verifying human users. Some older-style captchas are broken, but some newer ones are not.
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by rfw300 9mo ago
How much compute do your systems expend on chunking vs. the embedding itself?
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by rfw300 10mo ago
That may be true, but it does seem like OP's intent was to learn something about how LLM agents perform on complex engineering tasks, rather than learning about ASCII creation logic. A different but perhaps still worthy experiment.
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by rfw300 10mo ago
That might be true for a narrow definition of chatbots, but they aren't going to survive on name recognition if their models are inferior in the medium term. Right now, "agents" are only really useful for coding, but when the
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by rfw300 10mo ago
Claude Code's Plan Mode increasingly does a (small-scale) version of this - it will research your codebase and come back to you with a set of clarifying questions and design decisions before presenting its implementation plan.
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by rfw300 10mo ago
Your comment assumes that the purpose of an economic system is to preserve a financial status quo. It isn't, and shouldn't be. Inflation incentivizes people to put their money to productive uses in the economy (capital formation)
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by rfw300 10mo ago
I'd like others' input on this: increasingly, I see Cursor, Jetbrains, etc. moving towards a model of having you manage many agents working on different tasks simultaneously. But in real, production codebases, I've found that
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by rfw300 11mo ago
I am extremely excited to use programmatic tool use. This has, to date, been the most frustrating aspect of MCP-style tools for me: if some analysis requires the LLM to first fetch data and then write code to analyze it, the LLM is forced
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by rfw300 11mo ago
This isn't true. Gemini is trained and run almost entirely on TPUs. Anthropic also uses TPUs for inference, see, e.g., https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-our-use-of-google-c... and https://www.ant
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by rfw300 11mo ago
My audio experiment was much less successful — I uploaded a 90-minute podcast episode and asked it to produce a labeled transcript. Gemini 3: - Hallucinated at least three quotes (that I checked) resembling nothing said by any of the hosts
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by rfw300 1y ago
What use case do you have (or anticipate having) for WiFi 7 out of curiosity?
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by rfw300 1y ago
Indeed. OP, nothing is "in" an LLM's context window at rest. The old version of your file is just cached in whatever file stores your IDE's chat logs, and this is an expensive way of retrieving what's already on you
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by rfw300 1y ago
I wonder if some of the non-robustness of the tradfi system is a feature, not a bug. If my account tries to send someone $3 million, I'd prefer that it's intermediated by a confused bank employee staring at a screen rather than a
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by rfw300 1y ago
It has nothing to do with Meta's social media business. Zuckerberg, like many other top tech executives, has concluded AGI/ASI is in striking distance. If he could somehow win the race, he becomes god (or so he thinks, anyway). An
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Doubling-Back Aversion: A Reluctance to Make Progress by Undoing It(journals.sagepub.com)
1 points by rfw300 1y ago|0 comments
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by rfw300 1y ago
Not necessarily true. GPT-4.1 was released after GPT-4.5-preview. Next model might be GPT-3.7.
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by rfw300 1y ago
It's interesting that you name those examples, because Lee Sedol, the all-time great Go player, retired shortly after losing to Alpha Go, saying: "Even if I become the number one, there is an entity that cannot be defeated... losi
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by rfw300 1y ago
o4-mini does look to be a better model, but this is actually a lot cheaper! It's ~7x cheaper for both input and output tokens.
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by rfw300 1y ago
The amount of blatant pandering OpenAI is doing to California politicians should make everyone suspicious. They are structuring this nonprofit transition as a bribe to the California politician-nonprofit complex in exchange for a much more
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by rfw300 1y ago
It can be both properly communicated and still bad for API use cases.
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by rfw300 2y ago
Is it "sensible oversight" to shoot first and ask questions later—to shut down all payments on a whim and then implement a review process (assuming it actually exists) afterwards which will be immediately overloaded? You might as
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by rfw300 2y ago
There's a methodological flaw here—you asked the model to generate an example, and then simulate the results on that example. For all you know, that specific (very simple) example and its output are available on the internet somewhere.
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by rfw300 2y ago
I think there's a number of issues with this diagnosis, but chiefly: Trump won a second term on the back of a massive surge in non-white support. He's basically where he was in 2016 with white voters.

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