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by sheepscreek 5mo ago
Drawing from the analogies, what’s the Julia equivalent of them?
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
Models are heavily fine tuned and trained to follow instructions. They are trained to be subservient. I am sure that cuts into their ability to think creatively. The other risk with a lot of creative thinking is risking hallucinations (crea
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
A more convenient (and dare I say, faster ) tape drive replacement for backups? They do make a good point, it would take 10*24TB drives working in the worst raid configuration to even come close to these speeds.
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
This tracks - has been my experience exactly. Not to mention there isn’t particularly a significant lift in inaccuracy or speed. As things stand, to me it is the worst of both worlds. Expensive and inaccurate.
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
Taking a $20b loan from TD Bank + sitting on $9b CASH + GameStop stock for the rest. They’ve made an interesting proposal around using 1600 GameStop locations for fulfilment. Smart if they can make it work. Update: Numbers still don’t add t
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
Who gave it in writing that he can back the deal if need be.
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
I’m surprised no one is commenting on how cheap this is compared to Opus 4.x and GPT-5.5. $1.25 / $2.50 for every M input and output tokens. Is this is a smaller less powerful model? What am I missing?
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
Posting a question here for anyone on hiring panels - is AI tooling generally allowed during coding interviews now? Are coding interviews still a thing? Just wondering where the general landscape is today. I'm coming out of semi-IC-ret
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
Hmm the problem is many cities don’t treat bike lanes for exclusive bike use. It’s “suggestive” at best. Though I don’t know enough about SF rules to weigh in on this specific issue.
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
AI is creating problems. This isn’t one of them. Engineers are going to now think at a higher level of abstraction. No one misses coding in assembly.
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
Especially in that age when compute was precious, and scaling horizontally looked nothing like how it does today. This is a time before the Intel 386 which ran at either 16Mhz or 33Mhz :) So it must have been preferable to reduce the worklo
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
My very personal take (which can be completely wrong) is that few dynasties were comparable to the vastness of Mughals in this particular era. All the Indian princely states were a lot smaller by comparison, in this time period at least. On
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
> unless they send people up there with the datacenters who the heck is going to do maintenance A fleet of special ships for orbital commute and future generation Optimus, no doubt. OR - they follow the same approach as the current fleet
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
This makes me so happy and excited! Often my mind wanders into the unknown, imagining what would happy to X if it did this? Would it have friction, etc? I am looking forward to a way I can easily describe a scenario and have an LLM build a
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
And existing obligations. Most people I know, myself including, stretch our current situation as the paycheque grows. Some of it is intentional. A lot of it is slow creep (“ah, I can afford a, b, c now..that Maserati/Porche Cayenne GTS
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
They might. Elon will probably use his SpaceX/xAI spend (future SpaceX space datacenter dollars) as leverage. NVIDIA is so used to doing such deals by now, they’ll probably take it.
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First Time Filmed in a Decade – Underwater Volcano Eruption (Kavachi) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by sheepscreek 6mo ago|0 comments
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
Anyone saying this is an aquahire has it backwards. SpaceX is acquiring Cursor’s customers , all those enterprises including NVIDIA itself. I believe Jenson Huang is on the record about the engineers using Cursor everyday. As far as I kn
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
> “It was simply the first large media company to be tested against reality in the age of clicks.” > D’Souza is banking on everyone having forgotten that the Hulk Hogan case had nothing to do with “reality.” It was undisputed that the
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
Mythos is most certainly not hype. I think it might be the agent with most agency as of today (ability to get really difficult shit done on its own). I believe that it most certainly is not hype. A realization just struck me that guarding
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
I think what made Mythos a big deal is not that it could find vulnerabilities. Opus can do that too. But Mythos went a step further and autonomously built exploits very successfully whereas Opus struggled to do that. Most modern day exploit
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
> The fundamental problem with Rust versioning is that 0.3.5 is compatible with 0.3.6, but not 0.4.0 or 1.0.0 That’s a feature of semver, not a bug :) Long answer: You are right to notice that minor versions within a major release can in
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
Meta's board is a joke. Zuck controls majority votes, so the buck stops with Zuck. You can very much attribute Meta's direction squarely to him.
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
I built ApplePy because I couldn't find anything that let you use Swift from Python -- only the reverse (embedding Python inside Swift). After experimenting with a few approaches, I got inspired by PyO3's model and decided to buil
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Show HN: ApplePy – Embed and Call Swift from Python (Like PyO3, but for Swift)(github.com)
2 points by sheepscreek 6mo ago|2 comments
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
> Many shy back from thinking too hard about the riduculous wealth some accumulate I disagree - the current levels of income disparity, then Meta and Zuckerberg’s general conduct along with the general sentiment make it extremely hard to
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
This is the right way forward for open-source. Correct attribution - by tightening the connection between agents and the humans behind them, and putting the onus on the human to vet the agent output. Thank you Linus.
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
This.
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
The roads will be safer. The streets though? Remains to be seen… Also I calculated - the approximate worth of those Waymos sitting on that lot was likely upwards of $400M! It doesn't seem much compared to hyperscaler spending but it’s
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by sheepscreek 6mo ago
Honestly I try to treat all my projects as sandboxes, give the agents full autonomy for file actions in their folders. Just ask them to commit every chunk of related changes so we can always go back — and sync with remote right after they c

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