stymaar

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by stymaar 5d ago
> Okay, but reading also requires substantial thinking. I don't think anyone would argue reading a book takes as much thinking as writing one…
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by stymaar 5d ago
It's not “just” that, because monetary systems don't work like that at all. The point of GP is that while the myth says “in the beginning there was barter, and barter is inefficient so we created money to allow trading more effici
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by stymaar 5d ago
Most people[1] interacting with chatbots don't have a paid subscription and they do interact with the free-tier LLMs that are Luna and Haiku, so I still think it's relevant. [1]: not on HN obviously, but IRL, and probably among FT
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by stymaar 5d ago
> The villagers are tired of bartering Come on… It's been known for more than a century that bartering has never been the default mean of exchange among humans, can we kill this myth eventually?!
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by stymaar 6d ago
Is that Marcan's vtuber persona (Asahi Lina) that changed name since Marcan doesn't work on Asahi Linux anymore?
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by stymaar 6d ago
Just curious: do you know the expected XP gain over the first 90 minutes for a human player (either a medium-level one or a speedrunner)?
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WrathBench − an Agent Workbench for World of Warcraft(wrathbench.shard.page)
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by stymaar 6d ago
How is that irritating? I find it funny that the article gives you a way to distinguish the way the author pronounces it just from their writing.
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by stymaar 6d ago
I know nothing about logistics of the food supply chain and how they preserve food at scale, but at least at home I'd say that potatoes are close to twice as durable as onions.
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by stymaar 6d ago
Interesting that it benches down to Haiku but doesn't bench any Chinese models (which are at least between Sonnet and Opus, when they aren't beyond Opus).
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by stymaar 7d ago
> Lettuce and Tomatoes don't keep well, which adds more seasonal variability The more durable a produce is, the easier it is to transport over a large area, which will always smoothen price fluctuations. This alone could explain why
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by stymaar 7d ago
> hemispherectomy TIL, gosh!
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by stymaar 7d ago
> we'll all live in a world generally more agreeable to look at and not "concrete with pink and yellow fluo paper smashed on top of it" like https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/music-poster-wall.html or
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by stymaar 7d ago
> Qwen3.8 30B 404
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by stymaar 7d ago
I think the fact that the sentence says we share the nervous system with jellyfish gives a good indication of that.
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by stymaar 7d ago
I found the title confusing, at the very least because it can be argued that the two brain hemispheres are two organs already, as they operate independently when severed from each other.
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by stymaar 7d ago
We definitely intend to try fine-tuning, don't worry we're not going to dismiss needle just because the base model's performance is too low ;).
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by stymaar 7d ago
WebGPU is a non-starter for production usage since the support is too limited (No Firefox support, no Linux Support, no Apple x86 support, no MacOS <26). But yes we are also considering bigger models, though we'll pick the smallest
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by stymaar 8d ago
At my current company we're evaluating small models embedded directly in the web app to provide a natural language interface to the app without spending money on inference (and ideally avoid a ChatChipotle situation where people end up
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by stymaar 8d ago
> These are not particularly tech-savvy folks, Claude use aside. The difference between a tech-savyy person, and a non-tech-savyy person has always been mostly in the later's head, but this is even more true now that we have pocket
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by stymaar 8d ago
> every mathematician in the current day is funded, This is tautological, “mathematician” being defined in the modern world as someone paid to do mathematics… Notice that the modern world is able able to sustain significantly more mathem
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by stymaar 8d ago
I remember Zuck bragging about using a 100MW DC for training, and Musk's Colosus was supposed to be a training data center (but they fucked up the design so they had to repurpose it to an inference one).
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by stymaar 8d ago
> They worked other jobs, no? This is an anachronism, you're projecting modern social organization to an era that worked very differently.
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by stymaar 8d ago
Yes, we used Gemini before and it worked fine in terms of output quality. But between 10 and 20 seconds to analyze a document with only a bunch of pages just isn't good UX.
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by stymaar 8d ago
> Maybe you could pay someone to develop an OCR/ML application that could do this. But that project would never be profitable, even with the time savings. At the cost of a couple Claude subscriptions, it makes sense. A better use of
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by stymaar 8d ago
> They recently bought a Claude subscription and began using Claude to do the initial read of the documents and output JSON they can import into their internal systems. The work still must be reviewed by an attorney - Claude is nowhere n
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by stymaar 8d ago
> nobody was funding the people that did invent calculus. Of course someone was. Newton and Leibniz weren't living in autarky an some island. They had an income stream that was taken away from somewhere else and given to them so tha
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by stymaar 8d ago
> True, but this is also a stunning example of survivorship bias. It's not “survivorship bias”, it's merely the illustration that mathematics are a strong link problem: it's the strongest result that determines the impact
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by stymaar 8d ago
> not everything needs immediate, quantifiable justification. to believe it does indicates a need for a period of self-reflection, to figure out how and when you became so heavily influenced by the MBA-brained propaganda that the world s
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by stymaar 8d ago
This argument is a bit nonsensical to me: the practical “value” of having mathematician has always been very indirect anyway, it's not like mathematical proofs of most problems mathematicians are working on have any practical value. Th

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