supriyo-biswas

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by supriyo-biswas 2mo ago
This is a really confusing one, since neither the "AI generated paper" nor "translation issue" explanations hold. I found [1], created all the way back in 2021, which seems to first introduce this "kidney disappoint
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by supriyo-biswas 2mo ago
Set noprocrast=99999 on your settings page.
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by supriyo-biswas 2mo ago
With laws like Chatcontrol and all, other jurisdictions are not necessarily any better. In fact, we're increasingly seeing a desire to build the "backdoor" directly into the software, e.g. mandatory age verification, client-s
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by supriyo-biswas 2mo ago
I must wonder whether it's their watermarking initiative[1] forcing certain logit choices to produce watermarked text that ultimately causing the model to behave in a dumb manner. [1] https://support.claude.com/en/
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by supriyo-biswas 2mo ago
> Building a SAT solver into the package manager seems to be a solution in search of a problem. I can't tell you which ones off the top of my head, but I'm sure a number of package managers do use constraint solvers to find dep
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by supriyo-biswas 2mo ago
> I also remember things like "have one backup in one place, another in another place" since before this mnemonic I've heard variations of this all the way back to some 1990s vocational IT courses in the country I live, an
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by supriyo-biswas 2mo ago
I'm only being forced to use it at $WORK since some people overran their Cursor bill, so everyone gets Cursor Auto enabled by default which routes to Grok 4.5.
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by supriyo-biswas 2mo ago
The trick here is to have connections that follow and like content that is worth following, ever since connecting with some peers in the database space, my feed is filled with things like new research, C++ performance optimizations, and the
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by supriyo-biswas 2mo ago
In the age of uv (and pipenv before that), should we even go through the trouble of building Python manually?
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by supriyo-biswas 2mo ago
I can't help but think that this is a submarine[1] paid for by OpenAI or Anthropic as a way of garnering public sentiment for AI regulation. [1] https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by supriyo-biswas 2mo ago
It’s about being able to change models mid-task. For example, I want to be able to plan using Fable but implement the plan using Sonnet, and that won’t work if this is implemented.
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by supriyo-biswas 2mo ago
qbittorrent has one, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/QBittorrent (search “web interface”)
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by supriyo-biswas 2mo ago
> Not saying that OP is living their life wrong or anything, to each their own of course, but I prefer working from home precisely because of how much more _life_ I get to live as a result. They have to find a job that allows them to do
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by supriyo-biswas 2mo ago
> I get exhausted reading LLM prose. While my advice is specific to learning about codebases, the way I do it is to have it generate mock data and put it in the local development environment, and give me some exploratory commands, and th
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by supriyo-biswas 2mo ago
I have tried this with Codex, and if you ask it to implement a project based on an algorithm or design in a given repo, it always puts an attribution link saying that part of it was adapted from that repo. Unfortunately I think we’re being
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by supriyo-biswas 2mo ago
Is it really that complicated? I personally use direnv with nix to have per-project dependency versions installed automatically, and I’ve never had too much trouble. I know that the flake.nix files can become somewhat complicated, but mine
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by supriyo-biswas 3mo ago
I mean we've had Matt Mullenweg from Wordpress make various below-the-belt comments about their competitors and other companies, something tells me that they're not the only CEO who acts in such a childish manner. I'm sure sa
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by supriyo-biswas 3mo ago
In the past "RTFM" or "LGMTFY" have been responses, so why not something like, well, "I'm not aware of the top of my head, you afaik <brief explanation>. Also feel free to ask Claude on the technical deta
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by supriyo-biswas 3mo ago
If I may ask; what's your experience doing this with smaller models like gpt-5.x mini/luna on the lowest reasoning setting? Does it work well? I've been thinking of doing the same since the models will often take design decis
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by supriyo-biswas 3mo ago
> It seems pretty unlikely they'd ever okay this intentionally as some sort of marketing. > Members of OpenAI's leadership team were actually in the middle of a Twitter spat with HuggingFace employees/open model advocat
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by supriyo-biswas 3mo ago
I’m assuming, somehow, “Dario and Amanda” has become a glitch token.
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by supriyo-biswas 3mo ago
Farming is a necessary activity and in most countries, they are also a politically influential group. The case for data centers in the age of AI is weaker, and the only effects for the average person are noise, pollution, higher electricity
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by supriyo-biswas 3mo ago
I had a Logitech ergonomic mouse and by default, the two extra buttons corresponded to forward/back, and I had gotten quite used to them for navigating codebases. It's a shame the mouse didn't last long, though... As for the
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by supriyo-biswas 3mo ago
I would hope that they really didn't move in the direction of having the model memorize image IDs, as that could be easily replaced with an embedding-based image search tool call. Although, it is possible that it was unintentional as t
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by supriyo-biswas 3mo ago
> LLM generated code is a ticking time bomb, and is going to poison projects. Given the recent Anthropic ruling and OAI settlements, and the general stance of courts to look the other way when it comes to LLM use, I think an exemption fo
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by supriyo-biswas 3mo ago
I could do this in the beginning of 2025. Unfortunately, given the over-proactiveness of model these days, I find that they end up inferring what my original request was and implementing it anyway, and then writing unit tests, etc. even whe
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by supriyo-biswas 3mo ago
Well, it could make a note in its memory and reference it later. I don't know if such a statement from the LLM would actually cause a write to the memory in all cases, though.
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by supriyo-biswas 3mo ago
> Perhaps being informed of your obligations when you create an account is insufficient I'm sure that if we were talking about a corporate entity, then people would have retorted with how "no one reads the ToS" and "m
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by supriyo-biswas 3mo ago
I think then we should ban these sorts of posts about the allegation of distillation, since being able to post the story but then warning accounts with comments about the hypocrisy, is not the correct way to go about it.
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by supriyo-biswas 3mo ago
Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if they just found evidence of distillation once in 2025 against some Chinese AI lab, and they've been lying about the rest to create a narrative.

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