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31.
by svantana 6mo ago
Yup, he had a few isolated drum hits on D'Angelo's Voodoo album that were sampled by absolutely everybody for a few years.
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by svantana 6mo ago
It's ironic that the sample is blended with two other well known drum loops that most likely were not cleared either. From what I understand, drum samples are rarely cleared because they don't contain "music" in the trad
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by svantana 6mo ago
Indeed, all this reminds me of the marvel that is mechanical timekeeping - incredibly complex engineering that would ultimately be surpassed by dirt cheap electronics. What is the corresponding revolution in chip production? I imagine somet
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by svantana 6mo ago
FWIW, Artificial Analysis has a "Intelligence vs Cost" plot on their front page that shows models' score vs cost to run the benchmark, which should be more fair in this sense. According to that one, Opus 4.7 (max) is slightly
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by svantana 6mo ago
Hedonic treadmill. Once he's approaching that zettaflops, he'll want a yottaflops.
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by svantana 7mo ago
He/it/they have 7 entries according to this data aggregator, though I don't understand how and why it differs from apple's own chart. https://kworb.net/ww/
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by svantana 7mo ago
I'd like to know more about "Chaotic Good Projects" [1]. Isn't it fascinating that they so openly do "UGC" (user-generated content) and "Fanpages" even though they are neither users nor fans, but paid
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by svantana 7mo ago
Unfortunately I think only a few of the PO's support this transfer method, and I don't think the 33 is one of them. They were never meant to be updated at all, as I understand it.
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by svantana 7mo ago
It's an interesting article but I fail to see the point they are trying to make. I always thought of reversible computing as a sort of platonic ideal that cannot truly exist in real life, but the principle can still be used to reduce w
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by svantana 7mo ago
No, this is different from pure CV. Each device has its own (digital) sequencer that can synchronize with others using pulse trains over DIN cable. Lots of places where latency and instability can occur! https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by svantana 8mo ago
This site has stats. According to it, 20 weeks is way above average. https://www.trueup.io/layoffs
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by svantana 8mo ago
That is hardly a smoking gun—I typed one just now.
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by svantana 8mo ago
There is also opportunity cost. Most people ignore most things because there are simply not enough hours in a day.
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by svantana 8mo ago
Don't you think automated evaluation and testing of code is likely to improve at an equally breakneck pace? It doesn't seem very far-fetched to soon have a simulated human that understands software from a user perspective.
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by svantana 9mo ago
Of course, but at least DeepMind is taking a crack at the important problems
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by svantana 9mo ago
There are different kinds of innovation. I want AI that cures cancer and solves climate change. Instead we got AI that lets you plagiarize GPL code, does your homework for you, and roleplay your antisocial horny waifu fantasies.
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by svantana 9mo ago
Pretty much any software that people pay for? If LLMs could clone an app, why would anyone still pay good money for the original?
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by svantana 9mo ago
Came to say the same thing about Xcode, hehe. Could it be that the best tool is the one you're used to.
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by svantana 9mo ago
Taught by whom? Without evidence, this just comes of as a racist trope. FWIW, the Indians I've worked with have all been very honest and dedicated to their work.
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by svantana 9mo ago
I've attempted this for the brave browser, which has a horrible icon in my opinion. It works but the original one self-restores after some time, even without updating the app.
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by svantana 9mo ago
Sorry but this makes no sense. Socializing is not an act of kindness, generally - people mostly do it because they want to. And people have always been selfish.
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by svantana 10mo ago
> 80mph to cars that push past 600mph I have yet to see evidence that this is really the case. Already 15 years ago, people were creating impressive software over the course of a hackday, by glueing open source repos together in a high l
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by svantana 10mo ago
Now. For example in Algoriddim DJay
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by svantana 10mo ago
> At some level, the simplest thing to do is to give up and crash if things are no longer sane. The problem with this attitude (that many of my co-workers espouse) is that it can have serious consequences for both the user and your busin
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by svantana 10mo ago
That's probably because "Gemini 3.5 Pro" doesn't exist
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by svantana 11mo ago
The silly verbiage can be excused but not the graphs with completely unlabeled data points, IMO.
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by svantana 11mo ago
That's mentioned in the article, but is the lock-in really that big? In some cases, it's as easy as changing the backend of your high-level ML library.
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by svantana 11mo ago
According to that site, there were more tech layoffs in 2022 than in 2024 or 2025. Doesn't that speak against the "AI is taking tech jobs" hypothesis?
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by svantana 11mo ago
Doesn't work in this case because the 'talk' (github PR comments) is also computer generated. But in person (i.e. at work) it's a good strategy
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by svantana 11mo ago
SWEBench-Verified is probably benchmaxxed at this stage. Claude isn't even the top performer, that honor goes to Doubao [1]. Also, the confidence interval for a such a small dataset is about 3 percent points, so these differences could

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