thom

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by thom 9d ago
Humans do make these errors when playing blindfolded. If you even the playing field and give the LLM the position at each turn, it does not make mistakes.
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by thom 10d ago
I maintain that the amount of effort to teach a human to do this vastly outweighs the amount of effort to teach an LLM to do this unless you're deliberately trying to make them fail. I honestly have no bigger point than that, I just th
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by thom 10d ago
A human wouldn't do that, they'd look at the board. I'm not disagreeing that to demonstrate clear superhuman ability the LLM should be able to do this, but it plays better than most humans blindfolded, and with fair prompts s
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by thom 10d ago
This is sad to hear! Early in my career I worked for a company making airport collaborative decision making (A-CDM) software. One of the most impactful projects to which I contributed was a model that calculated the exact right moment for a
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by thom 10d ago
I've not noticed this happening if you give it the FEN each move. The alternative is just blindfold chess and very few humans can do that for long.
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by thom 10d ago
How long a prompt do you think would be required to cajole an LLM into making legal moves at the rate of a human? Or do you think no amount of prompting could do that?
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by thom 11d ago
Not sure what to answer on any of those questions. There's no 'perfectly clear but nothing like normal vision' option.
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by thom 11d ago
Gotcha. I _do_ have extremely clear auditory hallucinations, especially when I'm sleepy, but I was never talented enough to write them down properly, so I can believe more vivid visual ones are possible. Just always anxious that's
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by thom 11d ago
I really don't think this is the right definition. I don't think I have aphantasia: I picture things in my mind's eye, can manipulate those images, and I get the various stimulus responses described in some of the literature.
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by thom 12d ago
Skald sold well which is stylistically very similar, and this has a slightly more popular confluence of genres.
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by thom 15d ago
AI curated lists of homogenous websites, flayed to their bare bones to inspire the utterly uninspired. The internet is better and weirder than this, even in these dark hours.
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by thom 15d ago
I remember losing sleep when I bought my RTX Pro 6000, but somehow they keep going up in price, and waddya know I’ve even done real work that appreciates the VRAM size.
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by thom 16d ago
What about... queries?
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by thom 17d ago
Well look, the wall is already losing every point by volleying your serve so I feel like I'm on pretty strong ground here already. But give me an exact specification for your curved wall and I'll tell you how I'd beat it.
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by thom 19d ago
How do you disseminate that information to humans?
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by thom 22d ago
Yes? You just hit the ball so that every return is out. It’s very easy.
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by thom 22d ago
I don’t like being this person, but you can very easily beat a wall at tennis.
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by thom 1mo ago
Yes. Note taking apps were very much the precursors of modern agentic coding.
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by thom 1mo ago
Yeah, I've always had the problem in Emacs that I know some quality of life feature would be possible to implement, but it'd take me hours or days so I just end up going back to work. With gptel, I've been able to really take
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by thom 1mo ago
Talking of being softlocked on a boat crossing: https://www.kensblog.com/update-on-our-journey-through-the-n...
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by thom 1mo ago
Still unclear what your point was. There was nothing politically unifying about Brexit. Individual politicians weren’t even consistent in their support or opposition to it. The closest we have to a unifier now is centrist and Left politicia
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by thom 2mo ago
Different cruise in the Bay of Biscay but hello!
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by thom 2mo ago
The problem with sports betting is that if you really want an edge (at least in something like soccer) you could easily end up dropping six figures a year on data licenses to have a decent model and be able to find worthwhile bets across al
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by thom 2mo ago
Cantona.
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by thom 2mo ago
Amazed you’re continuing with this bit tbh.
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by thom 2mo ago
Imagine, if you will, that it's a necessity for a healthy internet forum that people not be performatively obtuse in order to score points. That forum might continue to exist, but it would stop being a fun place to hang out.
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by thom 2mo ago
You’re probably right, but I’d also bet some things that we’re about to sweep aside will turn out to have been necessities and we’ll find it very difficult to bring them back.
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by thom 2mo ago
My first job out of university was with a large local news organization. It's the only place I've worked that had beer on tap in its cafeteria (from 11am). You haven't seen workplace alcoholism until you've worked with a
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by thom 2mo ago
Allowing bad actors to act badly against all but the most sophisticated users is exactly where lawmakers should be stepping in. Sorry you find that controversial.
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by thom 2mo ago
A lot of UK sites (Reach local news stuff) now explicitly say take cookies or pay, which tbh I always thought was illegal.

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