thornewolf

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by thornewolf 2y ago
i use the base mac/Windows terminals and have never had any issues. what are the main things that draw people to alternatives?
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by thornewolf 2y ago
to check my understanding on what this is offering, I could build something on top of this that offers remote code execution for people without needing to worry about my system being compromised? or other people's processes interacting
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by thornewolf 2y ago
Suppose someone called you and said "I would like to give you $10,000. Here are the private keys you can use to transfer to your wallet w/o me needing to collect any of your information." I want no unsolicited advertisements
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by thornewolf 2y ago
LLM inference is getting cheaper year over year. It often loses money now, it may eventually stop losing money when it gets cheap enough to run. - But surely the race to the bottom will continue? Maybe, but they do offer a consumer subscrip
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by thornewolf 2y ago
sometimes skilled chess players make illegal moves
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by thornewolf 2y ago
simply put, yes.
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by thornewolf 2y ago
> The blind trust OpenAI and competitors like Google, Anthropic, or Meta put on the scaling laws—if you increase size, data, and compute you’ll get a better model—was unjustified. And how could it be otherwise! Scale was never a law of n
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by thornewolf 2y ago
you are correct of we suppose we are at a global optimum. however, consider this example: i have two hands i have 2 hands these sentences communicate the same thing but one could be a watermarked result. we can apply this equivalent meaning
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by thornewolf 2y ago
You are entitled to interpret the word "programming" in multiple different ways depending on the context of the conversation. What you propose here as "programming" is valid but not comprehensive of what everyone may thi
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by thornewolf 2y ago
I believe you are attacking a strawman here.
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by thornewolf 2y ago
for additional uninitiatedness: one of the founders is "Frying Pan", a popular youtuber. There has been previous discussion on the fact that the cost to build software is approaching 0. If that is given, maybe "taste" is
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by thornewolf 2y ago
I always found the Chinese room to be self-evident as intelligent
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by thornewolf 2y ago
replace Flask in-place with FastAPI and you get a bunch of QoL stuff for free w/ no drawbacks. - wonderful integration with pydantic for serialization - background tasks - autogenerated swagger docs - dependency injection per-route &qu
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by thornewolf 2y ago
thats ranking by recency, which means i can abuse it by churning low quality content out to arXive
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by thornewolf 2y ago
yes, it's countersignaling
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by thornewolf 2y ago
this relies on the fact that consciousness is an overloaded term. being conscious (awake) refers to something different than being conscious (thinking) which may both be unrelated to the brain being on or off, which again may be unrelated t
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by thornewolf 2y ago
shouldn't your willingness to pay/not pay be a function of your experience and the value the product delivers you, rather than an implementation detail such as fine tuning vs prompt engineering? I think this difference should be c
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by thornewolf 2y ago
they were clear, but nearly every instance of that clear opinion I have considered illegitimate once i learn the rationale. Using the following words for simplicity, not to be inflammatory; It typically amounts to "AI stinky" or &
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by thornewolf 2y ago
I argue: - The list comprehension is ever slightly more readable. (Small Positive) - It is a bit faster to write the code for the Python variant. (Small Positive) So this would be a small positive when using Python. Furthermore, I believe t
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by thornewolf 2y ago
there was a highly similar project to this on HN a few months ago. his previous project (infinite craft) was one of the first things i ever heard people talk about wrt LLMs. His skill is in execution. I think he finds inspiration from the p
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by thornewolf 2y ago
Yes. Sometimes I will think to myself one word at a time. Sometimes I will think to myself in the abstract (wordless). I don't know how to control it. I do know that once I realize I'm thinking wordlessly, I collapse to wordfull f
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by thornewolf 2y ago
This is a good callout. I don't have any disagreements but will have to think about this. Maybe my proposal is not reasonable for the reasons you provide.
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by thornewolf 2y ago
I address the "maybe we describe our experience differently" in my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41139321 I believe that there is something past just a disagreement on definitions.
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by thornewolf 2y ago
I address the "maybe we describe our experience differently" in my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41139321
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by thornewolf 2y ago
I have ~no inner imagery. I have no inner voice. First hearing of aphantasia, I believed it was a miscommunication. Surely everyone has about the same experience but just describes it differently? Through focused thought over the past few y
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by thornewolf 2y ago
The article states the following things about error handling: Implicit error handling > Simpler to get started, thus ideal for novice developers. Explicit error handling > More to learn & write, thus better suited to seasoned deve
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by thornewolf 2y ago
the quote GP is considering "mastering luck" as understanding emotionally that sometimes you will lose. the quote asserts that handling your emotions is more difficult than the skill of the game. so i think there is a chance that
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by thornewolf 2y ago
Your laptop can serve 200k qps per core?
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by thornewolf 2y ago
the only lack of cooperation communicated in this article is the account on drug use. that said, the claims on quackery are unrelated to the author's specific set of behaviors during the test. i reckon that i, knowing the complete lack
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by thornewolf 2y ago
and this callout is funny because it's actually re-emerging as a popular hobby. so there is probably some subconscious influence that led you to call it out here.

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