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by thorum 1y ago
It’s long been theorized (not proven) that fully balancing the microbiome in IBD patients might interrupt the disease cycle and lead to remission.
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by thorum 1y ago
"not a X, but a Y" - 8 matches "is more than a X... it is Y" - 3 matches "not just X, but Y" - 4 matches
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by thorum 1y ago
The article’s advice section is actually quite practical, and directly addresses your point: > It should go without saying that the best way to increase your practice surface area in a given field is to be obsessed with that field. Obses
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by thorum 1y ago
I disagree, so not everyone, I guess!
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by thorum 1y ago
I would argue that we just get pickier and more sensitive to slop. When everyone can make a movie, the standard for a good movie will be higher. Many current Hollywood films wouldn’t make the cut. But maybe some kid in Nigeria makes the gre
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by thorum 1y ago
People are doing cool things with it. Here’s one example: https://www.tiktok.com/@dreamrelicc Before AI, each video on this channel would have taken a large team with a Hollywood budget to create. In a few more years, one p
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by thorum 1y ago
I also had unsupervised internet as a kid in the 2000s, but the internet is a very different place now with social media, algorithmic feeds, and content that has been carefully designed by bad actors to be as addictive and manipulative as p
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by thorum 1y ago
As a developer, this is how I feel when I open a higher math textbook. Even though I understand that, in principle, mathematicians are using a syntax and lingo that shares some common features with computer code, my eyes slide over the word
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by thorum 1y ago
Sure but that’s exactly the “lost knowledge from a long gone advanced civilization” situation that this article suggests doesn’t happen.
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by thorum 1y ago
> So: loss of technology is not impossible. But to an innovative and large culture like modern human civilization, it’s not really something that happens. It’s just a fun trope for stories. Let’s hope it remains that way. I agree with “l
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by thorum 1y ago
A coding agent that receives no updates will be useless very soon. In a few months they’ll tell you to switch to Codex CLI, and that will in fact be a good recommendation.
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by thorum 1y ago
Is the NYT crossword so much better than alternatives that it would be worth paying for?
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by thorum 1y ago
> Six of the eleven picked the same movie This is surely the greatest weakness of current LLMs for any task needing a spark of creativity.
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by thorum 1y ago
My point was more “humans are used to tools that don’t always work and can be used in creative ways” than “no human invention has ever been rigid and reliable”. People on HN regularly claim that LLMs are useless if they aren’t 100% accurate
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by thorum 1y ago
I like this framing, but I don’t think it’s entirely new to LLMs. Humans have been building flexible, multi-purpose tools and using them for things the original inventor or manufacturer didn’t think of since before the invention of the whee
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by thorum 1y ago
I don’t know enough about statistics to answer these with math, but I’ve been on quite a few buses and it’s common at some stops for bus arrivals to cluster around specific times. If you always leave after first you see, and most of your ra
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by thorum 1y ago
I’ve been trying to convert a dense 60 page paper document to Markdown today from photos taken on my iPhone. I know this is probably not the best way to do it but it’s still been surprising to find that even the latest cloud models are stru
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by thorum 1y ago
This article is insightful, but I blinked when I saw the headline “Reducing the human bottleneck” used without any apparent irony. At some point we should probably take a step back and ask “Why do we want to solve this problem?” Is a world
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by thorum 1y ago
I think we’re going to have to set bigger goals for ourselves. We’re all still figuring out what that means.
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by thorum 1y ago
We need a new set of UX principles for AI apps. If users need to access an AI feature multiple times a day it should be a button.
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by thorum 1y ago
> npm scripts make a http call to the npm registry each time they run, which means they are a terrible way to execute a health check. Is this true? I couldn’t find another source discussing it. That would be insane behavior for a package
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by thorum 1y ago
The Information’s report from earlier this month claimed that GPT-5 was only developed in the last 1-2 months, after some sort of breakthrough in training methodology. > As recently as June, the technical problems meant none of OpenAI’s
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by thorum 1y ago
The quiet revolution is happening in tool use and multimodal capabilities. Moderate incremental improvements on general intelligence, but dramatic improvements on multi-step tool use and ability to interact with the world (vs 1 year ago), w
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by thorum 1y ago
The product simply should not be called Autopilot. Anyone with any common sense could predict that many people will (quite reasonably) assume that a feature called Autopilot functions as a true autopilot, and that misunderstanding will lead
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by thorum 1y ago
If you’re a power user of these LLMs and have coding experience, I actually recommend just whipping together your own bespoke chat UI that you can customize however you like. Grab any OpenAI compatible endpoint for inference and a frontend
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by thorum 1y ago
Isn’t the goal of Study Mode exactly that, though? Instead of handing you the answers, it tries to guide you through answering it on your own; to teach the process. Most people don’t know how to do this.
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by thorum 1y ago
Unintended side effect, UK MPs can now watch as much porn as they want with plausible deniability.
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by thorum 1y ago
The long term is unlimited access to local LLMs that are better than 2025’s best cloud models and good enough for 99% of your needs, and limited access to cloud models for when you need to bring more intelligence to bear on a problem. LLMs
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by thorum 1y ago
This is independent research, not by the Google team that won gold, showing the public model can achieve gold results through clever prompting.
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Gemini 2.5 Pro Capable of Winning Gold at IMO 2025 with Prompting(arxiv.org)
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