tomrod

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by tomrod 6d ago
And those working at the frontier of AI engineering are also keenly aware of current shortcomings.
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by tomrod 6d ago
That's perfectly aligned with my point, thanks for the opportunity to expand. The hacking agents being tested have goals beforehand, from the frontier lab or from a superior agent, that they execute immediately. But the perceived exper
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by tomrod 6d ago
I'm a bit more prosaic. I think if we engineered ways for LLMs to begin conversations, rather than just respond, we'd be more open to the concept of their intelligence. Without perceived "will" to do things, they operate
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by tomrod 6d ago
Conscious thought seems to follow this too. No one thinks to breath, we often get in a groove and do deep thinking during a rote task, etc.
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by tomrod 7d ago
If nothing else, it's a popularity breakthrough to have people excited about it.
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by tomrod 8d ago
> It's incredibly frustrating that the thing that you made with months of hard work, sweat and sleepless night is architecturally similar with the vertical use case and don't get the support you deserve because frontier lab bui
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by tomrod 9d ago
Once again, proving my growing trust in Cloudflare is well placed. Thanks!
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by tomrod 9d ago
I've been thinking about this a lot in the past few weeks - https://www.roderick.dev/writing/2026-08-28-obsessing-harnes... I don't think yet that a general benchmark will capture what is needed, but a gain&#
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by tomrod 9d ago
I like it! I suspect Jev may have more going on under the hood, but I like the idea of efficient universal transformers
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by tomrod 10d ago
David Brin has a wonderful novel on this topic, Existence, where he discusses several different AI and human systemic evolutions. Wonderful book for our current time.
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by tomrod 10d ago
Because it is alien to what is known. Incidentally, we should expect similar bewilderment if we ever come across aliens
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by tomrod 11d ago
Aye. Some of these targets are far away, others perhaps closer. Human+AI systems is a good match. Like Human+docs or Human+encyclopedia.
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by tomrod 11d ago
So is architecting, testing, validating, and even occasionally using. This isn't the first time I've seen this phrase recently, but I'm not sure what the thought is a cliche or what it is intended to convey (don't read m
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by tomrod 11d ago
My site shows black with yellow background and white text boxes. Highly visible. Maybe you're referring to dead comments? There are options to hide those.
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by tomrod 12d ago
This made me chuckle, truly. Thank you.
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by tomrod 12d ago
There is some art to it, especially in model architecture choices. But your smarter data scientists will try to get the best information density on test data to approximate generalization. MDL, as championed here, or AIC/BIC if working
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by tomrod 12d ago
Indeed. To add to this, the fact that Claude so often tries to deviate from defined architecture can be really frustrating if you're working in a mature codebase.
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by tomrod 12d ago
Echoing phrasing from the bef-ai-re times: this is the way
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by tomrod 12d ago
I don't take issue with that. Attempting memorized pattern generalization through holdout / validation strategies is a big part of ML that you would not typically see with econometrics / psychometrics / possibly sabermet
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by tomrod 12d ago
We are going to be okay.
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by tomrod 12d ago
I think Google's big bet (and Microsoft's before them) is in centralization of AI services, hosted using their model, and that AI at the edge will always be a bit player. But what I see and hear from technical consumers, businesse
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by tomrod 12d ago
This was a glorious and layered response. Thank you for making me chuckle. Next thing you know, we'll have a WattsApp to help AIs connect and discuss.
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by tomrod 13d ago
> How do you think right-to-repair intersects with cars? Strongly. You don't own the thing you purchased if you can't legally repair it or legally obtain the knowledge to repair it. At beat you're paying an overpriced leas
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by tomrod 13d ago
This is... not a great take.
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by tomrod 13d ago
I believe it was Strongtowns reporting a few months back that HOAs are generally being driven by developers, the only folks with (a) land to build in bulk; (b) capital, relationships, and experience to get fully through permitting in bulk;
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by tomrod 13d ago
If your buyer is an institution like Carmax or similar, lower. If your buyer is the end owner, probably increase a little bit unless they are surveillancemaxxing.
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by tomrod 13d ago
Much like owning a home without an HOA attached, it is becoming harder and harder to meet this requirement. It also seems to conflict with `right-to-repair` laws if the capability is legally required.
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by tomrod 13d ago
How can this be stopped, from a technical perspective? Can I wrap the comms in a Faraday cage? Obviously it would be better to have this action be illegal. But with legal privacy protections eroding in the US and other countries, it seems p
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by tomrod 13d ago
I'm a practical optimist. I see us as being in the age of engineering for AI -- like the early days of the steam engine. We're going to get a ton of things wrong and impractically implemented. But we don't anticipate the trai
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by tomrod 13d ago
It's a semantic saying that misses what people typically mean when we speak about simultaneous events. Someone sends an email or speaks on a voice call on the other side of world and a receiver still gets that note at the speed of ligh

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