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by torginus 4mo ago
Btw, its insane to think imo that a few years from now theres going to be no jobs - AI isnt going to cook food or stack bricks or any number of manual processes - in fact I'd be very happy if AI could just fix software - basically heap
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by torginus 4mo ago
I don't understand this at a high level. Anthropic is going to go public, which means they are liable to act in the best interest of shareholders, so they cannot leave money on the table, much less do selfless handouts. Yet at the same
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by torginus 4mo ago
I used to volunteer for an animal shelter doing IT stuff. They didn't really have much money, and what they had they needed for actual, real-world problems like buying dog food and paying vet's fees etc. They ran on ancient hand-m
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by torginus 4mo ago
Not sure how necessary is this. From what I've gathered,, one thing the higher education system is good at is using GenAI to automate personal labor :)
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by torginus 4mo ago
Considering how expensive context is in terms of compute, I wonder why (and if ) vendors don't invest more into context engineering. When it comes to source code, I feel like LLMs could just as well work with something like minified so
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by torginus 4mo ago
Munro took apart a Nissan Ariya which has this exact kind of motor. The maintenance is basically removing a tiny cover and replacing the tiny and cheap carbon brushes every 100k km or more. It's basically cabin filter level maintenance
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by torginus 4mo ago
Does this mean that it's an effective business strategy to red-team your competitors models to find a jailbreak, then go to the govt. and ask them to ban them for you?
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by torginus 4mo ago
I wonder why it's the natural tendency of models to BS or do stuff like this when they don't have the correct answer - it's clear that they can program refusal into them, but for some reason, refusal has to be injected after
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by torginus 4mo ago
I mean people expect a model to give a working solution. They also expect it to provide it in as few tokens as possible (input/output). They might expect it to come up with an original solution, but I don't think most people would
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by torginus 4mo ago
I mean that sucks, but I have many tales of people, who were passionate and outstanding in what they did, and were rewarded with a leadership position for their efforts. Now they get to fill out excel sheets, babysit people and sit in plann
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by torginus 4mo ago
The US is worse - an F150s headlights are at eye level if you're sitting in a Corolla. Nothing on European roads is quite as bad.
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by torginus 4mo ago
I wonder why this type of deployment is not more popular - pushing all resources inside a single HTML file, with a script tag, and inline resources as blobs.
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by torginus 4mo ago
Remember the Death Star tweet? I reserve the right to believe upper management is somewhat out of touch.
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by torginus 4mo ago
My 2 cents is that doctors people with lots of money and very specific needs who generally don't really go for tech jobs, so they're probably planning to create a separate monetization tier. That, or alternatively, Mythos is so go
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by torginus 4mo ago
I dunno, I think I got more out of it than I put in, but it was mostly due to happenstance and knock on events, and my name sounding more familiar to some important people, but this wasn't really in the cards. Imo if you don't do
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by torginus 4mo ago
Is it just me, but this feels like Claude gets to have a nigh-impenetrable black box right on your machine and you have no idea what is going on inside it. After all, the last time I encountered Hyper-V it was in the context of copy protect
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by torginus 4mo ago
As a person who gets paid to make Chrome (CEF really) do its bidding, I would say Chrome is really as close to an OS as it can get, as in I've found API or service typically an OS or an external tool would provide, that wasn't bui
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by torginus 4mo ago
Yeah, if the jump is big, then we should be able to see the qualitative improvements, or see where Opus was tripped up in a task and Fable did succeed
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by torginus 4mo ago
Yes, I ran into this during an internal company hackathon. This was before LLMs. We took a problem, designed an internal tool for it, and put some Bootstrap UI on top with some fancy CSS animations. After wiring up the mock data, it looked
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by torginus 4mo ago
I think the argument could be made both that both engines are raycasters, though they don't cast rays over pixels, but horizontal 2D spans (where each ray is going to end in the same sector). With the data structure being more efficien
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by torginus 4mo ago
Though it must be said that Duke's flexibility came with a tradeoff - while BSPs will find a leaf node in log(n) time, no such guarantee exists for Duke and its up to the mappers to optimize the maps so that the renderer doesn't n
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by torginus 4mo ago
Yeah sorry, you are right - I got it mixed up.
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by torginus 4mo ago
I tried to read the 'design doc' - its slop full of vague platitudes and impressive sounding but impossible to pin down management speak - in short, it's slop, and I still don't really get what its supposed to do exactly
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by torginus 4mo ago
That would only be true if a row (by which I mean a scanline) would be equidistant in view-space depth across its whole length, which is not quite true. While a column of pixels for a wall is (as long as you dont tilt the camera).
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by torginus 4mo ago
With regard to floors, afaik even DOOM didn't do them correctly. With vertical walls, the perspective divide needs to be done only once per column of pixels for a given wall segment. For floors, unfortunately there's no such luxur
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by torginus 4mo ago
Apple has a third of the EU market to itself. It would be just insane for the EU to give an exemption that means the law doesn't apply a third of the time.
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by torginus 4mo ago
Except GPUs are not real estate but depreciating assets and are priced with extreme scarcity pricing currently.
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by torginus 4mo ago
Okay I'm getting weird vibes from this whole project. While the whole thing looks interesting from an engineering perspective, I feel like this startup's preferred approach of offering cloud browsers by running Chrome on bare meta
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by torginus 4mo ago
It certainly was a bias in this case - I asked for a feature, mentioning to give me popular libraries in this space, then it started coding up a bespoke solution that included among other things, a custom HTML parser. Then asked to really c
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by torginus 4mo ago
I remember once in college a Chem Eng friend told me he (or any competent chemical engineer) could basically manufacture a lot of explosives/chemical agents should he want to. He even told me he could substitute a lot of suspicious pre

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