ur-whale

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by ur-whale 5d ago
> In September, AI generated code has made up 17.25% of all Linux Kernel patches I'm curious ... how would they even know?
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by ur-whale 7d ago
Love the "certified clank-free" logo
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by ur-whale 8d ago
> when you can't use random 2FA "Apps". You don't need a phone to do 2FA : https://github.com/pcarrier/gauth
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by ur-whale 11d ago
None of the things you list in the "other half" are out of reach for AI. Also: disagree about the lack of validation loop: a) AI can actually build one for you in many cases b) if you give agents an actual validation tool
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by ur-whale 11d ago
> This is something you would use in a video game. You say it like it's a bad thing.
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by ur-whale 11d ago
> there isn't a good way to go from STL -> Parametric CAD yet. as a matter of fact, you should try what AI can do on that problem, you'd be surprised.
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by ur-whale 12d ago
Oh, this is so nice, but man is it hugely frustrating not to be able to rotate the thing in 3D. Or did I not find the controls?
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by ur-whale 12d ago
> As long as they’re not vert Well, at least they weren't nucular.
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by ur-whale 12d ago
> Any evidence Who profits from the crime?
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by ur-whale 12d ago
> How are we not seeing insane attacks on Ukraine via Agents? You live on the wrong side of the fence to be able to read that kind of news. Did you really believe you had access to an unmanipulated news stream in a time of war? LOL.
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by ur-whale 12d ago
Are "rouge" and "rogue" interchangeable words in American English?
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MOBA: Mixture of Block Attention for Long-Context LLMs(arxiv.org)
2 points by ur-whale 13d ago|0 comments
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by ur-whale 14d ago
Google Search is dying, and it is showing all the standard symptoms.
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by ur-whale 16d ago
Its the "with unpublished math" that I have a problem with.
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by ur-whale 18d ago
> they clearly have a contrarian business strategy to the other AI labs. Yeah, spot on. I'd add they are also betting on building specialized AI's targeting narrow yet very profitable segment markets, where general AI's à
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27: Old but Oddly Relevant in late 2026 [video](youtube.com)
3 points by ur-whale 18d ago|0 comments
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by ur-whale 19d ago
Programming can be art. And I totally resonate with the pleasure of crafting code and the artistic aspect of it. However, it is not just that, and when it comes to making a living, then the story changes. And for that second part, man is
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by ur-whale 19d ago
> Silicon habitats of programmers recreating nineties professional programming on Pentium PCs in dimly lit cubicles God I miss those days.
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by ur-whale 19d ago
> Switzerland is relatively highly educated so this might be less of a challenge than in other countries but it won't be easy. True, but that's not accounting for a bunch of typically Swiss cultural factors: - Swiss people tend
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Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings(arxiv.org)
121 points by ur-whale 20d ago|46 comments
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by ur-whale 20d ago
> This is... Not a good article. This is... Not a good comment. And unlike you, I don't believe I need to explain why I'm writing this.
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by ur-whale 20d ago
> It's as if a physics student tries to derive medicine "from first principles" by starting at atoms and thinking hard. It doesn't work and won't fix your appendix. An entire civilization (China) completely misse
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by ur-whale 20d ago
> I don't think you can get good at an instrument or enjoy music if you keep trying to force it to make logical sense in your brain all the time. I wholeheartedly agree with this. But then, please , don't call it "theory&
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by ur-whale 20d ago
> Which is a strange way to teach a system that essentially comes out of physics and arithmetic Oh boy, couldn't agree more, this has been a lifelong frustration for me as well: I've always been completely stumped by the utter
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by ur-whale 20d ago
What exactly prevents anyone worried about this to build an LLM that can decode the neuralese to english and use it to monitor what the model is doing? Or is the neuralese some sort of irreversibly encrypted data set that only an LLM can &q
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by ur-whale 27d ago
> The EU is tremendously effective It certainly is, but unfortunately not at very many actually positive things. When it comes to wasting money and being completely ham-fisted with regulation though, I agree with you 100%
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by ur-whale 27d ago
> Iceland rejects reopening talks on EU entry Good for them. Joining the EU, given the very sorry state that institution is currently in would basically be a pair of concrete shoes at the bottom of the river for Iceland.
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by ur-whale 29d ago
Fantastic work, but my gut reaction: Why? Why snowboard kids and not the ocarina of time ????
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by ur-whale 1mo ago
2020's US geopolitical doctrine: 1) Pick a historically extremely innovative and disciplined culture which also happens to have massive human capital 2) Please arbitrary artificial ill-thought-out economic constraints on them 3) wait a
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by ur-whale 1mo ago
finger is the best-named utility of the Unix world.

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