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by versteegen 10mo ago
So how do the models compare in your experience?
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by versteegen 10mo ago
Tip: the crashing is caused by certain extensions such as OneTab and All Tabs Helper which for some reason seem to cause all the tabs to load, just when restoring a session. Temporarily disable these extensions before restoring, then you ca
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by versteegen 10mo ago
> - It should even demonstrate consciousness. I disagreed with most of your assertions even before I hit the last point. This is just about the most extreme thing you could ask for. I think very few AI researchers would agree with this d
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by versteegen 10mo ago
> A junior developer has no such skills. Their only approach will be to run the code, test whether it fulfills the requirements, and, if they're thorough, try to understand and test it to the best of their abilities. This is also a
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by versteegen 10mo ago
A completely flipped perspective: > "Why the f*ck are you asking, you should know this" Because you mentioned NZ: my father, a toolmaker, said there was a huge difference between Europe and NZ. In Germany/Netherlands, he&#
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by versteegen 10mo ago
> citations from a wide range of dates Ouch, really? That's basically just work that's not in the current hot topics. Not really a datapoint in favour of 'crank', rather a point against 'active academic/stud
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by versteegen 11mo ago
It's silly of them to say you need a "modern terminal emulator", it's wrong and drives people away. I'm using xfce4-terminal. Gemini 3 via any provider except Copilot should work in Opencode.
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by versteegen 11mo ago
Well Opencode also completely replaced its TUI a few weeks ago too. BTW Gemini 3 via Copilot doesn't currently work in Opencode: https://github.com/sst/opencode/issues/4468
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by versteegen 11mo ago
Quoting a month old post: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/prSnGGAgfWtZexYLp/is-90-of-c... My current understanding (based on this text and other sources) is: - There exist some teams at Anthropic where aroun
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by versteegen 11mo ago
I'm really confused by "about $15k of x86 gear ... The minute AMD K10 and Intel Nehalem dropped, high routing performance was mostly a software problem". What kind of $15k machine would you have needed? That's a heck of
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by versteegen 11mo ago
Imagine I capitalised a whole selection of specific words in this sentence for emphasis, how annoying that would be to read. I'll spare you. That is what the guideline is about, not one single instance.
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by versteegen 11mo ago
I thought the repetition was intentional.
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by versteegen 11mo ago
Well, I also work on AI, and I completely agree with you. But I've reached the point of thinking it's hopeless to argue with people about this: It seems that as LLMs become ever better people aren't going to change their opin
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by versteegen 11mo ago
No I didn't mean to draw attention to HFTs specifically, I understand they aren't big. I said 'second' instead of 'subsecond' because humans are also capable of reacting within seconds. But you are right that a
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by versteegen 11mo ago
Obviously the financial sector provide a lot of value, but they also extract a LOT of value and probably even worse employ a LOT of the smartest people (I recall the rebalancing of Iceland's economy after its banks failed), and couldn&
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by versteegen 11mo ago
> Without patents, people fall back to copying each other, because it is much easier to copy than to innovate. This is probably the only argument I've seen in favour of software patents in which I see any merit!
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by versteegen 11mo ago
I 100% agree with nutjob :| There are hundreds of trillions of synapses in the brain, and much of what they do (IANANS) could reasonably be described as pattern matching: mostly sitting idle waiting for patterns. (Since dendritic trees per
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by versteegen 11mo ago
What about scholarly encyclopedias? For example, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The articles are written in the style of a survey article, and if they're merely tertiary, I can't tell. If the intention behind a citation
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by versteegen 11mo ago
At those speeds, it's probably impossible. It would require enormous amounts of memory (which the chip simply doesn't have, there's no room for it) or rather a lot of bandwidth off-chip to storage, and again they wouldn'
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by versteegen 11mo ago
grok-code-fast-1 is free (for a limited time) in opencode zen, has been for a while. (Originally it was billed as a test/to gather training data for xAI.) But right now GLM 4.6 is also temporarily free there (hosted by opencode themsel
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by versteegen 11mo ago
The place to go for those numbers is https://epoch.ai/data/ai-companies Very little data about expenses, but it looks like they may be growing a little slower (3-4x a year) than revenue. Which makes sense because infer
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by versteegen 11mo ago
Yes, but it's not just memory hierarchy on which plain transformer-based LLMs are handicapped, there are many deficiencies. (For example, why must they do all their thinking upfront in thinking blocks rather than at any point when they
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by versteegen 11mo ago
Hah! Thanks, I'd forgotten. I think my older reply was better.
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by versteegen 11mo ago
HyperRogue is specifically hyperbolic (and very cool! See also RogueVis), but of course there are a number of non-Euclidean roguelikes. One of my favourites is Smart Kobold [1], which really amazed me at the time, particularly as it was mad
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by versteegen 11mo ago
Wow, those are exactly the same targets I use for releasing x86 and x64 (Windows) builds, but even I think it's a little over the top for Debian to support Pentium Pro.
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by versteegen 11mo ago
> They say it doesn't have that much to do with the kind of consciousness you're talking about Not much but it likely has something to do with it, so experiments on access consciousness can still be useful to that question. Y
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by versteegen 11mo ago
Lenses make it more convenient to use immutable structs, which Julia encourages (particularly as they unlock various optimisations).
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by versteegen 1y ago
It's not being actively developed but gets some occasional patches on Github. It's mature (e.g. was used for a number of Valve's games). If you want an actively improving language, look at Quirrel.
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by versteegen 1y ago
I really like the sound of Wren, but you may also want to look into Squirrel, it's basically Lua re-imagined/reimplemented but without all the Lua quirks and with C-style syntax (but it still has optional lua-style prototypes, whi
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by versteegen 1y ago
Very much like (surely equivalent on some level) how very simple automata such as Rule 110 are Turing complete but the encoding schemes are Rube Goldberg machines. An overview for Rule 110: https://cs.stackexchange.com/a&#x2

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