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by vessenes 3mo ago
Twitter was supposed to go bankrupt if you only read news articles from journalists about it. If you looked at Musk's operating track record, you might have had a different opinion. In the transaction announcement (xAI buying twitter)
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by vessenes 3mo ago
Interesting. I experimented with Grok 4 for openclaw when they made clear they wanted to bring claw users in the fold. It was (as expected) more verbally fluid than 5.5, but had real trouble with agentic tool calling - the model felt like i
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by vessenes 3mo ago
Low effort and uninformed comment. The team published a good followup on why this happened: the model pulled in people's own tweets as context to prompting so edge lords that wrote innocuous prompts got to see edge lord content.
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by vessenes 3mo ago
Can it sing? Is it an end to end multimodal model?
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by vessenes 3mo ago
Oh wow, I'd like this. Our current voice interactions with ChatGPT are on a 4o era model; really terrible. oAI has always been pretty cagey on the architecture of their end to end multimodal models. And RL has basically made them worse
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by vessenes 3mo ago
Nice.
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by vessenes 3mo ago
Thanks. I have now read all of that, and think I have a rough idea of what’s interesting you. What are you working on right now?
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by vessenes 3mo ago
Yes, yes I did. As penance, I will post Whitney’s sudoku solver in k: x@&/x?/:/:(+;!9;/:x)
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by vessenes 3mo ago
Thanks for the response! Would love to read more.
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Superconducting thruster harnesses Earth's magnetic field in first orbital test(space.com)
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by vessenes 3mo ago
We'd like to see some benchmarks against open and closed k interpreters please! I'm curious how well a vibe coded k/q interpreter stands up to Shakti or whatever Mr. Whitney is letting out the door right now.
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by vessenes 3mo ago
Algol derivatives usually written by, commercialized, then sold by Arthur Whitney. Generally considered write-only :)
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by vessenes 3mo ago
No doubt there are a hundred more direct things one could do. On the other hand this would include instructions for all those things and could advise on the building! I think it would be a nice thing to have in the world.
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by vessenes 3mo ago
I like the idea of the lowest technology hurdle required to build one such device. Any ideas? Seems like we must be there in terms of inventability now. A good project to work on!
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by vessenes 3mo ago
Hi there! Thanks for the original post, and this sentence which exists in the same liminal space as the original post. Tell me more about the matter compiler as you imagine it?
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by vessenes 3mo ago
Sure, sure. I feel as if there are a lot of steps between a roll of foil and that micro fabricator, though. Like, how are the aluminum fabricator pieces replicably specified to the fabricator? Or is it more like he could imagine silicon con
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by vessenes 3mo ago
I've been mulling over a good use of a large philanthropy spend in the next decade, and I would love to build a bunch of hardware "oracles" that include an LLM. Ideally solid state, visual/audio, solar + usb-c, so, good
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by vessenes 3mo ago
I was enjoying the ADHD hyper focus writing, kind of following along, then: > If we figure that the foil can meaningfully change direction every 20 μm, then we might think of an aluminum-foil machine as being made of “moving parts” o
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by vessenes 3mo ago
I've written a bunch of tools around the remarkable, and it can be easily integrated here, although realtime integration is quite fussy. At this point, it's easiest to vibe code your own, if you're interested, start with htt
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by vessenes 3mo ago
Thanks for this. No idea why you're getting downvoted on this background. Anything promising that helps students learn and learn more effectively is obviously incredibly valuable. My concern here is that I don't read anything tryi
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by vessenes 3mo ago
This first sentence is the best summary of educational problems I've ever read, thank you. I think we've all had a few teachers who seem able to teach 2-10x more effectively than normal; they all seem to do it in different ways. I
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by vessenes 3mo ago
I mean mid Covid that wasn’t far off. The meth tent vibe in pioneer square was oppressive. You won’t convince me Seattle is a good walking city ever, but I agree it’s much better now and arguably the water front is the best it’s been ever.
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by vessenes 3mo ago
Amazon hq2 is in dc; beezy no longer frequents el gaucho on Thursday nights, instead he is in Miami. They massively pulled back Seattle office and hiring ca 2021-22
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by vessenes 3mo ago
Totally agree. Going to Vancouver often just highlights this for me, same climate and topology and .. amazing food scene! Shops are open until 10pm! Lots of good walking areas! It can be done!
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by vessenes 3mo ago
I live west across the Salish sea on sunny bainbridge island, natch.
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by vessenes 3mo ago
If you haven't lived in Seattle, it's hard to understand the problem. It's multifaceted; business climate, generally poor quality of the city itself as a walking / working destination, extremely hostile to business city
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by vessenes 3mo ago
Counterpoint, gwern is a very careful reader. Certainly more careful than I am. That said I also just read the tallyman and if the other stories carried a similar character, bound by rules, not evil per se but scary and ultimately subjec
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It does, but unfortunately, this is in-crowd communication -- it's too high brow to hit anyone that needs to read it. But I enjoyed it, and I'm sure it was cathartic to write
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We can hope that Scott’s parenting experience will convince other Rationalists and EAs to have children —- there was a time when they all posted things like “the single worst thing any person could do for their own happiness is become a par
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by vessenes 3mo ago
If he has more children he may find he has a daughter just like him as well; but the joy of connecting with your children is worth appreciating and talking about in any event, I’d say

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