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by vintermann 10d ago
Another great article, thanks. I thought a lot about that too, and basically realized the same thing (this wasn't the coding agent), that frequency in the dataset mattered a lot for how useful a match is, and made frequency lists from
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by vintermann 10d ago
The coding agent was pretty good at coming up with heuristics for matching - even more than the dozen I suggested from domain experience. And it used some of them sensibly for blocking, too. I'm sure I could get it to perform a little
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by vintermann 10d ago
and people who could do those things. Sure. That was a line which was crossed, and everyone knew that - including Ukraine, which is why they didn't do it until two years into the war after getting explicit permission from the governmen
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by vintermann 10d ago
The tasks you actually need to do trump benchmarks, yes. I haven't tried out the ridiculously expensive models besides the latest Gemini, and it gave from equal to slightly worse results than latest DeepSeek, at a far higher price. I
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by vintermann 10d ago
> Structured outputs slot into ordinary software as fuzzy decision rules: classify, route, score, extract, or branch where hand-written logic is too brittle. Oh, I have one of those use cases, matching people in genealogy trees. You can
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by vintermann 10d ago
I wonder how well it can play chess, or go.
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by vintermann 10d ago
Hallucinating as we use the word really only applies to generative AI. Non generative AIs can't hallucinate, they can just be wrong.
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by vintermann 10d ago
If you're talking cattle, you're talking a different time of history entirely. That allowed collecting and concentrating enough wealth that some could engage in that sort of thing without worrying about immediately falling victim
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by vintermann 10d ago
It's a hobby which has had a sharp decline. I know a guy who sells old postcards and various stuff, he told me people try to sell him stamp collections they've inherited, and he won't take them - even for free - simply becaus
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by vintermann 11d ago
When running away is a big part of the tactic, it's not a "kill everyone" tactic. You don't have the advantage for long. And even if you did succeed, the next tribe over could just as easily do the same to you (and they
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by vintermann 11d ago
Which I answered?
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by vintermann 11d ago
Sure, you can go in to kill everyone, and sometimes they did, but only when they were OK with almost as many of their own group dying as the enemy. There's no big technological or tactical advantage to be had in the stone age. Maybe, i
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by vintermann 11d ago
> defensive capabilities to Ukraine With you up until there. There's nothing defensive about drones. Retributive capabilities certainly, pre-emptive capabilities maybe, but absolutely offensive capabilities, not defensive ones. Atta
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by vintermann 11d ago
I mean what I said: if you're being attacked by drones, then no one can fault you for trying to sabotage the production of those drones, even if they're made in a different country than the one which is sending them against you. B
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by vintermann 11d ago
If the main point is slowing/frustrating drone production? It would honestly be kind of fair game to sabotage production of drones that would be used against you, even if they're made in a country you're not at war with --- i
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by vintermann 11d ago
Oh yes, part of the gigantic OASIS UBL (ISO/IEC 19845) and EN 16931 (CEN/TC 434). If young devs today think AI likes to build massive overengineered jargon-filled monstrosities, they should see what they learned it from. Never min
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by vintermann 12d ago
Not really, no, because if you have the right model (a book cipher) it seems it shouldn't be so hard to solve. Those Germans just didn't have time. That suggests to me that this was a fairly niche cipher, that hadn't got much
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by vintermann 13d ago
> Could also argue that the scam ad that won the slot for 10 cents would have gone for 9 cents without the scam and Meta's marginal revenue was only 1 cent. They're probably taking that into account in their 10% of profit comin
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by vintermann 13d ago
I can recall one time I got feedback from Google that an ad had indeed been taken down, that was an Ukrainian women dating ad in Gmail which was not subtle at all about offering trafficked women. But that's some time ago.
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by vintermann 13d ago
> You can see the data if you report them. That's at least something. Last I was on a streaming service, they were very fastidious about not revealing who was behind a spammer's rotating "music labels", despite them b
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by vintermann 13d ago
> There are more ads going out then can be reviewed, so they would rather have people report them, then they automatically reject the report until enough people report it, then an actual person may review it. If only there was a technolo
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by vintermann 15d ago
Can't spell classical without "class". If you like classical music and don't find at least parts of the culture obnoxious and elitist, I'd worry for you.
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by vintermann 16d ago
I think you miss the point of this book. Karl had tuberculosis, Jonathan died saving him from a fire despite knowing Karl would soon die (which he did). No suicide there, only tragedy. Then they had an "afterlife" which is full of
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by vintermann 16d ago
Same here, they are still extremely cheap, though.
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by vintermann 16d ago
Very odd. I've used DeepSeek heavily for some weeks, and haven't seen a single Chinese character either in its replies or its thinking. Are you using a quantified model or a different provider by any chance?
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by vintermann 16d ago
Remember that Astrid Lindgren was born in 1907, got pregnant at 18 and had to give up her son to a foster home for the first few years. She grew up in a completely different world, and it's no coincidence that a lot of her stories are
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by vintermann 16d ago
Yes, and it's a problem procedural space games have in particular. Because the planets usually don't interact at all in any meaningful way - what's on one planet (or indeed in one zone on a planet) has no impact outside it.
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by vintermann 16d ago
They've added a lot of elements inspired by other games. One of the first things they added was base-building. Also a colony sim subgame, a pokemon-like subgame, fishing and cooking subgames, a roguelike subgame (exploring derelict dre
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by vintermann 17d ago
I don't understand what you suggest that implies?
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by vintermann 17d ago
You have no other information to go by in this scenario, so whatever you do you're equally likely to randomly exclude the best candidate.

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