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by xpct 4mo ago
Those short sentences are also of the X hype account cadence, though they've fully embraced LLM text by now
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by xpct 4mo ago
This blog remains one of the most inspirational interactive websites for me. It really nails both clarity and remains interactable, fun. When (if ever) LLMs are able to generate interactables like these, is when I will hang up my coat.
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by xpct 4mo ago
And here I thought I was an oddball for manually cutting off end parts of links
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by xpct 4mo ago
Neither, just an ad
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by xpct 4mo ago
> Not having used agents and not being able to comment on what to do and what not to do with them is immediate out since early this year. From all the tech that we have, agents are really not that hard to learn on the job. They're a
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by xpct 4mo ago
I understand the pressure to get employed from your perspective, but differences in opinion should be voiced out and typically aren't the thing leading to rejection from the company. It's common that engineering leads seek out peo
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by xpct 4mo ago
I loved the 'Build Software Like It Needs To Last' one. I feel like it's something that could be made into a poster and hanged where I could see it first thing in the morning.
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by xpct 4mo ago
It seems to me that most media genres discover the most interesting parts relatively early, then most subsequent work is deeply derivative. I feel that way about video games, digital music, movies. I'd wager it's because ideas are
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by xpct 4mo ago
As someone who's also worried about delegating too much thinking to LLMs, I wonder if letting your own citizens use the good models is detrimental.
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by xpct 4mo ago
Jokes on you, we're releasing the new, 'more efficient', 'less intelligent', Capybara 5 model. It's been 'reprogrammed' to only score 49.8% on the 'PyTorch basics' benchmark!
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by xpct 4mo ago
I've actually not thought about deployments in remote jurisdictions that much. I also don't think the models are dangerous enough to warrant it, but do you reckon the big labs have plans thought out for deleting remote model copie
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by xpct 4mo ago
Likely more surveillance when it comes to electricity expenditure.
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by xpct 4mo ago
That would depend on what gets leaked, as I'm not so sure that the weights by themselves would be enough to replicate the architecture. I imagine some part of the secret sauce will remain in the architecture, and the tensor dimensions
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by xpct 4mo ago
Oh cool, haven't heard of these before. Unfortunately strings like that can just be sed'd out.
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by xpct 4mo ago
Actually, even Opus 4.8 completely switched off on me and suggested Haiku when I asked about today's Arch Linux AUR malware.
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by xpct 4mo ago
This was made in 2 days and 91% of the Max 20x plan, as the author stated on the Reddit thread, so roughly ~$200. Supposedly, existing free assets were used and weren't generated. I'd say demos like these stand to profit the most
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by xpct 4mo ago
I propose we move away from the framing of "Model years" - they're standard human research years. Yes, likely more people are working on it, and also working harder, but ever since we acquired a certain amount of compute in t
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by xpct 4mo ago
I'm sure a system that could do this is economically optimal. Why are you looking forward to this, though?
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by xpct 4mo ago
I hope he's thought out his next vocation, since he's so eager to automate his current one.
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by xpct 4mo ago
I think we're too nice sometimes. If a coworker has been sending stuff to review that's taking me more time than for them to create, surely that's an opportunity to discuss this?
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by xpct 4mo ago
Indeed, yet the sender is relying on me to find the errors.
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by xpct 4mo ago
Yep, it's bad. It's too easy to press the publish button without double-checking the outputs. Programming has always been about discipline, and now it's even more so.
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by xpct 4mo ago
Before putting in money to this small anonymous website, I'd love to hear about the people behind the project. There's a single mention of 'Barras Industries', but not much mention about them online, or what else they&#x
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by xpct 4mo ago
That's an entirely valid point of view!
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by xpct 4mo ago
I've tried it for a few months for 1-hour intervals and it wasn't as stressful, and was a useful exercise to understand how I'm using my time. I feel like there's a few lessons here, depending on what your goal is: if yo
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by xpct 4mo ago
Yes, we agree on this.
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by xpct 4mo ago
We're getting to the point where high-level officials are coming to LLMs for advice. And the quirky personalities of the LLMs, however much it pains me to say this, are probably well-placed to remind us that they aren't human. My
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by xpct 4mo ago
I suppose this varies depending on what type of material is covered in the podcast. We typically assume it contains surface-level content, as their primary purpose is entertainment, but the answer would probably change if we were talking ab
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by xpct 4mo ago
Thank you for sharing this. I imagine at first it wasn't clear that the browser will become our primary interface with the web. Microsoft hoped it would be the OS itself with Windows 98, if I'm not mistaken.
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by xpct 4mo ago
My personal assumption has been that 'pleasure', at least partially, includes expected practical returns. I'd also guess that's at least partially true for kids: "my parents told me if I read a lot, I'll be sma

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