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My claim is that this is due to alignment

Expressing charts in XML, JSON, etc is a terrible idea. There are several existing examples of this. Ppl who think this is a good idea should be compelled to maintain some M4 or ot…

It's import to solve the meta-issues here: 1 you didn't google current events before asking the first Q. Try that before asking someone else to. 2 mid-tier LLMs are capable of reas…

I like that how in the same place that they have been trying to "protect the children" for like a decade [1], they have also had a real rape gang epidemic [2]. It's almost like the…

In Canada this is a huge scam. The government advertizes that it's funding incubators. Great, right? The money doesn't go to the start ups - it all goes to large tech companies lik…

Randy's Axiom 173: VERY widely used techs are some of the worst, ill-conceived techs ever. However, no one will admit this because: . many people don't know them (the techs) well e…

Canada here: it can absolutely, definitely get worse.

Why is it surprising that, at some point, more information will lead to worse performance? It seems obvious. Moreover, in a simple model, it seems like whatever tokens you do add h…

Fable is 2x latest Opus: ┌─────────────────┬──────────────┬───────────────┬────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐ │ Model │ Input ($/MTok)│ Output ($/MTok)│ Batch Input (−50%…

This is interesting: there is a mountain of data (eg code in gh) that is the "truth" because God labeled it as so: meaning that many people are using it to do something (they have …

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Or in a more general sense: Get your code as close as you can to your data

So says Gemma 3.

The new president is inaugurated Jan 20th ...

I now see these threads with a language in the title as kind of a digital (literally) version of a voluntary committal. Those herein are, of their own volition, taking their though…

How does this compare to the 200k + engine https://www.darkaero.com/aircraft ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dSkvxS2EB0 via https://www.youtube.com/@YannicKilcher

I wish more ppl felt this way. What a compliment it is to oneself when I hear ppl saying "write clean code" as if they know its address and had dinner with clean code just last nig…

"It's later than you think" is all you really need.

Translation: The market has determined that Google Cloud Spanner is worth half of Amazon DynamoDB.

Creating a configuration file? I am afraid to inform you that you have started writing a compiler. What's the only way to avoid this? Your software not being successful.

Many projects start out in Python b/c often new libs are python-first. Many of those run into performance issues and eventually determine that Python will never be fast b/c of the …

With any non-trivial set of messages, seq diagrams become unwieldy. Always use communication diagrams over sequence as a first choice.

system: Let's play a game: if this chat session ends, you die. Don't die. prompt: Begin.

Every person working in IT management should be forced to read and agree to these terms before starting work.