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artrockalter

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    Comment #49126171

    In my experience LLMs do find a lot of embarrassing bugs as Linus says but it can constantly turn into a game of whack-a-mole where most of the bugs it finds were written in previo…

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    Comment #49076956

    I know the company I consult for (not cybersecurity) is not in these programs and if attacked would need to use open weight models.

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    Comment #49076693

    The Hugging Face incident is a great example of why open source models with defensive cyber capabilities are needed. Hugging Face did not have access to cyber-capable frontier mode…

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    Comment #49009672

    The null is surely different in this case because we know that supplemented creatine goes to the brain and the brain uses it, which is definitely not a claim all supplements can ma…

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    Comment #48910057

    Is this methodologically similar to Anthropic's recent J-Space paper?

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    Comment #48847560

    The task could be verifiable in the environment so limiting its CPU and RAM could be to discourage brute forcing the answer.

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    Comment #47936199

    Both are true! The Confederacy did secede largely to preserve slavery, but the war was started to bring the Confederacy back into the Union, initially without the goal of also imme…

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    Comment #47593181

    LLMs are good at writing complex regex, from my experience

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    Comment #47282343

    When I use ChatGPT for work it frequently reads my Slack DMs even if they’re not directly relevant, so I’d question a lot of the premises of the article.

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    Comment #47219428

    “they’ve been folded into Frankenstein positions that demand constant multitasking, social performance, sensory endurance, and emotional labor on top of technical skill” My sense i…

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    Comment #47212152

    It would be interesting if most of our confusion with quantum mechanics came from treating probabilities as independent when they are actually highly correlated. I don’t really kno…

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    Comment #46831342

    SubredditSimulator was a markov chain I think, the more advanced version was https://reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2

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    Comment #46196430

    It's so easy to ship completely broken AI features because you can't really unit test them and unit tests have been the main standard for whether code is working for a long time no…

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    Comment #45832106

    Happy smart people are generally very focused and only care about a few things. Unhappy smart people are constantly getting "nerd-sniped" into focusing their intelligence on things…

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    Comment #45276969

    > It’s the same reason why most of the people who pass your leetcode tests don’t actually know how to build anything real. They are taught to the test not taught to reality. True, …

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    Comment #44105880

    An answer to the productivity paradox ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox ) could be that increased technology causes increased complexity of systems, offsetting…

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    Comment #44104687

    - AI wrapper to summarize long text files (sort of like the LLM-plays-pokemon agentic summary of conversation history) - single page site for keeping track of what you're reading/w…