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There were also certain IMO low-value questions that really excited the SO hive-mind. I asked a question about the peculiarities of Python assignment syntax, and earned several doz…

As a Virginian, this is good information to have. I see a lot of ludicrous objections to data centers here (the most ludicrous being water consumption, when most of our data center…

Let's just say this organization is very, very large and doesn't necessarily have the budget for everyone to have all of the tokens.

I ran into a problem at work recently: we are given access to a bunch of models up to a full Claude Opus 4.8, but a monthly budget of 100k tokens. We are also given access to Gemin…

My first thought when looking at it is that I doubt the vehicle could pass US safety regulations. Maybe I'm wrong.

The design of transformers (including LLMs and multi-modal transformer-based models such as OpenAI's image generators) is to attend to relevant details. OpenAI did this at first wi…

I don't exactly appreciate words being put in my mouth. When did I say it was working perfectly? And we're comparing you, a human with common sense and real intelligence, to a mult…

> The spontaneity isn't that ChapGPT woke up and sent this to the author. The spontaneity is that ChatGPT was asked to restore an image that was attached without filtering it, and …

"If you aren't paying for a taco, you are the taco." --Future AI, probably

I've been using the OpenSCAD version of this for a while. This new release is a big upgrade! I wish it worked with my preferred CAD, FreeCAD. But this is neat!

> Take AI for instance. The US grid is struggling to keep up with demand, while Chinese one has a lot of headway [1]. Usually, this could be solved by an increase in spending lasti…

Vaporwear*

Having read the blog post and then the comments here, I'm rather astonished. Do we understand our craft so little that our only realistic option is to ban LLMs (so-called AI)? Has …

"I only allow robots with stainless steel tools to prepare and serve my food."

> it's more about America transitioning from a high-trust society to a low-trust one. We're talking about Princeton , here. Trust among elites remains persistently high. In fact, i…

I set up a VM on Hetzner a few weeks ago. I've been quite impressed so far, and was able to orchestrate everything with Terraform without a problem.

Math, physics, and chemistry RLHF freelancing is typically north of $40/hr. Even competence at simply reading & writing English prose earns at least $20/hr. I've never seen an offe…

I have a nearly total opposite take. I can't tell you how many times I've read a book, a paper or something else and been confused by some ambiguity in the author's prose. Being ab…

I built an MCP server to speak WHOIS/RDAP so I could have Claude give me better domain name suggestions that weren't already taken. It can also be used in LLM-enabled applications …

Yeah, semantics is extremely important. Just no way around it.

Well that's another use I have for LLMs: asking questions about these informational or architectural impedance mismatches. LLMs get it wrong sometimes, but with proper guidance (ch…

Every time I request the wrong OAuth scope that doesn't have the authorization to do what I need, then make a failing request, I hear Jim Gaffigan affecting a funny authoritative v…

MCP connects the LLM to the APIs, which can be consulted with "tool calls." I'm talking about integrating the software I produce (with LLM assistance) to APIs. Traditionally, this …

You know where LLMs boost me the most? When I need to integrate a bunch of systems together, each with their own sets of documentation. Instead of spending hours getting two or thr…

We spend a ton of money per capita and get bad outcomes.