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genxy

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About genxy

The liberty at stake here is freedom of movement without a permanent, searchable record.

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    Comment #49252081

    What is the best language for the user of the LLM? What is the best language to have high quality correctness oracles so that the user doesn't have to babysit the LLM and do lots o…

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    Comment #49252017

    > because it doesn't affect the semantics of the program It does when you use them as a feature and not an optimization. Like in interpreters, state machines, parsers, etc. Calling…

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    Comment #49251971

    You can train a model of this size on your laptop in a day.

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    Comment #49244654

    One of the things that seems effective in reducing Alzheimers is a "flushing action" inside of the brain (Glymphatic system). I wonder if this spatial reasoning maps into a spatial…

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    Comment #49234376

    People who would pass The Knowledge test might already develop dementia at a much lower rate.

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    Comment #49228785

    Because they are also incredibly stupid.

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    Comment #49228171

    > as easy to use as Photoshop Is that a typo?

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    Comment #49228147

    > That's fair You might need to spend some time with a paper book.

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    Comment #49223573

    Suicide or closing the loop?

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    Comment #49223446

    These companies that "own the web" shouldn't be allowed to also own the browsers. We went through this already.

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    Comment #49184475

    AI slop. WTF even is this? > The result is a cross-surface topology of the emerging search journey and a discipline for distinguishing observed containment from inferred resolution…

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    Comment #49183612

    We don't know how it failed. Maybe it displayed their lat/long perfectly but at the wrong altitude. We think of failure as obvious, but it is often nearly impossible to tell unless…

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    Comment #49183314

    As soon as I know something is AI output, I start scanning, compressing and skipping things because I know it is full of filler, bogus connectives that are there just to punch the …

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    Comment #49150367

    Office started as MS Works, which was a continuation of an Apple product by ex-Apple employees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Works > Microsoft Works originated as MouseW…

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    Comment #49150241

    Sometimes you want to dump a LOT of debug to the console but not have the console slow down that program. Or you accidentally cat a TB file?

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    Comment #49148389

    Ok, but they bought DOS. They bought MSSQL (Sybase). They stole half of OS/2 and then pivoted to Windows NT with ex DEC folks. Its biggest products were all (mostly) bought. Oh yea…

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    Comment #49126007

    At least you get based models back at some point. You supply data, they supply compute and open weights.

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    Comment #49125947

    Because they have gone through identify verification, they are more likely to have done that to increase reputation score.

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    Comment #49125928

    Parent is referring to https://github.com/antirez/ds4

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    Comment #49089881

    Ok, we won't convince you and we can move on.

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    Comment #49079570

    I came here to find this comment, I had this rising nausea, I thought it pass but it got stronger the deeper I got into the "article."

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    Comment #49074863

    The Windows Compatibility Layer for Windows will be Wine someday.

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    Comment #49070569

    I love it. Literally burning down civilization to generate losses from slop. This reminds me of the Simpsons Halloween episode where Homer gets a taste for his own flesh and eats h…

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    Comment #48962116

    No they will ship it to China as ewaste and then sell it back to us.

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    Comment #48962082

    Look how hard Anthropic is to even be able scroll back on your conversation, or look at the thinking tokens or subagents. They want to keep everyone coming back to the watering hol…