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I understand that this isn't entirely clear-cut and that people will interpret it differently, but in my opinion, there is a significant difference between "a webpage that contains…

In my mind, the part that is most likely to fail is "return an HTML document that still contains the following text." Nowadays, more and more "HTML documents" do not contain any co…

Since this is a long-standing, real-world problem that linters solved, how could it not be relevant to a discussion about the usefulness of linters? And the choice of whether to us…

It definitely is relevant to a discussion about linters. And as I said on my comment - it's just an example, I mentioned other types of discussions as well.

Oh, absolutely. I started writing Python professionally in 2010. Whenever a new group of people started working on a Python project, one of the first things they had to decide was …

You both seem to be using a different definition of "singularity" from the one I'm familiar with. I've always understood it to mean a rapid feedback loop in which AI creates succes…

> And this thread is seemingly full of people claiming AI can read it while simultaneously sharing that AI could not read the actual message, only the decoy as demonstrated in TFA.…

I would be very willing to pay more! The choice between “you may get a correct answer, or you may get lied to, without a clear way to distinguish between the two” and “you may get …

The article is about how people decide to share links, nie whether they share links at all.

Maybe that’s because I work with agentic AI in my day job, but this seems utterly obvious to me: no reasonable person would ever claim that LLMs are better at keeping secrets or en…

> Do you mean things like system prompts or things in Claude.md? All of it - system prompts, user prompts, few-shot examples, Claude.md, things that an agent learned by exploring i…

I like to dunk on Meta as much as the next guy, but I think this makes sense: deterministic verification like this is not, and should never be, the LLM’s job. The tools it has acce…

Is it? Both supervised learning and reinforcement learning are ways of training the model, and the difference between them is not that big. I would say that innate means "in the we…

I think this is exactly it, but let me ask another question (which is not rhetorical, I really don't know). Does the fact that one can describe what consciousness is and where it c…

And also "instilled during their reinforcement training", and we are currently pushing planning hard there, for autonomous agents.

This was said in the context of a person predicting a stock market bust, so of course a stock market index price is the relevant number here.

It’s obviously not a new model capability. But using this well-known, existing capability to solve this particular issue is only obvious after the fact. It’s a useful trick to have…

Performing 40 songs in exchange for a property does seem like serious effort...

The top comment categorized scraping as abuse ("abuse such as [...] scraping") - that's precisely why some accuse its author of lack of self awareness.

Perhaps LLMs have mimicked the style because authors have popularized it and clearly it serves some benefit to readers.

Shouldn't the code say: position = (position + direction + 1) % 12; Or have I misunderstood something?

> Just had the sitename put into the value of the cookie since, and never really needed to think about that. How would that help? This doesn't seem like a solution to the CSRF prob…

As a childless OMSCS graduate, I also can’t imagine doing it while having kids, because it took basically all of my free time. That said, I met quite a few people in the program wh…

> In that case the winning strategy would be to switch hedge funds every 3 years. When you flip a coin, you can easily get all heads for the first 2-4 flips, but over time it will …

Okay? I specifically responded to your comment that the parent comment implied "if you make a mistake and say sorry you are also a psychopath", which clearly wasn’t the case. I don…