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prabal97

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About prabal97

AI/ML/LLM consulting | Hi, I'm Prabal Gupta | PERSONAL: https://prabal.ca | GITHUB: https://github.com/prabal-rje

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    A GPT-5.4 bug led to OpenAI banning goblins and raccoons

    Someone found this in OpenAI Codex’s system prompt: "Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and…

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    You can use stuff like Litestream to continuously back up your SQLite DB to a cheap storage bucket. It's practically set and forget too.

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    FYI I use my Codex models with Claude code and they work pretty great. It can even pick up on existing conversations w/ Opus and then resume w/ OAI models.

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    I use my OAI subscription on my Claude Code. I get the benefit of the Claude Code interface with the intelligence of OAI models. https://prabal.ca/posts/claude-code-chatgpt-subscri…

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    > in a single working day those trucks would shift rocks equivalent to the weight of the Empire State Building. Oh. My. God.

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    Reposting it here ... I wrote this more intuitive explanation. I think you might find it helpful too! https://prabal.ca/posts/google-long-context-cheaper/

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    I wrote this more intuitive explanation. I think you might find it helpful! https://prabal.ca/posts/google-long-context-cheaper/

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    They're weighted differently. Currently it's set to: reposts 2.0x, replies 1.5x, bookmarks 1.2x, likes 1.0x, and clicks 0.5x. These are guestimates based on public info.

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    It's real embeddings (MiniLM, truncated to 128-dim), so the cosine similarities between tweets are genuine, but it's obviously not X's actual trained model. The relative distances …

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    It should technically work (everything is being routed via LiteLLM under the wraps) with Mistral, but it's untested haha. I don't think Mistral's lost the race; it's just that it d…