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The couch to 5k programme is now routinely recommended by GPs in the UK (and elsewhere), a very positive development in health care in my opinion. https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/…

> I wanted to avoid teaching syntax. While Python makes sense as pseudocode [...] it is still nearly incomprehensible to new learners [...] I decided I wanted to either teach Forth…

What is a "credit" and how does it translate to tokens for the different models?

I treat these nutjob articles as a subgenre of science fiction and when they're somewhat well written find them very entertaining. The author cosplaying investigative journalist, o…

The zine enthusiasts in this thread might enjoy this little tool I made to print out and zine-fold Project Gutenberg books: https://github.com/sieste/pocketbook

German football goalkeeper here :)

I'd love for European countries to embrace their priorities around people and environment and train a model on public domain data that can run efficiently on cheap hardware. Redefi…

The "middle powers" (cf Carney) should invest in local models, rather than relying on US and China allowing them to rent their AI models. It takes a single executive order to cut t…

Imagine how accurate you could be if you could circumvent the coding agent and just type the source code directly into an editor all by yourself o_O Like a write_file skill but for…

That's almost exactly my setup and I'm very happy with its performance. I noticed recently that I started to prefer my local Qwen3.6 35B A3B and pi agent over Claude Code. Both fai…

I have a different approach. Just treat all LLM queries as what they are, instructions to a computer program to generate a desired output. Neither niceties nor insults make a quali…

This is very cruel towards people who want to have children but can't.

Good point, it's like having an instruction "Never fucking output a token just because it's the one most likely to occur next!!1!"

Maybe a superhuman AI? /s

I was expecting to find a link to a github pages site where I can see the rendered examples, but only found a link to the html sources in examples/out. Am I missing something?

2021 just called and want their comment back.

Wow. > The bill makes it a Class A felony (15-25 years imprisonment) to “knowingly train artificial intelligence” to do ANY of the following: • Provide emotional support, including…

It took me an embarrassing number of attempts to win.

I think this is the correct lense. He's a malignant narcissist on his way out, with absolutely nobody to stop him. I'm genuinely worried that he secretly wants to go down in histor…