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thadk

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About thadk

tuning global tech pulse toward int'l tech development. Working in ICT from '07 in East Africa (Tanzania) and later West Africa (Liberia).

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49221911

    Simon's retelling is more compact but it also invites anthropomorphization of the sharing of the familiarity with the message board which re-emerged a few times. Zvi's retelling ha…

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    Comment #49146485

    fil's AirOcean projection on the original ObservableHQ is a fun starting point for rendering your own such map in Javascript from scratch: https://observablehq.com/@fil/airocean-pr…

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    Comment #49105546

    It bugs me so much when eReaders re-render the ebook and everything moves slightly. I lose my eye muscle memory of where things were. Until now, I had not thought to try to lock do…

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    Comment #49054503

    Would dropping airplane windows lower radiation exposure somewhat, especially on those polar routes?

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    Comment #48911853

    Three or so years ago, Omar, the creator of DSpy pointed out on Twitter that ~LLMs get better most by better internal collaboration. Wish I could find it. It seems to me that LLMs …

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    Comment #48797658

    maybe they did already via the "formerly known as" comment in the paper?: https://www.spongium.org

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    Comment #48667567

    Does anyone have hints on what kinds of prompts are most used for a distillation like this—SWE-Bench sorts of things? Is reconstructing the compressed knowledge in the model like r…

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    Comment #48611311

    Somewhat related, but TIL the macOS Screenshot.app utility (and the system wide keyboard shortcuts) in Sonoma got HDR capability to help re-convey just a bit more fidelity. Even in…

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    Comment #48485667

    2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140515004053/https://www.jason...

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    Comment #48251879

    His Studio Display 3D printable model MacBook holder: https://arslan.io/macbook-holder-for-apple-studio-display/

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    Comment #48239221

    Microsoft poorly manages token use of most expensive models in a pilot. Then they use that failure to advertise/position their own Github Copilot agents to procurement teams, over …

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    Comment #48148734

    Article does not mention the other reason: in the interview with Dwarkesh, Amodei remarked about how other organizations are copying or training off Opus for their models. By delay…

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    Comment #48128841

    Anyone else read this as "An idiot's guide to Pb optimization for proteins," as in avoiding contaminated dietary protein isolates?

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    Comment #47561439

    Muji stocked a stapler like this for some time.

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    Comment #47381827

    Ffmpeg.WASM is really good and might manage all these steps before even uploading.

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    Comment #47289013

    Since it kind of had an LLM flavor in the original anyway, I had an LLM redraft this for my particular non-Japanese intercultural situation, and it wasn't valueless. I had to tell …

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    Comment #47202674

    The Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) mentioned is streaming on Amazon Prime in the USA, amongst other streaming services: https://letterboxd.com/film/land-of-silence-and-darknes…

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    Comment #47009938

    "We're not perfectly good at preventing some of these other [model] companies from using our models internally." — well maybe this says something about how Opus 4.5 and Opus 4.6 ha…

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    Comment #46999541

    Huh, so if a China-based lab takes ARC-AGI-2 on the new year, then they can say they had just-shy of a solution anyway.

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    Comment #46880826

    It was probably from the other day when roon realized that normal people have it slower than staff. Then from that they realized they could just run API calls more like staff, fast…

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    Comment #46847202

    Does this manufacturer's practice pattern of repackaging data center components (e.g. Mellanox) imply any up and coming product creation opportunities?

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    Comment #46818310

    On two separate instances 4 years apart in Liberia, the VSAT unit and Asus WiFi router were overheating at peak usage or peak heat times. This must be happening more than is genera…

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    Comment #46755858

    this Nov video talks thru via Cursor renegotiation, how in important ways a token != a token (not even within types like reasoning, output, or a model) because attention can lead t…

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    Comment #46751483

    Glad it was a helpful remix! Since that post, the original tool author added UKLG's full version to the tool: https://ttc.tasuki.org/display:Code:gff,sm,jc,rh,uklg/sectio...