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Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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Post by fryanyway_swe »

nozzlegear wrote: post #39
ssl-3 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the models of the future will surely be better than they are today. This stuff is still a very long way from maturity. Sometimes it seems like they're moving very slowly. That makes sense: It's easy to get used to how they work today and it is also easy to forget how much worse they were last year. When we look back and realize that just 4 years ago these tools didn't really exist at all, it becomes clear that th…

> And the models of the future will surely be better than they are today. This stuff is still a very long way from maturity. Since this is Claude, the models of the future might be more expensive, or more locked down, or might decide your 8yo is actually trying to build a cleverly disguised bomb so her request gets silently downgraded to a dumber model, etc.

There needs to be studies of people like this.

Same when one points out that yes, quality of life is in general much better now than 20 years ago even.

Someone like you will just pull out some stat "well THIS is worse!! I cant buy a house at 22!! The west is doomed and I LOVE China!"

Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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Post by GordonS »

ohthehugemanate wrote: post #49

I use rssi to find my stuff regularly. There are a ton of android apps to do it. I also use it for room presence detection with homeassistant (using the BLE in my ESP32s and Shelly switches).

Which Android app would you recommend?

Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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Post by hollow-moe »

varjag wrote: post #66

So GIMP kept crashing on me when importing 48 bit TIFFs. I threw a trace at Codex (without so much as a local GIMP repo) from which it figured out that the culprit was thumb preview handling code. It suggested turning off two non-obvious to me options that would circumvent that codepath it indeed worked.

You don't need to give it a local repo to work from, it'll just hammer the forge web interface to look at the code :)

Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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Post by david-gpu »

customguy wrote: post #102
david-gpu wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. Compilation has typically not been deterministic. Even within the same exact compiler tool chain version. 2. Compilers and building tool chains change all the time. CI and automated testing catch any regressions. Tye same can be done with LLMs. 3. LLM code generation, with some work, can be made deterministic, if that mattered to somebody.

Nonsense. The "weights" in "models" refer to probabilities. Even the implicit claim that they could deterministically produce "the" correct answer with 100% certainty doesn't withstand any scrutiny. Nevermind problems posed in English prose, complicated or philosophical questions. Is the correct answer to 2+2 four, or is it 1+3? When you you have 2 apples and give me one apple, how many apples do you have now; one, o…

I am not suggesting the use of LLMs to replace compilers. I am proposing LLMs transforming detailed text-based specifications and design documents into code.

As for your understanding of how LLMs and compilers work, it does not match my experience working on either one, back in the day. I humbly suggest reading some of the literature on reproducible builds, as well as the conditions under which LLM inference is/isn't deterministic, as it is more complex than most people understand.

Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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Post by muglug »

amelius wrote: post #87

Somehow, on HN, suggesting to use an LLM to solve some problem gives you negative responses. But then ... posting to HN that you've used an LLM to solve a problem is OK?

Different posts on HN can attract different audiences.

Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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Post by varjag »

hollow-moe wrote: post #133
varjag wrote: post #66

So GIMP kept crashing on me when importing 48 bit TIFFs. I threw a trace at Codex (without so much as a local GIMP repo) from which it figured out that the culprit was thumb preview handling code. It suggested turning off two non-obvious to me options that would circumvent that codepath it indeed worked.

You don't need to give it a local repo to work from, it'll just hammer the forge web interface to look at the code :)

I know and that's what it did. This is just to point how minimal effort from my side it have been.

Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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Post by green_wheel »

tracerbulletx wrote: post #86

While I don't think this is novel I am a believer that AI has changed computing forever in the same way the tweet implies. I now use my own video compositor to edit videos instead of after effects https://lowkeyviewer.com/studio/ use my own ecommerce and landing page builder for my businesses. that I use in production. https://modelpad.app/ Cancelled by Strength App, Zwift for indoor bike trainer, and strava for runn…

Yeah the ability to build bespoke apps in a reasonable amount of time is awesome. Cool stuff!

Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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Post by toast0 »

gitowiec wrote: post #107

I have a bad Ethernet cables through unused chimney from my apartament to the basement. The workers I asked to pull it just did it brute force and 2 of pairs are broken. When I was chatting with Claude to see if I can use it somehow to send Ethernet packets one of the Claude responses was to use broken cables as a pilot to pull fiber channel!

You can run 100mbps with only two pair, if you have something on at least one end which you can tell to only negotiate to 100.

Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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Post by brewmarche »

Dig1t wrote: post #68
2398aG wrote: post #62

OP works at a robotics company, hence the inability to use Google search and "git clone" to find dozens of ready made apps, some of them years old.

For most people talking to Claude is a much better experience than doing a Google search.

I remember years ago before LLMs my colleague told me he was impressed by my Google-fu. I was just as speechless whenever I saw him type his search queries which led nowhere. Apparently it’s a skill

Re: Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

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Post by richardfey »

therein wrote: post #129
yndoendo wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google search as become nothing more than a shitty AI by design. Alternative search engines are the only means to actually navigate. I can still find core material using an alternative. Don't worry, Google is now embedding that AI into Android's core. Rinse and repeat, expect the same results.

Yeah it is pretty bizarre. On Android nowadays, when you click on some article that pops up as a notification, it takes you to Google and does an AI query to fetch you the article and then you see the content in Google. I hate it.

Sounds like a great way to inflate your success metrics for AI queries
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