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Post by Jotalea »

tyushk wrote: post #3

I wonder if this is a tactic that LLM providers use to coerce the model into doing something. Gemini will often start responses that use the canvas tool with "Of course", which would force the model into going down a line of tokens that end up with attempting to fulfill the user's request. It happens often enough that it seems like it's not being generated by the model, but instead inserted by the backend. Maybe "you…

Not sure if it's related, but Deepseek (the "reasoning" model) *always* starts thinking with "Okay/Hmm, the user is".

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Post by lobsterthief »

Jordan-117 wrote: post #178
yoavfr wrote: post #8

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Sorry if that felt dirty - I thought about it as a signal that the data is live (it is!).

Might make more sense to start at zero and then rapidly scale to the current number? To indicate fresh data is being loaded in without making it look like the reader happened to catch a new occurrence in real-time.

Would also be a fun way to animate the bar and animate the full being “sketched in”.

Love the design btw, very fun to build I imagine

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Post by exoverito »

unkeen wrote: post #268
exoverito wrote: post #253

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Perhaps, yet your comments are quite simple, indicating you are not up to the task of understanding these matters.

Why the ad hominem? It seems like you are one of the men unable to stand corrected, funnily enough for this thread.

It's about establishing credibility. You didn't respond with any data or interesting information. Your comments are simplistic, betraying a level of simplicity in your thinking.

I actually enjoy being correctly corrected, however being incorrectly 'corrected' is obviously annoying. Like being lectured by a haughty child, see Louis CK's bit of his daughter insisting they're called Pig Newtons.

Best of luck to you in life.

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Post by theshrike79 »

flkiwi wrote: post #185
al_borland wrote: post #167

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In my experience, once it starts telling me I’m right, we’re already going downhill and it rarely gets better from there.

Sometimes I just ride the lightning to see how off course it is willing to go. This is not a productive use of my time but it sure is amusing. In fairness, I’ve done the same thing to overconfident junior colleagues.

It's also educational to play stupid with LLMs

Even if you know exactly where the issue is an it would be a 30 second job to do it manually, you can get a better feel on how to direct it to see what you need to tell it to have it find out the issue and fixing it.

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Post by jcul »

CjHuber wrote: post #266
jcul wrote: post #224

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It's not that it's a fake number. They are saying the number is real, just it goes to current_value - 1, and then current value to indicate the value is updating live. Not sure if that was clear. Edit: I don't know if it's a real number but that's the claim in the comment above at least

I understand, it’s not about the number itself. My first thought when I opened the page was wow there was a update coincidentally right when I opened it. When refreshing again I felt like wtf I was being mislead

Yeah true, I was suspicious about that too.

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Post by wrs »

zestyping wrote: post #259
wrs wrote: post #133

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Long ago (I first remember doing it in about 1985 with the original Mac watch cursor) this was the standard way to do spinners: somewhere in your processing you incremented the spinner. It was hard to put the increments in the right places to keep the spinner going even when progress was happening, and nearly impossible to make it animate smoothly. This technique is even harder to get right when the processing in que…

You have a strange idea of what "right" means. Showing a true reflection of the actual, irregular, progress is getting it right. It's honest and informative.

That’s exactly what I’m saying is hard to do when progress is being made on multiple threads.

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Post by peepee1982 »

ascorbic wrote: post #232
peepee1982 wrote: post #101

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I have two potato peelers. If the one I like better is in the dishwasher I am not peeling potatoes. If one of my children wants to join me when I'm already peeling potatoes, I'll give them the preferred one and use the other one myself. But I will not start peeling potatoes with the worse one.

And the moral of that story is to buy a three pack of Kuhn Rikon peelers.

Thanks. Now I have to watch review videos for the next couple of hours and become an insufferable evangelist for the next couple of weeks.
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