These aren’t tools which play chess. They are language models which roleplay a conversation (in this case including use of tools) which an evaluator is likely to mark as good. That’s all they do. Under that lens,…
Agreed. I was confused by the Trio example until I realised they must be referring to nurseries -- the whole point of which is to give well defined behaviour around task lifetimes.
This issue is older than the M chips: a formative OpenCL moment on my Intel MacBook involved locking it up in this way. By contrast, a similar CUDA kernel running on Linux was forcibly stopped after some short-ish time.…
These rethinking-highlighting posts always start out with the wrong premise. The color for class names in my code is the color all the class names have. After a short time working with the code I would notice if one…
Or, you know, using the totally-real-picture camera to take a photo of an AI-generated scene?
AGI is here and its first task is obviously completing the C64’s game library. Not really. AGI is a game interpreter, like LucasArts’ SCUMM or Infocom’s z machine. Games are shipped as portable code and a machine…
Wilson didn’t write “sex scene”, she wrote “sex”. In the story there is plenty of implied sex. In the movie there is none. It’s not a major issue in itself, it’s part of a broader point about movie Odysseus being…
It does, but in the same way that LLMs take two paragraphs to make a one-sentence point: by being weirdly specific and also redundant. LLMs don’t have a sense of whimsy in the face of RLHF, so if it’s proposing a…
> They don't "blow bubbles" to sleep vertically, they vent gas to regulate their specific gravity. This allows them to sleep vertically When I read this I thought you'd discovered that the whales release the gas in a…
My reaction was negative when I read the title (policy!), but the actual outcome was very reasonable. "Hey, can we add $ORIGIN to the VFS layer to support relocatable interpreters?" "You can already do that with…
The article discusses a technique by which the author achieves high accuracy at detecting AI written text. Unless you have a problem with their experimental method, this is the opposite of tarot card reading. > we are…
Come on, that video is on another level. "All my friends are turning green" (shot of $1 bills), "she's been living on the highest shelf" (woman standing on Juliet balcony), "they come unstuck" (someone pulling twin pole…
The OP notes that they had to use special phrasing to get their exfil to work, so clearly GitHub was aware of the issue and made an attempt to prevent it. It seems like the proper fix is for GitHub not to allow their…
Given the Mandelbrot program is 450k probably not.
"Factual mistake" is a bit harsh, but the missing piece is that there are multiple ways to romanise Japanese; all of them produce "valid Romaji" but only in the particular system being used. Si is how you write し in…
Oodi is at least equally community / maker space and library, very distinctively and attractively designed, quite new, and in the middle of Helsinki, so there are a lot of non Finnish speakers visiting so there is a…
It’s a nice engineering approach, but I’m interested in the motivation. Um and ah is distracting in a transcript, where you can naturally pause to take in information; in speech however it can serve as a focusing point…
> In your analysis you have shown that exactly one of these reasons is anecdotal. This was actually the convincing one for me though. “Did AI increase the rsync bug rate? Dunno, can’t tell yet” seems like a fine…
It is certainly unkind, when a developer asserts the opposite of what you have assumed about their code, to double down and imply they are lying.
The code is part of a function called expand item list. It looks like it over allocates memory and uses a bump pointer for internal allocation, only expanding the allocation when necessary. Thus OOB writes to the list…
I have one of these and run Debian 13 on it. I love it. Having only two USB ports is annoying and I ended up buying a relatively expensive PD Thunderbolt hub, and there are some compromises that come with the territory…
> Every time someone imagines a country going after Microsoft You don't need to imagine it: the comment you are replying to links to a press release from a Government agency "going after Microsoft". And yet somehow we…
It really depends. If you're cranking out prototypes or testing ideas, it's genuinely great. But if you're familiar with the code it's very easy to spot its (many) mistakes. It's Gell-Mann amnesia. Then again, I just…
> Cream in his coffee, butter in his soups, all the gristle he could handle. I've noticed Claude is specifically fond of three-element lists consisting of (standard example of class), (standard example of class),…
People said the same thing about a joke Douglas Adams made in his Hitch Hikers series -- that the (corrupted) Ultimate Question to which the answer was 42 ("what do you get if you multiply six by nine?") was a maths…
These aren’t tools which play chess. They are language models which roleplay a conversation (in this case including use of tools) which an evaluator is likely to mark as good. That’s all they do. Under that lens,…
Agreed. I was confused by the Trio example until I realised they must be referring to nurseries -- the whole point of which is to give well defined behaviour around task lifetimes.
This issue is older than the M chips: a formative OpenCL moment on my Intel MacBook involved locking it up in this way. By contrast, a similar CUDA kernel running on Linux was forcibly stopped after some short-ish time.…
These rethinking-highlighting posts always start out with the wrong premise. The color for class names in my code is the color all the class names have. After a short time working with the code I would notice if one…
Or, you know, using the totally-real-picture camera to take a photo of an AI-generated scene?
AGI is here and its first task is obviously completing the C64’s game library. Not really. AGI is a game interpreter, like LucasArts’ SCUMM or Infocom’s z machine. Games are shipped as portable code and a machine…
Wilson didn’t write “sex scene”, she wrote “sex”. In the story there is plenty of implied sex. In the movie there is none. It’s not a major issue in itself, it’s part of a broader point about movie Odysseus being…
It does, but in the same way that LLMs take two paragraphs to make a one-sentence point: by being weirdly specific and also redundant. LLMs don’t have a sense of whimsy in the face of RLHF, so if it’s proposing a…
> They don't "blow bubbles" to sleep vertically, they vent gas to regulate their specific gravity. This allows them to sleep vertically When I read this I thought you'd discovered that the whales release the gas in a…
My reaction was negative when I read the title (policy!), but the actual outcome was very reasonable. "Hey, can we add $ORIGIN to the VFS layer to support relocatable interpreters?" "You can already do that with…
The article discusses a technique by which the author achieves high accuracy at detecting AI written text. Unless you have a problem with their experimental method, this is the opposite of tarot card reading. > we are…
Come on, that video is on another level. "All my friends are turning green" (shot of $1 bills), "she's been living on the highest shelf" (woman standing on Juliet balcony), "they come unstuck" (someone pulling twin pole…
The OP notes that they had to use special phrasing to get their exfil to work, so clearly GitHub was aware of the issue and made an attempt to prevent it. It seems like the proper fix is for GitHub not to allow their…
Given the Mandelbrot program is 450k probably not.
"Factual mistake" is a bit harsh, but the missing piece is that there are multiple ways to romanise Japanese; all of them produce "valid Romaji" but only in the particular system being used. Si is how you write し in…
Oodi is at least equally community / maker space and library, very distinctively and attractively designed, quite new, and in the middle of Helsinki, so there are a lot of non Finnish speakers visiting so there is a…
It’s a nice engineering approach, but I’m interested in the motivation. Um and ah is distracting in a transcript, where you can naturally pause to take in information; in speech however it can serve as a focusing point…
> In your analysis you have shown that exactly one of these reasons is anecdotal. This was actually the convincing one for me though. “Did AI increase the rsync bug rate? Dunno, can’t tell yet” seems like a fine…
It is certainly unkind, when a developer asserts the opposite of what you have assumed about their code, to double down and imply they are lying.
The code is part of a function called expand item list. It looks like it over allocates memory and uses a bump pointer for internal allocation, only expanding the allocation when necessary. Thus OOB writes to the list…
I have one of these and run Debian 13 on it. I love it. Having only two USB ports is annoying and I ended up buying a relatively expensive PD Thunderbolt hub, and there are some compromises that come with the territory…
> Every time someone imagines a country going after Microsoft You don't need to imagine it: the comment you are replying to links to a press release from a Government agency "going after Microsoft". And yet somehow we…
It really depends. If you're cranking out prototypes or testing ideas, it's genuinely great. But if you're familiar with the code it's very easy to spot its (many) mistakes. It's Gell-Mann amnesia. Then again, I just…
> Cream in his coffee, butter in his soups, all the gristle he could handle. I've noticed Claude is specifically fond of three-element lists consisting of (standard example of class), (standard example of class),…
People said the same thing about a joke Douglas Adams made in his Hitch Hikers series -- that the (corrupted) Ultimate Question to which the answer was 42 ("what do you get if you multiply six by nine?") was a maths…