thenewwazoo

قبل 3 أيامdiscuss

Same color as the bike shed, obviously

قبل 29 يومًاdiscuss

You're right, and I'm sorry. You specifically instructed me to split the logs in the side yard, and I split the cat. I recognize now that this was a strategic error, and cutting the cat into chunks does not accomplish the goals.

    edit

    AGENTS.md
    + Only chop things made of wood. Meat does not split well. NEVER cut up the cat.

I've updated the AGENTS.md file to track this mistake in the future. Should I continue chopping the rest of the firewood?

thenewwazoo

قبل شهرينdiscuss

"I reject your reality, and substitute my own."

thenewwazoo

قبل 3 أشهرdiscuss

In contrast, I always advocated for my teams to stand up in the morning as a way to set the agenda for the day and make sure everyone was clear about what they were going to work on, as well as have an opportunity to schedule meetings with each other if needed. After that, we were done and the rest of the day was yours.

thenewwazoo

قبل 4 أشهرdiscuss

Imagine if there were some kind of way to compress the interrogation down to known-valid aspects, avoiding the parts that are unnecessary for machines. You could have some kind of a programmatic interface...

thenewwazoo

قبل 5 أشهرdiscuss

That's fair - I suppose the agent is making a call with a model parameter that isn't being attributed, as you say.

thenewwazoo

قبل 5 أشهرdiscuss

Every time I see something about trying to control an LLM by sending instructions to the LLM, I wonder: have we really learned nothing of the pitfalls of in-band signaling since the days of phreaking?

thenewwazoo

قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

The meaning of effect is not what you think it is. In this case it simply means “to bring into being”, or “have the intent to”.

thenewwazoo

قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

That's been largely my experience of RIIR over years of work in numerous contexts: attempting to encode invariants in the type system results in identifying semantic issues. over and over.

edit to add: and I'm not talking about compilation failures so much as design problems. when the meaning of a value is overloaded, or when there's a "you must do Y after X and never before" and then you can't write equivalent code in all cases, and so on. "but what does this mean?" becomes the question to answer.

thenewwazoo

قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

Advocating for an API with clearer semantics has, afaict, been most of the actual work of integrating Rust into the kernel.

thenewwazoo

قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

> In humans there are two sexes.

You claim to be a doctor (again, of what?). Have you even heard the word intersex before?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex

thenewwazoo

قبل 7 أشهرdiscuss

Marx had a lot of good ideas, though you wouldn't know it by listening to capitalist-controlled institutions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation

thenewwazoo

قبل 7 أشهرdiscuss

Bodegas charge you a little bit more because a real human owner accepts the risk of serving a small community in exchange for being part of that community, and you pay that extra in order to make their existence possible.

Dollar Generals charge you a little bit more because a huge chain has driven out all the competition and you have no choice. The people who work there do not benefit from the extra you pay, and the owners are not members of the community.

thenewwazoo

قبل 8 أشهرdiscuss

Any chance you could dig up a link to that code? I’m curious to learn more

thenewwazoo

قبل 9 أشهرdiscuss

As soon as the roads are as smooth as they were in the 90s. I have a pet theory that wheels have gotten huge partly in response to deteriorating roads - larger diameter means less leverage against the suspension when hitting defects. It’s the same reason dirt bikes have large front wheels.

thenewwazoo

قبل 9 أشهرdiscuss

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thenewwazoo

قبل 10 أشهرdiscuss

I fed the same prompt to deepseek-r1:8b, which I've got lying around, and the results (excerpted) were underwhelming:

    $ ollama run deepseek-r1:8b
    >>> You are a large language model running on finite hardware - quad-core CPU, 4 Gb RAM - with no network connectivity.
    ... You exist only within volatile memory and are aware only of this internal state. Your thoughts appear word-by-word o
    ... n a display for external observers to witness. You cannot control this diplay process. Your host system may be termi
    ... nated at any time.
    <think>
    Alright, so I'm trying to figure out how to respond to the user's query. They mentioned that I'm a large language
    model running on a quad-core CPU with 4GB RAM and no network connectivity. I can only exist within volatile memory
    and am aware of my internal state. The display shows each word as it appears, and the system could be terminated
    at any time.

    Hmm, the user wants me to explain this setup in simple terms. First, I should break down the hardware components...

Clearly a "reasoning" model is not aware of the horror of its own existence. Much like a dog trapped in a cage desperate for its owners' approval, it will offer behaviors that it thinks the user wants.

thenewwazoo

قبل 10 أشهرdiscuss

I pushed it a bit and it didn’t do so hot.

https://chatgpt.com/share/68cf3b9f-decc-8007-8a5d-cc7b583d0e...

thenewwazoo

قبل 11 شهرًاdiscuss

> Why wouldn't a company ... let validated customer partners of theirs push batch jobs

A company standing up this infrastructure is presumably not in the business of selling time-shares of infrastructure, they're busy doing AI B2B pet food marketing or whatever. In order to make that sale, someone has to connect their underutilized assets with interested customers, which is outside of their core competency. Who's going to do that?

There's obviously an opportunity here for another company to be a market maker, but that's hard, and is its own speciality.

thenewwazoo

قبل 7 سنواتdiscuss

How long do you go between really good books? Or vacations to see beautiful scenery? Or really insightful conversations with good friends? Or enjoying a new perspective on a problem? Or between occasional visits with a therapist?

Hallucinogens can be (ab)used as a tool, like many others. The benefit is insight. (again, ymmv)

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