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LLMs as 5x Faster Sandboxes

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2 points·by SilenN·vor 11 Tagen·1 comments

I spent 2 weeks playing god. My learnings from 597 genetic algorithm lineages

blog.silennai.com
5 points·by SilenN·vor 5 Monaten·2 comments

The pragmatic tradeoff of tied embeddings

blog.silennai.com
1 points·by SilenN·vor 6 Monaten·1 comments

I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0

blog.silennai.com
149 points·by SilenN·vor 6 Monaten·230 comments

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SilenN
·vor 11 Tagen·discuss
world-model-harness makes it easy to go from agent traces to faithful replication of your production environment where your agents run.

Basically, an LLM pretends to be a virtual machine executing instructions. Based on GEPA and Qwen AgentWorld.

Just - clone, - `uv sync` - `uv run wmh build` and you'll get a wizard that will help you create your own world model from your traces.

http://github.com/experientiallabs/world-model-harness
SilenN
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Thanks! I do have a section on this in the article "Why genetic algorithms aren't state of the art"

"Physics simulation involves discontinuities (contacts, friction regimes), long rollouts, and chaotic dynamics where small parameter changes lead to large outcome differences. Even with simulator internals, differentiating through thousands of unstable timesteps would yield noisy, high-variance gradients. Evolution is simpler and more robust for this regime." "The real tradeoff is sample-efficient but complex (RL) vs compute hungry but simple (GA). DQN extracts learning signal from every timestep and assigns credit to individual actions."

DQN likely would have handled this much better.
SilenN
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
Simply, it's when your output embedding matrix = input.

You save vocab_dim*model_dim params (ex. 617m for GPT-3).

But the residual stream means that the weight matrices are roughly connected via a matmul, which means they struggle to encode bigrams (commutative property enforces symmetry).

Attention + MLP adds nonlinearity, but it still means less expressivity.

Which is why they aren't SOTA, but are useful in smaller models.
SilenN
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46685327
SilenN
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
I disregard any comments like this one as baseless hate unless given an example or something constructive.
SilenN
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
See what you don't understand is that you need to coordinate the deacon to take the witness out back and talk to the mayor. It's actually quite trivial.
SilenN
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
Yes! I went to a meetup for it as well

- https://x.com/silennai/status/1907540814890521023?s=20

- https://x.com/silennai/status/1918166890322784407?s=20
SilenN
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
This is probably true and not emphasized enough. Many are making their value judgements with token limits (which is fair, it is expensive).
SilenN
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
Good point. I'll consciously be trying to write more "out of distribution" now.
SilenN
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
I think you read my comment, but you didn't really READ it.
SilenN
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
See

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46685489

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46687347
SilenN
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
That section doesn't include a lick of AI writing. One tell (maybe?) is that I switch from past tense to present tense mid sentence.

Either a) I sound like an LLM when I'm writing articles (possible) or b) turing test AGI something something.

Lists point is fair, I did use Claude for formatting. Where did it off put you here?
SilenN
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
Appreciate it! And agree. I added a longer comment above saying basically this.
SilenN
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
Outside of the story at the start I intentionally tried to make it information dense. Would appreciate feedback!
SilenN
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
Would appreciate feedback, see my comment above!
SilenN
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
What sections where you most off put by?

I used Claude to expand on my ideas for a few of the purely informational things, and for formatting, but this article is largely written by hand.

For example "Interface tests are the ability to know what's wrong and explaining it." is in hindsight a confusing sentence. Many such cases.
SilenN
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
Try Cursor Composer! It's the most natural transition. Exactly what you're currently doing, but it inserts the code snippets for you from within your IDE.
SilenN
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
How can I improve it in the future? The intention was to start as a story, and become more of a structured guide as you read on.
SilenN
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
The mayor doesn't communicate to the deacon or refiner well enough. Sometimes my polecat acts like a witness so I have to restart it...
SilenN
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
Nothing competes with Opus 4.5 in Claude Code. Codex & Gemini are arguable.