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mckirk
·21 days ago·discuss
"THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO CAUSE FOR ALARM"
mckirk
·26 days ago·discuss
Sorry for being off-topic, but 'rouge agents' was too adorable to leave unmentioned.
mckirk
·26 days ago·discuss
_Every_ agent? I surely hope not. But it would be an interesting... artisocial experiment?
mckirk
·3 months ago·discuss
Just don't be confused if they then follow the commands side-effect free.
mckirk
·3 months ago·discuss
The fact that Orban is called Viktor as his first name meant your first sentence confused me greatly for a second.
mckirk
·3 months ago·discuss
I mean, it's understandable; having to endure a lockdown _with_ Doordash was really rough on our civilization.
mckirk
·3 months ago·discuss
Damnit, I am pretty sure I had a few-year-streak going until just now. Welp, off to the grind again, I suppose.
mckirk
·3 months ago·discuss
Nitpicky reply questioning the adherence of OP's comment to HN guidelines.
mckirk
·3 months ago·discuss
Along these lines: I really like the 'Climate Reanalyzer' project by the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine [1]. There's so much good stuff there if you click around a bit; you can create custom plots for the surface temperature of different regions for example[2], which quickly shows you that Western Europe has actually warmed a lot more than the global average, and we're closer to +2°C already in that region.

[1]: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/?dm_id=world2 [2]: https://climatereanalyzer.org/research_tools/monthly_tseries...
mckirk
·3 months ago·discuss
If writing goes the way music seems to be going with Angine de Poitrine gaining a huge following as a kind of allergic reaction of people against the 'AI sameness'... then we could be in for a wild ride.

On the other hand, music is primarily an art form and writing (nowadays) is primarily utilitarian I would contend, so maybe the analogy doesn't quite hold up.
mckirk
·3 months ago·discuss
I have to admit, the movements and interactions looked so uncannily natural that my intuitive suspicion was that this might be another instance of a 'fake it till you make it' demo, and the robot was actually controlled by a person. Though if this is real, that's of course some of the highest praise they could hope for.
mckirk
·3 months ago·discuss
I have to admit that this is also what keeps me coming back to LinkedIn. My brain is dangerously easy to motivate by dangling a virtual leaderboard in front of it.
mckirk
·4 months ago·discuss
I think what that research found is that _auto-generated_ agent instructions made results slightly worse, but human-written ones made them slightly better, presumably because anything the model could auto-generate, it could also find out in-context.

But especially for conventions that would be difficult to pick up on in-context, these instruction files absolutely make sense. (Though it might be worth it to split them into multiple sub-files the model only reads when it needs that specific workflow.)
mckirk
·4 months ago·discuss
This is the first time I've heard the term 'apecode', and I will make sure to use it at every opportunity.
mckirk
·5 months ago·discuss
This is only done at the DNS level, so using a different DNS (such as Quad9) solves that issue. For background info, I can recommend [1, 2].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxmu25mUZgg [2]: https://cuiiliste.de/
mckirk
·5 months ago·discuss
That's the 'built by the lowest bidder' feature. Probably pretty realistic in a lot of places.
mckirk
·6 months ago·discuss
Note that this is the Flash variant, which is only 31B parameters in total.

And yet, in terms of coding performance (at least as measured by SWE-Bench Verified), it seems to be roughly on par with o3/GPT-5 mini, which would be pretty impressive if it translated to real-world usage, for something you can realistically run at home.
mckirk
·7 months ago·discuss
For me, these books are in the rare category of 'wait I didn't know it was allowed to come up with a story _this good_'. I envy all those that have yet to read it for the first time.
mckirk
·7 months ago·discuss
I'm not sure whether that was intended, but 'operating at scale' actually made me laugh out loud :D
mckirk
·7 months ago·discuss
"Do you or a loved one suffer from an abundance of brain cells? Speak to your doctor today about whether The Jersey Shore might be right for you!"