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mckirk
·hace 21 días·discuss
"THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO CAUSE FOR ALARM"
mckirk
·hace 26 días·discuss
Sorry for being off-topic, but 'rouge agents' was too adorable to leave unmentioned.
mckirk
·hace 26 días·discuss
_Every_ agent? I surely hope not. But it would be an interesting... artisocial experiment?
mckirk
·hace 3 meses·discuss
Just don't be confused if they then follow the commands side-effect free.
mckirk
·hace 3 meses·discuss
The fact that Orban is called Viktor as his first name meant your first sentence confused me greatly for a second.
mckirk
·hace 3 meses·discuss
I mean, it's understandable; having to endure a lockdown _with_ Doordash was really rough on our civilization.
mckirk
·hace 3 meses·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
·hace 3 meses·discuss
Nitpicky reply questioning the adherence of OP's comment to HN guidelines.
mckirk
·hace 3 meses·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
·hace 3 meses·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
·hace 3 meses·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
·hace 3 meses·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
·hace 4 meses·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
·hace 4 meses·discuss
This is the first time I've heard the term 'apecode', and I will make sure to use it at every opportunity.
mckirk
·hace 5 meses·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
·hace 5 meses·discuss
That's the 'built by the lowest bidder' feature. Probably pretty realistic in a lot of places.
mckirk
·hace 6 meses·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
·hace 7 meses·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
·hace 7 meses·discuss
I'm not sure whether that was intended, but 'operating at scale' actually made me laugh out loud :D
mckirk
·hace 7 meses·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!"