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WithinReason

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WithinReasonHNs at duck dot com
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WithinReason··on Gemini 4 Carbon
The naming is elementary, my dear Watson.
WithinReason··on Harvey raised 500M for legal AI, I built the same and open sourced it
too slow, already flagged
WithinReason··on I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0
If you care about every last bit of performance, CPUs are difficult to program for as well, possibly more difficult than a GPU.

Generally GPUs punish you more by bad performance if you don't optimise your code.

WithinReason··on New iPad mini
Like nitrogen and oxygen gas that would take up the extra space inside?
WithinReason··on Anthropic S-1
Including training?
WithinReason··on Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed
Interesting that they specifically nerf cyper-capabilities of open weight models:

"In preliminary experiments on internal models, we found that without data removal at either the mid-training or the RL stage, downstream cyber capability would increase substantially. These findings gave us a concrete lever for control. For the open-weight release of K3.1 Pro, we identified and removed cyber-related data from both training stages, while retaining the general-purpose coding tasks needed for model usefulness."

WithinReason··on EA is shutting down BioWare
The makers of Baldur's Gate, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Neverwinter Nights, Mass Effect, Dragon Age: Origins.

Sad, even though BioWare was dead already.

WithinReason··on Deepfake of Washington County, Oregon, Candidate Goes Viral Nationwide
yes
WithinReason··on DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine
To assert dominance
WithinReason··on Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale
Is the model size secret?
WithinReason··on I love software rendering
> it's called turning off spatial anti-aliasing.

It's called "nearest neighbour texture sampling", as opposed to bilinear/trilinear/anisotropic

WithinReason··on Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]
Related, my favourite section of the book King Solomon's Ring from Konrad Lorenz:

I have already mentioned that jackdaws remember for a long time the creature that once triggered their rattling reaction—that is, anyone who has once attacked a jackdaw. This posed a serious obstacle when it came to ringing the chicks hatched in my colony. If I took them out of the nest to fasten the aluminum Rossitten rings onto their legs, the old jackdaws inevitably noticed and raised an unbridled rattling concert. Well then, what was I to do so that the birds would not fear me forever because of the ringing, since this fear would have immeasurably hindered my work? The solution was exceedingly simple: a disguise! Well, what kind? That was simple too. Lying right at hand in a chest in the attic—and suiting my purposes very well, even though under normal circumstances we only use it on the sixth of December—was a splendid, all-fur Krampus costume, complete with a long-tongued, horned mask that covered the entire head, and a huge, fluffy, stiffly protruding devil's tail hanging from it.

What would you imagine, gentle reader, if on a fine June day you heard a wild rattling coming from a high, peaked roof, and upon looking up, saw the Devil himself—with horns, tail, and hooves, his long tongue hanging out obviously from the heat—climbing from chimney to chimney in the midst of a swarm of deafeningly rattling black birds? I think the overall impression would this time distract your attention from the fact that Satan was using a pair of flat-nose pliers to fasten Rossitten identification rings onto the legs of jackdaw chicks, and then carefully placing the little birds back into their nest. Even I only noticed after finishing the ringing that people had gathered in a dense crowd on the main street of the village, staring at me with the exact same stunned terror as the Whitsun excursionists had from behind the fence back then. Except that had I introduced myself, the whole exercise would have lost its point, which is why I merely gave them a friendly wag of my devil's tail and vanished through the attic window.

WithinReason··on Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones
> Automated or semi-automated cloning to steal revenue away from developers isn’t new.

I thought the clones were open source

WithinReason··on AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares
A list of many square packings, with images:

https://jlevy.github.io/squares/

WithinReason··on House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k
The children yearn for the mines
WithinReason··on Xbox has secured exclusive GTA 6 streaming rights
There are still services like that where you basically rent a gaming PC for streaming, like Shadow PC or AirGPU.
WithinReason··on ESP32-C3 Adblock
The trick everyone misses: binary search of hashes can be done in log(log(n))
WithinReason··on Integer multiplication below n log n
I thought this was hyperbole, but no.
WithinReason··on Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation
Imagine how good it would be with derivatives
WithinReason··on Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason
you can represent floating point numbers in binary
WithinReason··on Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones
If you don't give access to law enforcement when they ask: straight to jail. Encryption is irrelevant in that situation. If they see the encrypted volume you need to provide them access.
WithinReason··on GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design
What problem? They keep finding security bugs that humans couldn't for decades.
WithinReason··on Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections
Why not use pure nitrogen gas? 100% working, no suffering.
WithinReason··on Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008)
This is obviously human written
WithinReason··on AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom
README.md is for humans, AGENTS.md is for agents
WithinReason··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
Youtube is the caching server
WithinReason··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
Peer to peer is alive and well in BitTorrent
WithinReason··on CEO of Mistral: AI is software. It can be controlled
Computer viruses are software too
WithinReason··on Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior
This is getting tiring. Watermarking has no effect on model output quality when implemented correctly. It's somewhat like swapping a random RNG seed to the seed 42, and detecting what the seed was from a random sequence. The sequence generated from the seed 42 is just as random as any other seed. There couldn't be a quality difference. And yes, the output from an LLM is a conditional random sequence of tokens from a distribution determined by a model.
WithinReason··on Meta VR Glasses
I wish they just removed the SoC/storage/RAM/battery/cooling and gave me the PCVR part for 500
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