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algoth1··on GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
My father is blind, the only tech he knows how to use is a smart tv, when i build him custom apps the first thing i do is turn off talkback when the app opens, so i can control what tts says. The regular talkback is so so annoying and repetitive
algoth1··on Will AI developers be on the bench of future Nuremberg-like trials?
Maybe i’m recalling the youtube videos I saw on Nuremberg incorrectly, but i recall something on the lines of: the concept of ‘crimes against humanity’ being applied retroactively
algoth1··on FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
Also rare genetic issues like GSDs and FAODs may benefit immensely from dual glucose and ketone metering. Next we need potassium and magnesium meters and that will benefit the people with rare renal wasting syndromes like Gitelman and Bartters
algoth1··on OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users
When there’s billions involved everything is intentional
algoth1··on Gen-1.5 – The robot that one-shot learns with humans
Once again Google DeepMind is beaten
algoth1··on Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
Great decision
algoth1··on [dead]
My mind is blown. A random lab managed to beat Google deepmind
algoth1··on Cerebras CS-4
If they had ask Claude it would probably look like this: Introducing the all new Cerebras CS-4, a revolutionary rack-scale solution that delivers up to 30x faster inference compared to GPUs, enhanced economics, and a simple path to load-bearing hyper scale capacity.
algoth1··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
Same here for em-dashes
algoth1··on Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
This post is so outdated that reads like ragebait
algoth1··on At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis
There are MANY facebook groups filled with people fully convinced that they have Lyme disease. These groups teach that virtually any and every symptom is caused by the infection and that basically everyone has it. As if this wasn’t insane enough, the people in the group will push each other to go on antibiotics - via so called lyme literate doctors - until they are on the verge of death due to the side effects. Worse: if a lab test is negative they say you should treat by symptom (referring people back to the massive list of virtually every known symptom as proof that they have lyme). It gets worse: even if you get really bad reactions to the treatment, they say you are having a herxheimer reaction and to keep pushing. It gets worse: having followed many of those groups for years, it’s rare that anyone actually gets better from whatever symptom they were having that led them down the self destructive path of lyme self-diagnosis. Well, it actually is a bit worse: even if by some chance you did had a positive lyme test, and if by chance you did got years worth of antibiotics, SOT treatments, etc etc etc… and now you have finally a clean test- well actually it’s bartonella, or parasites, or babesia, or EBV or whatever … so you must carry on. And, it’s not that these people are idiots, it’s just that they fall into a very specific category: 1) have real symptoms, 2) have no real answers from medicine, 3) have internet access, 4) have no notion, not even a tiny spec, of the existence of a concept called falsifiability. So when i read that there’s a new at home test for lyme… on tics(!) i can only imagine the massive amount of suffering this will cause on these poor people… and i imagine many if them will put their blood on the test and come up with all kinds of ways to use this to find yet another proof that they have it
algoth1··on Geometric Reasoning
"Load-bearing" detected in the text
algoth1··on Introducing Toast 1
so, it works like notebooklm but without relying on RAG?
algoth1··on Introducing Toast 1
You should take a closer look
algoth1··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
Yeah, it’s hard to believe, specially when you are coding and there’s only one best way to do things, unless it plays with variable naming, or comments
algoth1··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
From the little i understand that wouldnt be an issue because the model is ‘just’ using interchangeable words in a mathematical non-random way. Like using the same number of adjectives and the exct same words, but in a order that wouldn’t be mathematically plausible unless it was the watermark
algoth1··on Gemini 3.7 Flash
Well, you do get 1 million tokens and the ability to reason over video natively and many of us are forced to pay for 20usd plan anyway due to google drive 5TB, not to mention notebooklm, so it’s not a nothing burguer, it’s just an almost nothing burguer
algoth1··on Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
That’s how the Ned character in "17 Again" got rich
algoth1··on LLMs reward expertise
This: https://xkcd.com/2501/ 1 billion people use chatgpt, but only 10M use codex, which is even more impressive when you consider the chatgpt windows app now comes with codex a click away. This means everything that is super obvious to us, is not for the average person
algoth1··on The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)
They, themselves, show the Dunning-Kruger effect by overestimating how much they understand randomness
algoth1··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
It’s routers all the way down
algoth1··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
Flash-lite did the John Cena Pelican
algoth1··on GPT-5.6
A great thing about codex is that, even if run out of usage, it finishes the task. Claude code will abruptly break the work and leave it there unfinished as soon as it runs out of tokens. Also, antrophic randomly resets the token usage which is annoying when I’m trying to ration them. While openai gives you extra resets that you can apply when you want to
algoth1··on GPT-5.6
gpt-5.6-sol Max pelican didn’t skip neck day
algoth1··on First Impressions of Claude Fable
I imagine an anthropic engineer reading this and scrambling to patch the use of the word ‘improvements’, and add it to the ban list
algoth1··on 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format
Notebooklm would be a perfect home for these
algoth1··on How little exercise can you get away with?
It may sound crazy, but a properly installed pull up bar on your room doorway is a fun way to apply Pavel Tsatsouline ‘grease the groove’ principle. And it’s both easy and fun. You can do pull ups, and train your abdomen several times a day without getting psychological resistance (from google overview: "Grease the Groove" (GtG) is a strength training method popularized by fitness expert Pavel Tsatsouline. It involves performing a specific exercise frequently throughout the day using only 40–60% of your maximum reps. By avoiding muscle failure and staying fresh, your nervous system efficiently adapts to the movement.")
algoth1··on Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
Google doesnt care about prompt injection attacks??? This is insane
algoth1··on Please stop the AI confidence theater
As someone who has worked closely to the marketing space, there’s a saying that goes something like: ‘then the marketers found about it and ruin everything’. Quick example: when amazon launched kindle self publishing, there was a golden age where wannabe writers could self-publish their books, and let the market dictate what survived and became successful. Eventually, some people got good money out of it. Then marketers found out about it. They realized they could game the system by hiring ghost writers to pump out low quality ebooks to fill every single niche. Then they found out how to game the reviews, even going as far as paying people to leave 5 star reviews on competitors to get amazon to flag the competitors for buying reviews! Forward a few years, and no matter what you search for, there’s a million low quality books fir a couple high quality high effort books who get lost in the sea of garbage. AI just made that problem 100x worse. The same thing is happening with higher effort content creation. These same mindless marketers found out how to exploit video creation, social media marketing, etc. so, the appeal this article is making for people to stop the hype will not be listen to, because once marketers find about something where there’s money to be made, they will absolutely find a way to go scorched earth on it
algoth1··on Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
It even refuses to do numerical time-series analysis (this on an empty project). This is something even a non-llm ML algorithm can do. It’s insane
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