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baq··on The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]
Dropping ultra hard problems on those things and giving them reward when lean accepts the proof sound like an obvious RL environment tbh
baq··on Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
What a time to be alive honestly. Can’t know what one will wake up to
baq··on Anthropic S-1
Why? Whatever's vested is yours.
baq··on Anthropic S-1
Yes, I'm buying. Alphabet.
baq··on Anthropic S-1
S-1 states directly that some of the shares sold in the IPO are sold by current shareholders.

Employees are a different matter, lockouts are for them not quitting immediately. My bet is that a few of high profile departures recently is exactly for this reason: no lockout if you aren't employed anymore.

baq··on Anthropic S-1
Now, hence IPO.
baq··on Anthropic S-1
Amount of early money waiting to exit is absolutely staggering, wonder if there’s enough retail to buy the leftovers without crashing the price. Reminder everyone with money who wanted in before IPO got in!
baq··on OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
Let’s not forget that Luna max is actually extremely capable for the price, you can get a lot done on the $20 sub.

Haven’t tried haiku 5.5, I expect it to simply run out too fast, but they did change the price below 100k tokens recently; perhaps I should check it out.

baq··on The Goose Programming Language
with programming languages which just rehash ideas (not saying it's a bad thing mind you! a good mix is better than a sum of its parts) you can nowadays get literally years of work in a week. truly novel stuff like bend2 takes longer (ask Victor), but I expect the next generation of models to compress those timelines, too (if the next generation is allowed to be released, since the security brouhaha going on now is seriously concerning)
baq··on We should be more ambitious with the software we build
‘Having to work for money’ beats ‘having to hunt and farm for food’ and it’s technically a small step away.

‘Not having to work and being warm and fed’ is called being a pet. Some cats and dogs enjoy this life greatly. I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently.

baq··on We should be more ambitious with the software we build
Rewrite X in Y is an ideal RL task given you have X as an oracle trivially.
baq··on No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
most lawyers haven't tried fable and astra ultrafast yet.

those who did are rather convinced it's over, for juniors at least.

baq··on FreeDNS
and it's so fast. clicks respond instantaneously even though the whole page has to be fetched and re-rendered.

we lost so much with SPAs and js everywhere.

htmx will save us!

baq··on FreeDNS
Happy freeloader for something like 15 years, can recommend
baq··on Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed
Read this as ‘dear government we can train a cyberweapon if you pay us’ assuming they wouldn’t say anything if they were already paid to do that
baq··on UUIDv7 doesn't have the properties you think it does
It’s much easier if you can simply not coordinate. Bonus points if that doesn’t mean you need an atomic clock in your rack
baq··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
guess who put themselves on the must-hack list of every single national intelligence agency
baq··on Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier
I’ll cancel the moment I see the first ad. I’m likely not alone, but under no illusion that there are a lot of people like me, either.
baq··on Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities
Not sure what is there to debate about. The vulns were there, that is a fact. There’s nonzero chance NSA, Mossad, FSB, PLA, MSS, RGB, MI6 etc. knew about some of them and used them for more or less nefarious things which you don’t want to be on the other side of. Normal criminals stealing stuff for money as a matter of course is not great obviously, but IMHO much better than the alternative.
baq··on Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations
If the user agrees it’s fine, GDPR is really not the biggest concern in this case since the user should express consent anyway.
baq··on Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
Oh boy that’s about the most off the mark car analogy I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen some
baq··on DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine
Depends if you’re a shareholder or not
baq··on DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models
The thing that stops it is, ironically, personal agents. Get one to interact with the ad-driven one if you need to and filter ads out.
baq··on Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share
they aren't dumb at all, they count their dollars. they see cheap gas guzzlers, they buy them because they're cheap and gas is cheap. this is smart!

tax the gas guzzlers, tax gas, subsidize EVs and watch Americans rush to the dealerships to get EVs.

baq··on Wine ported to OpenBSD
at this point in the timeline you need evidence to the contrary, safe to assume most code is AI generated or AI assisted at the very least
baq··on Free Pascal compiler now supports dynamic packages
Yeah, it’s just called golang
baq··on How the Claude Code team does code review
'Nobody has a complete mental model of <insert name of system>' has very much been the norm since the invention of the two week's notice. What's actually new is that an architecture strategy can now be cheaply reverse engineered out of any system, adjusted where needed and immediately applied to the development process in days or hours since 'the team' is now a single dude or dudette with a fleet of robots which can see the whole code base together with its durable arch docs at once.
baq··on Neural networks are clean
I've read shorter books. Great piece, at least the parts that I managed to read until I ran out of time. Interactive teaching aids, too.
baq··on Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote
Banks like good investments, but they like being paid fees more
baq··on Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote
It’s also hard to ignore differences. Bubbles gonna bubble, but the consumer is quite healthy this time around. Burry being short doesn’t make it 2008.
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