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blharr··on Open source AI is the path forward
Not easily for these large scale models, but theoretically maybe
blharr··on "Superhuman" Go AIs still have trouble defending against these simple exploits
From what I can tell, the engine he plays, Rybka, is an alpha beta search engine that is rated around 3000 elo? I'm not sure how to compare it with Hikaru being ~2900, but it seems like a fairly "even" match-up without a crucial exploit being the reason for it losing.
blharr··on Use a work journal
Still a Linux noob, but I'm recently learning that you can do simple things like this in bash and the fact that it just... works is incredible. Thanks for the suggestion, I think I'll try this one
blharr··on Ask HN: How do browsers isolate internal audio from microphone input?
You can use a multidimensional Kalman filter to do many things
blharr··on Ask HN: How do browsers isolate internal audio from microphone input?
That's interesting. Following up, is there any reason why it wouldn't be possible for other browsers/applications? It seems like the operating system should be able to generally access the audio from any application
blharr··on Python with Braces
I feel like this is a great idea, but as with other lisps, it looks really unfamiliar and loses the simple readability that python has for me.
blharr··on Google rejected me and now I'm building a search engine
It is a gotcha question. In fact, "log2 of 56 million" should probably be the best answer. It means you don't waste time brute forcing the problem and instead know exactly how to get the solution, but they wanted a specific answer that you compute by some heuristic. Why?

Either way, if a candidate misses such a question it shouldn't be a negative. Using such a question as a filter is a bit ridiculous.

blharr··on Using Stockfish to identify ideal squares
It does seem like it'd be simple to have a second chess set to play Crazyhouse in person, considering you need two sets to play bughouse just without 4 players
blharr··on I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers
This is a lame criticism. One guy doing a silly little project to entertain himself (and also developing useful skills along the way) is far better than the millions of people who work in politics, industry, etc. that also aren't actively fixing the world and are instead actively worsening it.
blharr··on OWASP Juice Shop: Hacking a Modern Web Application
I will also add that the excessively positive tone as well as the use of "we" a lot does feel like it has that same AI "let's walk through step by step" style of writing.
blharr··on Getting 50% (SoTA) on Arc-AGI with GPT-4o
The "general" part of AGI implies it should be capable across all types of different tasks. I would definitely call it real Artificial Intelligence, but it's not general by any means.
blharr··on Solving Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe
Aren't the same conditions true for chess, though there is no proof that a best strategy exists?

What if it's not just rock/paper/scissors, and there are more than 3 strategies?

blharr··on How Meta trains large language models at scale
Also energy cost. 18 chips vs 1, it's probably costing a lot more to run 18
blharr··on Detecting a PS2 Emulator: When 1*X does not equal X
Terrence Howard (actor in Ironman, Empire TV show, etc) believes he has discovered "a new math" where 1x1=2. I believe he has gained recent notoriety because he was on the Joe Rogan podcast, where he got a platform to say his beliefs to many people, but he has had these beliefs for many years.

As far as I can tell, his reasoning is literally that 2x2=4, so if you divide both sides by 2, you get 1x1=2.

blharr··on AI Appears to Rapidly Be Approaching Brick Wall Where It Can't Get Smarter
I believe what you are describing is exactly the type of UX that the parent comment may have been calling for
blharr··on Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes
It is fairly easy to distinguish real from chat GPT text, though?
blharr··on Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes
From what I can tell ysing it, ChatGPT doesn't seem to input anything in websites. It just scrapes the content by default. If they were using some special variant maybe?
blharr··on Llama 3 implemented in pure NumPy
So is this the case that the information is in the data set? Or the code is very well defined to be so small? As an outsider it's surprising that such a capable model can be so "simple".
blharr··on Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?
Good to know I'm not the only one...
blharr··on Princeton group open sources "SWE-agent", with 12% fix rate for GitHub issues
I still don't know. I feel like there are many ways where GPT will write some code or fix a bug in a way that makes it significantly harder to debug. Even for relatively simple tasks, it's kind of like machine-generated code that I would not want to touch.
blharr··on [AskHN] Anyone working on an ASIC for a JavaScript engine?
Not an expert, so a more nuanced view may help, but from my understanding, developing an ASIC even for a simple task is a lot of work. JavaScript is already optimized to run on a CPU. It has many different general roles as a language itself, and making an ASIC for JavaScript as a whole would basically be making a CPU itself.

Typically, you don't run a general code engine on an ASIC. They're more for a specific application, where it can do the job it was hard designed for, which is why they're so fast and efficient

blharr··on Can You Replace Your Software Engineers with AI?
Reads like a clearly AI Generated article. Seems like this AI stuff has gone full circle, and people are using their own AI toolchain to discredit other AI toolchains.
blharr··on A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments
Somewhat related, AlphaStar has such a control input limit for Starcraft limiting the actions per minute by some amount.
blharr··on Rigid Body Physics in Minecraft without mods [video]
I just realized this was by SethBling. Guy has been making wild minecraft engineering feats since my childhood.
blharr··on AMD announces the Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA family
But ASICs perform way faster and more efficiently. I doubt even the gain that you would get from "retuning" the FPGA would not increase enough compared to the benefit from a general purpose processor, GPU, or an ASIC
blharr··on U.S. students will take the SAT online
That seems like a really bold claim that I was excited to read about in the source. But this seems like it is only saying that for one school district and one particular choice program, they weren't able to see a difference on a test.
blharr··on U.S. students will take the SAT online
I really don't get how the context follows through on your point here. Music, sports, and travel all have been shown to increase your mental health and thinking capabilities.

All I get is that if you start from an extremely unfounded point you'll get to the wrong solution. But that doesn't say anything about the points people are making here

blharr··on U.S. students will take the SAT online
Your situation is not the same for everyone, though. It should instead be more carefully worded, "[We didn't] need any more resources for SAT." Imagine the more extreme case of a student who took it first try and got a perfect score. You wouldn't necessarily expect everyone else to be able to do the same.

Being on this site, you're probably someone who values education. And you probably raised your kids to be capable. Or maybe they just lucked out and got the correct weights to succeed in that particular scenario, but you can't assume that the situation for everyone is the same as you!

Many people simply can't learn by just doing practice tests and watching videos. If it were so easy, then we wouldn't need teachers or schools in general. Mentorship and guidance are important, and it's the reason why so many people want to get into universities in the first place.

Essentially, yes you can do without, but having it helps. Overall, that would create a disparity that favors more wealthy people.

blharr··on Why it's so challenging to land upright on the moon
If it's too easy, try doing a couple flips for more points
blharr··on Ask HN: Any advice on navigating this job market or pivoting out of tech? (US)
It's progressively gotten worse, but the point for me was when they removed access for third party apps. Many people who contributed meaningfully left in protest.
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