chpatrick

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chpatrick··on German Bundeswehr Uses AI to Screen Applicants for Right-Wing Extremism

Right, because it's illegal.

chpatrick··on German Bundeswehr Uses AI to Screen Applicants for Right-Wing Extremism

I think in Germany it has a pretty specific meaning actually...

chpatrick··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

Yeah I guess the Jacobian conjecture must have been disproved without reasoning.

chpatrick··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

Well, but we do we have these words, and they are useful. An airplane and a bird both travel through the air. A human and an LLM both make logical deductions.

chpatrick··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

What's the argument here? An airplane, a bee and a bird all fly despite doing it totally differently. LLMs also reason despite being made out of matmuls instead of meat.

chpatrick··on So you think you could be an electrician?

I think there will be a general-purpose humanoid robot that can do all that, and a lot sooner than you think.

chpatrick··on So you think you could be an electrician?

I didn't say they were the same, just that "surely those jobs won't be automated" wasn't a very good prediction.

chpatrick··on So you think you could be an electrician?

We didn't think artists and software engineers would be replaced only a few years ago.

chpatrick··on So you think you could be an electrician?

You think they won't invent the robot with the wrench in the next 50 years?

chpatrick··on Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi

Open MCP basically kills your product in my opinion, you can't charge for any feature the LLM can do itself.

It's probably good news for users and open source though, why would you pay for something if a free tool with an MCP can do it.

chpatrick··on OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields

I think the even bigger worry is that anyone who doesn't want to use their models safely can already do this with open models. Even if OpenAI, Anthropic etc get their act together, the cat's out of the bag.

chpatrick··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

Sure you can make a bad one, but you can always switch to a different one.

chpatrick··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

The problem with Arch is that configuration is by hand so you have to do it every time. With Nix you configure it once and then you can deploy it anywhere. Also it's pretty much impossible to break since the system is immutable and you can boot to a different revision any time.

chpatrick··on Jev in 25 Lines of Python

How is that different from just not letting it output option 5 when you sample from the probabilities?

chpatrick··on Jev in 25 Lines of Python

LLMs are constant time per token, if you only let it choose a/b/c/d then there's nothing else it can "spend".

chpatrick··on Jev in 25 Lines of Python

The 25 lines is the only thing that makes Jev different compared to Solution apparently.

chpatrick··on Jev in 25 Lines of Python

Could someone explain how Jev is different from using any old model and constraining the output to "My choice is a/b/c..."?

chpatrick··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

Slop is slop because people put in zero effort so the LLM just produces the first thing it was trained to do. You can absolutely get good results out of AI but it takes taste and a little work.

chpatrick··on The DeepMind Institute

Yeah but we're talking about something that was trained on petabytes of noisy, difficult to parse and ambiguous information.

chpatrick··on The DeepMind Institute

They've read a few thousand years of experiential data in text form.

chpatrick··on Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

They remind me of Kodak inventing the digital camera and sitting on it to preserve their film business.

chpatrick··on Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

I find its style the most sycophantic and annoying personally.

chpatrick··on Let's make quality the norm again

Spoiler alert, almost everything is made in China, including the premium stuff.

chpatrick··on Nvidia is the central bank of AI

Minimax H3 works pretty great and you can run it on a 3090.

chpatrick··on US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock

That's included in the number, buddy. Read the report.

https://iea-pvps.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IEA-PVPS-LCI...

chpatrick··on US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock

https://iea-pvps.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Fact-Sheet-I...

Making and using a modern solar panel emits up to 44 grams of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gas per kWh over its lifetime as opposed to up to 1000 grams for fossil fuel generators.

That's 20x cleaner.

chpatrick··on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

So if a model with exactly the same architecture controls a robot then it's suddenly sentient or what? "They generate actions in the real world"

chpatrick··on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

Does being made out of meat instead of silicon make you more sentient?

chpatrick··on Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration

Shouldn't doesn't mean people wouldn't.

chpatrick··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

It's actually a great service though.

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