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coeneedellon Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?

I usually have a “close out” routine that’s something like telling it to record hints to the project’s agents.md. It’s usually pretty good at figuring out what to save, and I usually set up the prompt to point the thing’s attention at the part of the process that made me most frustrated.

coeneedellon We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

There’s no reason to believe that companies running open weights models would use consumer hardware. I can speak on behalf of my employer and say that we’d vastly prefer to have enterprise grade servers running inference on premises.

coeneedellon Lula wins election after final votes tallied

Not really. He had a really good PR person that made people think this, but most technologists are focused on, y’know, actual technology

coeneedellon [dead]

This is basically unreadable. The llm generated text feels like it’s dancing around an idea because it doesn’t actually have one.

coeneedellon The Case for Free Online Books (2014)

They should get paid. The press should pay them. The college pays the press. The students pay the college. The press releases information for free.

coeneedellon Code is run more than read (2023)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations?...

Um I’m pretty sure that’s not the only evidence for insect population declines.

coeneedellon Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts

I’m gonna need a more detailed argument than that.

coeneedellon Our Agreement with the Department of War

I have the right not to sell poison to someone who I have reason to believe will use it to kill a third party. The idea of simply trusting the patron to be responsible makes sense when the patron is anonymous or a new contact. It’s generally good to assume good intentions in the absence of evidence, I think. If the government is not anonymous enough to get this treatment.

coeneedellon White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue"

Violating the laws of our country while being in a position of public trust reaches a higher standard than “politicians I don’t like” IMHO.

coeneedellon Americans Overwhelmingly Support Science, but Some Think the U.S. Is Lagging

I don’t see how you can make this claim when the budget balance at universities is extremely tilted towards stem. The budget for the kind of programs you seem to be complaining about come out to percents. Hard to say universities are “more interested” in very very small parts of their budget. What is happening now though is the federal government holds back billions of dollars in medical research grants, punishing, in some cases even killing patients, over “ideological” issues.

coeneedellon The Post-American Internet

Then you’re not paying attention. The US is currently experiencing the largest wave of mass protests in its history. The corporate media is simply ignoring it. Practically every trump administration action has triggered nation-wide protests.

https://ash.harvard.edu/programs/crowd-counting-consortium/

coeneedellon Anthropic: You can't change your Claude account email address

You made a throwaway account to say this?

coeneedellon Uv overtakes pip in CI

Yeah I see now I was mixing techniques in two sections of that document

coeneedellon Uv overtakes pip in CI

I haven’t really had this issue. UV’s recommendation is to mount the uv.lock and install those manages package versions to the container’s global pip environment. We haven’t had much issue at my work, where we use this to auto-manage python developer’s execution environments at scale.

coeneedellon Which table format do LLMs understand best?

“Agents that extract the data” Are we really reinventing data frame readers to have an LLM in the critical path?

coeneedellon Which table format do LLMs understand best?

Do you measure your results in a repeatable way? In a way where your hypotheses about accuracy are falsifiable? Or do they just “feel” right?

coeneedellon Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place

It’s basically impossible to make a career as a scientist these days without constantly promoting yourself and your work unfortunately. It’s very tiring and makes it difficult to focus on science. This is one of the reasons I changed careers.

coeneedellon Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum

What do pilots use them for?

coeneedellon 'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback

IIRC the rules system for magic the gathering: Arena is generated by a sort of compiler fed the rules. You might not even need a modern coding assistant to build out something reasonable in a DSL that is perfect, then have people (or an LLM after fine tuning) transforms rule books into the DSL.

coeneedellon Launch HN: Reality Defender (YC W22) – API for Deepfake and GenAI Detection

I think you misunderstood my answer. There is established research showing that deepfake detection models transfer learning within architectures.

coeneedellon Launch HN: Reality Defender (YC W22) – API for Deepfake and GenAI Detection

There are three observations that are helpful to know about here: A: High quality, battle tested architectures are sold via an API and samples are therefore easy to retrieve at scale. B: lower quality, novel architectures are often published on GitHub and can be scaled on budget compute resources. C: Often these models perform well at classifying content generated by architectures similar to those they were trained on, even if that architecture is not identical.

As for actual lead time associated with our actual strategy, that’s probably not something I can talk about publicly. I can say I’m working on making it happen faster.

coeneedellon Launch HN: Reality Defender (YC W22) – API for Deepfake and GenAI Detection

This is definitely a concern, but this is more or less how the cybersecurity space already works. Having dedicated researchers and a good business model helps a lot for keeping detectors like RD on the forefront of capabilities.

coeneedellon LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them

LeBron James still knows more about how to play basketball than whoever is in the mech suit opposite him.

coeneedellon Bispecific antibodies potently neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

Really difficult to argue that “both sides are equally to blame for the bad discourse” when one side had a mob of terrorists storm the capitol (then pardoned all of them) and the other side held up tiny signs during a speech.

coeneedellon Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked

This is a chicken-egg problem. Those cities became tier 1 cities over time because of their proactive public transit strategies.

coeneedellon Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk [video]

I attended this talk in person and some context is needed. He was invited for the “test of time” talk series. This explains the historical part of the talk. I think his general persona and association with ai led to the fluffy speculation at the end.

I notice with Ilya he wants to talk about these out there speculative topics but defends himself with statements like “I’m not saying when or how just that it will happen” which makes his arguments impossible to address. Stuff like this openly invites the crazies to to interact with him, as seen with the cryptocurrency question at the end.

Right before this was a talk reviewing the impact of GANs that stayed on topic for the conference session throughout.

coeneedellon CuPy: NumPy and SciPy for GPU

At the moment I’m working on a system to quickly replicate academic deep learning repos (papers) at scale. At least Amazon has a catalogue of prebuilt containers with cuda/pytorch combos. I still occasionally have an issue where the container works on my 3090 test bench but not on the T4 cloud node…

coeneedellon CuPy: NumPy and SciPy for GPU

Ugh… docker containers. I also wish there was a simpler way but I don’t think there is.

coeneedellon AI speech generator 'reaches human parity' – but it's too dangerous to release

These samples are terrible when compared to commercially released models like from eleven labs or playht. This is an extension of an interesting architecture but currently those more traditionally based models are way more convincing.