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efebarlas··on Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude
I tried this and after being unhappy about how much longer the agent seemed to take, I wonder if there’s some tradeoff between a model’s performance (and task cost) and the amount of principles / rules you’ve invoked so far in the session
efebarlas··on Show HN: Design Engineering, as a Service
Just fyi the rquest availability button is a smaller grey button that shows its misfit with the background (on iPhone 16) You might want to have a look
efebarlas··on Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
i think people say that thinking that only training to produce the next likely word would end up producing some local minimum word that generally fits but doesn't actually lead to intelligent thought.

that feels like a misunderstanding of how the loss function behaves when used within a sequence

efebarlas··on Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years
What's this one? Fable or Sol?
efebarlas··on Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents
Is it even possible to have an inverse captcha without time bounds?

Humans can use agents behind the scenes to crack it, right?

efebarlas··on The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
I feel like that one’s actually pretty good, why should the ear calibrate to the device when it can be vice versa?
efebarlas··on Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
this is a great thread

it’s hard to isolate the effect size of policy, covid happened, car weights changed, policing may have decreased, US drivers may have driven differently, population size, etc.

efebarlas··on Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
I want to learn more about “it did not work in the us… excess deaths”

Do you have a link handy for this?