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iaw··on DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why
I think they just explained how corrupt the prior mayor was, this coupled with the disclosure by Mamdani about every prior mayor hiding air safety data after 9/11 paint a damning picture of the priorities of prior NYC mayors in recent memory.
iaw··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. With the behaviors we know OpenAI engages in the accusations are wholly believable.
iaw··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
This is a take... With both the internet and industrial control infrastructure any failure modes were studied, documented, and corrected.

The incompetence/negligence argument about OpenAI is completely valid given their failure to demonstrate the basic capabilities needed to develop advanced AI without major preventable externalties.

iaw··on GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally
I run 3bit GLM5.2 and full precision Qwen3.6-27B. GLM is much much closer to frontier models in it's breadth and ability to plan. If you just need to implement Python code from an existing plan Qwen is your choice but it has problem succeeding with more complex tasks that GLM5.2 does not.

As I type this my local GLM5.2 is troubleshooting bugs that Qwen would not be able to handle.

iaw··on GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally
On a model of this size quantization has much less impact on quality of output. I'm running a 3bit version and find it comparable to sonnet, almost opus.
iaw··on GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally
No. Unsloth has CPU offloading. It'll be slow but it'll work even with SSD offloading.
iaw··on Midjourney Medical
I have a friend who may be dying. It's not cancer but equally dangerous. They caught it early but they're powerless to do anything. We're just watching, waiting, and hoping.
iaw··on GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis
vLLM supports "banning" certain tokens but I don't know if it can dynamically reduce them.

To my knowledge you can also "ban" with llama.cpp but it is passed in the API call rather than to the server at initialization.

iaw··on “Too dangerous to release” or just too expensive?
It's remarkable how capable GLM 5.1 is, what's amazing is the recent development of Qwen 3.6 27B being close in real world performance.
iaw··on A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline
Can you back that up with.... you know... evidence? "regulation bad" tends to be a political talking point more than a valid argument when you're this vague.

Edited: to add, this speech talks a lot about the reduction in research funding from the US government which arguably has nothing to do with the regulatory environment.

iaw··on High-income job losses are cooling housing demand
This is a weird take. I get the desire to house people but someone choosing to rent rather than sell a home they own is not the crux of the issue. When there are corporations keeping swaths of housing empty to raise rent rates the real issue is market manipulation not small participants.
iaw··on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
Thank you for this comment, there is no way I could eloquently explain my read on the comment you're replying to the way you did.
iaw··on 6B Miles Driven
Have you had to file a claim with them yet? I go with State Farm not because I can get a cheaper rate but because for their price they provide all of the services I expect from my insurance company when I need them.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Insurance/comments/1kji0bm/just_fil...

iaw··on 6B Miles Driven
7x fewer major and minor collisions!!!!*

* Compared to the estimated U.S. average.

They have a huge store of data on accidents in teslas per mile driven. Why don't they compare their actual data on accidents? Well, they would, but it probably is worse with FSD.

iaw··on Betty White's shoulder bag is a time capsule of World War II (2023)
I wonder if that display is because they would give them out not why.
iaw··on Betty White's shoulder bag is a time capsule of World War II (2023)
Not to be crude but everything they mentioned inside the bag was from a serious relationship. I really wonder if the outside of the bag was for the less serious relationships that were still candidates.

Or was it common for soldiers to give out pieces of their uniform to people they just met out?

iaw··on Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
For those curious like I was :

U+1F99C is a parrot

iaw··on Westjet is going to make you pay to recline your seat
>According to a press release from the airline, economy seats on the retrofitted planes will have "back support with a fixed recline design," which in simpler terms means the seat will not have the ability to recline.

>The Premium section at the front of these planes will have "ergonomically contoured seat cushions, reclining seat backs and a large headrest with four-way adjustment capability."

So.. poor people don't deserve ergonomic seats?

iaw··on Remembering Steve Jobs
I know this wont go over well but I think it's important to remember: Steve Jobs did not treat his pancreatic cancer when he was first diagnosed and it was treatable, he instead sought holistic/alternative medicine treatments[1]. He leveraged his vast wealth to get a replacement liver [2] that at the time was known to only extend his life. That liver could have gone to someone that did not have such a negative prognosis and possibly saved their life for a lot longer than it did Steve. He used a chunk of his remaining time to work on his last yacht.

He was a great product person but I don't think that excuses all of the horrible things he did as a human.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/food-for-thought/201...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/24/liver.transplant.prior...

iaw··on EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners
They have a well documented and known human slave trade for their laborers in the kingdom.

Maybe the narrative changes when their approaches towards human rights does?

iaw··on Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy
> claude doesn't really know anything other than it's training data

I've seen cases where Claude demonstrates novel behaviors or combines existing concepts in new ways based on my input. I don't think it's as simple as memorization anymore.

iaw··on Cornell's world-first 'microwave brain' computes differently
The potential of fully miniature vacuum tubes was never realized
iaw··on My experience creating software with LLM coding agents – Part 2 (Tips)
My routine is:

Prompt 1: <define task> Do not write any code yet. Ask any questions you need for clarification now.

Prompt 2: <answer questions> Do not write any code yet. What additional questions do you have?

Reiterate until questions become unimportant.

iaw··on Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study
Oh! To clarify. I use fluoride in the morning and hydroxyapatite at night.
iaw··on Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study
I recently started using a nano-hydroxyapatite based toothpaste. It can't restore enamel but does better at remineralization than fluoride, hopefully it will be a good intermediate for me until something regenerative is available.
iaw··on With waters at 32C, Mediterranean tropicalization shifts into high gear
Not sure I'm following. Is a 10 degree F increase in average summer temperatures over 25 years and a notably disrupted ecosystem 'summer'?
iaw··on 6 weeks of Claude Code
Now that you point this out, since I started using Claude my RSI pain is virtually non-existent. There is so much boilerplate and repetitive work taken out when Claude can hit 90% of the mark.

Especially with very precise language. I've heard of people using speech to text to use it which opens up all sorts of accessibility windows.

iaw··on Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users
My experience has been that Claude can layout a lot of things in minutes that would take me hours if not days. Often I can dictate the precise logic and then claude get's most of the way there, with a little prompting claude can usually get even further. The amount of work I can get done is much more substantial than it used to be.

I think there is a lot of reticence to adopt AI for coding but I'm seeing it as a step change for coding the way powerful calculators/workstation computers were for traditional engineering disciplines. The volume of work they were limited to using a slide rule was much lower than now with a computer.

iaw··on Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process
I've been using Claude to do the things that are straightforward that I don't want to for about a month now. The power of these development techniques is no where near fully tapped yet from what I can see.
iaw··on Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process
I'm using Claude for my side projects. The pricing tiers are Free (for Sonnet 3.5), $20/m for Opus 4, $100/m for max (5x usage limit as $20) and then a $200 tier above that at another 5x I believe.

The usage limits reset every 6 hours.

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