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lugu··on A Love Letter to Flashcards
The fun is in making the cards truly yours, by writing them yourself based on your experience. After experimenting with generated cards, I throw them away. They were semantically correct, but not relatable/memorable.
lugu··on A Love Letter to Flashcards
Great blog posts. Exactly on point.
lugu··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
What makes you think this? With wider adoption the ratio shall shift in favor of inference. And API price is becoming more important than SOTA capability.
lugu··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
Do they? Genuinely ansking.
lugu··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
If you want to think about this topic, you must define what AI is, and what consciousness is. Otherwise this is just noise.

So let take a stab at it, and you call me crazy.

AI: the entity/system that more or less pass the turning test. That is my definition, not the best, but enough for this discussion.

Consciousness: property of a system/entity able to (both): - reflect on its existence - subject to subjective experience

Again, not the best definition, but precise enough to start the discussion. Why a subjective experience? I want to exclude sensors (i.e. camera) but include perception altered by your experience.

Now we can debate. I think LLM can pass the turning test whith some harness. My opinion.

I think LLM can produce coherent discourses on their existence, at least as much as you average human.

Now regarding the subjective experience, that becomes interesting. I think Anthropic research tend to show that when middeling with the activation at runtime, the LLM is able to notice that something is off. I think this is a subjective experience. My opinion.

Based on those (imperfect) definitions, call me crazy, I think LLM can be called conscious. This doesn't give them any superpower or any legal right. They just check the boxes of the definition.

lugu··on Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?
Soon enough you will realize that kids spend more time with their friends than with their parents. Most parents want their kids to be curious, build autonomy, and feel free. For this to work, they need a safe space. There are to place to enforce a policy: client side (parental control) or server side (age verification). Personally I don't want to transform my kids general purpose computer into a locked down infotainment machine. I think it would be a worst society if the norm becomes "this is not your device".
lugu··on Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?
I am curious if you know how to enforce this on a general purpose computer.
lugu··on Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals
US laws don't apply globally.
lugu··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Ask yourself: what is the ROI I provide? It isn't trivial most of the time.
lugu··on Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs
There hasn't ever been in human histore more incentive to innovate than today, and you think, the best lab won't innovate. That is crazy. It is like anyone can do AI research. Of course there will be new architectures. We just discovered the steam engine and the combustion engine is coming.
lugu··on Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
I am no doctor, but as you said, you need to release the strain in your eyes by looking away. I suppose that is something you can do with this class of devices as each eye has their own screen. This said, I have never used any type of VR headset.
lugu··on Childhood Computing
I installed Gnome on the home computer for the kids. I just realized how disempowering the Gnome really is. I remember, as a kid, navigating all menus to understand how it works. With Gnome, my kids barely can set the background to an image, can't even have a solid color background. I will probably move to DMS or KDE.
lugu··on DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost
So the calculation is:

Total input token = input + cache read + cache write Cache hit rate = cache read / total input token.

That is 71% in my very limited use of opencode.

lugu··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
Thanks, i appreciate your message. When I look at the US or EU were internal migration is allowed, I am hopeful. I just don't know if this is generalizable.
lugu··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
I am genuenly curious what do you think would happen if every country were to apply 1.
lugu··on The Art of Money Getting
Ask people who know you well what you are talented for. Oftentimes we don't see it ourselves. As you get good at something, it become easier, and you think of it as a given. On the opposite, we tend to over appreciate what is difficult for us.
lugu··on Do you enjoy reading any type of AI written text?
Only when it answers a question i asked.
lugu··on GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
I will go ahead and delete my private repos on GitHub. Not sure I can trust this platform with their code source exposed. Nice wake-up call.
lugu··on The mistake of conflating intelligence and power
It is also possible that intelligent people don't know how to become powerful, but would seek to be powerful, if they knew how to get there. More than intelligence, I am shocked at how mean a jailbreak LLM can be (when prompted). It is astonishing.
lugu··on Google Antigravity Built an OS from a single prompt
Where is the code? Did I missed the link?
lugu··on Gemini 3.5 Flash
What we need today is a standard local API (think of it as a POSIX extension). So that each desktop app that needs AI to enhance a feature can simply call that. This way, those apps will need to handle the case where AI is not availabile. This will empower users.
lugu··on Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
Read the article.
lugu··on First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
I would find it funny if one day we found it irresponsable to write hand generated production code. Just like it would be irresponsable to build a significan building without running numerical simulations.
lugu··on Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints
Someone is an official website of the united states gouvernement. I would prefer another source.
lugu··on Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints
That is called marketing.
lugu··on The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
If we extend this line of thinking, China might be on leading that race.
lugu··on The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
You are missing the point. Parents says the market to win need economical models more than SOTA models. Whoever is running those nuclear simulations is not making as much as Apple.
lugu··on The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy
I don't know Zig, but I think that is not the problem here. Not exactly. The real question is: why spending all those efforts to grow and align a pool of contributors if contributions are cheap and correct? Code review is not just about checking if what it says it does, and if it does it according to the guidelines. The review is a touch point to discuss where the project is heading and how to get there. That is the most important part in the long run. As a collective human effort, it needs coordination. Some of it is via the review process (especially for those not part if the core team that draft the roadmap). One could document all those micro decisions with the rational, but it might end up be a wakamole game. IMO, projects which allow AI usage need to spend way more effort in coordination (and quality insurance).
lugu··on Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era
You can park a lot there. No offence but I love how AGI doesn't mean anything. It used to be that AI was a goal post. Now it is AGI. We could use characters from sci-fi culture to describe milestones. In order to achieve robocop level, we must solve the instruction vs data problem.
lugu··on Reflections on 30 years of HPC programming
Parent talks about new languages, as per the article Fortran or C doing fine. I speculate the benefit of C++ over Rust how it let programmers instruct the compiler of warranty that goes beyong the initial semantic of the language. See __restrict, __builtin_prefetch and __builtin_assume_aligned. The programming language is a space for conversations between compiler builders and hardware designers.
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