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mpalczewski

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mpalczewski··on Claude Duet
satire has become indistinguishable from real life
mpalczewski··on Tesla Roadster
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mpalczewski··on QGIS bans AI assisted contributions
oh. so basically, no low effort patches.

Sounds like llm's have made is so easy for anyone without a shred of know how to submit anything that people prompt one or two times and consider the job done, not knowing any better becausue they don't have to.

mpalczewski··on QGIS bans AI assisted contributions
ok it needs to be reliable. do we believe people are more reliable than ai?
mpalczewski··on QGIS bans AI assisted contributions
they own the project of course it is their right.

if someone disagrees they can fork.

I don't understand why it would be the right call. not my field.

haven't seen a good explanation in the comments. (yet?)

mpalczewski··on QGIS bans AI assisted contributions
I’ve been able to contribute to projects recently using ai. And another project banned this so I didn’t bother. The second was a bug fix for an issue I was having. The first was a new feature.

Either way my bug got fixed but if a project maintainer doesn’t want it who am I to fight it.

You can always fork it. I suspect my contributions are higher quality because I use different model providers to review each other but whatever.

mpalczewski··on The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4
there's a big difference between now and then. we built up capacity. dark fiber. and couldn't use until we got broadband. In general. ai capacity is being used right now today.
mpalczewski··on Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity
And chewing. How fast it is eaten is likely affected.
mpalczewski··on How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video]
Much of make it by human talk is giant cope.

we insist that humans can do things better in some way or do things that ai can't do. some of that is true right now, but can't assume that will hold.

and yes it requires iterations and taste right now.

the idea that it can't happen in the future. or that humans are special in some way (which you are not claiming, but is a common claim) is the cope.

mpalczewski··on How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video]
instead, human slop with that ted talk format.

all for the following. 1. give a shit. 2. build a system and codify it 3. review iterate and recreate 4. be creative

mpalczewski··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
so you thought I had a handy citation showing 0.5g is meaningful.

or were you just trying to make a point that you didn't think 0.5g is meaningful.

i don't fucking know. vegetarians seem to gain more than non vegetarians from creatine supplementation. implying that eating meat is meaningful. then you fixated on 0.5g as if 4oz of red meat per day was allot or not, I don't even know.

but I see it now. the accusation of goal post shifting, you are arguing about what idk. find your damn citation.

mpalczewski··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
you are either doing it for moral reasons. in that case all these facts are irrelevant. or you can eat red meat for a month and see if you can tell the difference. if you can't there's your answer.

citations are bullshit for this context. Unless you are doing research.

mpalczewski··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
A vegetarian diet is not a null hypothesis. Other way around
mpalczewski··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
I doubt any company shares your moral values. Though a few of them might pay some lip service do some of your moral values. You tell me, have you audit all the companies you do business with to see if they share your moral values.
mpalczewski··on Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI
The uproar is in France. Sounds like the bigger uproar could have been the shitty writing.

Then again. Europeans have ret-conned genericized names into terroir so it's not exactly surprising.

mpalczewski··on Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI
Agreed. It’s not like a particular word is any different when it’s made by ai.

Would we care if someone used a typewriter vs a computer to write it.

This looks like a weird snobbishness. The fact that it’s by Europeans makes it more funny since they have been left out of the AI race.

In the end you have a final product. Can critique it on its own. He used ai to help write it and you couldn’t tell before, says more about the product and perhaps you don’t like what it says about you .

mpalczewski··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
That's because creatine is missing in vegetarian diets. It is found in beef. Something to consider if you are thinking about going vegetarian.
mpalczewski··on Best LLM for every budget, updated daily
The analysis might be better on Artifical Analysis' however the way the information is presented by terrydjony is so much better. I'm able to get the exact actionable info I want. Whereas on artificial Analysis I'm analyzing and figuring it out.

It's the equivalent of ai slop writing in a data format.

mpalczewski··on Claude Opus 5.5
good use of AI to generate this.
mpalczewski··on Claude Opus 5.5
The meaning isn't clear at all. So open for interpretation that it is meaningless. That's the whole fucking point. For all I know they are "pacing the frontier", or not. The fact that there's no meaning to it let's you know that it was a pointless waste of tokens and attention.
mpalczewski··on Grok 4.7
Yeah I switched and the 300 plan is basically introductory 100/ month and I never hit the limit. While constantly hammering on it
mpalczewski··on Swift 6.4 Released
it's surprising how often this has been an issue. given up on it a long time ago. now old school print statements instead. seem to work better anyway. the debugger isn't slowing the app down.
mpalczewski··on CIA Releases President's Daily Briefs in Commemoration of 9/11
and then the new york times pushed us into the iraq war.
mpalczewski··on How the Tobacco Industry Drove the Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods (2025)
any more "ethical" tobacco company got out competed. result: blame tobacco companies that survived.

People still smoke. any lies the tobacco companies sold to the public were either so old that few alive heard them, or believed them when they were told.

mpalczewski··on Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business
who is to say that it is great. what makes it so, why is that valuable. Is doing more good than harm. that there is even some inherent value in a "great institution". A bunch of smaller companies would probably be better economically and be more innovative.
mpalczewski··on Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business
A legitimately rule based legal system is far more beneficial than one that takes sides based on the taste of the day. beneficial for everyone involved. If you want to write "Stan for billionaires", without any sort of reasoning, well, that says more about you.
mpalczewski··on Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business
I do wonder how many people that criticize the renaming, were criticizing Obama when he rename Mt McKinley. What are the principles here? Or is it just names I like vs names I don't like.
mpalczewski··on Zod 4.5
Precompiled so faster and a 9x reduction in memory footprint.

seems like no downside to adopting this.

mpalczewski··on Guess which of these LLM outputs is watermarked
Interesting. This showed how imperceptible it is at first glance. If they had 100 of these and they showed you if you got it right or wrong and why after each answer instead of making you do all ten in a row, I wonder if I would be able to train myself to detect it. I would figure it would just start to seem like something is a little off. The fact that it is so hard to detect just makes this more insidious.
mpalczewski··on Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence
volume and velocity used to stand out, you could get very far with it, and if you had built a career on that(I had), your career is now over or you pivot. Volume and velocity also had it's own quality and over time you did so much that the reps just by themselves got you to the next level. None of that is true anymore. Some skills became important and some skills became useless. this industry has always moved fast and this is just another round of adapt or die.
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