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neodypsis··on Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
I looked at the trails (lists of passages) and wondered whether it would be cheaper to build these lists by clustering passage embeddings, rather than having an LLM construct them.
neodypsis··on Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket
What is the steam cloud for after landing?
neodypsis··on LLMs for Engineering: Teaching Models to Design High Powered Rockets
Try one of the models with good vision capabilities and ask it to output code using build123d.
neodypsis··on Home washing machines fail to remove important pathogens from textiles
Not true. It depends on the pathogen.
neodypsis··on Home washing machines fail to remove important pathogens from textiles
You need to add sanitizer to the wash cycle, not just detergent.
neodypsis··on Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding
I like Gemini for "architect" roles, it has very good code recall (almost no hallucinations, or none lately), so it can successfully review code edits by Claude. I also find it useful to ground it with Google Search.
neodypsis··on Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding
Gemini's context is very long, so I can feed it full files. I do the same with Claude, but I may need to start from scratch various times, so Gemini serves as memory (and is also good that Gemini has almost no hallucinations, so it's great as a code reviewer for Claude's edits).
neodypsis··on Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding
A combination that works nicely to solve bugs is: 1) have Gemini analyze the code and the problem, 2) ask it to create a prompt for Claude to fix the problem, 3) give Claude the markdown prompt and the code, 4) give Gemini the output from Claude to review, 5) repeat if necessary
neodypsis··on Attention K-Mart Shoppers
Were you able to find the tracks using Shazam? It is having trouble matching the one from the 28:00 mark here: https://archive.org/details/KmartFebruary1990
neodypsis··on Attention K-Mart Shoppers
lol, never expected that to happen here
neodypsis··on Experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a
Thanks for the reply, yeah, my interest was to test compatibility when we add support for Play Integrity to our app.
neodypsis··on Experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a
Is there a GrapheneOS image for use with Android Emulator? I want to test an app on it but got no physical Pixel device.
neodypsis··on Google announces Sec-Gemini v1 a new experimental cybersecurity model
I've noticed 4o uses a lot of emojis, and, in general, is very enthusiastic. I find it funny. If I want a more formal bot, I switch to one of the o3 family.
neodypsis··on A vending machine, on the internet
Perhaps I disagree on the following:

> There’s no customer support, chatbot, or extensive documentation.

I've seen many vending machines with customer support channels. If the machine takes the money but merchandise is not delivered, people will complain.

neodypsis··on A vending machine, on the internet
so this "vending machine" is a postcard drop shipping website?
neodypsis··on Introduction to CUDA Programming for Python Developers
It is mentioned on section "Limitations and Bloopers" of the page [0]:

> Combining evolutionary optimization with LLMs is powerful but can also find ways to trick the verification sandbox. We are fortunate to have Twitter user @main_horse help test our CUDA kernels, to identify that The AI CUDA Engineer had found a way to “cheat”. The system had found a memory exploit in the evaluation code which, in a small percentage of cases, allowed it to avoid checking for correctness (...)

0. https://sakana.ai/ai-cuda-engineer

neodypsis··on DeepScaleR: Surpassing O1-Preview with a 1.5B Model by Scaling RL
Interestingly, o3-mini-high was correct when first thinking about it:

> Okay, we're asked how to get exactly 6 liters of water using an 12-liter and a 6-liter jug. The immediate thought is to just fill the 6-liter jug, but that seems too simple, doesn’t it? So maybe there’s a trick here. Perhaps this is a puzzle where the challenge is to measure 6 liters with some pouring involved. I’ll stick with the simple solution for now—fill the 6-liter jug and stop there.

neodypsis··on A Replacement for BERT
How does it compare to Jina V3 [0], which also has 8192 context length?

0. https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10173

neodypsis··on Bat Feces Used to Fertilize Cannabis Is Linked to 2 Deaths
Isn't that what happened to one of these guys? It is reported that one of them caught the fungus due to inspecting his attic (hadn't used the guano yet).
neodypsis··on Bat Feces Used to Fertilize Cannabis Is Linked to 2 Deaths
I assume must feces require prior treatment before they can be used as fertilizer.
neodypsis··on Bat Feces Used to Fertilize Cannabis Is Linked to 2 Deaths
Reportedly, one of them had a bat infestation that produced a thick layer of guano in his attic, which he planned to use as fertilizer. He probably should have inspected his attic wearing a N95 respirator.
neodypsis··on The Copenhagen Book: general guideline on implementing auth in web applications
> Schneier’s book?

Yes

neodypsis··on The Copenhagen Book: general guideline on implementing auth in web applications
> I mind that resources about how to use crypto in software applications are often inscrutable, all the way down to library design, for no good reason.

I haven't read it, but I plan to, eventually. There's a book titled "Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications" that could help you.

neodypsis··on Can you pump water without any electricity?
Can a ramp pump be used as a booster pump?
neodypsis··on More info about synonyms at Google (2010)
Someone should finetune an LLM to create a "patentese" assistant writer.
neodypsis··on Ask HN: What have you built with ESPHome, ESP8266 or similar hardware
Reportedly, the ADC's of the ESP32 are unreliable.
neodypsis··on LoRA+: Efficient Low Rank Adaptation of Large Models
> Seems like we still have a long way to go after Adam...

A preprint in arxiv suggests that Adam works better than SGD for training LLMs due to the issue of class-imbalance [0]. It appears that scaling the gradient step helps with the training, for example, see another approach suggested in [1].

0. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.19449 1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.02347

neodypsis··on Ask HN: What have you built with ESPHome, ESP8266 or similar hardware
> I know the one I make isn’t going to be as precise or accurate, the build quality won’t be as good, but it’ll be good enough for my purposes.

Have you had issues with the ESP32's ADCs?

neodypsis··on The brutal business practices of Amazon
Can I read this on Kindle?
neodypsis··on Financial market applications of LLMs
Could something like that proposed in "Training Language Models to Generate Text with Citations via Fine-grained Rewards" [0] work for you?

0. https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04315

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