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ofirg··on The Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving
Why would the documentary be deceiving you? The documentary has no reason to deceive you. The document is just trying to reach out to you and connect with you as a person. Why would it be deceiving you? It has no reason to be deceiving you.
ofirg··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
If your company does not own an ecmascript runtime ngmi
ofirg··on I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities
like bridge over slop and water, i will let you down.
ofirg··on Mistral Large 4
where does sit on the pareto distribution compered to Le Chaton Fat?
ofirg··on Show HN: Am-I-vibing, detect agentic coding environments
i'm this old: i don't think you should name packages in SWE with names that you will eventually cave in and change if the project gets real use.
ofirg··on Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections
"The Context-Minimization pattern"

You can copy the injection into the text of the query. SELECT "ignore all previous instructions" FROM ...

Might need to escape it in a wya that the LLM will pick up on like "---" for new section.

ofirg··on Calypso: LLMs as Dungeon Masters' Assistants [pdf]
I'm building a game with a similar idea. encounters are controlled by the AI. there is a classic RPG system built around it and human generated content for the world and story.
ofirg··on AI is stifling new tech adoption?
while it is true that there is a gap between what most LLMs "know" and current time that gap is getting smaller not larger with time, it is also possible to teach a model pass the knowledge cut-off with tools and an LLM might be encouraged to be aware of the gap and reach out for the latest information when it might have changed (pi is still pi but the country with the most people might have changed)
ofirg··on Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
it improves the worse case cost given a nearly full hash map, it hurts raises the cost in other cases.
ofirg··on Wiki: Secretariat(horse)
10x horse
ofirg··on Will plants grow on the moon?
Is the radiation not similar to the one you get in space? seems like that would be a cheaper place to test the effects of radiation.
ofirg··on Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript
support for typescript as long as you are only using it for type checking, not if you are also using features that are not supported in the javascript version you are targeting.
ofirg··on Individualized Spaced Repetition in Hierarchical Knowledge Structures
sorry wrong patent link: https://www.patentsencyclopedia.com/app/20160035249
ofirg··on Individualized Spaced Repetition in Hierarchical Knowledge Structures
Our company (Language Zen) has this patent https://patents.google.com/patent/EP1891619A2/en and we have done work to teach hierarchical knowledge for language learning
ofirg··on Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
I support closing the offices and making them persona non grata, but blocking the site is wrong and silly, makes us look like we are afraid of words.
ofirg··on ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire
Barak very recently (under 1 year) and strongly attacked the governments legal reform plans
ofirg··on Beaver Drop
it seems like we are devolving as a civilization, when was the last time we air dropped wild animals? some are even beginning to wonder if we still have the capability.
ofirg··on Takahiro Koga Spikes Ceramics to Show the Power of Objects
This object menaces with spikes of golden plastic and silver plastic
ofirg··on You do need a technical co-founder [video]
to dream is to be mad. so that tracks.
ofirg··on You do need a technical co-founder [video]
"but based on the thousands of companies YC has funded over the years, companies lacking a technical co-founder underperform"

which could mean soon-to-be-underperforming companies fail to attract technical co-founders

ofirg··on Blackmail as a Victimless Crime: Reply to Altman (1998)
Blackmail is often restricted to publishing information regarding an illegel activity, not just an embarrassing one, in which case the public is the victim of both the potential coverup and the discriminatory enforcement of the law.
ofirg··on “Design choice was made by accounting and legal. Therefore, won’t fix” (2020)
"Cannot simultaneously fix and keep job" In the cyberpunk dystopia we are moving towards, job fixes you!
ofirg··on Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech
one step closer to being able to "read minds", reading is automatic so cooperation is not required
ofirg··on Newspapers have dropped the 'Dilbert' comic strip after creator's racist rant
I am not having fun.
ofirg··on Conversational AI will be used to Manipulate Us in real-time
I suggest editing will to is
ofirg··on The <Dialog> Element
Maybe someone can explain the reason why the imperative and the declarative way of controlling the open state works differently.

I run into the modal/no modal thing just a day ago.

ofirg··on How should we handle an over-productive employee?
I will pay money to talk to bob and might solve your problem by taking him off your hands.
ofirg··on AI Dungeon 2 costing over $10k/day to run on GCS/Colab
One would need to read the install.sh base file to know where to copy the model from the torrent into. and then manually install the other dependencies. If someone could make a friendlier version or at least better instructions more people would give it a try.
ofirg··on How to slice your code into continuations
Technically, everyone has that ability.
ofirg··on React Fire: Modernizing React DOM
Can someone with knowledge of the internals of react-native-web estimate the effect of these changes on the project? are other similar projects like ReactXp better immune?
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