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rightbyte··on New AI tutor achieves 0.71-1.30 SD effect size in Dartmouth course [pdf]
Yeah you'd need to compare this method with some classic method as a control. Otherwise "engagement" is just an indirect measure of how much the students studied.
rightbyte··on Knowledge Should Not Be Gated
It is rather vague whether you count Sam Altman et al. as "chronically online".
rightbyte··on Knowledge Should Not Be Gated
Sounds like a children story about not making a deal with the Devil?

The implied part the children already know from other stories is:

The magic elves have a recorded history of laughing at their customers when they are on the toilette, hitting on their husbands/wifes and misleading their children into worshipping the elvendom and wander off into the forest.

The story ends in some sort of catharsis for the protagonist when the elves go one step too far. In the happy ending variant Disney makes a version off it is not too late.

rightbyte··on Knowledge Should Not Be Gated
It seems beyond naive, rather malicious, to upload any useful private data to SaaS LLMs.

Like, you are letting them data mine your business. Why are corporations not panicing over this?

rightbyte··on GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance
Sam Altman, good reputation?

> With OpenAI, at least my gpt-5.5 is the same as your gpt-5.5.

How do we know that? The "orchestration" layer probably forwards to different levels of quantization. And it seems tempting to make some sort of load balancer with adaptive computation effort.

rightbyte··on "Beyond the limit": Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky
There are no upside for non Starlink subscribers and we weren't asked either.

I dunno how many times a day they snoop my phone position from space. Best case Mr Musk only know there is a phone here on the sun deck not which one. I don't know if the signal leaks PI.

rightbyte··on "Beyond the limit": Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky
I'd say Starlink's main selling point is spying not utility for cell phone users.
rightbyte··on Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021)
Interesting project. A floppy sized OS seems about right, excluding some sort of driver tree.

OS preferences seem to boil down to "have someone else made this app work on the system" which makes it very much a network effect issue.

And if you use such an OS to boot a bloated Firefox, then there is hardly any point.

rightbyte··on 60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it
> a compression strategy

To me compression implies smaller size? However new line chars seems to be removed in the pic so I guess it could be expressed in fewer bytes than the original text with further compression ...

rightbyte··on An American Privacy Emergency
I think it is more that corps select which politician gets ahead than that they are beholden to them.

50k USD is a an awful lot of money for a lower level politician to run an election campaign with.

rightbyte··on Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity
I tried to do a calculation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48762428

So 10% failure rate per gpu year. Some might be repairable and there might be a failure rate acceleration as time passes etc. So very approximate numbers.

rightbyte··on Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity
> (accumulating GPUs is not trivial)

Also like accumulating milk rather than gold.

A approximate failure rate I have been able to find is: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

Which would imply 42% loss over 5 years if linear attrition at 10% failure rate per gpu year.

(((1-(148+72+19+17+6)÷16 384)^(1÷54))^(365)

Dunno how many faults are repairable in practice. The failure rates of CPUs were alot lower for comparison.

rightbyte··on Bring back crappy forums
> the liveliness of the discussions have a shelf life of a day

Yeah "bumping" of threads is a major feature lacking on algorithmic forums.

rightbyte··on Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
That is becouse those wash and drying machines are bad at drying the cloths.
rightbyte··on Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
If that is the scenario there is no way the EU, a trade union, can compete anyway so why bother.
rightbyte··on Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Not doing anything and avoiding the mania as much as possible seem to be a winning move.
rightbyte··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
Yes. Until the 1WW.
rightbyte··on One million passports leaked online
To sign on for a house, marry, claim a child as yours etc you need witnesses where I live. Web of trust I guess?

If someone takes a loan in my name and I don't receive the money it is not an identity theft it is fraud and the victim is the bank not me.

rightbyte··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
People change. Mossulini was a socialist in his youth.
rightbyte··on Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf]
Poe's law apply to real life too.
rightbyte··on AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers
I think you might have constructed a straw man. Not working FTE to ruin society is not "activism" and many big tech companies are more or less profiteering of good will and trust and spitting out money and misery.
rightbyte··on HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88
How can there be noise in floating point operations? I could buy like completion order for parallized batches i.e. adding a+b+c is different from a+c+b etc.
rightbyte··on Why current LLM costs are not sustainable
The leak really doesn't say that. We have no way of knowing what posts are in the different categories.
rightbyte··on The last Romans are still around
Doesn't "Roman" imply Roman Empire, not the city, though? Those principal component analysis mappings are also quite susceptible to heavy leaning on a posteriori interpretations.
rightbyte··on Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
Nice. Is the data points y-axis normalized by total amount of comments at that time?

Edit: Nvm seems like absolute count if you click the graph.

rightbyte··on GTA 6 will cost $80
Hmm ... yeah I guess I would feel the same with an always hooked up PC connected to the TV with some sort of nice splash screen.

I was too fixated on a classical gaming PC with mouse and keyboard.

rightbyte··on GTA 6 will cost $80
I think the difference is phycological. I am way more relaxed infront of a TV. It is like a different mood.
rightbyte··on Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
Well try to make a withdrawal and see how convinient that might be. Internet casinos are usually easy to get money into but hard to get money out of.
rightbyte··on I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M
"Corporatism" not "cooperatism" though, right?

Nothing wrong with cooperatism I think.

rightbyte··on The AI Hate Progression
Adding an lying abstraction just makes noticeing lies even harder. Google's summary even lies about the sources for the lies.
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