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rusticpenn··on How to grow a cacao tree at home (2024)
Most seeds dont taste good unless they are processed right?
rusticpenn··on Why do we have so many meetings?
Well, its meant as an exam for foreign students whose first language is not English. Its important to understand that they probably write much better in their first language.
rusticpenn··on The iPhone Duo
I wonder why there is a need for a nice display on the outside at all. maybe a small display showing notifications or something should be enough. Then the developers can only focus on the inside display.
rusticpenn··on OpenAI CLI
There are different ways of using AI. Experienced software developers can easily still test their "vibe coded" app for most common bugs.
rusticpenn··on Where is all the new, good software?
Most actual software written using "Agile" methods is also supposed to be fragile (unless an actual good engineer is steering it)
rusticpenn··on Where is all the new, good software?
Usually it starts like this.
rusticpenn··on Denmark set to allow return of 'physical force' in school
Thankfully, My parents who were both teachers specifically told my teachers not to hurt me physically and my teachers actually listensed to them.
rusticpenn··on OKI Develops 124-Layer PCB Technology
There should be tools to intelligently route the signals
rusticpenn··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
It depends. I have compard some answers with my discussions with different llms and i still find the answers in the sub qualitatively better.
rusticpenn··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
There is another sub which tracks answered questions. Its a side effect when focussing on quality.
rusticpenn··on Why the Bronze Age Collapsed
But IVC had already crashed some 600 years before the bronze age collapse and the populations had migrated to other regions.
rusticpenn··on Gemini 4 Argon
Ehh, the internet was worse before Google. Google actually became popular for having a nice blank page with only the search bar. Even the ads they had later were much cleaner compared to yahoo, altavista, lycos, aol and other firms of that time.
rusticpenn··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
Yeah, look at AskHistorians. Its still pretty awesome.
rusticpenn··on Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video]
There are a lot of environmental factors which need generational changes to make Women compete equally with Men. Most of the really talented women are never given the chances they need or their focus is diverted to "girly" things. So we are only seeing a small subset of women. To encourage more women, we need categories like this.
rusticpenn··on IBM Bob
It uses hidden models, mostly Claude and open ai models. They try to check the prompt and route to the model that is capable of it, thus saving money.
rusticpenn··on Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot
Models are bad at chess. I am using a middleman to help models play chess and experimenting. https://abhay-ai.github.io/R_Daneel_AI/
rusticpenn··on Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should "Die in a Fire" (2022)
I dislike crypto as much as the next guy but, the normal currencies are not very different.
rusticpenn··on What happens when coding agents stop feeling like dialup?
It depends on how much you want the LLM to do. I personally work on function level and can easily verify if it works with a look and few tests.
rusticpenn··on Building better AI tools
The whole field of metaheuristic algorithms rests on a similar idea. a lot of stupid "agents" finding a good solution. by metaheuristics i mean genetic algorithms, PSO, ACO etc.
rusticpenn··on GlobalFoundries to Acquire MIPS
They signed a contract with IBM to manufacture their chips at 7nm (and reneged).
rusticpenn··on GlobalFoundries to Acquire MIPS
Yeah and IBM had to move their designs in the last minute from GF to Samsung. I have heard that the Samsung process was much better and the tech transfer was easier than expected.
rusticpenn··on AI more likely to create 'yes-men on servers' than any scientific breakthroughs
Using Neural nets, Deep Learning in pharma is not something new. Naturally LLMs are different. You should look into personalized medicine.
rusticpenn··on ChatGPT's enterprise success against Copilot fuels OpenAI/Microsoft rivalry
Thats WatsonX for you now.
rusticpenn··on Ask HN: How to get rid of Gemini?
I use Ecosia and it feels much better to me.
rusticpenn··on Plants hear their pollinators, and produce sweet nectar in response
That is a leap, but its could be approached with open mind. We have learnt a lot in the last few decades that would have sounded like fantasy to someone 100 years ago.
rusticpenn··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
It will have benefits for people who own them or can afford them. It will drastically reduce jobs and make people poorer, while the rich become richer. The economical effect of the technology will be like a "nuke" on the economy.
rusticpenn··on Ask HN: With trust in Firefox gone, is Chrome-ish the only option?
I have been out of the loop, what happened with Firefox?
rusticpenn··on All Kindles can now be jailbroken
Is remarkable 2 a good ebook reader?
rusticpenn··on How did human butts evolve to look that way?
Birds knee joints are human ankle joints.
rusticpenn··on ChatGPT Pro
I use llms to do most of my dunki work.
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