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transitorykris

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transitorykris··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
Every interesting problem I ever had that I checked SO for was either off topic and modded down or the original poster said “I found a solution” and disappeared. Pure misery!
transitorykris··on If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?
Also, some subset of developers on subscriptions are going to develop products that use the API, and some of those products are going to be successful.
transitorykris··on How to Formalize All of Mathematics
Only a minor in mathematics here. That's interesting that it struggles with definitions. Maybe unsurprising given the different ways they're chosen and written (motivational, aesthetic, pedagogical, etc)? A big lever to keep hold of.
transitorykris··on How to Formalize All of Mathematics
I like the pragmatic take on AI in mathematics. Running off and proving/formalizing things in incomprehensible ways is marginally useful, and probably harmful for any work that needs to move beyond it. But, there's value in what AI is capable of doing for working mathematicians, when used as a partner.

The genie is out of the bottle though. It's hard to see how there won't be weird and inscrutable branches of mathematics that LLMs build and use effectively _for themselves_, in the same way much of the slop LLMs write in spoken language is really for the consumption of LLMs.

Surely there will be a new kind of research mathematician that's investigating this output in the same way, say, academics in literature read.

transitorykris··on Do dentists know what they're doing?
Dentists are terrible and I find it impossible to believe any of them do it because they’re passionate about teeth.
transitorykris··on How to engineer an AI harness for game development
> Any time I tried to use an LLM for a game-y thing, it would fall over. Maybe this is my own bias. I’ve been a game programmer for nearly 15 years, I think I know how things work. I can sniff out “bad” game code a mile away. But when it comes to Svelte web-apps, I’m decidedly less well versed and am inclined to think that whatever code the LLM produces is “good”.

It feels like the discovery of a specific form of gell-mann amnesia. I know when working with an agent through areas where I have domain expertise I catch bad assumptions, decisions, etc. But then, unfortunately, have to trust it much more where I have minimal expertise.

transitorykris··on Lobbying
Are the bribes better in other countries because they don't have a funny euphemism and carried out loosely in public?
transitorykris··on LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents
Is it necessary to equate AGI with consciousness?
transitorykris··on Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
To expand a bit for my current use cases. Inline routing of work to heavy task specific models, and prompt/context generation (user is asking something, what and how much should we prompt the expensive LLM with). Latency or time to first token does matter for some applications.
transitorykris··on Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
Or just write one gnarly detailed form and let the consumer generate the form that works best for them (preferably with their own local model)
transitorykris··on Markdown in /src
Giving the same PDRs, docs, tickets, etc to humans will never give deterministic output, I'm willing to accept the same from my agents
transitorykris··on OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev
You can easily use Jev without an LLM (consider Jev used to make truthy decision branches in a script). It's not meant to replace LLMs. The tech is not a competition. But OpenAI is certainly in competition with TypeSafe, they'll want to keep people in their own ecosystem!
transitorykris··on Saving another 100TB of RAM
They wanted that in the 90s, didn't work out well as a software product https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftRAM
transitorykris··on Connecting the machines
These are two different layers in the stack that do two different jobs. Agent to agent communication across remote machines is definitely lubricated with tailscale, I’m not sure what value moving up the stack would bring at this stage?

My read here isn’t about connecting to remote machines in the sense of ssh, but presenting a unified view across herdr instances running on multiple remote machines.

This stinks of the same enshittification moves Docker made 10 years ago.

transitorykris··on A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads
The ad in itself probably has no practical value. The surprising nature of its staying power is curious. And curiosity is a strong signal. Good luck.
transitorykris··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
100% convinced their raw output is intended as further inputs, and my workflows have been comfortable and efficient treating it as such. If you really need to read slop, you ask your agent to give it to you in a style that works for you. I can imagine a world where the slop from others doesn’t hit us directly but gets personal mediation.
transitorykris··on Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
The only time I ever used it (as a turk?) was when Jim Gray went missing at sea and satellite imagery of vast regions of the pacific were fed through Mechanical Turk. Seems a trivial problem now, but was not then, and needed humans to take a look.
transitorykris··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
Well, if they didn't want a dominant investor, they didn't get one, they got acquired.
transitorykris··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
I've been running a desktop Mac in addition to MacBook and iPad for the past decade (currently a first gen Studio still holding quite strong). It's primarily a focus thing, secondarily it's a way to keep work happening locally while I'm elsewhere, and never have the frustrations of docking and screen geometries all re-arranging, etc. The iPad is at the opposite extreme, it's for recreation, burn out management. The MacBook exists for when I actually need to do "real work" outside of the house.
transitorykris··on OpenLogi
At this point we should be sharing prompts not code for solutions like OpenLogi. Reverse engineering many things can typically be one-shotted (ignoring things like.. capturing a pcap or whatever to aid the effort). Let others add their own taste to the solution.
transitorykris··on Finger: the 1971 social network that never died
The grey beards in the mid-90s cut their teeth on much more constrained systems! The web crawling these days probably has all the ones who have passed spinning rapidly in their graves.
transitorykris··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
I’m either out of touch with contemporary terminology but Opus 5 dropped “pre-mortem” on me today. Figured I’d just figure it out with more context.
transitorykris··on Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory
Modifying those games were the first times I ever touched code! There was one that existed somewhere between DOS 2.0 and 3.2 that simply asked your name, then asked how the hell you got that name. It was maybe half a dozen lines, but easy enough to modify output and learn a bit about variables.
transitorykris··on Chartreuse, a case study in how scarcity and authenticity can drive desirability
Wine certainly. Guinness was marketed as being good for you and not uncommon for pregnant women to drink it. Old liqueurs were often considered medicine, with Chartreuse from the article being one. Doctors used to prescribe alcohol during prohibition, but that probably doesn’t count here.
transitorykris··on Chartreuse, a case study in how scarcity and authenticity can drive desirability
Jim Beam even had to halt production due to the oversupply: https://www.fooddive.com/news/jim-beam-pauses-production-ken...

We stock Chartreuse at our bar, not easy, and we occasionally have to modulate the cocktails on the menu to slow customers down a bit. The Bay Area itself gets an allocation each month, which is then further allocated to individual establishments.

transitorykris··on Ethical Cold Outreach
System Z is vaguely the read reply cards you would find in magazines. While I enjoyed the snail mail spammed materials, my parents were terrorized through the entire 90s by my abuse of those found in professional magazines like Computer Language.
transitorykris··on Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes
To bring that full circle, Fairmont (the hotel) does their house Old Fashioned using 50/50 rum and bourbon. I believe it was Mount Gay and Woodford.
transitorykris··on Pareto Front
You’d be looking at fuel level affecting choices of ride height, brake bias, etc. Possibly changes in line and distance travelled too. But, I’m curious how psychology can fit in here (or not. How do you measure it?). Driver concentration and confidence are important when trimming out aero or other adjustments for single lap flyers.
transitorykris··on RamenHaus
It's a fun scene, but dear beginners, just eat the ramen. Be curious as usual about all the things. But you do not need to poke at your food and get all contemplative over fast food. I defy anyone to find a salaryman in Tokyo at 7am before work plowing a bowl of ramen (and clearly enjoying it) and also being weird about it.
transitorykris··on US DOT deleting bike lane references
"Since nearly 80% of the population uses cars to get to work and their important medical appointments, we are taking a closer look at federal guidance to ensure American families have the infrastructure they need," the spokesperson said. "This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda."

Jumping straight into the middle of the article you might believe you stumbled onto The Onion.

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