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Comment · 3 days ago
The UI has lots of issues everywhere and constantly, but unfortunately it's by far the best if you look at the competition.
Comment · 7 days ago
No, pi is the harness. You may have chosen the most minimal harness available, but it's still a harness.
Comment · 17 days ago
As a part of the language? Are they really? You can do it all with library functions that just take regular int* (and so on).

Not that I'd want it, I like complex type systems, but I see it as philosophically consistent with C.

Comment · 25 days ago
It's literally a 3.0.0. Why have a major version at all in that case?
Comment · 26 days ago
American copyright, as opposed to most European copyrights, only protects creative works. Fully machine generated weights are not creative as no human touched them. You can copyright the training code, you can't copyright the output.

There is an argument that it's a derivative work and it's therefore copyrighted under the same protection as the training data, but that gives the rights to the owners of the training data, not the ai-lab. Courts are seemingly mostly rejecting this though as it's different enough to be fair use.

Comment · 28 days ago
1 page = 0 clicks, just scrolling. What you mean is called "above the fold"
Comment · 1 month ago
And their names are so frustrating. We don't run 16 bit systems any more. Word is a word that means something and I don't care what a word was on the 8086. The only honest things the WORD macro could expand to are size_t and ssize_t. 64bit is not a quad word, it's just a word.
Comment · 1 month ago
And in some contexts you have the subtle distinction that fold is linear and reduce requires an associative operation and an identity element (aka a monoid)
Comment · 2 months ago
Yes! This is by far the number one program I've missed since I left Windows years ago. GIMP is so unfriendly, krita is for drawing, pinta is a very shallow clone that only just stopped crashing a few months ago. Paint.net is just better in every way.
Comment · 2 months ago
~1960

ELIZA beat the Turing test and then everyone forgot about it. Humans are just really terrible at recognising robots.

Comment · 2 months ago
Intelligence is still not well defined, and by more solid attempt LLMs absolutely are.

Intelligence, Knowledge and Sentience are three very separate concepts.

Comment · 2 months ago
They moved from HBM to dedicated silicon and only got a 48x speed up? That is so, so, so much less than I would've expected. Any numbers on how it scales?
Comment · 3 months ago
There's a zed minus the iffy bits fork called gram. Haven't used it though, I'm still stuck in Emacs trying to figure out how to get out.
Comment · 3 months ago
Anthropic basically downgraded all their tiers when they released Mythos, no nah, Sonnet 5 is the successor to Haiku 4.x
Comment · 3 months ago
Emergent phenomena = pass/fail grading of multi part problems. If you're just gonna count it as a fail you're not gonna see the progress until everything works, even if every single subproblem improves linearly.

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