Tankenstein

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Building https://handhold.io

Previously built and led engineering of the send product at wise.com

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Comment · 3 months ago
Most of the time when upgrading models we have needed to change prompts to get the same performance (let alone better performance). Usually, your prompt is overfit to the specific model doing the specific task. For example often your previous prompt is overspecifying and creating contradictions that a dumber model would just gloss over whereas a smarter model will try even harder to follow.
Comment · 8 months ago
Render.com has a similar value proposition. I’ve used them and am pretty happy. Railway seems to have more bundled observability built in, that i’d like in render.
Comment · 9 months ago
I moved to render years ago and have been very happy with the decision. It feels like heroku, if it never got acquired by salesforce and kept improving.
Comment · 10 months ago
Happy new year from Estonia!
Comment · 11 months ago
Looks like a demonstration that using `long double` math requires dipping into x87 instructions, specifically the `fldt` instruction: "floating point load ten bytes".
Comment · 11 months ago
This is the first time since GPT 4.1 that I think I can upgrade our main agent model. Any noticeable amount of reasoning has been too slow for us, since the model is having a real-time conversation with the user. "minimal" reasoning GPT-5 performs terribly, it's significantly dumber than GPT 4.1 in a long, multi-turn conversation with tools.

This time, I just dropped it in and at first glance it seems to work well. I'll probably upgrade over the weekend if I see a boost in performance somewhere after tuning the prompts.

Comment · 11 months ago
x86 to arm compatibility layer they are using to run windows games on the machine/frame
Comment · 1 year ago
A few additional points of context to consider:

- The "Turkey taught Putin" narrative is kind of BS. The leader of Turkey imprisoned the pilot who shot down the Russian jet, essentially saying he acted on his own. Afterwards, Turkey bought Russian military equipment. This reaction is the opposite of sovereignty.

- Speculation: Russia is looking to provoke Europe into responding. The thinking is to get Europe to focus on their own air defense, over assisting Ukraine. This is why the general, and correct, response in Europe is to keep calm and keep sending air defense equipment to Ukraine instead of freaking out. There of course are some lines where it is not possible to shrug it off, like recently in Poland, where the situation was so unsafe that we had to react with weapons. The most important element of Europe's security is that the Ukraine war does not end in a victory for Russia.

Edit: Formatting

Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you for the additional context. Based on this, I agree that Oslo might not actually be related.
Comment · 1 year ago
While the motive is speculation - each event the poster pointed out happened. These are not normal events.
Comment · 1 year ago
If the intent is to harass - lights on is the way to go, to make their presence very clearly known.
Comment · 1 year ago
There's footage of this incident, footage of monday's Copenhagen incident, and there were arrests in Oslo on monday for another incident over Oslo.
Comment · 1 year ago
When this happened on monday night at Copenhagen airport, they described them as "big". Speculation: seems like large commercial quadrotors.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
This person posts large amounts of misinformation, best not to read into it.

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