eproxus
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Comment · 1 day ago
There is this article on this topic, which I found quite interesting: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.29162
Compared with human writing, all nine frontier and near-frontier models use more inanimate subjects with animate verbs and more low-frequency n-grams, and most also use longer dependencies, more stacked nouns, and more reduced object relatives in conversation. [...] We propose and test a hypothesis as to why: while human language is optimized for successful communication, AI-generated text is increasingly optimized for other goals like math, code, and reasoning, in which there is a pressure for information density rather than successful communication.
Comment · 1 month ago
It does say this: "Certain by script: these characters belong to only one language, so the model never ran."
So I think it's some buggy code in their UI that even prevents the model from running.
Comment · 1 month ago
This the correct way to look at it. Just as the person spending 5 years working on this will have learnt many things which will be useful after this problem is solved, you have to factor in the training cost (sure it's only done "once", but that is the same for the person too once they jump on the next problem).
The model wouldn't not be able to solve this without all the training leading up to the actual execution, so counting only the tokens of the execution doesn't give the full picture.
Comment · 1 month ago
What's even worse is that they now probably made it a lot worse for that family, adding stress and trauma (at the very least). So in fact, the neighbor made the kid more unsafe than they originally were.
Comment · 2 months ago
Universities, institutions and publications who care about their reputation should pay people to replicate studies performed by people they employ in their name. Otherwise they will loose their trustworthiness.
But perhaps it is not as big a shame for them as some think it should be...
Comment · 2 months ago
This would make a great tattoo, as a pun on people getting Kanji character tattoos without being able to read Kanji.
Comment · 3 months ago
Completely agree, the solution to so many privacy invasions and problems in tech is just because ads are allowed.
Would love to see a society where ads are not allowed. Cannot really see any downsides personally, but I’m sure many will claim ”how will companies survive?!” Hard to see it would lead to the collapse of either companies or society, but maybe of capitalism as we know it (which I think given the current state of the world would be such a bad thing).
Comment · 3 months ago
If that is true, isn't it a bit unconventional? What version are they using, some random Git SHA? Why couldn't that have been made to a release or a release candidate at least?
Comment · 3 months ago
And if you install Tailscale you can even use it as an exit node to surf from home when you're traveling.
Comment · 3 months ago
This is actually is an interesting example, because Cities Skylines 2 has been handed over from Colossal Order to Iceflake Studios recently and since then they have (in my opinion) quickly been able to improve and fix a lot of things that CO weren't able pull off for years. So perhaps CO's development was somewhat of a "total shit show"?
I'm not saying Unity should publish PR about how Unity is working well and this handover and subsequent fixes proves it, but I think you could argue that they could and that they would have at least some facts to back it up with.
Comment · 4 months ago
Location: Berlin, Germany, Europe
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Technologies: Erlang/Elixir, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, HTTP, Rest, OpenAPI, Grafana
Resumé/CV: https://web.tresorit.com/l/k25pI#bXLXsrFlwqMqLkE47_s2Ig
Github: https://github.com/eproxus
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Senior backend engineer with 20+ years of Erlang/Elixir experience across payments, cloud, IoT, and large-scale game backends. Author and maintainer of widely-used open source Erlang libraries. Passionate about scalability, quality, testing and performance.
Comment · 4 months ago
I still use K-Lite since they ship MPC-HC (a fork of Media Player Classic) that comes with really good HDR support and default configuration out of the box. If you don't like to have the desktop in HDR you can even configure it to automatically toggle on/off HDR whenever an HDR movies is played.
The HDR support in VLC has been really lackluster. Maybe it is better nowadays, I don't know.
Comment · 5 months ago
Location: Berlin, Germany, Europe
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Erlang/OTP, Elixir, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, HTTP, Rest, OpenAPI, Grafana
Resumé/CV: https://web.tresorit.com/l/k25pI#bXLXsrFlwqMqLkE47_s2Ig
Github: https://github.com/eproxus
Email: see profile
Senior backend engineer with 20+ years of Erlang/Elixir experience across payments, cloud, IoT, and large-scale game backends. Author and maintainer of widely-used open source Erlang libraries. Speaker and teacher at conferences
Comment · 5 months ago
I've also switched to Instant Space Switcher, it is soo good! Previously I used BetterMouse for only this feature but they made the space switching worse in later versions (slower, on-par with the default macOS speed).
Here's the link if anyone is curious: https://github.com/jurplel/InstantSpaceSwitcher
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