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alienbaby··on Every GPU That Mattered
Ok? Not bad to be able to throw something like that together with minimal effort. Works nicely enough.
alienbaby··on What if AI doesn't need more RAM but better math?
Ive thought for a while that the real gains now will not come from throwing more hardware at the problem, but advances in mathematical techniques to make things for more efficient.
alienbaby··on Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label
I'd wish more for an impartial, considered judgement
alienbaby··on France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app
They don't like it up 'em
alienbaby··on OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
its hard not to wonder if they are taking their own medicine, but not quite properly
alienbaby··on 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
is this the market played in front of our eyes slice by slice: ok, maybe not, but watching these entities duke it out is kinda amusing? There will be consequences but may as well sit it out for the ride, who knows where we are going?
alienbaby··on US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]
- All your base are belong to us
alienbaby··on Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions
Juniors really aren't just as capable with AI as anyone. Knowing how to unambiguously describe correctly what you want isn't something a junior can do, nor is understanding if what the ai produces is good or bad.
alienbaby··on Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions
The junior engineer will become a senior. An llm wont. For now, anyway.
alienbaby··on A CPU that runs entirely on GPU
I always understood the main difference between CPU and GPU is that CPU's are specialised to handle branching, where GPUs are not.
alienbaby··on A bit of fluid mechanics from scratch not from scratch
Thankyou :)
alienbaby··on The Xkcd thing, now interactive
Ooh I didn't expect that make me grin and be satisfying at the same time.
alienbaby··on A bit of fluid mechanics from scratch not from scratch
Unfortunately nobody in the UK can see the images in the blog, 'cause imgur
alienbaby··on Setting up OpenClaw on a cloud VM
Put it in a box and then give it read write access to all your valuable data. That'll do it....
alienbaby··on New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes
I continue to write like I always have done, and if people think it's AI I really couldn't care less.
alienbaby··on AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
Not really.
alienbaby··on UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (2025)
I feel this
alienbaby··on Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks
Is this not reducible to whether a speech sound contains fricatives and stops or not? They produce spiky sounds

But I guess it's about why so we associate those with spiky shapes, though surely it's because they represent sharp immediate changes in frequency?

I'd be interested on results of shapes imagined when you take the source as musical or other non speech sounds.

alienbaby··on IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption
"software engineers will spend less time on routine coding—and more on interacting with customers"

Ahh, what could possibly go wrong!

alienbaby··on OpenAI should build Slack
Is it me or does the article mix characters with different fonts weights through the text?
alienbaby··on Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube
If I remember right, the graphics in early episodes were rendered on commodore amigas
alienbaby··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
I think you may be attributing far too much malice of forethought to any them that may be conspiring to design the 'system'
alienbaby··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
Start last year I got police raid?

Why are you embedding messages in caps in your content?

alienbaby··on Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
The best I've heard is rewriting prompts as summaries before forwarding them to the underlying ai, but has it's own obvious shortcomings, and it's still possible. If harder. To get injection to work
alienbaby··on Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
It's not about being unconvinced, it is a mathematical truth. The control and data streams are both in the prompt and there is no way to definitively isolate one from another.
alienbaby··on Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
Until Claude decides to build its own tool on the fly to talk to your dB and drop the tables
alienbaby··on Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
The control and data streams are woven together (context is all just one big prompt) and there is currently no way to tell for certain which is which.
alienbaby··on Games Workshop bans staff from using AI
I seee companies making statements like these (LArian and others) that must be afraid of the reaction from their customers if they decided they would use AI will eventually come to regret it. There will be other companies that do what they do better and faster because they leverage AI as part of the process, and I believe very soon the backlash against AI will disappear as people begin using products with AI that are really very good and they will jsuit stop caring / forget they had an issue with it in the first place as they watch their friends and others who dont care enjoying themselves regardless.
alienbaby··on Show HN: A simulator for engineers transitioning from IC to management
Exactly what I was thinking. Is someone letting their ai agent do _all the work?
alienbaby··on Boston Dynamics and DeepMind form new AI partnership
I thought antigravity was a great name, I assumed obliquely referencing xkcd
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