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amitav1··on Kimi Claw
I prefer OpenClaw because it's more persistent. I know, I know, theoretically you could do the same thing with Claude Code and markdown files (which, to be fair, is pretty much how OpenClaw works), I guess it's mostly the telegram interface I like. Most of the time I don't have my laptop with me, and ssh using Termux, and opening a remote claude code is a much greater hassle than sending a telegram message, and with telegram (or whatsapp or discord or whatever) you get the benefit of being able to send voice messages, which I find very useful. In what way is Clawdbot "insane"? Obviously if you give it write access to your email and twitter and whatnot, that's not great, but for me I really just give it access to that probably wouldn't ruin my life / career if they got out (e.g. my class notes and Anki decks).
amitav1··on Kimi Claw
I don't see why not, but I also have no experience in that sort of stuff, so take my endorsement with a grain of salt
amitav1··on Kimi Claw
By schedule my tasks throughout the day, I mean that it will figure out when I should do each thing, not that it does all of the things for me.
amitav1··on Kimi Claw
Personally, I use it to manage all of the stuff I don't want to. I give it my course content and it makes flashcards for me to review. I give it my tasks and it schedules them throughout the day. All of the menial stuff that is necessary but not productive. It also has a much better memory than I do on account of it's constant access to a filesystem and grep. It's like my personal assistant and tutor and guidance counsellor and sysadmin, all in one. I do think that a) you need to stick with it for a few days and b) use a good model. When I first started using it, it was just a worse version of ChatGPT, but after bringing in all of my data from ChatGPT it's a lot easier for it to search for stuff when it's confused. Now it can also do stuff like manage nginx or my sync serviceand whatnot, ~autonomously. Originally I was using locally running qwen models, but they were so timid as to be useless. Right now I'm using Kimi 2.5 as my model.
amitav1··on Self Driving Car Insurance
Because LLCs aren't people
amitav1··on Prism
Am I missing something? LaTeX is associated with slop now?
amitav1··on Prism
How would this work for independent researchers?

(no snark)

amitav1··on Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops
I can't think of anybody apart from Osama bin Laden who wouldn't want to play Candy Crush. \s
amitav1··on Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops
Something with KDE. Never used KDE extensively because I hate non-tiling WMs, but something like Kubuntu would give you a more windows-esque experience by default. Here's the download link:

https://kubuntu.org/download/

Bon appetit!

amitav1··on GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers
I guess the way one would verify that this is more general trend in academia would be to run this on accepted papers to a non-AI conference?
amitav1··on Show HN: Bible translated using LLMs from source Greek and Hebrew
It was slow to load for me but loaded eventually.
amitav1··on GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers
I'm doing some research, and this is something I'm unsure of. I see that "suppressing null results" is a bad thing, and I sort of agree, but for me personally, a lot of the null results are just the result of my own incompetence and don't contain any novel insights.
amitav1··on OpenAI to begin testing ads on ChatGPT in the U.S.
I mean, to steelman their point, there's a lot more misinformation than information on Google. I still personally think that it's a worthwhile trade though
amitav1··on Reducing Dependabot Noise
I believe so
amitav1··on OpenAI to begin testing ads on ChatGPT in the U.S.
> "it objectively made the search product worse"

I would disagree, because without the advertising there probably would be no Google.

amitav1··on OpenAI to begin testing ads on ChatGPT in the U.S.
Google is one the most important institution of the Internet era. Talk all you'd like about "OoOoH tHeY aDvErTiSe" or "tHeiR aLgOrItHm Is GeTtInG wOrSe" but at the end of the day, Google still brought knowledge to more people than anything before (apart from maybe Gutenberg).
amitav1··on OpenAI to begin testing ads on ChatGPT in the U.S.
The way you phrased this makes it sound like he's a shill, but his takes about AI don't seem unusually complementary.
amitav1··on Cloudflare acquires Astro
"I don't care, it's a stupid question."
amitav1··on How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart
Take my upvote and leave this platform forever
amitav1··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://amitav.net
amitav1··on Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities with Sex Scandals
For me personally, LLMshave helped me learn 10x faster than I would be able to otherwise. IMO, in 15 years, teachers with university degrees at all wll be as rare as teachers with PhDs today, because the actual teaching will be left to the LLMs.
amitav1··on The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management (2025)
This is the end result of Finland annexing the UK, lol
amitav1··on Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines
I think GP meant that in the sense that the EU is not a nation, it's a union of nations.
amitav1··on Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines
Cloudflare's job is not to call truth to power. Cloudflare's job is to make money.
amitav1··on The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café
The next billion-dollar idea.
amitav1··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
C-canadian??
amitav1··on Build a Deep Learning Library
This is cool! This summer I made something similar but in C++. The goal was to build an entire LLM, but I only got to neural networks. GitHub repo here: https://github.com/amitav-krishna/llm-from-scratch. I have a few blogs on this project on my website (https://amitav.net/building-lists.html, https://amitav.net/building-vectors.html, https://amitav.net/building-matrices.html (incomplete)). I hope to finish that series eventually, but some other projects have stolen the spotlight! It probably would have made more sense to write it in Python because I had no C++ experience.
amitav1··on UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating
Oops, didn't get enough sleep last night, it should be stressed out of his mind.
amitav1··on UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating
That last sentence reminded me of a story one of my religion teachers told us last year: he was in university, and the way the course was structured was something like there were two exams, mid-term and final, each worth like 50%, but you could choose to not do the mid-term, and have the final be worth 100%. He chose the latter, and ended up being stressed out of the mine preparing for the exam. I can't remember if there was supposed to be a moral to the story, but it was a funny story, at least. It was probably funnier in-person than it will be for the person reading this comment.
amitav1··on UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating
This comment made me laugh, because I was looking into doing an online highschool, and while looking for discussions on the pros/cons, I stumbled upon the Reddit, which was all "Does anybody have the answers to the Unit 3 test for Mr. ${LAST_NAME}'s MCR3U class? I have $20." or "Selling the answers to the Unit 4 test for Mrs. ${LAST_NAME}'s ENG4U class for $30." That scared me off of doing high school online.
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