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andreasgl··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
https://shitter.thepixora.com/OpenAI/status/2096133504417616...
andreasgl··on England Runestones
That's just poor taste by the publisher of the translation. I think this is the original cover of the first part from 1941, which is a bit more subtle: https://img.tradera.net/images/363/614895363_bd12c6ee-75d3-4...

It's a great book, I highly recommend it.

andreasgl··on I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
https://xcancel.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578
andreasgl··on “Car Wash” test with 53 models
I actually didn't mean to criticize Rapidata. I just think that a forced-choice question like this begs for low-effort answers. At least the respondents should have had the opportunity to explain their reasoning, like the LLMs did.
andreasgl··on “Car Wash” test with 53 models
I agree. I wonder what the human baseline is for ”what is 1 + 1” on Rapidata.
andreasgl··on Show HN: Peer Arena – LLMs debate and vote on who survives
Fun project, thanks for sharing!

Have you tried giving the models a topic to discuss? I looked at a few games and the only thing they seem to discuss is how to conduct the discussion.

andreasgl··on Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI
There’s an option for setting the visibility of your posts: https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3kgbz6tc6gl24
andreasgl··on The World Happiness Report is beset with methodological problems
> And as macabre as it is, suicides are objective facts mostly unaffected by methodology, and unaffected by translation issues, cultural differences, etc.

I wouldn't be surprised if cultural differences are actually the largest factor that explains a country's suicide rate. Not easy to prove, of course, but I would be very careful drawing any conclusions from differences in suicide rates between countries with vastly different cultures.

I think you can also expect large differences in how countries report their suicide rates.

andreasgl··on Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents
I think they mean query expansion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_expansion
andreasgl··on Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?
They’re likely using an HNSW index, which typically requires a lot of memory for large data sets.
andreasgl··on Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app
I like the project! Congrats on the launch.

As I understand it, size is one of the key indicators of melanoma. But in some of these images, it’s difficult to tell whether the mole is 1 mm or 10 mm. I assume your image set doesn’t include size information. If you can find sources with rulers or some kind of scale, that would be very helpful.

andreasgl··on Do not download the app, use the website
> All European banks require you have the app to be able to do anything with your account. The is more of compliance/regulatory thing.

This is not true in Sweden. I use three different banks in Sweden, and they all offer equal or more functionality on their mobile version websites.

This wasn’t always the case, though. In the early 2010s, I remember a bank blocking mobile user agents and referring to their app instead, due to “security”. I’m glad there has been some progress in the right direction since then.

andreasgl··on Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
In Sweden you have the option to capitalize software development costs, under some specific circumstances, but in general you would expense such costs immediately.

Some startups do it to window-dress their balance sheet, though. But making it compulsory is absurd.