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awestroke··on Mistral Large 4
> Do you have any evidence to the contrary?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowden_disclosures

awestroke··on Sites in ChatGPT
something that solves a real problem for businesses, that you are uniquely positioned to execute on well. If you target the lowest common denominator, or consumers, or build something really quickly - good luck
awestroke··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
New Siri is not available in the EU. And no plans to change that.

I'll probably switch to Android once my phone and watch batteries degrade enough to annoy me

awestroke··on Benchmark: CadQuery vs. OpenSCAD for agentic CAD work
Replicad is another frontend to the same cad kernel. But can run in browser or via bun or whichever js runtime you want. I've found llms to be better at writing typescript than python code for things like this.

Using Replicad, I've successfully iterated on a 3d printed enclosure for my electronics project. It's fantastic to get everything parameter based and version controlled from revision 1.

awestroke··on Compute-efficient pretraining and scaling to trillion-parameter models
> What does that get you?

Cheaper model training runs? Ability to scale training to larger model sizes without extending training time?

awestroke··on Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'
"The scenario has been explored in fiction" doesn’t mean "everything in fiction will happen." Your reply conflates familiarity with inevitability.

Science fiction is relevant here because it has explored the problem of humans losing control of what they create. Whether that could happen with AI needs to be assessed on its merits. Pointing to other fictional things that haven’t happened neither answers that question nor rebuts the original point.

awestroke··on The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
AI companies use heuristics to filter sessions, then llms to further filter, then use various techniques too anonymize the session, then process it and add it to various datasets for further selection and refinement. they don't need huge storage for this.
awestroke··on Pigeon, a signed Pass for what a sub-agent may do
A trivial problem solved in a very complex way
awestroke··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
It's only theft when people pay Anthropic for inference in order to improve their own datasets. It's not theft when Anthropic grabbed basically all ebooks and web content on the internet to build their own dataset, without paying anything to anyone
awestroke··on Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified
Imagine a person who does not want social media companies to shape their reality, yet does not want their perception of reality to be compromised by hallucinations. Or perhaps you would be fine with being snuck LSD on your way to work, or court, or picking up your kids from kindergarten? Most people do not seek out hallucinations
awestroke··on Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast
the easier way to do this, with any harness, is to use an expensive main agent that is told to delegate all code reading, writing, exploration, research etc to weaker subagents to conserve tokens. It's an inversion of the pattern but the resulting split is the same
awestroke··on Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified
The large majority of people want absolutely nothing to do with hallucinations
awestroke··on OpenAI's new device will be hockey puck-sized and cost over $300
Oh, so starting Siri on my iphone is the exact same experience as having a voice conversation with a SOTA LLM?
awestroke··on The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment
Title implies people will flock to a pill that makes them shed gray matter
awestroke··on OpenAI's new device will be hockey puck-sized and cost over $300
1. You can't just press a button on your phone to instantly start an ai voice conversation

2. You can't bring your smart speakers with you everywhere, also same as 1

3. See 1 and 2

awestroke··on Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era
Different charting backends support different kinds of charts. Being able to easily switch between "ECharts Sunburst" and "Vega-Lite faceted bar" - one of the examples on the project website - seems like a super useful ability.
awestroke··on Claude Opus 5
Doubleplus benchmaxxed
awestroke··on HMD Touch 4G
> Currently only available in India

Closes tab

awestroke··on Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
Faster package manager

Faster startup

Typescript support out of the box

Better stdlib than node

Stdlib includes yaml, sqlite etc so you need to pull in fewer deps, so you can avoid the left-pad/is-even node_modules explosion problem to a greater extent

awestroke··on Designing emoji for the way we communicate today
oh, are they going to adjust the eggplant emoji to match modern usage? And perhaps the peach emoji as well?
awestroke··on EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
This is maybe only tangentially relevant to the linked study, but I've noticed I can read aloud from a book on autopilot while thinking about other things or even thinking back on past conversations. I could not do this a few years ago, but now it happens on its own. I wonder how that relates to attention and speech streams
awestroke··on Successful companies go blind
The article starts with a pretty weak simile and is structured in a way that reminds me of llm output. Made me stop reading pretty quickly.

I’m wary of essays that take a genuinely complicated organizational problem and explain it through one dominant lens. Life isn't that simple.

awestroke··on AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region
what the brain needs is Default Mode Network, not more stimuli
awestroke··on Phosh 0.56.0
Seemed interesting until I read that Phosh pulls in GNOME - gnome-settings, gnome-session etc. Seems like a very strange bundle to bring in for an extremely power constrained device, where every % of increased battery drain is noticed by the user
awestroke··on Caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee lower stress, depression and impulsivity
Decaf is typically not 100% free of caffeine, and coffee contains other minor stimulants as well
awestroke··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
> There are now Asian models coming , optimized focused on cybersecurity defense at a high level, so I suspect this will be a relatively moot point soon.

Source?

awestroke··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
OpenAI, the non profit organization, is going to become a publically traded profit maximizing corporation
awestroke··on Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics
Your work experience does not represent the current state of the art in car manufacturing automation
awestroke··on Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public
The hard parts are not based on OSS
awestroke··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
EBITDA is typically used to evaluate profitability.
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