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bigEnotation··on The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and limitations of reasoning models [pdf]
Reasoning models are just wrappers over the base model. It was pretty obvious it wasn’t actually reasoning but rather just refining the results using some kind of reasoning like heuristic. At least that’s what I assumed when they were released and you couldn’t modify the system prompt.
bigEnotation··on GitHub as Storage and Actions as Compute?
Link to example workflow: https://github.com/edelauna/stock-predictor/blob/prod/.githu...
bigEnotation··on Autotuner: How to speed up your Rails app
I wonder what the break even point would be to just have switched to use JVM.
bigEnotation··on A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)
How could you be a human being and not be small D disgruntled?
bigEnotation··on New theory on Satoshi Nakamoto
I know it always gets shutdown, but I’m comfortable with it being done by the US/CIA[1], especially since Satoshi stopped sending emails once Gavin Andresen met with CIA and « took over » the project.

I anticipate it’ll be unclassified at some point, and then really take off, but not before the US exhausts the ability to try and trace malicious transactions they might be focused on. Also the US owning a bunch of the original bitcoins is in line with owning a bunch of the lower IPv4 addresses which haven’t seem much, if any, activity.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/mr780k/sato...

bigEnotation··on More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with the number of agents
Yeah, see GPT 3.5 vs GPT 4 pricing.
bigEnotation··on More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with the number of agents
I thought this is what GPT 4 was, it uses a boosting algorithm over GPT 3.5?
bigEnotation··on How well can LLMs write COBOL?
I think you’re forgetting about the use case where the LLM returns something partially correct to a discerning expert, who is still able to use the response, but does not bother with a message like “btw I had to do X to make your suggestions usable”.
bigEnotation··on Choosing Go at American Express (2019)
Does go have something similar to spring, or is there a framework baked into the language
bigEnotation··on Pushing ChatGPT's Structured Data Support to Its Limits
I’ve not had any success to make responses deterministic with these settings. I’m even beginning to suspect historic conversations via API are used to influence future responses, so I’m not sure if it’ll truly be possible.
bigEnotation··on Software architecture pitfalls and how to avoid them
What’s a quality attribute requirement, and how are they usually documented and prioritized?
bigEnotation··on PostgREST: Providing HTML Content Using Htmx
So where is the secret key stored for signing the JWT? In the front end as well?

Edit: Oh I found it here: https://postgrest.org/en/stable/how-tos/sql-user-management....

That’s a pretty neat design. Also an interesting attack surface

bigEnotation··on Facebook Is Being Overrun with Stolen, AI-Gen Images That People Think Are Real
Truth has always been hard to figure out. An old mentor once told me to be skeptical of everything I hear and only trust half of what I see. When I asked about which half to believe, he said that’s something I needed to figure out.
bigEnotation··on Maybe getting rid of your QA team was bad
>>> slowest part of software delivery is testing

In my experience the slowest part has been marking a feature as done. I loved working at places with QA. I could assign tickets to QA once the PR was up.

Now I gotta build in that I’ll be bumping PRs for review for approximately 30-50% of the time I’m working on a feature.

bigEnotation··on OpenAI's misalignment and Microsoft's gain
I feel like I’m missing something about this chatGPT craze… to me the product is chatGPT, and it’s mostly fleshed out (would like to see the ability to upload an image, as part of a conversation), I don’t see the appeal for paying 100x more for every new iteration for a marginal reduction in misinformation.

To me the target user of chatGPT needs to have some level of expertise in the domain their asking a question, as based on how gpt works, chatGPT will eventually produce an output with misinformation, therefore someone familiar with the subject matter would have a higher chance at catching the nuance in a response and be able to continue their conversation.

bigEnotation··on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
It’s wild, I actually downgraded back to gpt 3.5 cuz gpt 4 just wasn’t worth the money.
bigEnotation··on Using discord is morally lazy
It was written in 2021 apparently but also has

> last updated 1993-02-18

at the bottom of the page. Is this letter a form of satire?

bigEnotation··on How to Pick a Programming Language (2002)
What’s a profiler and how do I start using one?

If they’re language specific, then for typescript, Ruby, and Kotlin.

bigEnotation··on My first GitHub action: treats Chat GPT reviews on PRs like Static Code Analysis
This is largely based on my experience (which may be incomplete), but static code analysis tools in our CI pipeline don’t add comments to a PR, rather generate a report and will sometimes annotate the affected coded.

Annotations are not tracked historically so any new ci run will regenerate the annotations. I thought this was better for chat gpt reviews since they’re non-deterministic and each CI run could result in different types of feedback.

bigEnotation··on Ask HN: How much can prompt engineering improve something?
That's great, thanks for the feedback, will update the prompt to be more specific.