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dcl··on Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English
One question I have about stuff like this: How does it affect the models intelligence or thinking ability. If this modifies the output or chain of thought in any way, it may impact what the model is capable of right? Especially if it's not trained to use this kind of language during training.
dcl··on Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench
finally the benchmark for me
dcl··on Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg
vaporwave fans rejoice
dcl··on The unreasonable difficulty of time series forecasting
I have to explain this to managers, execs and stakeholders all the time. ML models work great for systems where the rules/dynamics do not change over time. With Forecasting, in a lot of domains where you want a forecast, everything is subject to change - laws, policies, regs, customers appetites, competitors behaviours, etc.
dcl··on GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse
That is going to be absolutely wild for whoever can access/afford it.
dcl··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
A CPU only benchmark for typical data-science and ML tasks that I can run on a few different systems that will help me figure out what the next system I should buy is. I have no idea what Apple silicon is like for these tasks.
dcl··on Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
Deliberately producing misaligned and deceitful AI systems now. Great.
dcl··on Ferrari Luce
Ferrari uses cars like this to test loyalty. If you want to get 'on the list' buying cars like this is one of the ways to do it, especially if you haven't spent considerable $ with them before.
dcl··on Ferrari Luce
imagine no more: https://chatgpt.com/s/m_6a14fc70630c8191bedf8e06913f4d34
dcl··on Ferrari Luce
This. If you want to get on the list to buy the new supercars, you're going to have to start here. And you better add some expensive options.
dcl··on Ferrari Luce
This is the car you will need to buy to get on the list to buy the Ferrari you kind of want - but not the Ferrari you really, really want, that will cost you a lot more.
dcl··on Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years
Anyone else think Britain is going to eject the Royal Family within 100 years?
dcl··on Voxtral Transcribe 2
Because it's a 4gb download?
dcl··on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
S&P gets you dividends though, so the interpretation of that chart is tricky. Holding the S&P, you can still do better than holding gold, even when the GOLD/S&P ratio is positive.
dcl··on Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking
How much am I missing out by using the standard launcher my Pixel comes with? I haven't played with different launchers since the Nexus 4 and Android 2/3 (I think).
dcl··on New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect
Are you getting confused with the photoelectric effect experiment?
dcl··on Marble: A Multimodal World Model
What happens when you prompt one of these kind of models with de_dust? Will it autocomplete the rest of the map?

edit: Just tried it and it doesn't, but it does a good job of creating something like a CS map.

dcl··on A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it
Is this why I cannot seem to fine tune YOLO models on a Apple M4? The loss hits nan after a few batches. Same code using Windows PC and Google Colab CPU and GPU is fine...
dcl··on Generalized K-Means Clustering
At a previous $dayjob at a very large financial institution, it's however many clusters are present in the strategy that was agreed to by the exec team and their highly paid consultants.

You find that many clusters and shoehorn the consultant provided categories on to the k clusters you obtain.

dcl··on DeepSeek OCR
Is there any 'small' OCR models around?

Say I only care about reading serial numbers from photos in a manufacturing process, not whole document parsing. Using a 3B param model to do this seems like a bit of overkill...

dcl··on The Burrows-Wheeler Transform
A friend doing bioinformatics told me about this at uni, it was definitely one of those "i can't believe this is doable" sort of things.
dcl··on Open models by OpenAI
Anyone tried the 20B param model on a mac with 24gb of ram?
dcl··on Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation for the reference
dcl··on How large are large language models?
ML algorithms are compression algorithms, the trained models are compressed data.
dcl··on Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds
Ahh rightio. That's a shame.
dcl··on Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed
"Bring your own AI" or "Provide your AI API access key" will probably be coming to a lot of services/apps that we want 'our' AI's to interact with.

I can see this also bringing strongly tiered AI's, there will be commodity/free AI's a and expensive ones for rich people/power users.

dcl··on Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds
Doesn't support NVIDIA GPU's!? Is this a display or gaming specific thing?

All the ML people are using NVIDIA GPU's on Linux.

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That is what made me click.
dcl··on Understanding LucasArts' iMUSE System
You have awakened some incredible memories. I know exactly what you are talking about.
dcl··on New material gives copper superalloy-like strength
Rearden metal...?
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