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derac··on GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
That's awesome. I'll use GLM-5.3, thanks.
derac··on Does Georgism work? Five years later
I do. Also a LVT would have that same effect since those people live on valuable land.
derac··on Does Georgism work? Five years later
God forbid they lose some tiny fraction of their wealth to benefit society. The horror.
derac··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
If the market crashes they will be much cheaper to run actually, no? Hardware would flood the market.
derac··on Claude Opus 5.5
In racing a pace car is a car that leads the pack and sets the pace, for instance.
derac··on A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum
AI assisted or not, you have no idea how much of his personal effort went into the project.
derac··on I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
They mention in their blog post that the model is working on text rather than pixels in the Doom demo.
derac··on A misalignment of AI in mathematics
erm actually, chess tournaments rose in popularity and more people watch now than ever
derac··on Feeling Sad about AI
I think more people being able to create software to solve their needs is good. You're describing egoism, that you aren't special anymore because your identity is based on external validation, that this "hard" thing you do is accessible to anyone now. I don't think that's a good impulse.
derac··on Logo Programming Language
One of the first interesting programs I made was LOGO in flash (actionscript) :D It's a great tool for learning basic programming since it's interactive, graphical, and simple.
derac··on Show HN: Godot and Rust based multiplexer (terminal panes and more)
lmao how is this on the front page at the 2 spot? People upvoting based on seeing buzzwords I assume? It's cool that small projects can get recognition here but this is not useful software
derac··on Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video]
currently, the harness
derac··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
A huge percentage of the cars I see on the highway are tailgating. People are awful drivers.
derac··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
The CDL comparison seems misleading. Those are very large and safe vehicles that are mostly on the highway. Being close to that number is impressive to me.
derac··on iPhone Duo
Apple design is the polar opposite of the MX-5. The MX-5 is a masterpiece of mechanical design and function. Apple makes minimalist purely electronic fashion gadgets that are highly form over function and remove user agency.
derac··on Apple Unveils iPhone Duo
The pixel bootloader can be unlocked, also Android is significantly more of an open platform than iOS. I mean, stuff like Morphe exists on Android.
derac··on iPhone Duo
It's not a phone, it's a status symbol fashion object.
derac··on My Mental Model of AI Broke on September 8
The cognitive bias in humans to believe higher intelligence is unique to humans and even supernatural is very, very strong.
derac··on An Alien Mind
You're saying it has no intelligence without defining it...
derac··on NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier
I think that's explained here:

https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/measuring-autonomous-rese...

Basically they do 8 runs trying to optimize to under 3.28 loss in the fewest training steps possible under time/token constraint. I dunno why 18 * 8 != 153 (it's 144)

derac··on GPT 5.6 Cyber
Did you read their results? Impressive stuff. If this makes software more secure in general I'm all for it.
derac··on GPT 5.6 Cyber
how did this not reach the front page? this is fascinating.
derac··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
I prompted my own windows taskbar weather app in rust with radar and forecasts and it's 233 kB.

https://github.com/derac/WeatherTray

I use Linux now, so you're on your own if there are issues. It might require some windows library to be installed but I don't recall. I ran it for a long while on win11.

derac··on Codex Security
Amazon bedrock is an option for gpt models that does not send your data to openai.
derac··on PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works
maybe try adding tts to the tour?
derac··on Claude Opus 5
It's essentially here, I've had success with gpt-5.6 and Ghidra MCP
derac··on GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
Maybe we should also burn books and lobotomize ourselves to make science more fun and challenging. The ego here sickens me. I don't care about your ego. I want accelerated material science, medical science, energy, better outcomes for people across the world.
derac··on Everybody's Weirded Out by AI–Except the People Who Foist It on Us
I disagree, though I highly dislike the affect of Anthropic models.
derac··on Show HN: Reame – a CPU inference server that gets faster as it runs
This was reduced recently to 2/12. It's also next to impossible to allocate the free stuff unless you put in a CC. If you do, you get the servers right away, though. Just be careful not to spend. You can set up a budget trigger to shut down the vms.

Old servers may have been grandfathered, but mine was set to 1/1 and couldn't be reshaped.

derac··on GPT 5.6 chart analysis tool
I made this to do cost/performance analysis on the top SOTA models. Maybe you'll find it useful as well.

I am taking all the measurements from the GPT-5.6 announcement blog and presenting them in a tabular format with relative scale against a chosen model/effort.

The json is on the page, it's all static, so feel free to take the data and do what you want with it.

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