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eddyzh··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
This resonates a lot with me, well worth the long read. And the last part about how to try keep the human part relevant, is exactly what I try for now.
eddyzh··on The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway
This checks out 50-250kg CO2 are common guesses for 10k spend.

That would be in the same order of magnitude of an average daily commute with an older car.

eddyzh··on Ryanair passenger sucked toward broken window after midair engine failure
The fact that is is ai generated.
eddyzh··on Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
For that test you have to compare letting a fresh agent (subagent) or the same model do the same review.

The fact that a review helps does not prove the model choice for the review.

You reviewing your own writing helps too!

eddyzh··on Long-running Agents (Summary of the current state on many fronts)
Added the () part since this title has been used a lot in other articles.
eddyzh··on Ask HN: Can you tell the difference between Claude Sonnet and Opus?
Exactly this.

This may be worth the discount. Or not if your time and attention is worth (quite) a lot.

eddyzh··on Ask HN: Can you tell the difference between Claude Sonnet and Opus?
At work I use opus max Fast It hardy ever fails for no reason even if I forget to give it all the right context. At home i run sonnet, and it does not get what I meant or expected 20-35% of the time. Due to the enormous difference in cost, depending on the value of your time (hourly rate) that might be a nett benefit.

Sonnet being faster alone would not be worth the failure rate for me.

At home i just not want to pay more than 20 bucks for incidental projects.

And opus max would just consume my tokens in one round.

eddyzh··on Flickr: The first and last great photo platform
Thank you. This is great to hear!
eddyzh··on Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026
While chatGPT was not out then, the ML that drives robotics was acting by then very much.
eddyzh··on Chuck Norris has died
In had one app like that from Cydia Loved it.
eddyzh··on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including database
Original artikel https://open.substack.com/pub/alexeyondata/p/how-i-dropped-o...
eddyzh··on Local AI is driving the biggest change in laptops in decades
Would that be unified memory? Where the gpu and cpu can share the memory? Which is key for performance.
eddyzh··on Dummy's Guide to Modern LLM Sampling
LLM are way older. The Nobel prize for it shows how they made many of the breakthroughs decades ago ChatGTP was the popular breakthrough. Even then your Smartphone keyboard has been using an LLM for a decade.
eddyzh··on Here are the Attack Plans That Trump's Advisers Shared on Signal
Because optimizing for security is sometimes specifically decreasing convenience. In the original (first) article some of those considerations are discussed.
eddyzh··on Tern AI's low-cost GPS alternative actually works
So I was curious what they mean by sending out an id for gps. Since that seems to me not something that is happening for all types of GPS implementations.
eddyzh··on DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
This is great context for the cost claim. Which turns out only to be technically true when looking at the final run.
eddyzh··on Most people don't care about quality
>But if there was a way to correctly tell people: "look, this smartphone is 20% more expensive, but it will last twice as long and it will be more convenient for you in ways you can't understand right now", nobody would go for the worse quality, right?

I am not sure if we are living in the same world. No most people absolutely do not make rational choices like that. No matter how you tell them.

Most importantly what you think is best for people is stil a perspective. Especially in the context of tv.

eddyzh··on Alignment faking in large language models
Very fascinating read. Especially the reviewers comments linked at the end. The point is that alignment after training is much more complicated and limited than it might appear. And they make that point convincingly.
eddyzh··on Oldest human genomes reveal how a small group burst out of Africa
Makes a huge claim at the start.

>"The huge gap between those ages could change our understanding about how humans spread across the world. If the ancestors of today’s non-Africans didn’t sweep across other continents until 47,000 years ago, then those older sites must have been occupied by earlier waves of humans who died off without passing down their DNA to the people now living in places like China and Australia."

But at the end gets a bit more balanced

>"He Yu, a paleogeneticist at Peking University in Beijing who was not involved in either study, said that the mystery wouldn’t be solved until scientists find DNA in some of the ancient Asian fossils. “We still need early modern human genomes from Asia to really talk about Asia stories,” Dr. Yu said."

This puzzle is still missing key elements.

eddyzh··on Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? (2022)
What an excellent written article. Thanks Dan Luu!
eddyzh··on Conversations are better with four people
Good point!
eddyzh··on Clio: A system for privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use
While the highest catergoies are vague (web development vs cloud development) the specific clusters shown in the language specific examples expose a nation specific collectiev activity. While anonimized its stil exposing a lot of this collection of privat chats.

Good that the tell, but they did it before telling. I really hope they delete the detailed chats afterwards. They should and probably wont delete the first layer of aggregation.

eddyzh··on Clio: A system for privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use
They say something about retention after analysis by Clio but it's not very specific.
eddyzh··on Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic
You might be interested in the Nobel prizes this year for (LLM relevant) science starting 70 years ago.

2 years ago was only when it went mainstream in a chat Format.

Also, you/average user has been typing with helpt of a (smaller) language model for about 9 years on mobile.

eddyzh··on A Case Against the Placebo Effect
Thanks, I did find this article to to bend the definition of to fit the point.
eddyzh··on My first Thunderbolt 5 experience has been a bust
Quite unsatisfying read. Even for the title.

I guess he proves his point, it's hard to build a cutting edge system without much more research if you assembly it based on your own insights.

And most importantly: Connector labels don't mean what you should be able to expect them to mean. That point is no news sadly.

I would love to read from someone who actually knows what's happening and who goes on til the reason is found.

Any other articles?

eddyzh··on It made me $500k but I think content is a bad business
I think you confirm his distinction between having a job and owning a business (implicitly of the type) that might Create recurring income.
eddyzh··on Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency
This was pretty amazing. Creepy but amazing.
eddyzh··on A teacher who made mistakes on purpose
I would consider it like a parable. (Without animals) Discussing it is stil interesting though.

That said, the age of the students seems extremely relevant.

eddyzh··on Octopuses seen hunting together with fish
If you want to go straight to the videos here are some links which you get if you click and scroll a couple of steps further.

Supplementary Video 6

Typical movement dynamics and web-over temporal characteristics when octopuses are hunting alone. https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...

Example of a previous fish attack of a structure that triggers a reaction from the octopus and consequent web-over over a food-baited structure

https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...

Examples of octopuses punching fish, thus displacing them https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...

Example of a multispecific group hunting and typical movements, featuring all species categories analysed in this study except yellow goatfish https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...

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