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flimflamm··on How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments
Thinking too small. The interactive testing needs to be done by AI. Then the transcript is reviewed by the teacher.
flimflamm··on Science Is Open Software
One can decide to dedicate their own time to creating open SW. Typically someone (like tax payers or private companies) pay for the creation of scientific discoveries.

Thus there is indeed a difference in the monetary intensives.

flimflamm··on I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times
It would be interesting to see what would be good input for LLMs to do the optimizations / trials on that automatically. Is the visual representation best or something else?
flimflamm··on Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field
What prevents forgers from generating such magnetic fields? That might be worth while if people start to blindly believing that "pottery frozen magnetic fields are not possible to counterfeit". Note that "not possible to counterfeit" is not a claim in the article.
flimflamm··on OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users
So we must move to 5 hour working days. Thanks OpenAI!
flimflamm··on Asus Bike Booster
Excellent unless you have a mudflap in your back wheel in countries where it rains.
flimflamm··on The Color of White Light
Thanks for this comparison. Very interesting and surprising!
flimflamm··on My server is a phone now
To whom did you call with your server?
flimflamm··on Claude Opus 5
I on the other hand think that I have now found the smoking gun!
flimflamm··on HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router
I configure it by copy pasting the pages to chatgpt and asking questions. Dumb? Maybe but seems to work.
flimflamm··on We see something that works, and then we understand it
We humans have a really good system to do this in practice. We use _imagination_ to simulate how things work and ... then we understand it.
flimflamm··on A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm
However, there was only 57 however's in the paper it self.
flimflamm··on Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years
Cost/manufacturing complexity. If you are country struggling to defend your self you don't think problems in 30 years if today problem is does the country exists or not. Might be difficult to put your self to a small defending countries shoes which is absolute running our of resources.
flimflamm··on Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents
If you don't have workflows which repeat in inet you don't need openClaw. - Messages from school where to react - Getting payments from someone and tracking that you get them - Summary of news the way you like it from sources you like it every day - Integrated task lists reminders - Drafting taxation reports based on spending etc etc.
flimflamm··on Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents
I just don't trust "the claw" so I build following system - Docker 1: * Locked up Claw docker - user level priv. Access outside to "one port" only.

- Docker 2: * Tool gateway with pre-baked commands - openclaw can only index what command to execute * Keys are here * Telegram hook to approve all "post" commands i.e. sending email or posting something somewhere.

- Docker 3: * LLM gateway keeping track of cost and routing

flimflamm··on Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU
No as you could have multiple examples of expected output in single prompt. You should just "ask" - that's zero shot. If you "ask + provide" examples then you are in the n+1 shot realm. But I suppose terminology is shifting from this...
flimflamm··on Reasoning models reason well, until they don't
What confused me is the fact that in the paper all logical steps are give. It basically check that when all relevant facts are provided explicitly as links , how far and how complex a chain can the model correctly follow before it breaks down?

So it's simpler than "reasoning". This is not necessarily a bad thing as it boils down the reasoning to a simpler, more controlled sub problem.

flimflamm··on How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in
Is this just buttering the cost of switches by crippling the optimization options compiler have?
flimflamm··on A definition of AGI
I would focus on lowest of the axis. It does not help if some of the axis are at 100% if one of the axis is lacking.
flimflamm··on How to make a Smith chart
Really really nice. Thanks for this!
flimflamm··on IRS open sources its fact graph
Are the rules versioned somehow? I didn't see that.
flimflamm··on DeepMind and OpenAI win gold at ICPC
Good to note that OpenAI solved 12/12 and DeepMind 10/12.
flimflamm··on Microsoft doubles down on small modular reactors and fusion energy
I wonder when Elon will go to nuclear business as green values have gone down (solar tiles anyone?)
flimflamm··on Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML
I wonder what process in ASML is such that Mistral group would bring something new there...
flimflamm··on We hacked Burger King: How auth bypass led to drive-thru audio surveillance
Depends on the country. In Finland, it's ok to record your own discussions. Whether the recorder is BK (a third party) or the cashier is an interesting question, though.
flimflamm··on We hacked Burger King: How auth bypass led to drive-thru audio surveillance
Creating a database of recordings without user being able to know/influence is clearly violation of GDPR IF there is PII. That's going to be costly for BK.
flimflamm··on How attention sinks keep language models stable
Hah they kind of found "NULL" pointer in LLMs.
flimflamm··on Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games
Have you looked in to "PSD2 and Open Banking regulation in Europe" ?
flimflamm··on Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026
Except if you are a Finnish person who lives right next to Sweden (SEK) and Norway (NOK) who are not using Euro (and Russia but that's a different story).
flimflamm··on How to Build Conscious Machines
I wonder if 6 would be understanding own thinking. Currently humans don't understand this. Thoughts just pop in to our heads and we try to explain what caused them.
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