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gewetensleegte··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
Don't worry, I heard they have a checkbox.
gewetensleegte··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
But how is it any different from what humans are doing? :) /s
gewetensleegte··on Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
> is there a path to an ethical, viable business model for the author?

.. is something the author should have considered before deciding to publish AdWare.

gewetensleegte··on Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language
> Would you agree that some programming languages are better than others? If so then one of them must be the best.

You need one other assumption, that "it's unlikely that two programming languages will be equally good", and then I will agree that one of them must be best :)

gewetensleegte··on OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI
Is there any more footage of the actual fight?

I honestly feel the human should be allowed to pick some (not fire) weapons, like a long steel bo stick, a metal club/bat, or something.

Because from what I saw in the clip, it wasn't the robot kicks or punches at all, all the robot needed to do is stay upright and not run out of battery, because of course human meat limbs aren't going to punch and kick down a metal machine.

gewetensleegte··on Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates
> We "hallucinate" every day, and still achieve a lot of stuff, at large.

That's not really true, I think. (assuming you're talking about "hallucinations" in the sense of the LLM behaviour, not the original meaning of the word)

I was just talking about LLM hallucinations with someone the other day, when doing a brainstorm or discussing ideas, complaining how the confidence with which hallucinations are presented, often led me on wild goose chases that waste my time for an hour or two.

When I realized that, for all the "how is that different from what humans are doing", I have never EVER experienced such kind of confusion with another real human.

And in fact were someone to behave that way, I'd be thoroughly creeped out (you know, the feeling you get when the person across you turns out to be an empty shell of a psychopathic mind, kind of creeps) and do my best to keep them out of my personal circle and avoid having to interact with them ever again.

There is still something in interaction between actual humans, that creates a level of understanding, that LLMs simply cannot (yet?) simulate. There is a certain (deep, unspoken, not language-based) understanding of "this is the other person's goal", instead of "I'm scoring imaginary talking points by talking to them".

And you know the type of person who actually does that, talking bullshit very confidently to "score points", that behaviour is generally considered adversarial and unaccepted between peers, and keeping it up after being discovered to consistently attempt that behaviour, with real humans often results in social exile.

(btw I'm not sure if it's inherent in LLMs that they can't learn this, maybe they can, but my point is that, right now, they are definitely not trained to do this)

gewetensleegte··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
A lot of places in the world already have this, where there are "personality rights", and usage of a person's name is automatically protected. As it should. This is part of copyright/IP laws.

Unfortunately, in the US these laws have barely any teeth in the first place, and even if they did, well you are probably familiar with the corruption things and malfunctioning justice system stuff they have going on there, as you hear people often speaking, very matter-of-fact that in a court situation, the party with more money simply wins.

gewetensleegte··on LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents
> LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents

phrasing it like this, almost makes it sound like he said he wouldn't mind if it happened ...

gewetensleegte··on Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
> the US industry

to be a bit more exact

gewetensleegte··on Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
Anthropic was fined. It's a rather big difference.
gewetensleegte··on We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
just like when we used to have this problem before LLMs, we hired a surprisingly capable junior coder, give them access to all our systems and bank accounts and next morning we'd be bankrupt

weird, that

gewetensleegte··on Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
> It may turn 'rm -rf ' into 'rm -rf /' one day.

but surely you're running it in a container?

gewetensleegte··on Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel
> if you're not staying ahead, you might get left behind

that sounds ominous. what do you mean?

gewetensleegte··on AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom
> I know it's hard being a huge AI fanboy among artist and Lib Arts friends who are in a cult of perma doom and hate.

aw come on. no need to be insulting ... and I dunno about "doom", but a lot of the hate from artists is actually kind of justified, that didn't go away.

and tbh if you call yourself a "fanboy" unironically, kindly go easy on calling other people's behaviour a "cult".