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knollimar··on Where has Construction Automation been successful?
I'm saying they can't take shortcuts like prefabbing walls without the stuff that goes in walls in them or at lesst coordinated sleeved etc
knollimar··on Where has Construction Automation been successful?
You still have to solve all the MEPs so where does that go in your process?
knollimar··on Where has Construction Automation been successful?
Ever try putting a brick wall on a truck?
knollimar··on Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too
Ethically sure but that doesn't mean taking from them is nothing "illicit".
knollimar··on Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too
I'm sure they put some BS in their TOS
knollimar··on Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
So have the open weight ones but faster?

I don't have a horse in this argument but catching up doesn't imply the one in the lead has stagnated

knollimar··on Benchmark: CadQuery vs. OpenSCAD for agentic CAD work
I'm trying to teach a subordinate to draft and he keeps saying "this feels automatable" before he undedstands how to do it. I had to explicitly tell him "do not try to automate [particular task] before you know how to do it. He has not successfully finished said task once, and I caught him working on it on Friday...
knollimar··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
I meant the metaphorical iphone ones
knollimar··on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
It looks like you refusing when you call it's point stupid enough and ask it to think more when it keeps reasserting a bad point.
knollimar··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
Are the yellow dots not opt in?
knollimar··on We have a year to fix security everywhere
Haven't ram prices been a linear drop since 2010 before chatgpt rampocalypse? I don't think it's "still" anymore but perhaos some progress will be made in the model front
knollimar··on We have a year to fix security everywhere
Glm 5.3 won't fit on a mac mini. The barrier to entry to host something scary is what, like $10k? 20k?
knollimar··on Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker
Was the animation objectively bad? like was it bad for the user and he was right or were you wronged?
knollimar··on Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)
"I don't know what it means to "own website issues""

made me irate. It was very clear! Read the issues and be accountable for fixing them?

knollimar··on Impedance Matching (2017)
Upon further reflection, I realize there's two "impedance matching". I, and other EEs, will assume I mean the complex conjugate matching to redirect power toward load.

The author is making the argument about minimizing reflections across a medium. The trumpet, and AR coating land. The other points are more tortured. The transformer example in particular invites nitpicking.

knollimar··on Impedance Matching (2017)
The first three examples they use are filters.

The abstraction of impedance matching should be to "tune things to make them more efficient in their usability".

Their examples don't sit with impedance matching to me. They're all conversions or filters. The first thing was either not usable or they purely chopped off a part, not pointed it in the right direction.

In fact, the examples more or less all sit in a group in which impedance matching does not belong

Edit: the car transmission I'll give since there's a power vs speed decision that needs to be coupled

knollimar··on The pencil case model of creativity
Surely the researcher has way more constraints and is thus less creative in their job?

I'm all for finding the joy in things, but the author starts with the comparison and then uses the ability to find creativity with it being a requisite part of the job.

Surely the person with more pertage of trdious work has a more tedious and less creative job.

Imagine if someone made this argument about dollars per hour, and the exec said they work overtime often so the valet has no right to complain about pay since they can look harder for tips.

knollimar··on The revolt of the reader
Rare like a steak not like a treasure.
knollimar··on The revolt of the reader
"a clear mental image from the very first word"

Nothing meaningful was said for 9 words.

Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that the words appearing here could be anything

knollimar··on The revolt of the reader
I think the grating one is that it's constructed to sound effective when it shouldn't!

Good points should be rewarded confidence. I read so many not X it's Y where the distinction beteeen X and Y isn't relevant to the discussion!

knollimar··on The revolt of the reader
The most frustrating one is when it does the papering over analysis and adding pushback to seem helpful. No, there shouldn't be a spot "where you pushback" unless it makes sense and responds to someone's concern!

Like with an LLM I would rewind the conversation. What do I do, shame them?

knollimar··on Fable 5.1 World Modeling
Are you passing well organized layers?
knollimar··on Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?
Well maybe they have another suspicipus theory for defense of your data. Like taking it, laundering it through a summarizer, and training on that. Surely that's less questionable than taking copyrighted stuff and saying "don't output over 15 words, never verbatim" pretty please.
knollimar··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
"Beating opus" is the false part, no?
knollimar··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Wait the 20x doesnt multiply the weekly?
knollimar··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
They gave a point that it sort of inverts tbe meaning
knollimar··on GPU World
The LEAN example is the ideal case. It's like a baby POC to me.

I can only assume the only realistic way to get all the federated data will be a ton of massivr vertical consolidation of industry by hubris laden tech execs crossing industry domains.

knollimar··on GPU World
Throw understanding images in there and it becomes less true in my experience. Sure they shit out code and search text well, but one infographic and they circle trying to rasterize it.
knollimar··on GPU World
Construction isn't using LLMs any time soon like that. We don't even send our files in structured data because everyone's playing nose goes for liability and sending pdfs
knollimar··on Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
I don't even think procrastination is laziness as you end up having to do the work later.
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