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knollimar··on Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
A summary is distinct from reading it. It summarized fine, but that's not the thing.

edit: upon it outputting a summary, asking it to reproduce as continuous prose it refuses.

One shotting and asking not to summarize it complies? I hate this world sometimes.

it's available here tho: https://nathancheng.fyi/03-Records/Clippings/Coordination+He...

knollimar··on Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
Did you even try this? my claude refused, giving me some copyright-without-mentioning-copyright bs.
knollimar··on California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
the NY version of the law applies to CNC machines too
knollimar··on Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
The whole "government can't spy on you, but can pay a corporation to do it" is crazy. From requesting data from big tech to this, it's just wild.

It feels like some juvenile "I can't kill you but I can pay this guy $200k to make you go away"

knollimar··on No AI Fridays
I propose 1 session per day and 3 hours to ingest the slurry into your brain
knollimar··on Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]
No, they're not sarcastic. It was an interesting point; if an idea succeeds well enough people just do it and make it "common sense". It's a point in the talk.
knollimar··on Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]
If you want a spoilery TLDR: It's more about the journey. He tracks down the origin, finds the support, finds the support flawed, and leaves you to your own conclusion rather than make a new flawed one.

The basic idea is that the origin assumes a highly critical inner hot loop, don't assume where it is, and optimize there.

There's some other time spent saying this justifies slower abstractions for maintainability elsewhere.

knollimar··on Hy4 preview
They choose not to unless you beg them, and of course they double down on not running it once they suggest reasoning qbout it is sufficient.
knollimar··on U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
not the person you replied to, but the distinction between communication equipment vs press seems pretty small, no?

Unless you're just saying the court disagrees, which is fair, but yuck

knollimar··on Zohran and the Short Link
Left NYC around when he got elected (non political, just a job offer) Does he market by his first name now?

It seems overly familiar and parasocial to use it in titles if not

knollimar··on GLM-5.3-Flash
Even vision? Thought k3 might have an edge there
knollimar··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
What's a computer?
knollimar··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
Saw like a leak or just speculation?
knollimar··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
But the stupid part of stupid shit doesn't apply to the electronics, while Gypsy singing is still loud
knollimar··on DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
good advice; tbh I'm really trying to use counting as a proxy for "understand symbol, flag annotation next to it, associate annotation with symbol and store as object in location".

Ideally, look at second diagram and see something similar in the same location and understand it's the same physical object.

knollimar··on DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
You say "it can be trained" but they fail at counting in my use cases, let alone maintaining symbolic relationships.

Can you point me at one that can understand a detailed block diagram? Frontier is fine, soliciting recommendations

knollimar··on DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
Then you have a separate issue where the LLM can't piece together 9 subimages well.
knollimar··on DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
If the harness does it that's just like saying "please use a workaround". You'll lose fidelity and LLMs will lose the ability to count things or maintain relationships for schematics, etc
knollimar··on DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
If the API accepts only 800 by 800, the aegument youre making is "fix it in the harness".

I don't think the n by n subgrid fixes this the way most harnesses do, as it'll fail to count things if you have more overlap and fail relatiomships if you have less

knollimar··on DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
Anything where there are symbols representing in space (e.g. schematics). Thats pretty broad
knollimar··on DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
Downsizing a higher res image to lower res means the zoom will be blurry.
knollimar··on DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
Oof 800 by 800 kills a lot of use cases
knollimar··on Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)
It just acts fundamentally different than someone who would remember.

If someone only remembered vague scraps of what you'd expect them to remember, you might say the person can't remember.

It's much closer to notetaking and reviewing before responding than it is memory.

The issue with anthropomorphizing like this is that "memory" comes with baggage of expectations for it to do certain things, and it breaks them.

Just like "thinking" implies chain of thought, but you'll frequently get those reasoning traces and then a 180 in the final message.

knollimar··on Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code
"And what exactly does that mean? I don't know what your words mean here. More source open than open source? Is that a tautology?"

I'm sure this means the source happens to be open rather than following the spirit of open source.

knollimar··on Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
It's how they negotiate? otherwise you get take it or leave it deals with insurers.
knollimar··on How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
the real caveat: those descriptions are genuinely load bearing
knollimar··on The Amazon tax
Yeah no way theres a transformer stepping up the voltage in his hood.

Its 130V rated for safety but realistically hes getting like 115

knollimar··on Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
But mercedes benz makes sure all the taxi desinations are safe!
knollimar··on How to disable or avoid intrusive AI
Didn't we run this playbook and find just following orders isn't an excuse?
knollimar··on Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data
In building codes, sometimes there's a tragedy that causes government overreach. A death with big public support often causes regulation that "does something" even if the rule itself doesn't help or make sense.
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