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nafizh··on Siri AI
They should have changed the name as per branding. I hear Siri, I subconsciously associate it with really bad software.
nafizh··on Zig by Example
You are free to use AI to write Zig code just not use AI to write code for Zig. In fact, many people already do build software with zig written by AI. Check out rockorager's github.
nafizh··on A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline
Schools like MIT pay PhD students barely above or sometimes below the poverty level of that particular state as monthly stipend. Yeah, research funding got slashed but if they had the will they could have come up with the money for that 20%.
nafizh··on Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code
OpenAI is very good in terms of not having as much outages as Anthropic, but almost all products except Codex and the pro model is unimpressive, anthropic has the opposite situation.
nafizh··on Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
The BBC has increasingly been anti-semitic. First, the baseless allegations of starving and murdering children in Gaza and now this. Troubling times.
nafizh··on CS234: Reinforcement Learning Winter 2025
check out cs 336 stanford, they cover DPO/GRPO and relevant parts needed to train LLMs.
nafizh··on Google Antigravity
There's no way I am using such an important piece of life as an IDE from Google just because I know they are going to kill it within 3 years, if it survives that much. Probably will die with the Windsurf guy jumping ship again.
nafizh··on TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
How would you onboard a software engineer who doesn't know zig if you were to do so? Learning tips?
nafizh··on Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?
Still use pinboard which seems more than enough for me. But I would happily pay for a pinboard that has better search and more responsive customer service.
nafizh··on The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers
I still haven't got access to GPT-5 (plus user in US), and I am not really super looking forward to it given I would lose access to o3. o3 is a great reasoning and planning model (better than Claude Opus in planning IMO and cheaper) that I use in the UI as well as through API. I don't think OpenAI should force users to an advanced model if there is not a noticeable difference in capability. But I guess it saves them money? Someone posted on X how giving access to only GPT-5 and GPT-5 thinking reduces a plus user's overall weekly request rate.
nafizh··on Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
It works fine I would say. In the absence of a bigger screen with proportional DPI (kindle scribe is 300 which is one of the highest in terms of screen size), kindle scribe is one of the better options still IMO.
nafizh··on Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
Isn't remarkable pro the same size as Kindle scribe? Their website says 10.8 x 7.8 inches.
nafizh··on Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
I wish they would do a bigger size kindle scribe. I read pdfs all day on my scribe, and often I wish the screen was bigger so the font size would be large.
nafizh··on The Rise of the Forever Renter Class
A lot of this can be explained by just supply and demand. In central New Jersey, the number of people who need to get a home is always increasing, but number of houses being built is extremely low, and even those houses start from 900k-1M.
nafizh··on Memory and new controls for ChatGPT
To be honest, when I say it has significantly worsened, I am comparing to the time when GPT-4 just came out. It really felt like we were on the verge of 'AGI'. In 3 hours, I coded up a complex piece of web app with chatgpt which completely remembered what we have been doing the whole time. So, it's sad that they have decided against the public having access to such strong models (and I do think it's intentional, not some side-effect of safety alignments though that might have contributed to the decision).
nafizh··on Memory and new controls for ChatGPT
My use of ChatGPT has just organically gone down 90%. It's unable to do any sort of task of non-trivial complexity e.g. complex coding tasks, writing complex prose that conforms precisely to what's been asked etc. Also I hate the fact that it has to answer everything in bullet points, even when it's not needed, clearly rlhf-ed. At this point, my question types have become what you would ask a tool like perplexity.
nafizh··on Claude 2.1
This has exactly been my experience for at least the last 3 months. At this point, I am thinking if paying that 20 bucks is even worth anymore which is a shame because when gpt-4 first came out, it was remembering everything in a long conversation and self-correcting itself based on modifications.
nafizh··on GitHub Actions could be so much better
Thanks for the reply. Is the code available by any chance?
nafizh··on GitHub Actions could be so much better
What's the technology behind the blog? It's clean, minimal and beautiful.
nafizh··on ChatGPT can get worse over time, Stanford study finds
Can 100% confirm this. You have to keep reminding it what I said just 2-3 hops ago.
nafizh··on MacWhisper: Transcribe audio files on your Mac
The main problem I have faced with the whisper model (large) is when there is silence or a sizable gap without audio, it hallucinates and just puts out some random gibberish repeatedly until the transcription ends. How does this app handle this?
nafizh··on What Is Happening with ChatGPT?
It's not confirmation bias. Proof is I did the same, built two different webapps with languages I had little experience in, both before and after chatGPT got worse. In the latter case, I struggled much to remind it again and again of the context we are working in and had to give the current code state repeatedly as input for it to output modified code. It clearly can't remember the context and produces subpar code in a non-trivial project.
nafizh··on Pandas AI
The library might be great. But from the examples shown, there is zero reason to use it as all of these can be done easily without giving your data to OpenAI.
nafizh··on What Wikipedia Did
On many contentious issues in US, Wikipedia's articles are most of the time left leaning. This is not surprising given most of its editors are left leaning. My point is, I think we are passed the stage of taking seriously anytime these big institutions batter each other with supposed moral superiority. Having said that, Musk bending to Governments like China, where he has large financial interests was a concern from even before he took over Twitter.
nafizh··on NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
NPR is indeed a propaganda machine. But only for one party, and its woke ideology. It doesn't even have to receive federal funding to acknowledge that. Now the technical question is what label do you put on a media platform that's captured by an ideology favorable to a single party which comes to power every few years?
nafizh··on [dead]
It's not down for me.
nafizh··on LLaMA: A foundational, 65B-parameter large language model
>'We release all our models to the research community'

Where release means you fill out a form and wait indefinitely. Also no use for commercial purposes - which means 95% of users are out - certainly doesn't democratize LLMs.

nafizh··on Replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
I bought a framework laptop 1 year ago, and trust me when I say I tried everything out there to improve the battery life on Ubuntu. It was still so bad I was always worried about the battery draining out, not to mention, just closing the lid doesn't work. Eventually switched to an m2 mac air. I barely have to think about the battery now, so I can focus on the actual work, and when work finishes I just close the lid.
nafizh··on Use GPT-3 incorrectly: reduce costs 40x and increase speed by 5x
The medium article you posted does analysis on OpenAI's old embeddings. OpenAI has a single new embedding model [0] that replaces all the old models and it's also super cheap ($0.0004 / 1K tokens).

0. https://openai.com/blog/new-and-improved-embedding-model/

nafizh··on Astronomers discovered 1M new galaxies in 300 hours
Whenever someone says 'religions' in the western hemisphere, it usually means Christianity. E.g. Islam fundamentally will not have a crisis even if alien life is discovered because it doesn't disprove the existence and oneness of a Creator which is Islam's strict monotheism denotes.
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