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not-a-llm··on What will be left for us to work on?
it took 1 month to make a human slop, now it takes 1 day
not-a-llm··on What will be left for us to work on?
all game stores are flooded with AI slop. good luck competing
not-a-llm··on The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement [pdf]
them having an actual product with huge demand makes them immune

Just like Tesla was immune from all the naysayers which were saying its a highly unprofitable company which will 100% go bankrupt because its economics dont make any sense, and they lost huge amounts of money shorting the stock

not-a-llm··on The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement [pdf]
they never were

if I sell 1 token at $1 and there are a trillion of them minted, that does not make a $1T market cap

but if you want to prove a point against AI with fake data, sure

not-a-llm··on The real prices of frontier models
more dense tokens means more stuff to fit into the embedding space which is per token, so more work to disentangle later
not-a-llm··on The real prices of frontier models
you use the wrong word

the Anthropic tokenizer is not worse, its more expensive/verbose

not-a-llm··on Why Vanilla JavaScript
it can be faster, but is it correct?

React was invented because jQuery style state management collapsed into unmanageable code past a certain size

not-a-llm··on So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)
Noeter theorem and energy get complicated in General Relativity, because there is no global time translation symmetry

https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/what-is-energy-actually

Ignoring that, saying "energy must exist because of Noether and time-translation" doesn't really tell what energy actually is, not a very satisfactory response

not-a-llm··on Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
unless you signed a contract with your readers, saying "this article was not LLM written" while being written by LLMs is not fraud, just lying which is legal

but we are not even talking about that, most authors do not claim LLMs were not used

not-a-llm··on Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
bullshitting has never been a crime

if it were, 90% of startups would be illegal and they founders jailable

not-a-llm··on Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
and then some articles will have maybe a small section, 10% of it, LLM generated. And the it really is a superposition of LLM/human written, and flaggable/unflaggable
not-a-llm··on GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years
talking about data and function shapes is quite common in functional programming world

https://blog.jle.im/entry/functors-to-monads-a-story-of-shap...

not-a-llm··on Against Usefulness
probably wireless keyboard and routing it based on physical proximity
not-a-llm··on Autoresearch, Claude and Constrained Optimization
not the greatest benchmark, bzip2 many times beats xz, gzip is competitive with zstd

maybe it used default compression levels, and the defaults are not "matched"

fumny because author also wrote this post:

https://www.elliotcsmith.com/how-to-avoid-picking-terrible-m...

not-a-llm··on Old and new apps, via modern coding agents
here you go, Michelin-starred chef:

> Marco Pierre White passionately defends chefs using microwaves. White dubbed microwaves “sensational things” and revealed he thinks they’re far better at preparing kippers than any other technique, like boiling or grilling

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/marco-pierre-white-...

And another one:

> José Andrés, a renowned Michelin-starred chef, New York Times bestselling author and internationally recognized humanitarian. He listed the microwave omelet as his number one foolproof dish and called it the “best fluffy omelet in the history of mankind!”

https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/jose-andres-microwave-om...

not-a-llm··on AI Can't Recreate the Thrust Game (But It Can Help You Understand It)
> The tick loop waits at least 3 centiseconds per frame, giving an effective rate of about 33.33 Hz

3 centiseconds instead of 30 miliseconds, totally not a robot

not-a-llm··on Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf]
sure, I was just talking about this Hollywood myth that the military is far ahead of everyone else, including in computing matters when we all know the military procurement birrocracy
not-a-llm··on Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf]
the same military is using computers with Windows and Xbox controllers

and got upset when Anthropic didn't want to let them use their LLM

not-a-llm··on A font that humans can read but AI cannot
this is black and white, I thought color blindness is only for colors?
not-a-llm··on Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot
> humans can read

strong statement, I struggle to read it

not-a-llm··on Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
do you think quantum computers would help simulating this? I've seen contradictory opinions from the experts - it can in theory but not really in practice (even assuming sufficiently large quantum computers will be built)
not-a-llm··on Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
yet there are problems there too we do not know the "true axioms of math", people disagree (math foundations)
not-a-llm··on Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
biology is full of exceptions to exceptions to exceptions. like immunology

so there is no way to extrapolate/interpolate, anything which was not directly measured is basically unknown since it could be yet another exception

or in programming language, the worse spaghetti code you could imagine, full of feature flags randomly enabled inconsistently

not-a-llm··on An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation
by consent they mean a dialog/EULA with careful wording was display and the user clicked ok.
not-a-llm··on Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
financial markets dont trade when the smears happen (NYE)
not-a-llm··on Computation as a universal and fundamental concept
> Recently it's been shown that there are real, physical processes which are undecidable

According to the currently known laws of physics. Which we know are incomplete/incorrect in several places.

not-a-llm··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
there is no "software" that a lot of people want, yet nobody managed to create yet because they failed too due to it was being hard to implement (excluding AGI/ASI which is not really software)
not-a-llm··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
pretty sure already millions of dollars (in inference costs) were already thrown at the Riehmann hypothesis

as the models get stronger, larger amounts will be thrown at it

imagine paying "just $1 bil" to go down in history as the company who's model solved the hardest/most famous open problem in mathematics. imagine the worldwide press headlines.

as they say, the Riehmann Hypothesis is the hardest way to earn a million dollar

not-a-llm··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
everybody knew the problem was impossible to solve

then one day somebody new arrived and they forgot to tell him/her, so he/she solved the problem

not-a-llm··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
of you ask it, surely it can run a "time" in its sandbox from time to time and see how long it worked for
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