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rbtprograms··on So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes
only on the surface, plenty of places have moved out of the big tech ecosystem to models hosted at smaller providers or even self hosted. its not the majority of work but is growing.
rbtprograms··on A misalignment of AI in mathematics
youre not wrong, but i think you are missing his base point. tao is saying that mathematics is a practice that the group collectively builds. students and new methods are built on top of what has previously been done, so its a community effort of research, experimentation, and knowledge sharing.

his core argument that is LLMs (and specifically LLMs owned and gated by corporations was my read), while able to solve problems, do not contribute to this practice of knowledge building. solving problems is just one piece, and the mathematics community ingests problems and new methods, iterates and thinks on them, and then produces new ideas, methods, etc. this is what he is defining as progress, and solving things like millenium problems are markers of this progress.

rbtprograms··on A misalignment of AI in mathematics
Tao basically reiterating "AI is making us dumber" a bit more eloquently and applied to math.
rbtprograms··on YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning
all of these fall very flat, many of them sound like generic commercial tunes at their worst. there is obviously melody and structure but none of it sounds good.
rbtprograms··on I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
"AGI is here"
rbtprograms··on EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709
i dont know anything about the eff but based on this article i am on your side, they seem extremely untrustworthy so i am happy to be opposed to what they want.
rbtprograms··on EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709
>cuts young people off from essential information and experiences, particularly harming vulnerable youth and marginalized groups who often find safety in supportive online communities they can't access offline.

>Far from protecting children

so both sides on this are framing that their positions protects children while framing that the opposing side harms children.

rbtprograms··on Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
>at work, i can tell that people are not thinking and losing the ability to thinking hard.

its also wild how quickly and willingly many people handed this over. the apathy and desire for connivence runs extremely deep among my coworkers. we are at the point where people are not even running their local dev servers and clicking around to ensure their work is functionality correct, they just ingest the ticket, dump it into the model, commit the output, and say they're the most productive they've ever been.

rbtprograms··on Git at any scale
its literally elon getting mad and making an account calling people cock suckers
rbtprograms··on Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
the word delightful has lost all meaning to me
rbtprograms··on Grok 4.5
>Also, what's wrong with "white-nationalist" specifically?

>created 15 minutes ago

lines up nicely

rbtprograms··on A Tesla Crashed Through a Harris County Home. Is the Car to Blame?
yes
rbtprograms··on U.S. science is in chaos
whatever makes Americans feel better about being immigrants or migrant workers is fine by me
rbtprograms··on U.S. science is in chaos
americans pretending they aren't immigrants by using the term expat always cracks me up
rbtprograms··on Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
"When we looked inside he saw that what was said of them was true of him as well. So it was either rage or weep; and so he raged."
rbtprograms··on New York passes pied-a-terre tax
the amount of people who are middle class with a second home is rare. if you can afford another dwelling, you can pay more tax on it. lets not be this disconnected.
rbtprograms··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
its a fun place to buy games though
rbtprograms··on What can we gain by losing infinity?
saying infinity is a mathematical symbol we can observe is simplifying it way too much, all mathematical symbols are abstractions.

i can observe two apples. i cannot observe infinity apples.

rbtprograms··on Claude Design
i dont disagree. but there is a difference between great design and entirely acceptable and shippable design.
rbtprograms··on Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0
you can always fire it up yourself and see what its all about. in my experience it generates a lot of code very quickly, that code is probably only ever supposed to be LLM maintained, not by people.
rbtprograms··on EFF is leaving X
what are you even talking about? they arent suppressing free speech, they are leaving a platform. this might be the most bot-like response ive ever seen, if youre not a bot then go outside, read a book, just log off my goodness.
rbtprograms··on OpenAI Acquires TBPN
oh wow you were not kidding
rbtprograms··on I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop
in general these types of attacks are still difficult to solve, because there are a lot of different ways they can be formulated. llm based security is still and unknown, but mostly i have seen people using intermediary steps to parse question intent and return canned responses if the question seems outside the intended modality.
rbtprograms··on Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns
kinda reads like an advertisement for dolt?
rbtprograms··on Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns
i actually agree with this take; i dont see the problem that smart glasses solve. what, my phone screen isnt literally in front of my eyeballs 24/7? i have a need to be absolutely plugged into scrolling social media and consuming content so much that i just have to have the screen in my glasses? this feels much more like what tech companies want people to want rather than what people want.
rbtprograms··on A case for Go as the best language for AI agents
put something out there wade. whats your preference?
rbtprograms··on A case for Go as the best language for AI agents
what would you prefer? i liked rust a lot as i found the compiler feedback loop pretty great, but the language was much more verbose and i found the simplicity of Go to be great, and the typing system is good enough for almost everything.
rbtprograms··on Layoffs at Block
i think they dont have a great moat in their individual offerings, but across square, cash app, and afterpay they offer a pretty good suite of products for the entire transaction stack.
rbtprograms··on What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI
this actually makes the most sense, and would be a pretty meta comment :D im not very good at detecting sarcasm/meta commentary over the internet but it does add up here.
rbtprograms··on What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI
its interesting how much this comment feels like its AI written.

if it isn't, then it has seeped into your writing style and its quite a turn off as a reader; i dont care much to engage.

if it is, then why should i read it? what come to this website and even bother reading AI bot comments?

what is happening to writing indeed.

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