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realharo··on Could AI robots with lasers make herbicides – and farm workers – obsolete?
The concentration of alcohol in hand sanitizers is like 70%, not small.
realharo··on All the existential risk, none of the economic impact
For generating output, sure, but when it comes to "helping individuals grok any conceivable topic" like the original comment said, you're still bottlenecked by how fast you can read and understand text, so it won't make as much difference there.

Plus, from my experience, the more obscure topics, which are not easy to google, also tend to suffer the most from hallucinations when using LLMs. The topics which ChatGPT can explain perfectly usually have well-written explanations at the top of search results too.

realharo··on All the existential risk, none of the economic impact
Or maybe that already happened decades ago with the Internet and search engines.
realharo··on The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever (2020)
Yeah, this is probably the most overdone app category in the history of overdone app categories.

That's not to say that a new twist on it can't be successful (most successful things aren't entirely original), but if you're worrying about someone releasing their version earlier and beating you, just take a look around.

realharo··on Claude 3.5 Sonnet
I think the comment was referring to things like internal company data, or licensed data that is not publicly available, etc. Those things could be a competitive advantage.
realharo··on OpenAI Employees Warn of Advanced AI Dangers
>entrenchment of existing inequalities

This can also refer to wealth inequality. Especially between people who work for a living vs people who own assets for a living.

And it's worth putting that first, because it's arguably most likely to actually happen of all these threats.

realharo··on Devon: An open-source pair programmer
One random idea:

Wordle clone tutorials are of course all over the web (just google make wordle clone and see the results), but what about a browser extension + Discord bot, that lets groups of friends compare their scores for the official Wordle, in Discord.

It would automatically post people's results to a Discord server - both the score, and a picture of the full guesses under a spoiler tag. And maybe during playing, the extension would show status like "if you solve it now, you'd be better than 50% of people in the server today". And post a weekly top 3 at the end of each week.

Something like it has probably been done before, but nowhere near as much as the examples I mentioned in my previous comment. Might be a bit too big at this cost though.

realharo··on Devon: An open-source pair programmer
Well, it's not like I'm just going to trust a comment like this either :)

I would like to see it in action, and then I'll form an opinion.

realharo··on Devon: An open-source pair programmer
The demo video shows it making a game of life.

People really should start using examples that don't have literally thousands of step by step tutorials all over the web.

That includes clones of Wordle, Flappy Bird, generic todo lists, etc. With those, I can't tell how well the abilities would generalize to real world projects.

realharo··on Warn HN: The AI That Plugs Your Product on Reddit in Conversations
I wonder if this is anything like the YouTube comment spam that appears under every finance-related video.

There are always entire comment chains talking about how important it is to invest wisely and then plugging some random person's name.

The only way this ends is with either requiring strict identity verification for posting, or giving up on comments altogether.

realharo··on GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?
Oh, I had no idea! I didn't account for that (or a bunch of other things like temperature). So yeah, might be a bit off, but not as much as the wrong initial answers from the LLM - which also failed to mention this.
realharo··on GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?
Yes, you need to know the densities, but the models outputted the correct densities even as part of the wrong answer.

Not sure what you mean by volumes "not adding". One way to calculate it is like:

    density_alcohol = 0.789g/ml
    density_water = 1g/ml
    weight_total = 16g
    (density = weight / volume)
    
    volume_alcohol = 0.4 * volume_total
    volume_water = 0.6 * volume_total
    
    weight_total = weight_alcohol + weight_water
    
    weight_alcohol =
      density_alcohol * volume_alcohol =
      0.789 * volume_alcohol =
      0.789 * (0.4 * volume_total) =
      0.3156 * volume_total
    
    weight_water =
      density_water * volume_water =
      volume_water =
      0.6 * volume_total
    
    weight_total =
      0.3156 * volume_total + 0.6 * volume_total =
      0.9156 * volume_total
    
    volume_total =
      weight_total / 0.9156 = 
      16 / 0.9156 =
      17.4749 (rounded)
    
    volume_alcohol =
      0.4 * volume_total =
      6.99 ml (rounded)
Not sure which school grade problems like this are taught in, but I remember similar ones from waaay back. This particular one is a real world problem caused by having a kitchen scale but not a measuring cup, and me wrongly assuming that just asking ChatGPT would help. (ChatGPT 4 from about 2 months ago)
realharo··on GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?
It's only drift if the error grows over time. You need to look at the sum of the offsets.
realharo··on GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?
It failed on this math problem:

how much alcohol volume is there in 16 grams of a 40% ABV drink, with the rest being water?

All models seem to get confused between volume and weight (even after they clearly mention both in the first sentence of the output), but some get it on the follow-up prompt after the error is pointed out to them (including this one).

realharo··on Android 15 may make it harder for sideloaded apps to get sensitive permissions
Yes, if you're willing to jump through scare dialogs and search for where in the UI to find "hidden" settings, you can manually override it per app as before.
realharo··on What I like about Go
The point of having it in the type system is not just to force you to check it. It is also to clearly document where you need to check it, and just as important, where you don't.

Without it, you don't have that "this is guaranteed to exist at this point" indication that can actually reduce the overall number of checks in practice.

realharo··on "AI will cure cancer" misunderstands both AI and medicine
The article, while talking about some very real problems, seems to be completely unrelated to the question of whether or not AI is likely to have that capability in the near/mid future (which is what the title implies).
realharo··on Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive
AI assistant in a browser makes sense if it's acting as an extension of your memory - for example you're browsing some items you're considering buying, and the assistant creates a summary spreadsheet with their comparison, that you can later look at, etc. Could be useful for things like real estate.

Most AI tools I've seen however can't seem to get away from the classic "prompt -> response" chat UI.

realharo··on Spatial Computing
For navigating menus, even the original Quest's hand tracking, where you used your fingers to point at things, is good enough.
realharo··on IDEs we had 30 years ago
That demo is partially faked - if you look at the "plan B" button, it doesn't actually make the UI show some newly changed data, it simply hides the entire window, and shows a different pre-made static window.

Even the "plan A" button code doesn't show the only interesting part of the code - how the UI is actually updated in response to the changed underlying data.

realharo··on Gemini AI
>Companies start going from...

The few companies that will still exist, that is - many of them won't, when their product becomes almost free to replace.

realharo··on Gemini AI
Today, your restaurant's custom website largely doesn't matter, as ordering is done on delivery apps, and people visiting in person look at things like Google Maps reviews. Only reservations are not quite as consolidated yet.

Similarly, in the future, there may be no more "apps" in the way we understand them today, or they may become completely irrelevant if everything can be handled by one general-purpose assistant.

realharo··on $10M AI Mathematical Olympiad Prize
Stockpile metals and rare earth elements. Natural resources will be the beginning and the end of trade.

(not actually serious, at least not yet)

realharo··on ChatGPT with voice is now available to all free users
It says it doesn't work when you have chat history turned off - and thus data collection, which is combined into the same setting. Even on the paid version.
realharo··on LLMs cannot find reasoning errors, but can correct them
>All apples are red. All apples are fruit. My car is red, therefore my car is a fruit.

This is an extremely common example of an error. I wish people would put more effort into coming up with examples that aren't so common all over the internet.

The output even calls it "a classic example".

realharo··on Habits of great software engineers
With a full-time job, your time will be quite limited. If you want to learn/read (on more than 1 subject), build something with what you've learned, and still have enough time for other things, chores, not to mention fun, you will eventually find you have to give something up, or do it in a very limited fashion.
realharo··on Habits of great software engineers
>Joy of tinkering - build projects, try out frameworks, build stuff on the side. Keeps the spark alive.

>Tech detox — Recharging away from your monitor makes you a better programmer.

Aren't these the opposite of each other? Do build stuff on your own time, but don't spend your own time on the computer?

realharo··on AI and Open Source in 2023
The scale and ease of doing it matter.

It's like the difference between a bunch of shops having security cameras that they can look at the footage from, versus having every such camera connected to a wide surveillance network with facial recognition and querying abilities. Both are technically just a bunch of cameras in the same places, but not many people would argue it's the same thing.

realharo··on Copying Angry Birds with nothing but AI
>Surely the human understanding component will be whittled down at some point, too, but it's a much much further goal than automating essentially mechanical processes.

Why do you think that?

People used to think that making paintings and poems would be one of the most difficult things for AI, and look how that turned out.

realharo··on Copying Angry Birds with nothing but AI
That's not an entirely new game (though the other versions of it are pretty obscure), but super interesting https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/sumplete-chatgpt-ai-gam...
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