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Re:Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:38PM (#50340447)
It seems to me that ethics evolve to suit the process, and not the other way.
Re:Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:23PM (#50340220)
Even if he didn't do the surgery, he has a superior context window.
Will there be another free lunch in our lifetimes?
If you come up with a loss function that produces a CPU please tell us.
If the qwen were conscious it ought to feel mocked.
How do you do the clock?
Re:I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:57PM (#50198047)
The code for xterm is discouraging https://github.com/netlinux-ai/xterm
Re:I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:50PM (#50197928)
It's like you want tool calling until you actually want some hallucination/creativity.
Re:What's Getting Pwned on Thursday October 22, 2026 @11:30AM (#50196798)
Where's the interest? It's the customer's fault.
Yeah just like with Navier Stokes.
Re:Show HN: I made a WWI dogfight game that runs in the browser on Monday September 28, 2026 @12:08PM (#49880258)
I bet Claude is exasperated heh
Re:Show HN: I made a WWI dogfight game that runs in the browser on Friday September 25, 2026 @01:18PM (#49847346)
very cool! Wasn't WWI in black and white though?
The customer is always right. It's more of a tradition.
Re:2DWillNeverDie on Friday September 25, 2026 @12:41PM (#49846806)
Speaking of style, impressionist or painterlike isn't as well explored for some reason. I'm thinking of https://www.quelsolaar.com/
Re:Attention is all you have on Monday September 21, 2026 @03:26PM (#49792110)
Oh funny I thought you were talking about LLMs.
Re:The Shadows Lurking in the Equations – Underwater Islands on Friday September 18, 2026 @09:42AM (#49754316)
Seems similar to fractals.
That kind of stuff comes down to behavior. It's not like being conscripted into an army.
Re:Feeling Sad about AI on Friday September 11, 2026 @01:30PM (#49662111)
I'm too sad about recipe sites to empathize.
Re:What will our economic future look like? on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @05:18PM (#49634487)
At least there will be more nurses to take the blame.
Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:55PM (#49632077)
I can use iphone SE (3rd gen) with one hand, and I'm not Shaq either presumably.
Re:Rivian's Gambit for Full Autonomy on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @01:08PM (#49629784)
Experimenting only on the boring ordinary kids doesn't seem fair either.
Re:Why getting your hands dirty is good for you on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @12:05PM (#49612302)
Studies show that researchers are the last ones to learn what everyone already knew. That happens too.
The practice of reporting? They optimize for the least costly words for the most clicks. It's more about what's possible than what is reasonable.
Re:The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @01:19AM (#49532047)
It's like Neo says "You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code." He was referring to something like a K, Q, V vector at the time I believe.
Re:Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's) on Sunday August 30, 2026 @11:47PM (#49505356)
Optimal next token generation disguised as something more.
Re:Creepy Crawlies on Sunday August 30, 2026 @11:35PM (#49505297)
> permanently tying up a chunk of capacity spent on producing output that is only useful for a single purpose — feeding a learning model.

The horror.

Re:GLM-5.3 is now open-weight on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:18PM (#49480738)
Well if you did get the m5 ultra could you obliterate the guardrails and then your wife can ask it pertinent but unsafe questions about how to punish you. Seems doable.
Yeah it's even superior to smol web in some circles. It's not that much longer than a phone number.
Or some thing!
I don't even have a domain name and I'm getting lots of hits.

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