FergusArgyll
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Ooh I never realized FLT and Code book were the same author. Yes, both great!
This was useful for the 1-2 months where models were good enough to use all their newfound tools but not good enough to vibe code them themselves.
Now, just install codex (or claude code or whatever) on a vps, tell it to make a way to email it, then email it to make a way to text it etc etc. takes a few minutes and when you need another bridge just have codex make it.
Woah, went from > 1 min on git.ffmpeg (difficulty 6) to instant. Thanks!
Edit: after some more analysis; Average with extension disabled is 90 seconds, with extension enabled it's .3 seconds
At least AI is not depressed all the time and trying to make everyone lose their money
I think there's still a ton of secret sauce needed for serving them economically
More RLVR.
Give it verifiable problems, if it doesn't find a solution move on, if it does, use that as a reward signal.
They shoot through walls!
Would be nice if we can take the bat's sonar encoder, train a projector and fuse it into our NN
Yeah, so it's a spectrum.
In general if you want to feel the power of the latest and greatest, you should just not look at the output, give it full access (not on your computer - a server, or old machine you don't use is best) and give it a big audacious goal and let it work.
That might not be ok for your work / hobby / whatever, but if you wanna see the differences between models that's probably the best way.
> If we represent the operation of the Random Number Generator (RNG) as a time-series graph, the system can be applied to decrypt the bitcoin seed-phrase.
Big if true
If you can't find a difference between Haiku & Opus, something's going wrong
Everyone hates regulations until they realize every regulation actually does something. Everyone hates spending until they realize the money goes towards something.
None of this will get solved until a crisis
Subliminal Learning: language models transmit behavioral traits via hidden signals in data
https://arxiv.org/html/2507.14805v1
"In our main experiments, a “teacher” model with some trait T (such as liking owls or being misaligned) generates a dataset consisting solely of number sequences. Remarkably, a “student” model trained on this dataset learns T. This occurs even when the data is filtered to remove references to T."
I had to butcher the title due to length
Posted by
FergusArgyll on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @10:41AM
from the lesswrong.com dept.
**reflects** the cost...
Not the **literal** cost
Whatever, doesn't matter. The point is a model should be able to exist and be used even if it goes against whoever got 270 electoral college votes
> In our experience, C has proven to be a pleasant, expressive and versatile language for a wide variety of programs. It is easy to learn, and it wears well as one's experience with it grows.
The C Programming Language K&R
Posted by
FergusArgyll on Monday July 27, 2026 @03:09PM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.
It looks to me very similar to pi - Suleyman's last venture
> “We have research that is worthy of scaling up, and having access to a big NVIDIA computer will let us do so,” said Ilya Sutskever, cofounder and CEO of SSI.
I don't get this attitude. The seats are meant to recline, as soon as takeoff is finished I recline. If you want more space, you should too.
> and *successfully* found ways to gain access to secret information that it could use to cheat the evaluation.
Emphasis mine
Star player traded to serious contender
I'm sure, I was just trying to help with
> I can't even figure it out as a thought exercise.