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Re:Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:17PM (#50292606)
Yeah, until you follow the link only to find out that the link does not say what Perplexity told you it does. This happened to me a frightful number of times.
Funny, my logging module for Python does the same (if requested with an optional keyword argument). It fetches the call stack, removes it's own functions, replaces Python library function chains with a single [...] and prepends it to the log output (together with usual date and time).
Re:We are going to kill "unalive" on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:45AM (#49975896)
Quite often these advertisers are also doing this primarily to appease, or at least are triggered into action by pressure groups.
Re:We are going to kill "unalive" on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:17AM (#49975662)
Nobody is getting "muted or silenced by mindless, heartless algorithms"!

They are getting muted or silenced by busybodies who try to control language, and are either in a position to install these algorithms, or are part of pressure mobs that aim to influence the former.

Re:Alan Kay's answer to "Did the ENIAC have a BIOS"? on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:16AM (#49875010)
Hmm, I have read contradicting accounts.

They say the term did not originate from the steam condenser. Quite the opposite, it became deprecated because of the ambiguous meaning of steam condenser.

Re:An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot on Sunday September 27, 2026 @03:32AM (#49864259)
Yes. Also, while the model having a certain instruction once in it's context might count as the agent "knowing" about it, I'm almost certain that repeating those instructions - especially right at the position in the context where it counts - should almost certainly make a difference. Of course I can't know how much of a difference exactly, but that's what experiments are for.
Re:An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot on Sunday September 27, 2026 @03:25AM (#49864220)
I think this is a really excellent idea!

I'm almost sure that should at least lower the inclination of the model to try and "fix" the access problem, and I want to see this implemented and systematically evaluated.

I wish I could highlight this more than just with a vote and a reply, but I'll just have to be content with doing what I can here.

Re:Why back propagation goes backward on Monday September 21, 2026 @08:10AM (#49786240)
More like the other way around. Error backprop is the method you use for training, using AD to automate most of the implementation work (which you previously had to do by hand) came a bit later.
Re:Deterministic Core, Non-Deterministic Shell on Monday September 21, 2026 @04:52AM (#49784804)
Easily circumvented: Generate a random seed in the shell and pass it to the core.
Re:GLM Built Its Own Inference Infrastructure on Thursday September 17, 2026 @07:11AM (#49739101)
Well, there's essentially two major ways to use these models: Pair programming or fully autonomous fire-and-forget code generation. The second strategy needs essentially zero input, so the number of tokens you can blow is practically only limited by API speed.
Re:Why LLMs keep failing their Big Five personality tests on Monday August 31, 2026 @04:37PM (#49514580)
Arrogant, pseudo-intellectual drivel.
Re:The Harness Is the Thing on Thursday August 27, 2026 @08:53AM (#49464071)
That's what I though. I've got a harness that uses landlock. Might not be perfect, but should be good enough for almost all cases.
Re:RISC-V: They should have known better on Saturday August 15, 2026 @03:44PM (#49313660)
Inadvertent touching is fixable, ARM for example did it with the S bit (though on AArch64 it's slightly more complicated).

I regard it as a mistake of RISC-V. The flag register was invented for good reasons, and dropping it is a trade-off I personally do not think is worth the downside.

Re:RISC-V: They should have known better on Saturday August 15, 2026 @01:22PM (#49312422)
>absolute distain for flag registers

It's worst aspect maybe.

Re:The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real on Monday August 03, 2026 @08:16PM (#49162991)
Damn, I remember I worked through the whole damn thing some years ago when I read this article for the first time, and it didn't hold up to it's claim. I was actually contemplating to do a write-up, but it wasn't really important to me so I didn't. Seeing the same article re-appear on HN for the second time now I really wish that I did. Unfortunately I've forgotten the details by now.
Re:Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines on Monday August 03, 2026 @10:13AM (#49156082)
In "biometrics that match insightface bit for bit" - the "bit for bit" thing is also something I have encountered more than once.
Re:Don't be a meat proxy on Monday August 03, 2026 @03:27AM (#49152355)
Yes, stupid and lazy people will be stupid and lazy.

AI is just another tool they can use to be stupid and lazy while pretending to contribute.

Re:Nerd culture is murdering intellectuals on Sunday August 02, 2026 @04:28AM (#49142305)
Could have been put in a few short sentences, most of which would be wrong.
Re:RamenHaus on Saturday August 01, 2026 @02:01PM (#49136781)
I know chashu is the pork, but I don't remember the broth type. Sure it wasn't miso, I think maybe salt or soy sauce type.
Re:RamenHaus on Saturday August 01, 2026 @06:44AM (#49133127)
I've been to Japan - the first cheap buy-and-nuke-at-home ramen from the konbini around the corner I ate there completely blew me away (†)! It was decisively better than what I would realistically expect to get in a restaurant in the west. I don't know how they do it, but I learned never to underestimate the Japanese people’s dedication to their craft.

(†) For the curious, it was chāshū ramen.

Edit: To avoid confusion, I do not mean instant ramen, but a plastic bowl of chilled, pre-prepared take away ramen soup.

Re:AI's top startups are barely publishing their research on Thursday July 30, 2026 @06:36AM (#49108071)
I don't see that, where do you read that?

Also, what kind of papers do they publish at all?

When I look at the recently (say, last 1-2 years) published practical improvements in the LM space, they're not even close to what the Chinese are publishing.

Re:I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64 on Friday July 17, 2026 @12:17PM (#48949097)
Yup, I remember early school. Two guys in class had a computer, one was a ZX81 the other (me) a C64. We're still friends! =)
This is... strange? I wonder what the reason might be?

Anyways, you've found someone. Or at least someone who used to.

Re:Fable created novel 4D splat format on Sunday July 05, 2026 @05:03AM (#48792501)
Well, iff is a useful abbreviation. I use it in personal notes at least, and would use it more often if I thought it was more widely understood.
Oh, I assume they're innovating - it's what I meant with "doing new things".

But the word pioneer comes from French pionnier, literally “foot soldier”, a soldier who goes ahead to prepare the way.

If you don't publish you may be advancing, but you're not preparing anyone's way.

I don't need to. Those who get it get it. Apparently that doesn't include you, and I'm fine with that.
I'm not.
I'm afraid I'm even balking at the word "pioneering" in context with US frontier labs. They are probably doing a few new things, right, but they are not blazing any trails for others to follow along, the Chinese are.
Lookahead Sparse Attention should be playing a big role as well, as it dramatically slashes memory consumption.
They can only pay so much because of the expectations about the generated value. Those might turn out wrong, as any expectation, but value is very much in the picture.

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