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Some of the old Mt Gox threads are an interesting read today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7203051

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7294762

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7369879

The pizza-bitcoin story is about $1B, not a measly $100,000, FWIW. Assuming you're referring to the 10k BTC for 2 pizzas story, anyway.

In 1999 when I was about 12, I memorized 120 digits of pi with little issue. I had some extra motivation: once I got to 20-30 digits, a classmate bet me I couldn't get past 100, and he'd give me $1 for every digit I memorized past 100. Never saw my $20 :(. Pretty sure it was a well-executed nerd-snipe.

Having not practiced at all since about 2001 or so, I can still get to about 30 pretty easily. I didn't use any techniques specifically, I just kept practicing as far as I remember.

I treasure my memories of being on subways and busses and getting lost in thought while staring out the windows, yeah. I mean, people have done this for basically all of human history (okay walking or something, not on a train, but, yeah). It's not a bad thing to have some time with just your senses existing in the world.

What you've described is just a new benchmark, though. It'll be called CarParkBench, various embodied LLMs will then be run against that benchmark, and some will score better than others.

I do see where you're going, but that's already what's happening: we have so many different benchmarks because there's no real single way to test for general intelligence.

Also, it takes a human probably at least a decade of world experience, growth, learning, etc, to pass your benchmark. I'm quite confident that it will be very soon that an embodied LLM will pass your new benchmark, much sooner than a human would take if born today.

I'm not familiar with MyselfGPT (and didn't see an obvious result in a quick search), so, I guess it probably cannot use MyselfGPT. If you have a link, I'll check it out and then we'll see!

> Should be "You're thinking".

This should be "This should be 'You're thinking'." don't you think? Why bother correcting someone's grammar with a sentence fragment? You're just trading one mistake for another. I'm hoping someone finds a grammar error in my post, because continuing this would be hilarious.

The linked page implies there is no linux support, I wonder why. It's there in the docs if you hunt for it.

FWIW, I used to love this phrase but over recent years have come to understand it is quite damaging. We live in a society where evil frequently hides behind a ‘stupid’ label, and people bring this quote up to defend or soften actions that are indeed done out of specific malicious intent.

Still can't make a Gmail label named 'Buzz'.

Yes, of course, it seems that type of ID was specifically rejected in the story above. Only drivers allowed to sign up. Non-drivers rejected because they don’t drive.

I'm reminded of the Alameda Weehawken burrito tunnel:

https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...

Really cool stuff and definitely going to try it; I’m also finding it wild that Google put effort into adding ums and erms into their text to speech model a while back. AI puts it in, AI helps take it out.

It's not even a throwback. That U2 album still shows up if I accidentally open Apple Music. I haaaaate it. I disliked U2 before any of this, but now I have absolutely sworn to never ever listen to any of their music.

Google did the same thing with Transformers 2 I think. It still shows up as Purchased for me even though I absolutely did not purchase that. Good way to ensure I never ever watch any Transformers movie!

See also a story about an implementation from Max Levchin: https://max.levch.in/post/724289457144070144/shamir-secret-s...

Some wild irony is they once forcefully removed purchased copies of 1984 from Kindles while people were reading it.

“If McDonald’s offered three free Big Macs for a DNA sample, there would be lines around the block.” - Bruce

I have no idea about the eye thing taking off. But I think your comment is very HN and a bit out-of-touch with regular people. What "you're seeing" is a bubble and not representative of the general population. The eye thing is a slow frog boil and it will be commonplace before you can blink.

This is the approach I take with code edits to existing files at Code+=AI; I wrote a blog post with a simple example of AST modification to illustrate: https://codeplusequalsai.com/static/blog/prompting_llms_to_m...

Agent instruction files are code, though. And none of this is really workstation-specific, it is codebase-specific. Should each developer keep a nearly identical copy of CLAUDE.md? The instructions really aren't for a developer, they are for an LLM agent. In most cases (I'd imagine, anyway) the agentic instruction files must be in source control for them to even provide much value.

Video of the booster landing: https://xcancel.com/JeffBezos/status/2045874068763632017

AST-based code edits from LLMs: https://codeplusequalsai.com

It's an LLM-webapp-builder, sure, but different from the rest! I have the LLM write python code when it needs to modify an HTML file for example (it'll use beautifulsoup; then I run the code: it parses the source into a data structure, modifies the data structure, and then outputs the resulting html).

It's also a marketplace where you can publish your llm-powered webapp, and earn $ on the token margins (I charge 2x token rates) when people use your site.