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Re:A global workspace in language models on Monday July 06, 2026 @06:06PM (#48811121)
https://claude.ai/share/2b0f85a2-e7b8-4f62-91a0-eca61bdeabec

Fable 5 on low gets the answer with web search turned off, one-shot!

This is absurd. I did not realize you could do nearly this much computation in regex.
Cool post! I'm somewhat curious whether the data quality scoring has actually translated into better data; do you have numbers on how much more of your data is useful for training vs in May?
Re:An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform on Sunday December 07, 2025 @08:15PM (#46187214)
It's quite interesting that our ears implement a better-than-Fourier-like algorithm internally: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.4611
Re:Building a 30 PB storage cluster in the heart of SF on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @12:28PM (#45439697)
we have 6 months of experience operating thousands of physical disks in datacenters now! it's about a couple hours a month of employee time in steady-state.
Re:Building a 30 PB storage cluster in the heart of SF on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @11:59AM (#45439293)
no, we wanted to be conservative by depreciating somewhat more aggressively than that. we have much closer to 5% yearly disk failure rates.