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Re:LLM Voice on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:18PM (#50298209)
How do you recognize sysco wrappers? Any particular signs to look out for? I guess the big one is a mismatch between the size of the menu and the size of the kitchen.
Re:Dots: Always-on agents on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @02:20PM (#49898007)
But BERT's name led to some wonderfully named spinoffs like CamemBERT and FlauBERT for French, as well as ALBERT, RoBERTa, etc.
Right, the goal here is a more realistic Dyson swarm, not a Dyson sphere (yet)
Re:Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @07:01PM (#49823836)
Predicting reality, under the "controlled hallucination" framing, corrected by sensory error signals. The brain has no access to ground truth, only input data that helps correct the hallucination.
Re:Claude Code from Source on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:58PM (#49749348)
Easier than reading the source myself, but I don't think the site makes a good case for why I SHOULD apply CC's patterns to my own systems, besides it being the most used harness. It's clearly useful software, but that doesn't _necessarily_ translate to something to learn from.

It is apparently a vibecoded mess: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772282

Re:Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader puts Silicon Valley to shame on Monday September 14, 2026 @05:54PM (#49704707)
It's an additional layer on top of the eink that has to diffuse light from the side. It's bound to reduce contrast at least a little
Re:Neo Emacs – Emacs from the Future on Monday September 14, 2026 @05:02PM (#49703971)
There's an interesting prompting technique for this that asks the model to start with a random string that is then manipulated into the answer: https://pub.sakana.ai/ssot/
This is like the Bronze Age collapse when city-states fell one by one to displaced demand, under the refugee interpretation of the Sea Peoples.
Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @08:19PM (#49544388)
Only in South Asian varieties of English apparently: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/of#Pronunciation
Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @09:26PM (#49530629)
They sound exactly the same to me.

Wiktionary gives <should've> as /ˈʃʊdəv/, unstressed <have> as /(h)əv/ and unstressed <of> as /əv/.

Re:“I just chose words carefully” on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @02:33AM (#49518675)
The best of both worlds would be achieved by elastic tabstops. https://nick-gravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/

If only they took off.

Re:Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost) on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @01:55AM (#49518430)
And these are the guys who invented transformers! How?
Re:“I just chose words carefully” on Monday August 31, 2026 @02:27AM (#49506270)
Well, estimating string length of tokens is much like counting R's in strawberry.
Re:M5Stack Launches PaperMono on Thursday August 27, 2026 @09:36PM (#49473384)
There's a reason it stands for Bring Over Another Thousand
Re: on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @08:20PM (#49442587)
Yeah referencing is the way to go, as even finetuning probably captures style more than concrete facts. I know with large context windows we don't really RAG anymore, but for owner's manual lookup with a smaller model it seems ideal.

Something every LLM user ends up learning is that they're far better used as search and summarization tools than as knowledge databases in themselves.

But comments should hopefully explain "why", not what or how, and that kind of context is exactly what an LLM is likely to be missing
Re:How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots on Monday August 17, 2026 @08:16PM (#49339504)
I guess it would need permissions, but you can monitor the photo library with PHPhotoLibraryChangeObserver and check if a new item's subtype is photoScreenshot.

Otherwise userDidTakeScreenshotNotification only fires for your own app

Re:How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots on Monday August 17, 2026 @08:09PM (#49339455)
Re:The Indo-European Family Tree on Thursday August 13, 2026 @05:59PM (#49292366)
Yeah, it's not a clean inheritance but lots of linguistic contact and negotiation.

And crucially it's not just other IE-adjacent languages but the Pre-IE substrate. So many Greek words are inherited from the mysterious languages that were there before, of which we only know through the marks they left on ours.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_terms_derive...

It's the great irony of digital media. Copying data is accurate to the bit and is preserved "as-is", but in practice, it requires someone to maintain servers, to care about it. To separate out what is worth preserving.

We hot-linked to all those image hosts because we couldn't imagine them disappearing.

Archive.org had incredible foresight and if it didn't already exist, I'd call such a project a pipe dream.

"Lab" grown meat of the aquatic variety has been around for eons in the form of mussels and other bivalves. No central nervous system to suffer, similar nutritional profile that fills in plant-based gaps, extracts nutrients from the water instead of polluting it, and grown on ropes.

However the concern here is not just finding something tasty for humans to eat.

Re:Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent on Thursday August 06, 2026 @06:58PM (#49203781)
I dig the spirit, but if I'm meant to understand it in an afternoon, why is it codegolfed to such an extent? It's like reading the output of a minifier, not idiomatic Go.
Re:Quake – 30th Anniversary Update on Thursday August 06, 2026 @05:24PM (#49202782)
But that means it had to be a trend already to be overrepresented in the training corpus, right? Or was it just something the RLHF evaluators got a kick out of...
It's a menu with natural language search and potentially natural language form input.
Maybe even an off-the-shelf microlouver privacy screen protector?
Similarly, it blows my mind that all trees are made of air, specifically the carbon in it. I used to think that the biomass must come from the soil, but reality is more interesting.
Re:Steam Machine on Monday June 22, 2026 @03:24PM (#48634818)
It's doesn't have to be non-gaming purposes. Say you want to install something not sold on Steam like I dunno, World of Warcraft, or Minecraft.
Re:How do flocking birds and schools of fish move? on Friday June 19, 2026 @10:04PM (#48605635)
That's a really cool connection, and even the Wikipedia article mentions the similarity to birds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloton#Formations

It doesn't mention V shapes, though. I guess since a cyclist isn't generating lift, there are no wingtip vortices to exploit by forming such a shape.

> The shape or formation of the peloton changes according to multiple factors. Comparatively high power output efforts due to high-speeds on flat topography, a strong headwind or inclines (hills) tends to spread out or lengthen the formation, often into single file. A slow pace or brisk tailwind in which cyclists' power outputs are low result in compact formations such that riders ride side-by-side, often filling roads from one side to the other.

Re:Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further on Thursday June 18, 2026 @07:32PM (#48593019)
> Garmin discontinuing their e-paper smartwatches

Wait what? Do you have a source? I can't find anything about that, and I see the Instinct 3 is still being sold. Very disappointing if so, as that line has been the perfect pebble replacement for me.

Re:Retro-Tech Parenting on Thursday June 04, 2026 @10:57PM (#48407415)
Depends on personality I guess. That would be sooo unsatisfying to me. E.g. not wanting to accept that languages have exceptions "just because" is what got me interested in historical linguistics as a young lad.

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