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Re:2D Vehicles on Saturday October 10, 2026 @06:22PM (#50037787)
This is painfully awful Claudeslop. They didn't even bother changing the default style.
Re:Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock on Monday September 28, 2026 @12:58AM (#49873830)
I imagine he sold all of it by now
Re:How we made claude.ai 3x faster in two weeks on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @04:17PM (#49821893)
but Opus 5 is absolutely terrible. I'm still on 4.8 when I use Claude. I still think 5.6 Sol is the best available model outside of Astra/Fable.
Re:Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @04:13PM (#49821856)
It could be an internal model as well.
Re:Google's Open Agentic Orchestrator on Monday September 21, 2026 @12:25PM (#49789419)
I wonder if Google stole this code too like they did with minitap
Re:Google's Open Agentic Orchestrator on Monday September 21, 2026 @12:24PM (#49789388)
The terminal gif is the most confusing slop I've seen from Google. It doesn't explain anything and it just seems to be a collection of random commands that someone ran to test, not something that tries to explain what the tool does.
Re:Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker's death on Monday September 21, 2026 @12:19PM (#49789309)
I've driven busses and I was never trained not to do this. This falls under common sense.
Re:How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip on Saturday September 19, 2026 @03:13AM (#49764143)
The lawsuit isn't for chip designers, but the consumer product lines. It's possible they also got IP for chips, but that was not brought up.
Re:Cloudflare Quick Tunnels on Friday September 18, 2026 @02:46PM (#49758509)
How many ways can you convey doing the same thing? All the banks out there have almost identical slogans because they do very similar things.
uh oh. If my ELO gets back to my friends I'm going to be very embarrassed.
They only did it because minitap called them out? It's in the post.

They were in clear violation of Apache 2.0

> We opened Google’s Artemis repository and recognised code we had written for mobile-use. Then we found our names in its history—and the change that removed them.

Did you read the post? They originally removed all traces of minitap and its contributors, and only added it back when they were called out.

Re:Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf] on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @07:53PM (#49618836)
I haven't seen any proof that OpenAI asked Tristan to remove Sebastian from the prize. Until we have proof of this, it would be wise to offer conclusions.

Same for NS validity. This was not validated by the community yet.

Re:Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf] on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @07:47PM (#49618782)
It would be very difficult to say. It confirms that Tristan's data is likely part of the data the models use, but a lot of filtering, pruning, and transform goes into training.

Data has to be determined to be signal and not just noice, then it could go through processes of generating questions/answers from that data, then it RLHF's over this.

OpenAI have petabytes of data, all anonymized. It could take months to say for sure it was part of the training, and even more time to determine if it made any difference.

Re:Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf] on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @06:55PM (#49618311)
Business plans are specifically used for ZDR. If you're working on something that matters, you should be doing this.
Re:Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf] on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @06:53PM (#49618288)
You're getting a massive discount because you're helping to train the model. If you want to have ZDR, you have to pay API rates.

This is well-known to anyone in the industry.

Re:True Rate of Unemployment on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @01:52AM (#49532245)
How do they get data on people who work part time but want a full time job, and how do they calculate a living wage?
I've lived in Taiwan for a large part of my life.

They would lose all of TSMC if they do any military actions. It's not the fact that the CCP thinks that they can make Taiwan and China a country, it's the the fact that most of China does in fact consider them as one country. Taiwan is ready to defend themselves, but are very happy keeping their relationship with China the way it is.

Re:Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @03:14AM (#49268852)
> As for readability, the fact that AI-written Go closely resembles human-written Go is not necessarily a point in Go’s favour.

There's just not many ways of writing Go. It's a very dull language. It was designed to be dull and easily understandable.

This is where MoEs shine though. You don't need all experts in memory at once. Diffusion inference doesn't have sparse inference.
Agentic coding is absolutely not a failure. It's just not the 10x that CEOs really wanted it to be.

We learned that some tasks don't really benefit from AI while others do. My team went from 7 people to 2 (went to new teams, no layoffs), and we're doing the same amount if not more work than we used to.

Is it more draining and lacking of focused work? Yes. Is it more money for the business? Yes.

Re:AI has torched the market for junior programmers on Saturday July 04, 2026 @04:23PM (#48788676)
By what he's saying he clearly isn't.
Re:AI has torched the market for junior programmers on Saturday July 04, 2026 @04:20PM (#48788645)
I've interviewed a ton of junior engineers. Our company was senior-heavy and we're just now diversifying.

80% of them should reconsider their career paths. They glaringly cheat during interviews, they can't answer basic software questions, and they're clearly in it just for the money.

They were never interested in software. They just saw the success of software engineers that put in a lot of work, and were fooled by the 2021-2024 hiring spree to think it would be easy.

Re:Leaking YouTube creators' private videos on Saturday July 04, 2026 @04:15PM (#48788586)
Youtube should consider their engineers responsible for the software they write. Big companies these days are just bureaucracy tricks and politics. There's a small handful of real talent, but they're quickly moving to new startups.

Also, I'm Canadian as well, and almost everyone calls themselves "software engineer" these days. You just can't say P.eng. in your title. You could be forced to remove it from linkedin/etc if you're called out, but it rarely happens.

Re:Fintech Engineering Handbook on Monday June 29, 2026 @12:46PM (#48721594)
If you're calculating stock gains, taxes, etc. You'll want to do it on BigDecimal on line items, then sum it up. Cents could lose precision leading to a large difference on millions of line items.

If you're doing static payments or displaying a number, it doesn't matter if it's float amounts or integer cents since you're not doing any calculations anyway.

Stripe uses cents mostly because it's the most foolproof way that won't cause massive issues as a public API.

Re:Fintech Engineering Handbook on Saturday June 27, 2026 @04:12PM (#48701304)
Hyphens here are meant to be formatting. You would be correct if this was a literary piece, but handbooks and sheets don't need to use these rules.
Re:Fintech Engineering Handbook on Saturday June 27, 2026 @04:09PM (#48701278)
It's a good indicator but absolutely no guarantee. I've had to tell project managers this because they didn't understand this concept.
Re:Fintech Engineering Handbook on Saturday June 27, 2026 @04:06PM (#48701257)
BigDecimal should be used by almost everyone except for HFT since they're really slow.
Re:Fintech Engineering Handbook on Saturday June 27, 2026 @03:57PM (#48701181)
You can't do everything you need with an integer. There are values you might want to display or calculate with that are smaller than cents. In some places you'll need things like BigDecimal, which are immune to floating point errors in most cases.

It's also safe to return decimal values for displaying values.

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