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What does SAM3 get on the same test set?
I dunno about this. I know several people who got into coding because they were writing little scripts to autocraft in RuneScape. Min-maxing profit/skills has always been a thing in these games. As far as looking it up goes, we’d go to GameFAQs or forums (both are still viable - for older games I still use the text guides if I can find them because they were often so well written).
Alexa users are much more terse and impolite, I just yell “Alexa, {time period}!” :) this still works - as does personal phrases for doing an action.
Alexa is also still very specific though. You can say “turn on bedroom” if the lights are named such, but “turn on the bedroom [lights]” will fail. I’ve always found that frustrating, but it does have the advantage that it’s very reliable if you use the right phrasing.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-20698098The Beeb has run this a couple of times.
> Mrs Fry also says Winston Churchill was outraged when he learned the generals had been bussed into the lavish Simpson's-in-the-Strand in central London for lunch. He ordered what he called "the pampering of the generals" to be stopped.
> But spoiling the generals and boosting their egos was providing so much useful information that the British intelligence officers decided to carry on, and simply stopped telling Churchill about it.
Is this the same mansion that the war office put a bunch of high ranking PoWs in? Same idea - butter up the generals, bug the entire building and wait for them to spill secrets (which they did so often, and with such value, that military intelligence ignored Churchill’s request to shut it down).
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260811-the-uk-stately-...
As long as you can design the outline as a vector file somewhere else, it's easy enough to import as a board outline and then lay out on top of it. I also get the lure of assembly these days, but I would hand-solder a board like this for a one-off art project. Call me old fashioned, but I'm confident enough with soldering that I'd estimate a couple of hours to assemble and I like buying domestic which is less economical than the JLPCB special. If people started to ask for kits though...
I think your idea is pretty sound if you connect all but one of the boards in a ring and use a jumper for the control section.
Yeah I knew someone would point out the controversy. Unfortunately the only other version of the clip I could find was some super grainy version, but I hadn't seen that rebuttal. Amazing.
Very cool. 5-fold symmetry on the PCB to use up the board allowance is particularly neat.
A trick that poor hobbyists learn early on is to make pads a little larger than necessary for SMT parts so you've got somewhere to wick solder onto. Neopixels (5050 LEDs) are reasonable to hand-solder since the pads extend up the sides of the package, but you can also do QFNs with a bit of practice by placing a big via to get to the central pad from underneath.
There is a similar case with Top Gear. Aside from the popularity of Clarkson/May/Hammond and the fantastic cinematography, the show had great editors with an ear for soundtracks. Unfortunately it seems a lot of the tracks were only licensed for broadcast TV and the DVDs have some stock music where the rights were no longer available. There are also some gags which don't work any more because the audio doesn't make sense.
I believe the only place you can watch them as originally produced is iPlayer, but at least the BBC has copies somewhere.
There was also Luke looking up at the space battle and "Treadwell" the droid, which would have played just before all of the Biggs scenes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDPZfPe5F-w (a cleaner version is shown in
How Star Wars was saved in the edit)
The big selling point of Google used to be that their fuzzy search was significantly better than just about anyone else,
and you could do advanced query filters. Now if you do that, because showing the user zero results is unacceptable, you’ll get all sorts of crap that “doesn’t contain” your query - the results say so!
But anthropomorphic interfaces have been around for a while, from Clippy to the Windows 10+ installers that refer to the royal We during setup.
Typically maintenance, reliability, support and liability; nothing new in SaaS land. Lots of companies have the money to hand-roll things that are provided by some external SaaS but would much rather it was someone else’s problem.
Also for creatives, some sort of aesthetic control? Most of the examples on this page look like templates you’d see in an office suite that appear swish, but are ultimately bland.
You didn't specify in your earlier post, so I wasn't sure exactly which comparison you were making. But yeah, the perf/watt actually looks the same for those, so the cost per token evens out. It is nice not having to manage 400+W though. I like the 4000 for that reason, it's effectively a 3090 that runs at half the TDP.
This one is pretty terrible (right after “The worst outcome is a spurious rerun, never lost work.”). We’ve got lands, hyphenation, strange noun/verb sentence order and an unnecessary analogy word (swallowed).
> There's no read-modify-write and no truncation of the dirty period, so a write that lands during a job can't be swallowed.
(I somehow missed that OP cited this at the start, but it’s a great companion piece)
Being fast and having a power target doesn’t mean it’s cost efficient though. I would pay the launch cost for one, but not 3-4x inflated.
A fun demo of this from earlier this year (Tsoding):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjWkNZ0SXfo The good stuff starts around 7 mins, but it’s a great presentation and it’s almost magical how everything comes together.
Personally I think the price is way too high right now. It’s a power hungry gaming GPU. The efficient single card equivalent would be a 4500 Blackwell which launched at about $3500. Or you could get a 9700 32GB or an Arc B70 for well under $2k, today. You only buy a 5090 if you want absolute speed.
32GB is still not that much. I would rather get a Spark and have the RAM to experiment with larger LLMs, even if it was slow.
I don’t think there is any consistency in behavior. People react viscerally to the unproven belief that the Facebook app records conversations. They’ll also happily buy big TVs despite the fact they’re very much listening to you and we have solid evidence that it’s for ads or residential proxying. Most people have no idea how ads “follow” you, or how companies can figure out what you talked about by connecting the dots from other user metadata.
It’s time and commitment for sure. On the mental side - 30s is still young. Most US academics and doctors are barely out of grad school at 30 and their careers (which involve continued learning) are just starting.
Approach it differently as a salaried adult. You can pay for better tuition on your own schedule.
But you can find time. I listen to Michel Thomas or other courses while I’m walking to work. Put on headphones and ignore other people, they aren’t listening to you anyway. Other things like flash cards you can do any time you’ve got 10-15 mins.
> Technical documentation, where what the reader wants to come away with is the clear facts on what something does and how to use it/whatever, is a different matter.
I don’t agree with this one. Writing technical documentation can be a slog, but quite often you will discover very annoying design decisions in the process. Like you’ll write a tutorial for a CLI and realize that actually some flag makes no sense, or some default should be changed.
This also goes for dogfooding. If you’re using AI to write and run the tools, try to use them yourself and see how nice they are. AI will happily run whatever jank it’s working with.
Docstrings perhaps, but even then I find myself editing heavily to avoid cruft sneaking in.
I like Elicia White’s
Making Embedded Systems because it covers a lot of practical stuff like how to read a datasheet. It’s a good book for existing programmers.
A lot of electronic books struggle to find balance between super easy projects, very specific cookbook recipes or a laundry list of components.
Ah this is also a fun default feature of Powershell, except it works on mouse click.
I think it's more about inertia than anything else. I know the dishwasher will take less than 5 minutes to unload, but I put it off anyway. Problem is the AI can take action immediately, and that's very alluring. I'm sure there's research on exactly where that breakpoint lies. My current goal is to try and spend 15-30 minutes attempting to solve a task when I feel myself reaching for the AI.
One of three things tends to happen. Often it's something that is resolved in a matter of minutes, in which case it was laziness. Or, it's something that will take more time, say up to an hour, but the act of starting has conferred a sense of ownership that I don't want to give up to an LLM. Else, it looks like a much more complex problem and worth re-assessing, and potentially brainstorming with a model.
There are several keyboard shortcuts that you would never find out from watching an agent, but are mindblowing to new Linux users. I suck at remembering vim keybindings, but I have ingrained ctrl+a ctrl+e for jumping to the start/end of a string (which also works all over OS X). I had been a developer for an embarassing amount of time before I discovered those.
There are other terminal specific shortcuts for removing last word (ctrl+w) but they don't seem to be as portable.
I use history | grep quite a lot, because of the non-fuzziness with default ctrl+r. If I know exactly what the substring is, then that's great, but sometimes I also want to see the sequence around the command too (e.g. two step processes like eval ssh agent + ssh add key)
I would say 300 is more than slightly longer. Varies by institution and style, but 100k words, 4-5 collated papers, 100-150 pages maximum are quite common.
I would be concerned as an examiner if this came across my desk, more so if I read the colophon where the author comments that they intended to write their own typesetting system, before reading Knuth and wisely concluding that they were unlikely to do anything better than TeX. Top tier yak shaving there.
Always loved Iain M Banks'
Culture series and it's very sad that he's not with us any more. If I could pick any fictional civ to live in, it'd be up there.
The current discussion around alignment seems quite relevant. Culture Minds are so intellectually superior to the humanoid population that it's not even a debate, but their goal appears to be a content and healthy civilization with a strong focus on individualism. Somewhere I think Banks implies that Minds see it as a sort of badge of honor that their citizens like them. They certainly have no need for subservience.