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Philpax

8,713karma·1,330submissions·October 1, 2013
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Believe it or not, other people who aren't you exist.
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One should not be proud of their ignorance.
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I'd be careful with the branding - it sounds like an official Claude product. Maybe go with "Composer for Claude"?
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The sort order biases towards newer posts.
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An important note is that the models you can host at home (e.g. without buying ten(s of) thousand dollar rigs) won't be as effective as the proprietary models. A realistic size limit is around 3…
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But you can adjust the output of a LLM and still come out ahead in both time and mental effort than writing it by hand. Unlike a 3D printer, it doesn't have to be right the first time around to s…
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You are either a very fast producer or a very slow reader. Claude and Gemini are much faster at producing code than I am, and reviewing their code - twice over, even - still takes less time than wri…
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It's transferring the style, not the knowledge.
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That's four posts about RSC in about as many days. Dan, please, you've got to pace yourself :sweat_smile:
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Amused that the third comment is the Tirreno guy continuing to spam his project [0]. Good ol' human spam will never go out of style! [0]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&…
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Because textual data is plentiful and easy to model, and physical data is not. This will change - there are now several companies working on humanoid robots and the models to power them - but it is a …
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TIL! Thanks.
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Even more fun when that includes date or time ranges; I've literally had to paste Swedish-style dates into Claude to help me parse what the intended reading is.
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I believe it's Rutgers, not Rudgers.
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I think their point was more that Gemma open models have restrictive licences, while some Mistral open models do not.
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People who become proficient in Rust generally enjoy the syntax, so they want to carry it across. (As someone proficient in Rust who has pondered their ideal scripting language, I would have done the …
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