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IsTom commented on Being “Confidently Wrong” is holding AI back   promptql.io/blog/being-co... · Posted by u/tango12
projektfu · 3 days ago
The article buries the lede by waiting until the very end to talk about solutions like having the LLM write DSL code. Presumably if you feed an LLM your orders table and a question about it, you'll get an answer that you can't trust. But if you ask it to write some SQL or similar thing based on your database to get the answer and run it, you can have more confidence.
IsTom · 3 days ago
Until it mishandles a NULL somewhere in a condition on does JOIN instead of a LEFT JOIN and outputs something plausibly-looking that is just plain wrong. To verify it you'll need to do the work that it would take to write it anyway.
IsTom commented on Privately-Owned Rail Cars   amtrak.com/privately-owne... · Posted by u/jasoncartwright
Llamamoe · 3 days ago
Why is it so much? I can't imagine a few lighting and heating fixtures using several thousands worth of electricity.
IsTom · 3 days ago
OTOH if you want a bunch refrigerator cars it might take a bit more power.
IsTom commented on Basic dependency injection in OCaml with objects   gr-im.github.io/a/depende... · Posted by u/nukifw
pdhborges · 4 days ago
The author keeps aluding to the problem of loss of type inference without giving any example. I have no idea if the problem is relevant or not.
IsTom · 4 days ago
I think it's the part where he says you need additional separate module signature or to take two modules as parameters. With objects ocaml will infer object's signature for you and with modules you need to (directly or indirectly) pass it explicitely in arguments.
IsTom commented on Recto – A Truly 2D Language   masatohagiwara.net/recto.... · Posted by u/mhagiwara
IsTom · 10 days ago
Isn't this just braces/parens with extra steps?
IsTom commented on Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian   lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/lemper
IsTom · 11 days ago
> We are still quite a small wiki compared to Wikipedia

A small intermediate goal for ArchWiki

IsTom commented on OpenAI's new GPT-5 models announced early by GitHub   theverge.com/news/752091/... · Posted by u/bkolobara
ACCount36 · 18 days ago
That's about right. And this kind of performance wouldn't be concerning - if only AI performance didn't go up over time.

Today's AI systems are the worst they'll ever be. If AI is already capable of doing something, you should expect it to become more capable of it in the future.

IsTom · 18 days ago
We're somewhere on an S-curve and you can't really determine on which part by just looking at the past progress.
IsTom commented on AI is propping up the US economy   bloodinthemachine.com/p/t... · Posted by u/mempko
ponector · 19 days ago
At least we will have a huge amount of data centers if this bubble burst. Insane compute overcapacity, as well in chip manufacture
IsTom · 19 days ago
I worry about correction in chip manufacture after this – will the fab industry get even more concentrated? What if the remaining fabs scale down and set us back a decade or two cutting edge chip research? Will GPUs become extraordinarily expensive?
IsTom commented on Itch.io seeks payment processors who work with with adult material   rockpapershotgun.com/itch... · Posted by u/jfyi
IshKebab · 20 days ago
At least in Europe they could offer payment by bank transfer, something like this: https://gocardless.com/solutions/instant-bank-pay/
IsTom · 20 days ago
Couldn't they just take SEPA transfers to their account?
IsTom commented on As a linguist, I want to find the words to measure chronic illness   thesicktimes.org/2025/08/... · Posted by u/Avshalom
286395273 · 20 days ago
I was diagnosed with Celiac disease in 2014 via blood test and upper endoscopy. Before I was diagnosed I went to at least 5 doctors (that I can remember) complaining of symptoms.

When I said that I felt fatigued, I was told to sleep more. When I complained of joint pain, I was told that I was just typing too much. When I complained of mood swings, I was told it was just being a teenager.

Doctor after doctor told me that that I was a hypochondriac.

Celiac disease is not rare--it affects ~1% of the population--so statistically speaking, all the doctors who told me to stop faking it regularly see Celiac patients.

My story is incredibly common; every person with chronic illness I know has a version of the same story: being called a hypochondriac by many doctors before finally getting a diagnosis. (Diagnoses which, like my own Celiac disease diagnosis, are not wonky or controversial; they meet standard diagnostic criteria.)

I don't know think the entirety of that "5%-10%" of the population are actually hypochondriacs.

IsTom · 20 days ago
That 5%-10% number is a little close to number of people with rare diseases, per wikipedia:

> European Union has suggested that between 6 and 8% of the European population could be affected by a rare disease sometime in their lives.

Obviously some of rare diseases are quite visible and obvious, but I wonder how many aren't.

IsTom commented on As a linguist, I want to find the words to measure chronic illness   thesicktimes.org/2025/08/... · Posted by u/Avshalom
stavros · 20 days ago
Yeah but Faker's Disease was called that because it was first described by John William Faker.
IsTom · 20 days ago
There's no hits for this in google or wikipedia.

u/IsTom

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