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aqfamnzc commented on Claude 4 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

> it does influence its final output

We don't really know that. So far CoT is only used to sell LLMs to the user. (Both figuratively as a neat trick and literally as a way to increase token count.)

aqfamnzc · 3 months ago

Not even remotely true. It's part of the context window, so it greatly influences the final output. CoT is tokens generated by the LLM just like normal output.

aqfamnzc commented on Claude 4 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

otabdeveloper4 · 3 months ago

I don't either, but chain of thought is obviously bullshit and just more LLM hallucination.

LLMs will routinely "reason" through a solution and then proceed to give out a final answer that is completely unrelated to the preceding "reasoning".

aqfamnzc · 3 months ago

It's more hallucination in the sense that all LLM output is hallucination. CoT is not "what the llm is thinking". I think of it as just creating more context/prompt for itself on the fly, so that when it comes up with a final response it has all that reasoning in its context window.

aqfamnzc commented on Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)? · Posted by u/troupo

alnwlsn · 4 months ago

I'm going to go against the crowd and say that I prefer DigiKey and Mouser's sites over McMaster. The filter/apply pattern they use when trying to narrow things down is a lot quicker than waiting for Mcmaster's auto updating window. Usually, when I'm looking for something, it's not for an exact specific item, but to know what options are even there in the first place. Selecting ranges of things in McMaster has always felt a little cumbersome, but Digikey has always had it right.

The other thing McMaster does that's kind of annoying, but also kind of funny, is that they go out of their way to purge the branding of the items they stock. Very understandable why they do that, but sometimes they do it when it doesn't make sense. Want to buy a generic "graphing calculator" for $126 which is definitely not a Texas Instruments TI-83 Plus? Here you go! [1]. Look, you're not fooling anybody here.

[1] https://www.mcmaster.com/8392T11/

aqfamnzc · 4 months ago

The calculator is an extreme example, but I've wondered in the past if the reason they scrub everything is so you can't take the manufacturer part number to buy elsewhere. McMaster is undoubtedly more expensive in many cases, but the service they offer is consolidating a million parts into one catalog with CAD drawings, specs, etc. Hiding branding prevents you from taking advantage of that without making a purchase.

aqfamnzc commented on Tailscale has raised $160M tailscale.com/blog/series... · Posted by u/louis-paul

aborsy · 5 months ago

This is not correct. Wireguard establishes a tunnel between peer A and B, and its simplicity stops there. Tailscale does tons of complex networking, filtering, nat traversal, DNS, file sharing, etc. Wireguard is a small part of the codebase today, which has grown a lot.

It’s a bit like saying Dropbox is just a GUI on top of TLS.

aqfamnzc · 5 months ago

> It’s a bit like saying Dropbox is just a GUI on top of TLS.

Well, it is. After all, for a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially...

aqfamnzc commented on Piranesi's Perspective Trick (2019) medium.com/@brunopostle/p... · Posted by u/amatheus

aqfamnzc · 5 months ago

Great article. And thanks for the correct OSM attribution in your map images. :)

aqfamnzc commented on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies thelibre.news/foss-infras... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

bitmasher9 · 5 months ago

I’m not sure that I like this plan. We shouldn’t let the illegal AIs gain more knowledge and usefulness than the legal ones.

There’s other options besides a blanket ban.

aqfamnzc · 5 months ago

As it is now, unethical AIs have a huge advantage over ethical ones.

aqfamnzc commented on Documenting an 1115 ft radio tower climb jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/geerlingguy

Intermernet · 8 months ago

People who work at heights usually have just enough fear of heights to not do something stupid. Those with no fear of heights tend to make fatal mistakes.

Source: 35 years of climbing and 10 years of industrial rope access :-)

aqfamnzc · 8 months ago

Hi, I've considered changing careers to rope access or similar for a while now. Can I interview you about your job? Please email me, see profile. (This request extends to other RATs reading this too!)

aqfamnzc commented on "Nvidia is so far ahead that all the 4090s are nerfed to half speed" twitter.com/realGeorgeHot... · Posted by u/BIackSwan

bjoli · 8 months ago

Intel is by far the best out of the box experience under linux. I have 3 cards. I will get one of the new battlmage cards for my gaming pc.

Edit: the only downside is that the hw h265 encoder is pretty bad. Av1 is fine though

aqfamnzc · 8 months ago

What does a "pretty bad" h265 implementation look like? Buggy? Inefficient or what?

aqfamnzc commented on The size of BYD's factory twitter.com/taylorogan/st... · Posted by u/elsewhen

hwillis · 9 months ago

China has more distributed/rooftop solar than the US, percentage-wise. It's hardly like every big building in the US has rooftop solar, and Zhengzhou is more to the north of the country where there is less incident light.

That said a battery factory is a good place to put solar. The final stage of battery manufacturing is several priming charge/discharge cycles which build up resilient layers inside the battery. You can push power into/out of the grid (or use discharging batteries to charge other cells) but having a big DC source nearby is still going to be convenient.

aqfamnzc · 9 months ago

I wonder if (partially) they use discharge current from one batch of batteries to charge the next?

aqfamnzc commented on Niantic plans a “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data nianticlabs.com/news/larg... · Posted by u/bookstore-romeo

RussianCow · 9 months ago

> All of which I've directly contributed to and never (directly) recieved anything in return

To be fair, you received a service for free that you may have otherwise had to pay for. I'm not saying it's just, but to say you didn't get anything in return is disingenuous.

aqfamnzc · 9 months ago

Agreed. I mostly meant that I'll never see the actual dataset that I contributed to. That's why I'd prefer to spend my time on things that I can see, like OpenStreetMap :)