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cookingrobot commented on Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment ft.com/content/dea24046-0... · Posted by u/zerosizedweasle

chasd00 · 24 days ago

> sky-high expectations of AI have come down quite a lot.

they hype for AGI has certainly deflated, i haven't heard anything about that being right around the corner and the implications in a while now. The hype and doom now seems to be coming from software devs only, the front page news articles about AGI have pretty much stopped for me.

/"front page news" to me is the google news, US, Business, and Technology tabs

cookingrobot · 24 days ago

Microsoft’s AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicts 'most, if not all' white-collar tasks will be automated by AI within 18 months.

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-ai-ceo-mustafa-sul...

cookingrobot commented on How to draw construction equipment for kids alyssarosenberg.substack.... · Posted by u/holotrope

bbbbbenji · 6 months ago

Does anyone have recommendations for non-fiction books with a "how it’s made" or behind-the-scenes angle that also work as bedtime reading? Ideally something narrative-driven and informative, not dependent on pictures, with enough flow to read a chapter or section at night. Looking for that mix of interesting detail and relaxing storytelling.

cookingrobot · 6 months ago

May be too technical for kids, but “Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants” is wonderful.

https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pd...

cookingrobot commented on Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base businessinsider.com/repli... · Posted by u/jgalt212

sReinwald · 8 months ago

This is a perfect case study in why AI coding tools aren't replacing professional developers anytime soon - not because of AI limitations, but because of spectacularly poor judgment by people who fundamentally don't understand software development or basic operational security.

The fact that an AI coding assistant could "delete our production database without permission" suggests there were no meaningful guardrails, access controls, or approval workflows in place. That's not an AI problem - that's just staggering negligence and incompetence.

Replit has nothing to apologize for, just like the CEO of Stihl doesn't need to address every instance of an incompetent user cutting their own arm off with one of their chainsaws.

Edit:

> The incident unfolded during a 12-day "vibe coding" experiment by Jason Lemkin, an investor in software startups.

We're in a bubble.

cookingrobot · 8 months ago

But replit isn’t just a coding assistant - it’s value is that it handles all the associated parts of launching a web app. It manages api secrets, hosts the app, does user authentication, etc. And its target user is “semi-technical”, you don’t even see the code it writes by default.

Creating a db and not accidentally permanently deleting it is one of the capabilities it should have.

cookingrobot commented on LLM Inevitabilism tomrenner.com/posts/llm-i... · Posted by u/SwoopsFromAbove

jihadjihad · 8 months ago

> You can set the temperature of LLMs to 0 and that will make them deterministic.

It will make them more deterministic, but it will not make them fully deterministic. This is a crucial distinction.

cookingrobot · 8 months ago

That’s an implementation choice. All the math involved is deterministic if you want it to be.

cookingrobot commented on OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio george.mand.is/2025/06/op... · Posted by u/georgemandis

varispeed · 9 months ago

It's a shame platforms don't generally support speeds greater than 2x. One of my "superpowers" or a curse is that I cannot stand normal speaking pace. When I watch lectures, I always go for maximum speed and that still is too slow for me. I wish platforms have included 4x but done properly (with minimal artefacts).

cookingrobot · 9 months ago

There are fonts designed to be legibly at really small size. I wonder if there are voices that are especially understandable at extreme speeds.

Could use an “auctioneer” voice to playback text at 10x speed.

cookingrobot commented on Extreme Super-Resolution via Scale Autoregression and Preference Alignment arxiv.org/abs/2505.18600... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

esafak · 9 months ago

Are there any apps or services that implement the latest upscaling algorithms?

cookingrobot · 9 months ago

Here’s their repo: https://github.com/bryanswkim/Chain-of-Zoom

cookingrobot commented on Zillow to bar publicly marketed listings not shared via MLS realestatenews.com/2025/0... · Posted by u/gscott

tekla · 10 months ago

It lets them hide broker commissions

cookingrobot · 10 months ago