deeznuttynutz (u/deeznuttynutz)

deeznuttynutz commented on Grok is making AI companions, including a goth anime girl techcrunch.com/2025/07/14... · Posted by u/akyuu

csande17 · a month ago

News stories about women using Replika as a companion make the rounds every once in a while: https://www.thecut.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-ch...

deeznuttynutz · a month ago

Well, there is an app called Tolan (alien AI friend) that has been very successful and the devs have said that 80% of the users are young women.

I myself have released an app in this realm a few days ago, it's very much a work in progress, but my goal was to let the AI feel more like a computer and less like a companion/boyfriend. I think the relationships these companies are pushing will be harmful in the long term.

My app if you are curious: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lonely-bots-3d-ai-friends/id67...

deeznuttynutz commented on Hunyuan3D 2.0 – High-Resolution 3D Assets Generation github.com/Tencent/Hunyua... · Posted by u/TheGuyWhoCodes

MikeTheRocker · 7 months ago

IMO current generation models are capable of creating significantly better than "slop" quality content. You need only look at NotebookLM output. As models continue to improve, this will only get better. Look at the rate of improvement of video generation models in the last 12-24 months. It's obvious to me we're rapidly approaching acceptable or even excellent quality on-demand generated content.

deeznuttynutz · 7 months ago

This is exactly while I'm building my app now with the expectation that these assets will be exponentially better in the short term.

deeznuttynutz commented on My Favorite Book on AI gatesnotes.com/The-Coming... · Posted by u/f1shy

deeznuttynutz · 8 months ago

Of all the recent books I've read about AI, this was by far the worst. The Singularity is Nearer, Life 3.0, and A Brief History of Intelligence were much much much better imho

deeznuttynutz commented on .txt raises $11.9M to make language models programmable techcrunch.com/2024/10/17... · Posted by u/cpfiffer

jart · 10 months ago

The llama.cpp --grammar flag just raised $12m from European investors.

deeznuttynutz · 10 months ago

Crazy...

deeznuttynutz commented on Study: Dark matter doesn't exist, the universe is 27B years old earth.com/news/study-dark... · Posted by u/msolujic

wtcactus · 10 months ago

Interesting. How do we explain the missing mass in the galaxies then (the observed rotation curve of galaxies needs a bigger mass than that of the stars that it is made of)?

deeznuttynutz · 10 months ago

Quantized Inertia is a new theory that works and is interesting. Although, not rigorous and is speculative at best

deeznuttynutz commented on Learning to Reason with LLMs openai.com/index/learning... · Posted by u/fofoz

jstummbillig · a year ago

One angle: There are a million SMBs and various other institutions, using none or really shitty software, that could be xx% to xxx% times more productive with custom software that they would never have been able to afford before. Now they can, en masse, because you will be able to built it a lot faster.

I have been coding a lot with AI recently. Understanding and putting into thought what is needed for the program to fix your problem remains as complex and difficult as ever.

You need to pose a question for the AI to do something for you. Asking a good question is out of reach for a lot of people.

deeznuttynutz · a year ago

This 1000%

deeznuttynutz commented on Learning to Reason with LLMs openai.com/index/learning... · Posted by u/fofoz

lopatamd · a year ago

You can't ignore the fact that literally studying coding at this point is so demoralizing and you don't need really to study much if you think about it. You only need to be able to read the code to understand if it generated correctly etc but when if you don't understand some framework you just ask it to explain it to you etc. Basically gives vibes of a skill not being used anymore that much by us programmers. But will shift in more prompting and verifying and testing

deeznuttynutz · a year ago

I completed the book Programming Principles and Practice using C++ (which I HIGHLY recommend to any beginner interested in software engineering) about year ago with GPT4 as a companion. I read the book throughly and did all the exercises, only asking questions to GPT4 when I was stuck. This took me about 900-1000 hours total. Although I achieved my goal of learning C++ to a basic novice level, I acquired another skill unintentionally: the ability to break down tasks effectively to LLMs and prompt in a fashion that is extremely modular. I've been able to create complex apps and programs in a variety of programming languages even though I really only know C++. It has been an eye-opening experience. Of course it isn't perfect, but it is mind blowing and quite disturbing.

deeznuttynutz commented on Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math nautil.us/why-physics-is-... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

deeznuttynutz · a year ago

We have lived long enough to see Physics become Modern Math and create no new provable Physics

deeznuttynutz commented on LLM and Bug Finding: Insights from a $2M Winning Team in the White House's AIxCC team-atlanta.github.io/bl... · Posted by u/garlic_chives

deeznuttynutz · a year ago

What's the good word!!

deeznuttynutz commented on Making AI better at math tutoring blog.khanacademy.org/why-... · Posted by u/gnicholas

dghlsakjg · a year ago

I disagree. There is no such thing as a societal oversupply of educated people. There might be a market oversupply, but a well educated society is a stupid thing to avoid. I would also argue that we are seeing an oversupply of people with education credentials, rather than an education. Even in high end universities in China cheating is rampant (this isn't isolated to China, but my experience is that Chinese students are VERY open about it). For many people in University, the goal isn't to get an education, it is to get a degree.

As to my own experience: I am, according to most standardized tests, very apt at quantitative reasoning, but I never progressed far in math in school. Why? because I was placed on the standard track in math in a public school with a bunch of students who didn't care, and teachers who didn't have time to care, and to be honest, the attitude rubbed off. I once got in trouble because I programmed a python script to do my problem sets when I was 13 because it was faster than doing it by hand for me. In retrospect, that form of "cheating" was a sign that my teachers should have picked up on.

Quite simply, I never had access to a good math instructor throughout my schooling.

Now, decades later, I am intensely interested in a lot of subjects that require a background in math that I don't have, and I am becoming interested in Math for Math's sake. I have been using open access textbooks, and an AI assistant of my own creation to help me learn.

deeznuttynutz · a year ago

I'm similar to you in many regards. I had no desire to learn math early in school due to the education system, how it is taught and lack of meaning for math portrayed early on. I coasted through high school like a zombie without meaning until 11th grade when I took Physics. Suddenly everything clicked, I magically became good at math despite not performing well at it before in my math classes. I ended up studying engineering and working in the EV industry. Now, I am studying pure math for the sake of my own curiosity and I'm passionate about developing AI tools to help people learn and see the why behind math as early as possible. I think I would have accomplished much more if I was exposed to Physics in elementary or middle school or at least a "History of Math" philosophy based class.