electroglyph (u/electroglyph)

electroglyph commented on Classical statues were not painted horribly worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/bensouthwood

naravara · 2 days ago

I’m reminded of a Reddit thread long ago about a reconstruction of Roman garum by some American scientists. In their paper they conclusively declared that it tasted foul and a Filipino Redditor replied saying “This actually sounds a lot like the fish sauce we use in SE Asia. I wonder if people from a different culinary tradition would find it less off putting or even tasty?” Cue a bunch of Redditors downvoting the poor sap to hell for daring to disagree with the scientists’ assessment of the flavor.

electroglyph · 2 days ago

love me some red boat fish sauce!

electroglyph commented on Bag of words, have mercy on us experimental-history.com/... · Posted by u/ntnbr

tkgally · 13 days ago

I am unsure myself whether we should regard LLMs as mere token-predicting automatons or as some new kind of incipient intelligence. Despite their origins as statistical parrots, the interpretability research from Anthropic [1] suggests that structures corresponding to meaning do exist inside those bundles of numbers and that there are signs of activity within those bundles of numbers that seem analogous to thought.

That said, I was struck by a recent interview with Anthropic’s Amanda Askell [2]. When she talks, she anthropomorphizes LLMs constantly. A few examples:

“I don't have all the answers of how should models feel about past model deprecation, about their own identity, but I do want to try and help models figure that out and then to at least know that we care about it and are thinking about it.”

“If you go into the depths of the model and you find some deep-seated insecurity, then that's really valuable.”

“... that could lead to models almost feeling afraid that they're gonna do the wrong thing or are very self-critical or feeling like humans are going to behave negatively towards them.”

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/research/team/interpretability

[2] https://youtu.be/I9aGC6Ui3eE

electroglyph · 13 days ago

the anthropomorphization (say that 3 times quickly) is kinda weird, but also makes for a much more pleasant conversation imo. it's kinda tedious being pedantic all the time.

electroglyph commented on What is “literate programming”? (2024) pqnelson.github.io/2024/0... · Posted by u/joecobb

rhdunn · 13 days ago

In a way this is what notebooks are for Python and other languages. They mix documentation and code such that you can run that code and inspect the output. See for example the pytorch tutorials.

electroglyph · 13 days ago

or all the unsloth notebooks

electroglyph commented on Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders windowslatest.com/2025/11... · Posted by u/jinxmeta

jmclnx · a month ago

I could not get into the article, but the wayback machine can

https://web.archive.org/web/20251118002918/https://www.windo...

If people do not want this spyware, we all here know what OS they can move to :)

electroglyph · a month ago

TempleOS?

electroglyph commented on Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models github.com/p-e-w/heretic... · Posted by u/melded

squigz · a month ago

> forcing LLMs to output "values, facts, and knowledge" which in favor of themselves, e.g., political views, attitudes towards literal interaction, and distorted facts about organizations and people behind LLMs.

Can you provide some examples?

electroglyph · a month ago

some form of bias is inescapable. ideally i think we would train models on an equal amount of Western/non-Western, etc. texts to get an equal mix of all biases.

electroglyph commented on Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11 windhawk.net/mods/classic... · Posted by u/znpy

3eb7988a1663 · a month ago

The Win11 screenshot tool is a travesty. It now takes multiple seconds to initialize, plus additional delay in actually selecting what you want to capture. The previous iteration was instantaneous. I have lost many opportunities to screenshot something from a screen share because of this trash performance.

electroglyph · a month ago

alt-prtscn still works to take screenshot of active window instantly

electroglyph commented on HipKittens: Fast and furious AMD kernels hazyresearch.stanford.edu... · Posted by u/dataminer

ehnto · a month ago

I run Qwen3 Coder 30b through Ollama on an RTX7900XTX. It works great, I suspect some load gets passed to the 32gb system memory and Ryzen 7 CPU.

It's not quite as fast as like Sonnet 4 from an API, but it's really not that bad.

It's really great for quick questions so I don't have to google stuff, and it's probably Sonnet4 level of competency at achieving coding tasks.

No API served model has been fast enough to remove the urge to do something else while waiting for bigger tasks, so the UX is more or less the same in that regard.

Opencode + ollama + Qwen3 Coder has been a very reasonable alternative to ClaudeCode with Sonnet4.

That is amazing for something running locally.

It is possible that if you actually need AI to be doing all your coding, that you're going to feel differently about the setup. But as a small assistant it's great.

electroglyph · a month ago

not the best model to use as a showcase, it's blistering fast on anything that isn't a toaster

electroglyph commented on Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mul... · Posted by u/reconnecting

barcoder · a month ago

MUDs taught about the real world from the confines of my bedroom. As a teenager I was giving responsibility through my guild and had to negotiate with adults from all around the world.

My main MUD was Discworld MUD which was started in 1991. I can't describe the excitement I felt on finding a game where the world continued when I was offline. Where I could go to make friends with the thrill of also making enemies.

It was the perfect place to escape to, which taught me about addiction and many aspects of myself.

My character is still alive after 20 something years and if I feel like logging in I'm sure there will be friendly faces who remember me.

electroglyph · a month ago

I played a bit of Discworld, really great game. I love all the Terry Pratchett usenet quotes in the game.

I also played quite a bit of Ancient Anguish (still around) and Forsaken Lands (still around)