kalb_almas (u/kalb_almas)

kalb_almas commented on GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card simonwillison.net/2025/Au... · Posted by u/Philpax

godelski · a month ago

You're right, but compounding effects get out of hand pretty quickly. There's a certain point where finite is not meaningfully different than infinite and that threshold is a lot lower than you're accounting for. There's only so much compression you can do, so even if that new information is not that large it'll be huge in no time. Compounding functions are a whole lot of fun... try running something super small like only 10GB of new information a day and see how quickly that grows. You're in the TB range before you're half way into the year...

kalb_almas · a month ago

This seems kind of irrelevant? Humans have General Intelligence while having a context window of, what, 5MB, to be generous. Model weights only need to contain the capacity for abstract reasoning and querying relevant information. That they currently hold real-world information at all is kind of an artifact of how models are trained.

kalb_almas commented on C. Elegans: The worm that no computer scientist can crack wired.com/story/openworm-... · Posted by u/noleary

GoblinSlayer · 5 months ago

Nature being continuous is exactly the reason why our universe is not a simulation.

kalb_almas · 5 months ago

Can't continuousness be simulated by lazy evaluation? Also you're assuming the simulator is bound by the same physical limitations that exist inside the simulation which seems unreasonable to me. Simulations are usually vastly simpler than the substrate they run on.

kalb_almas commented on Numbering should start at zero (1982) cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transc... · Posted by u/checkyoursudo

yazantapuz · 5 months ago

I like my numbering to start like my tape measure: at zero.

kalb_almas · 5 months ago

Funny. I like my numbering to start at one for the same reason.

kalb_almas commented on "We're building a new static type checker for Python" twitter.com/charliermarsh... · Posted by u/shlomo_z

jasonpeacock · 7 months ago

It's hard to find details...apparently it's code named "red knot" (or "red_knot").

Here's the github issues filter linked in the screenshot:

https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/labels/red-knot

And the best answer/description of what the type checker will be:

https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/discussions/15149

kalb_almas · 7 months ago

Is anyone going to tell them how bad that name is? Especially considering their other project is called ruff...

kalb_almas commented on macOS Sequoia Preview apple.com/macos/macos-seq... · Posted by u/davidbarker

sleepybrett · a year ago

I'll probably still use phoenix since I can code it to do whatever I want. https://github.com/kasper/phoenix

kalb_almas · a year ago

Dude thank you SO MUCH for sharing this. I use Rectangle to tile windows and I've been looking for a way to switch between windows based on their position on my screen rather than their type for probably about a year now.

kalb_almas commented on Paul Graham calls A.I. ‘the exact opposite of a solution in search of a problem’ fortune.com/2023/08/12/pa... · Posted by u/hayksaakian

bsder · 2 years ago

> If you actually use it you know it's incredibly useful for learning, getting answers to general problems that 99% of the time work fine and helps you understand its answers. The amount of times it's wrong or misleading is not significant enough to even be annoying during day to day use. Just talking about current practical usefulness here not even speculating about the future, just want it's useful for today.

We used to just call that "a search engine". Remember that? Somebody would put up a website about their favorite pet topic and when the search engine unearthed it, that's what you got.

It was the ad-ification of search engines that killed that. So, AI allows us to go back to the Internet circa 2000? That's a big innovation? I mean, I'll take it, but that's a pretty low bar ...

kalb_almas · 2 years ago

> Somebody would put up a website about their favorite pet topic and when the search engine unearthed it, that's what you got.

The difference is that reading someone's blog post forces you to take their trajectory through the material and it might not go over the exact points you're curious or confused about. With a forum like StackOverflow you often have to settle for problems that are merely close enough to your own that the solutions apply to it.

Models like ChatGPT allow you to ask for blog posts on any topic on demand and then ask for follow-up blog posts about whatever aspect of the previous blog post you want to elaborate.

kalb_almas commented on Intent to approve PEP 703: making the GIL optional discuss.python.org/t/a-st... · Posted by u/pablogsal

kalb_almas · 2 years ago

Even with improved support for parallelism, what role will Python have in the future if Mojo makes good on even half of its promises?

kalb_almas commented on Young people are flocking to astrology washingtonpost.com/lifest... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

PartiallyTyped · 2 years ago

The star signs for straight guys are the stock market prediction lines.

kalb_almas · 2 years ago

MBTI

kalb_almas commented on Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became a societal sin thebaffler.com/latest/bra... · Posted by u/apollinaire

cmrdporcupine · 2 years ago

For me.. at least... hard to imagine writing code under that particular influence. Not exactly a bringer of good concentration and mental clarity.

I've known people who could do it, but nobody I know personally who is a really good developer is doing this? Esp during work hours? Seems counterproductive.

kalb_almas · 2 years ago

THC affects people very differently in my experience. It can really run the gamut from sedative to stimulant to psychedelic depending on the person. I don't think the sativa-indica dichotomy can fully explain this because the same variety of effects can be seen from a single bowl or bag of edibles.