Feels more like a spiderweb simulation. The fibers are sticky and stretchy.
Readit Newsraylad commented on Cloth Simulation cloth.mikail-khan.com/... · Posted by u/adamch
> “Bag of words” is a also a useful heuristic for predicting where an AI will do well and where it will fail. “Give me a list of the ten worst transportation disasters in North America” is an easy task for a bag of words, because disasters are well-documented. On the other hand, “Who reassigned the species Brachiosaurus brancai to its own genus, and when?” is a hard task for a bag of words, because the bag just doesn’t contain that many words on the topic
It is... such a retrospective narrative. It's so obvious that the author learned about this example first than came with the reasoning later, just to fit in his view of LLM.
Imaging if ChatGPT answered this question correctly. Would that change the author's view? Of course not! They'll just say:
> “Bag of words” is a also a useful heuristic for predicting where an AI will do well and where it will fail. Who reassigned the species Brachiosaurus brancai to its own genus, and when?” is an easy task for a bag of words, because the information has appeared in the words it memorizes.
I highly doubt this author has predicted that "bag of Words" can do image editing before OpenAI released that.
I tested this with ChatGPT-5.1 and Gemini 3.0. Both correctly (according to Wikipedia at least) stated that George Olshevsky assigned it to its own genus in 1991.
This is because there are many words about how to do web searches.
It’s a lovely set of aspirations for how a model should behave. But unclear to me is the extent to which expressing those aspirations actually compels the model to follow them.
raylad commented on Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up mikelovesrobots.substack.... · Posted by u/dbalatero
If you’re a CTO who can no longer program, the solution isn’t to use AI to program again; the solution is to hire people who can program. The question at hand is whether AI helps your developers, not whether it helps you. You’re the CTO. It’s not your job to program.
Some of the projects I've been doing are for myself in other businesses, automating processes that were time consuming or... annoying.
Others are for start-ups that are pre-money, pre-revenue where I can build things myself without having to deal with hiring people.
In a larger organization, certainly I'd delegate to other people, but if it's just for me or new unfunded start-ups, this is working out very well.
And it's not that I "can no longer program". I could program, it's just that I don't find the nuts and bolts of it as interesting as I used to and am more focused on functionality, algorithm, and UI.
raylad commented on Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up mikelovesrobots.substack.... · Posted by u/dbalatero
I used to be a full-time developer back in the day. Then I was a manager. Then I was a CTO. I stopped doing the day-to-day development and even stopped micro-managing the detailed design.
When I tried to code again, I found I didn't really have the patience for it -- having to learn new frameworks, APIs, languages, tricky little details, I used to find it engrossing: it had become annoying.
But with tools like Claude Code and my knowledge about how software should be designed and how things should work, I am able to develop big systems again.
I'm not 20% more productive than I was. I'm not 10x more productive than I was either. I'm infinity times more productive because I wouldn't be doing it at all otherwise, realistically: I'd either hire someone to do it, or not do it, if it wasn't important enough to go through the trouble to hire someone.
Sure, if you are a great developer and spend all day coding and love it, these tools may just be a hindrance. But if you otherwise wouldn't do it at all they are the opposite of that.
raylad commented on Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed zed.dev/blog/claude-code-... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Does this use the API or can it use the Claude subscription?
That wasn't stated or perhaps I missed it.
raylad commented on White House in Talks with Intel for 10% U.S. Government Stake wsj.com/tech/intel-us-gov... · Posted by u/sugarpimpdorsey
We need to be doing much, much more of this so that the country has ownership of substantial percentages of the critical infrastructure, including AI. That seems to be one of the only ways that the citizens in general will be able to share in the fruits of the technology, similarly to how Alaskan citizens get payments from petroleum.
raylad commented on Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything github.com/anthropics/cla... · Posted by u/pr337h4m
ChatGPT opened with a "Nope" the other day. I'm so proud of it.
https://chatgpt.com/share/6896258f-2cac-800c-b235-c433648bf4...
Claude Sonnet 4.0 didn't say "nope" to the same prompt but also didn't agree. It replied:
Actually, 24V control signals in HVAC are typically AC, not DC. Most residential and commercial HVAC systems use 24VAC for their control circuits. This 24VAC comes from a step-down transformer that reduces the standard line voltage (120V or 240V AC) down to 24VAC. The reasons for using AC include:
* Safety - Lower voltage reduces shock hazard
* Simplicity - Direct transformation from line voltage without need for rectification
* Cost - AC transformers are inexpensive and reliable
* Compatibility - Most traditional HVAC components (thermostats, contactors, relays, gas valves) are designed for 24VAC
However, you will find 24VDC in some applications:
* Modern digital/smart thermostats and controls
* Building automation systems (BAS)
* Some newer high-efficiency equipment
* Systems that need to interface with low-voltage DC electronics
But if you're working with a typical residential or light commercial HVAC system, assume 24VAC unless specifically noted otherwise. Always verify with a multimeter set to AC voltage when troubleshooting!
raylad commented on Launch HN: Golpo (YC S25) – AI-generated explainer videos video.golpoai.com/... · Posted by u/skar01
Feedback on the text: I find the way that the text generates randomly across the line very distracting because I (and I think most people) read from left to right. Having letters appear randomly is much more difficult to follow.
Are there options to have the text appear differently?
raylad commented on Qodo CLI agent scores 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified qodo.ai/blog/qodo-command... · Posted by u/bobismyuncle
If it's really better than Claude Code while using Sonnet 4.0, then I'd pay a monthly fee for it, but only if I can use my Claude subscription the same way Claude Code does.
I do not want to pay API charges or be limited to a fixed number of "credits" per month.