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rmorey commented on The history of Casio watches   casio.com/us/watches/50th... · Posted by u/qainsights
gainda · a month ago
I have an Apple Watch that I get into from time to time but generally it collects dust despite how many cool functions it has. Mostly because of the battery life & lack of customization. Most of the things it tracks or does I can see or do on my phone so it feels redundant & what can't don't need to monitored continuously in my life.

I daily a black LF20W-1A and I also use the A168W-1 and AE1200WHD. The faces and design are way more interesting to me and they are more affordable.

I wish I never got the Apple Watch ...

rmorey · a month ago
For me the Apple Watch killer feature is a bit embarrassing... it's the button that makes your phone ring so you can find it...
rmorey commented on Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model   moonshotai.github.io/Kimi... · Posted by u/nekofneko
yanhangyhy · 2 months ago
I remember this thing. The tech is from America actually, decades ago. (Thorium). But they give up and china counties the work recent years
rmorey · 2 months ago
"The tech is from America actually, decades ago... But they give up and china continues the work"

Many such cases...

rmorey commented on ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes   bmj.com/content/390/bmj-2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
ravenstine · 4 months ago
Makes sense that methylphenidate helps with most of the things associated with classical ADHD symptoms but not with clumsiness that can lead to accidental injuries; or, in my case, just bruises on my shins all the time.
rmorey · 4 months ago
It only didn’t help with the first incident of accidental injuries (makes sense, almost everyone has one early on regardless) but it was still also associated with reduced recurrence
rmorey commented on Helix: A Modern, High-Performance Language   github.com/helixlang/heli... · Posted by u/90s_dev
snovymgodym · 6 months ago
This is cool, I think the most novel/unique aspect is the advanced memory tracking: https://github.com/helixlang/helix-lang?tab=readme-ov-file#a...

Still, I don't really see this going anywhere. There are already so many "slightly better C++" languages out there, e.g. D, cppfront/cpp2, Carbon, Zig and they pretty much all don't see wider adoption for the same reason. No matter how simple or ergonomic the interop with C++ is, the switching cost is still high and the benefit tends to be marginal. Almost all of them either include garbage collection or don't fully guarantee memory safety. Choosing a restricted subset of C++ and an opinionated, enforced linter & static analyzer goes a long way and gets you most of the benefits of these new languages, so organizations tend to just do that.

The exception is Rust, because in spite of all its downsides it has the killer feature of guaranteed memory safety without garbage collection, so that's the one seeing constantly increasing institutional support.

rmorey · 6 months ago
fwiw (and I am not an expert) in my understanding, Swift also has guaranteed memory safety without a GC (using automatic reference counting). not sure how it compares to Rust in that aspect
rmorey commented on FLUX.1 Kontext   bfl.ai/models/flux-kontex... · Posted by u/minimaxir
sujayk_33 · 7 months ago
So here is my understanding of current native image generation scenario, I might be wrong so please correct me, I'm still learning it and I'd appreaciate the help.

First time native image gen was introduced in Gemini 1.5 Flash if I'm not wrong, and then OpenAI was released for 4o which took over the internet by Ghibli Art.

We have been getting good quality images from almost all image generators like Midjourney, OpenAI and other providers, but the thing that made it special was true "multimodal" nature of it. Here's what I mean

When you used to ask chatgpt to create an image, it will rephrase that prompt and internally send that prompt to Dalle, similarly gemini would send it to Imagen which were diffusion models and they had little to know context in your next response about what's there in the previous image

In native image generation, it understands Audio, Text and even Image tokens in the same model and need not to rely on diffusion models internally, I don't think both Openai and google has released how they've trained it but my guess is that it's partially auto-regressive and diffusion but not sure about it

rmorey · 7 months ago
I think actually 4o image generation in ChatGPT is still a tool call with a prompt to an “image_gen” tool, I don’t think the generator receives the full context of the conversation. If you do a ChatGPT data export and inspect the record of a conversation using 4o image gen, you’ll see it’s a tool call with a distinct prompt, much like it was with dalle. And if you pass an image in as context, it’ll pass that to the tool as well.

I imagine this is for anti-jailbreak moderation reasons, which is understandable

rmorey commented on Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model    · Posted by u/owendarko
sireat · 8 months ago
Easy one is provide a middle game chess position (could be an image or and ask to evaluate standard notation or even some less standard notation) and provide some move suggestions.

Unless the model incorporates an actual chess engine (Fritz 5.32 from 1998 would suffice) it will not do well.

I am a reasonably skilled player (FM) so can evaluate way better than LLMs. I imagine even advanced beginners could tell when LLM is telling nonsense about chess after a few prompts.

Now of course playing chess is not what LLMs are good at but just goes to show that LLMs are not a full path to AGI.

Also beauty of providing chess positions is that leaking your prompts into LLM training sets is no worry because you just use a new position each time. Little worry of running out of positions...

rmorey · 8 months ago
I was going to suggest chess position recognition, AFAIK it's a completely unsolved computer vision task (once a position is recognized, I think analysis is well solved by, say, a stockfish tool for the LLM, but there is interesting work going on with language models themselves understanding chess)
rmorey commented on Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation   wsj.com/articles/cloud-ai... · Posted by u/marc__1
bauruine · a year ago
They where using the brand Choopa before vultr which was a thing since at least 2001. [0]

EDIT: News about their brand consolidation [1]

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20010405033628/http://choopa.com...

[1]: https://www.constant.com/transition-to-vultr/

rmorey · a year ago
You seem to be getting downvoted, but as a former Vultr employee I can confirm this is correct
rmorey commented on The Influence of Bell Labs   construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/mooreds
kranke155 · a year ago
Just reading the book The Idea Factory, it was incredible amount of innovation. Lasers, early satellites, transistors.

And it was all done, apparently, at least in the beginning, because they hired smart people and they let them do what they wanted.

rmorey · a year ago
I know the author, Jon. Delightful guy
rmorey commented on Hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool   github.com/sharkdp/hyperf... · Posted by u/hundredwatt
7e · a year ago
What database product does the community commonly send benchmark results to? This tool is great, but I'd love to analyze results relationally.
rmorey · a year ago
Something like Geekbench for CLI tools would be awesome

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