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totetsu commented on Citybound: City building game, microscopic models to vividly simulate organism   aeplay.org/citybound... · Posted by u/modinfo
p_ing · 10 days ago
FWIW the subreddit for this game has posts of dogs humping. Development appears to be dead, unfortunately.
totetsu · 9 days ago
That's a very fine level of simulation.
totetsu commented on Japan's largest paper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues Perplexity for copyright violations   niemanlab.org/2025/08/jap... · Posted by u/aspenmayer
totetsu · 13 days ago
The Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association is very active lobbying about this area https://www.pressnet.or.jp/english/
totetsu commented on Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs   github.com/steveyegge/efr... · Posted by u/simonpure
totetsu · 15 days ago
Once emacs starts modifying its own lisp haven’t we unleashed agi?
totetsu commented on Vet is a safety net for the curl | bash pattern   github.com/vet-run/vet... · Posted by u/mooreds
totetsu · a month ago
Isn't it better to run with firejail or bubblewrap to contain the changes to an overlayfs or whatever and see exactly what the script would do before running it?
totetsu commented on Subliminal learning: Models transmit behaviors via hidden signals in data   alignment.anthropic.com/2... · Posted by u/treebrained
totetsu · a month ago
This is reminding me of Deleuze
totetsu commented on Subliminal learning: Models transmit behaviors via hidden signals in data   alignment.anthropic.com/2... · Posted by u/treebrained
graypegg · a month ago
Low-background text [0] soon in high demand! Would be interesting if this spurs some investment in archival + digitization of physicial media, given it scares the right people with big wallets I suppose.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

totetsu · a month ago
I started to view old magazine and photos a whole new way. Even if they are boring in themselves they are great for influencing generative tasks.
totetsu commented on Peep Show is the most realistic portrayal of evil I have seen (2020)   mattlakeman.org/2020/01/2... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11
stavros · a month ago
I wish the show were called "30 Rocks" now, and was about gemstones.
totetsu · a month ago
you might like Steven Universe
totetsu commented on I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well   goto10retro.com/p/vibe-co... · Posted by u/ibobev
nine_k · a month ago
All these stories about vibe coding going well or wrong remind me of an old joke.

A man visits his friend's house. There is a dog in the house. The friend says that the dog can play poker. The man is incredulous, but they sit at a table and have a game of poker; the dog actually can play!

The man says: "Wow! Your dog is incredibly, fantastically smart!"

The friend answers: "Oh, well, no, he's a naïve fool. Every time he gets a good hand, he starts wagging his tail."

Whether you see LLMs impressively smart or annoyingly foolish depends on your expectations. Currently they are very smart talking dogs.

totetsu · a month ago
Try playing an adversarial word game with ChatGPT. like the rules are, one player asks questions and the other is not allowed to say "yes" or "no", not allowed to reuse the same wording, and not allowed to evade the question. You'll see its tail wagging pretty quickly.
totetsu commented on Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat   mistral.ai/news/le-chat-d... · Posted by u/pember
M4v3R · a month ago
I think they've buried the lede with their image editing capabilities, which seem to be very good! OpenAI's model will change the whole image while editing messing up details in unrelated areas. This seems to perfectly preserve parts of the image unrelated to your query and selectively apply the edits, which is very impressive! The only downside is the output resolution (the resulting image is 1184px wide even though the input image was much larger).

For a quick test I've uploaded a photo of my home office and asked the following prompt: "Retouch this photo to fix the gray panels at the bottom that are slightly ripped, make them look brand new"

Input image (rescaled): https://i.imgur.com/t0WCKAu.jpeg

Output image: https://i.imgur.com/xb99lmC.png

I think it did a fantastic job. The output image quality is ever so slightly worse than the original but that's something they'll improve with time I'm sure.

totetsu · a month ago
Can anyone point to a good explanation of how these multi-modal text and image models are set up architecturally.. is there like a shared embedding space? or is it lots of integrations..

u/totetsu

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