traverseda (u/traverseda)

traverseda commented on LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted old.reddit.com/r/mildlyin... · Posted by u/bj-rn

stevesimmons · 2 days ago

Am I going mad or do some of those old.reddit comments slope downhill?

traverseda · 2 days ago

No, the subreddit has applied custom css to do that. It's the mildly infuriating subreddit. There's also an image of a hair visible on widescreen monitors, to make you think there's a hair on your display.

traverseda commented on Deprecations via warnings don't work for Python libraries sethmlarson.dev/deprecati... · Posted by u/scolby33

traverseda · 5 days ago

Wait, does urlib not use semvar? Don't remove APIs on minor releases people. A major release doesn't have to be a problem or a major redesign, you can do major release 400 for all I care, just don't break things on minor releases.

Lots of things not using semvar that I always just assumed did.

traverseda commented on Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden andyljones.com/posts/hors... · Posted by u/pbui

ible · 6 days ago

People are not simple machines or animals. Unless AI becomes strictly better than humans and humans + AI, from the perspective of other humans, at all activities, there will still be lots of things for humans to do to provide value for each other.

The question is how do our individuals, and more importantly our various social and economic systems handle it when exactly what humans can do to provide value for each other shifts rapidly, and balances of power shift rapidly.

If the benefits of AI accrue to/are captured by a very small number of people, and the costs are widely dispersed things can go very badly without strong societies that are able to mitigate the downsides and spread the upsides.

traverseda · 6 days ago

I'd be more worried about the implicit power imbalance. It's not what can humans provide for each-other, it's what can humans provide for a handful of ultra-wealthy oligarchs.

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

emp17344 · 7 days ago

Where’s the proof that efficient compression results in “understanding”? Is there a rigorous model or theorem, or did you just make this up?

traverseda · 7 days ago

No answer I give will be satisfying to you until I could come up with a rigorous mathematical definition of understanding, which is de-facto solving the hard AI problem. So there's not really point in talking about it is there?

If you're interested in why compression is like understanding in many ways, I'd suggest reading through the wikipedia article on Kolmogorov complexity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

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

Hendrikto · 7 days ago

> It's how LLMs can do things like translate from language to language

The heavy lifting here is done by embeddings. This does not require a world model or “thought”.

traverseda · 7 days ago

LLMs are compression and prediction. The most efficient way to (lossfully) compress most things is by actually understanding them. Not saying LLMs are doing a good job of that, but that is the fundamental mechanism here.

traverseda commented on Pebble Watch software is now open source ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-... · Posted by u/Larrikin

yjftsjthsd-h · 21 days ago

> Yesterday, Pebble watch software was ~95% open source. Today, it’s 100% open source. You can download, compile and run all the software you need to use your Pebble. We just published the source code for the new Pebble mobile app!

Except...

> Another important note - some binary blobs and other non-free software components are used today in PebbleOS and the Pebble mobile app (ex: the heart rate sensor on PT2 , Memfault library, and others). Optional non-free web services, like Wispr-flow API speech recognizer, are also used. These non-free software components are not required - you can compile and run Pebble watch software without them. This will always be the case. More non-free software components may appear in our software in the future. The core Pebble watch software stack (everything you need to use your Pebble watch) will always be open source.

So 100% FOSS, except for the parts that are closed source now, and any that they add later.

traverseda · 21 days ago

Yeah, but it's running on a device that has closed source blobs in it. Hell, even the linux kernel often has firmware blobs for wifi devices.

traverseda commented on Google must double AI serving capacity every 6 months to meet demand cnbc.com/2025/11/21/googl... · Posted by u/magoghm

traverseda · 24 days ago

But they're creating the demand themselves by putting AI features that may not be creating actual value for users.

traverseda commented on A file format uncracked for 20 years landaire.net/a-file-forma... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

tapia · a month ago

That sounds interesting. But how can you test these internal binary formats? Do I need to extract that somehow?

traverseda · a month ago

ImHex will tell you if it's compressed. Do you understand data structures? Floats, all those data types?

I'd suggest looking at a format like msgpack to see what a binary data format could look like: https://msgpack.org/

Then be aware that proprietary formats are going to be a lot more complicated. Or maybe it's just zipped up json data, only way to tell is to start poking around at it.

traverseda commented on Why we migrated from Python to Node.js blog.yakkomajuri.com/blog... · Posted by u/yakkomajuri

traverseda · a month ago

>We did this so we can scale.

>Python async sucks

Python async may make certain types of IO-blocked tasks simpler, but it is not going to scale a web app. Now maybe this isn't a web app, I can't really tell. But this is not going to scale to a cluster of machines.

You need to use a distributed task queue like celery.

traverseda commented on Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time agwa.name/blog/post/googl... · Posted by u/agwa

e145bc455f1 · a month ago

Android developer verification would end up just like this. Lots of people would be banned from developing for Android.

traverseda · a month ago

How do you justify specializing in mobile development when it's very clear that you're just sharecroppers on someone else's land?