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valtism commented on DeepSeek-v3.1   api-docs.deepseek.com/new... · Posted by u/wertyk
imachine1980_ · 10 days ago
I remember asking for quotes about the Spanish conquest of South America because I couldn't remember who said a specific thing. The GPT model started hallucinating quotes on the topic, while DeepSeek responded with, "I don't know a quote about that specific topic, but you might mean this other thing." or something like that then cited a real quote in the same topic, after acknowledging that it wasn't able to find the one I had read in an old book. i don't use it for coding, but for things that are more unique i feel is more precise.
valtism · 10 days ago
Was that true for GPT-5? They claim it is much better at not hallucinating
valtism commented on How we built Bluey’s world   itsnicethat.com/features/... · Posted by u/skrebbel
valtism · a month ago
As someone who has lived in Brisbane, I can attest that it does a really good job of capturing the colour of the city. There is a unique golden hour shade there like no other city I have lived in.
valtism commented on Anthropic revokes OpenAI's access to Claude   wired.com/story/anthropic... · Posted by u/minimaxir
chowells · a month ago
> According to Anthropic’s commercial terms of service, customers are barred from using the service to “build a competing product or service, including to train competing AI models”

That's... quite a license term. I'm a big fan of tools that come with no restrictions on their use in their licenses. I think I'll stick with them.

valtism · a month ago
Would something like that hold up in court?
valtism commented on Grok 4 Launch [video]   twitter.com/xai/status/19... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
srmarm · 2 months ago
Ah this is a positive thread so not [flagged] - gotta say Hacker News really has been shameful of late with it's shutting down of the negative stories around Grok.
valtism · 2 months ago
I'd assume that it's because they devolve into politics and Elon-bashing, rather than constructive discussion
valtism commented on Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app   offchess.com... · Posted by u/avadhesh18
valtism · 2 months ago
I'm just about to leave for a long international flight, so this is absolutely perfect for me!

Glad I saw the comment about it being paid so I could get to the purchase screen before I lost internet. (As a side note, it says "Buy now for $3.99" but it's really $5.99 in my currency. Not sure if you can make the button match to the price in the locale)

valtism commented on What methylene blue can (and can’t) do for the brain   neurofrontiers.blog/what-... · Posted by u/wiry
karlgkk · 3 months ago
Eating clean, daily exercise. Treating conditions with lifestyle changes instead of medication - where feasible. That’s it for most people. He’s not cracked some secret code, but he uses it to push his wacky beliefs
valtism · 3 months ago
I don't believe it's just that. I'm pretty sure he's taking testosterone as well
valtism commented on VVVVVV Source Code   github.com/TerryCavanagh/... · Posted by u/radeeyate
rafram · 4 months ago
Awesome game. Good to see the code is authentically bad for an indie game of that era.
valtism · 4 months ago
It was originally written in flash, then ported to C++ which would explain some (not all) of the badness.
valtism commented on JSX over the Wire   overreacted.io/jsx-over-t... · Posted by u/danabramov
valtism · 5 months ago
Really appreciate the quality you put into expressing these things. It was nice just to see a well laid-out justification of how trying to tie a frontend to a backend can get messy quickly. I'm definitely going to remember the "ungrounded abstraction" as a useful concept here.
valtism commented on Bill to block OpenAI's for-profit conversion gets mysteriously gutted   garymarcus.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/konmok
valtism · 5 months ago
I really don't see the issue with OpenAI becoming for-profit. They started as a research group with no intention of creating a marketable product, and stumbled onto one. I think it would make sense for them to become for-profit.
valtism commented on What ketamine does to the human brain   theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/aagha
valtism · 6 months ago
Funnily enough, PCP is a drug that is very similar to Ketamine, but has a very different reputation.

Whenever someone sees someone in full-blown psychosis walking stark naked on the side of the road, PCP immediately gets the blame. In reality, both drugs have the same psychosis potential.

It's not an immediate thing. Heavy users will just start feeling confident and motivated. Little need for sleep and a spring in their step like they are light as a feather. As the heavy use continues, this can spiral into mania, delusions of grandeur, detachment from reality and paranoia.

I have no way of knowing how much Elon uses, but it would not surprise me if he is treating himself with consistent low doses of ketamine. I wonder how his memory is, that would be a pretty good tell.

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