Wow, looks like a tremendous commitment and depth of knowledge went into this one-man project. I couldn't even read the whole write up, I had to skim part of it. I'm super impressed.
Readit Newsvoiper1 commented on Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings blog.wilsonl.in/search-en... · Posted by u/wilsonzlin
Lasagne batteries hit the front page of reddit every couple of months. That's where I learned about galvanic corrosion in general a couple of years ago.
I know tomato (acidic) will make holes in aluminum foil but I didn't know more than that.
I guess today's my day: https://xkcd.com/1053/
voiper1 commented on New study offers clues about what makes someone cool nytimes.com/2025/06/30/we... · Posted by u/_tk_
>Cool people are largely perceived to be extroverted, hedonistic, powerful, adventurous, open and autonomous.
voiper1 commented on Claude Code now supports hooks docs.anthropic.com/en/doc... · Posted by u/ramoz
I think it's going to go the opposite way: we'll get a lot more custom made software, that fits exactly what a small customer needs. The code might be utter crap, the design might not be award winning, but it will be custom made to a degree that you can't customize your average Savas.
But "utter crap" isn't just an aesthetic issue - that can mean all kinds of bugs and malfunctions!
voiper1 commented on The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million calvin.sh/blog/fed-lie/... · Posted by u/c249709
Chrome web store link got truncated, this is the link from github:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/cpdown/knnaflplggjd...
Will give it a try, thanks!
I am very impressed with Gemini and stopped using OpenAI. Sometimes, I ping all three major models on OpenRouter but 90% is on Gemini now. Compare that to 90% ChatGPT last year.
I don't like the thinking time, but for coding, journaling, and other stuff I've often been impressed with Gemini Pro 2.5 out of the box.
Possibly I could do much more prompt fine-tuning to nudge openai/anthropic in the direction I want, but with the same prompts Gemini often gives me answers/structure/tone I like much better.
Example: I had claude 3.7 generating embedding images and captions along with responses. Same prompt into Gemini it gave much more varied and flavorful pictures.
I'm pretty sure that if there is a god, then the act of deliberately subverting what you believe to be his laws by exploiting what you perceive to be a technicality for your own convenience isn't going to work out in your favor in the end.
The eiruv only works as a loophole for the added stringencies by the Rabbis. Anything that's considered totally public in actual Torah Law (which is a big debate what exactly that is) is not subject to the permissibility of creating an eiruv.
voiper1 commented on The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles simonwillison.net/2025/Ju... · Posted by u/swyx
I had the LLM write a bash script for me that used my https://shot-scraper.datasette.io/ tool - on the basis that it was a neat opportunity to demonstrate another of my own projects.
And honestly, even with LLM assistance getting Image Magick to output a 1200x600 image with two SVGs next to each other that are correctly resized to fill their half of the image sounds pretty tricky. Probably easier (for Claude) to achieve with HTML and CSS.
Isn't "left or right" _followed_ by rationale asking it to rationalize it's 1 word answer - I thought we need to get AI to do the chain of though _before_ giving it's answer for it to be more accurate?
I can't be the only one who thinks this version is no better than the previous one, and that LLMs have basically reached a plateau, and all the new releases "feature" are more or less just gimmicks.
The benchmarks in many ways seem to be very similar to claude 3.7 for most cases.
That's nowhere near enough reason to think we've hit a plateau - the pace has been super fast, give it a few more months to call that...!
I think the opposite about the features - they aren't gimmicks at all, but indeed they aren't part of the core AI. Rather it's important "tooling" that adjacent to the AI that we need to actually leverage it. The LLM field in popular usage is still in it's infancy. If the models don't improve (but I expect they will), we have a TON of room with these features and how we interact, feed them information, tool calls, etc to greatly improve usability and capability.