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zirror commented on Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?   twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/JnBrymn
lukevp · 2 months ago
What’s your extension? Sounds interesting!
zirror · 2 months ago
Just FYI, Firefox reader mode does the same thing. It's a little button in the address bar.
zirror commented on After the AI boom: what might we be left with?   blog.robbowley.net/2025/1... · Posted by u/imasl42
bluesnowmonkey · 2 months ago
You have to verify everything from human developers too. They hallucinate APIs when they try to write code from memory. So we have:

  - documentation
  - design reviews
  - type systems
  - code review
  - unit tests
  - continuous integration
  - integration testing
  - Q&A process
  - etc.
It turns out when include all these processes, teams of error-prone human developers can produce complex working software. Mostly -- sometimes there are bugs. Kind of a lot actually. But we get things done.

Is it not the same with AI? With the right processes you can get consistent results from inconsistent tools.

zirror · 2 months ago
Sure, I just gave the Browser API example as evidence that the 'hallucination' problem is not gone. OP said it's like "talking to a professor" and you can use it to learn college level stuff. This is where I disagree. I did not double check my professors or text books usually.
zirror commented on After the AI boom: what might we be left with?   blog.robbowley.net/2025/1... · Posted by u/imasl42
ogogmad · 2 months ago
So you're saying that modern LLMs are a just like crypto/Web3, except in all the ways they're not, so they must be useless.

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Less flippantly, they are excellent for self-studying university-level topics. It's like being able to ask questions to a personal tutor/professor.

zirror · 2 months ago
But you need to verify everything unless it’s self evident. The number of times CoPilot (Sonnett 4) still hallucinates Browser APIs is astonishing. Imaging trying to learn something that can’t be checked easily, like Egyptian archeology or something.
zirror commented on EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow   patrick-breyer.de/en/coun... · Posted by u/FionnMc
moffkalast · 2 years ago
> Only Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria and Poland are relatively clear that they will not support the proposal, but this is not sufficient for a “blocking minority”.

Ahem what? Last I checked any EU country can veto anything on its own.

> Belgian EU Council presidency

It's Council of the EU, not EU Council, that's the heads of state who don't have any legislative role. But the Council only does inter-country treaties, how is this even their thing?

zirror · 2 years ago
There are some matters at the council that just need a qualified majority to move forward.

Other matters, notably foreign policy, require unanimity.

zirror commented on Some Fritz!Box modems might have been hijacked   crapts.org/2024/04/21/all... · Posted by u/mmcnl
r9295 · 2 years ago
Cache perhaps?
zirror · 2 years ago
No, I think windows by default only applies suffixes to Domains with 0 dots maybe?
zirror commented on Some Fritz!Box modems might have been hijacked   crapts.org/2024/04/21/all... · Posted by u/mmcnl
zirror · 2 years ago
I can't reproduce the "worst case" i.e. that if I ping "google.com" it gets first sent to "google.com.fritz.box". I'm on windows 10 and have a FRITZ!Box 7590.

If I ping "google.com" It just queries google.com If I ping a domain I have never visited it just does a query for that domain.

It only appends .fritz.box if I, e.g. only ping "google".

So maybe they fixed it? I also changed quite a lot of settings throughout the years.

zirror commented on Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose   techcrunch.com/2024/02/15... · Posted by u/M2Ys4U
dev1ycan · 2 years ago
Why is Apple given so much leniency? just give Apple a 5 year ban in Europe, you'll see how quickly they decide to start begging and complying.
zirror · 2 years ago
I think I agree, if that is legally possible. I don't think apple provides any important infrastructure like Amazon, Microsoft and Google do. It's basically a luxury company. Might be bad for the people who already own iOS devices and need it to survive in one way or another (e.g. as a wallet).
zirror commented on Pete Buttigieg Viral Tesla Truck Driver with Apple Vision Pro   twitter.com/SecretaryPete... · Posted by u/thread_id
namlem · 2 years ago
I mean I wouldn't recommend it, but realistically Tesa's autopilot is good enough that you would have the extra 1 second it takes to take off the headset to react.
zirror · 2 years ago
FYI: According to the twitter comments, the Cybertruck does not have autopilot.
zirror commented on Bottom 80% of US Households Persistently Dissaves-Spending More Than Income   wealtheconomics.substack.... · Posted by u/slowhand09
burkaman · 2 years ago
This headline is pretty misleading, to me at least. "Bottom 80%" implies the poorer 80% of Americans, but it is actually referring to the bottom 80% strictly in terms of (apparent) savings.

> Personal Income isn’t the only source of household assets. The two big missing pieces are holding (capital) gains on assets, and borrowing (which adds both assets and liabilities, in equal amounts, to household balance sheets). Adding these two additional measures does shift most bottom quintiles from spending deficits to asset surpluses in most years.

> While many have suggested that borrowing is what explains households’ ability to keep spending (it is, some), overwhelmingly it’s holding gains that “fund” the perennial dissaving of the bottom 80%.

So this is actually mostly explained by richer people who have significant investments in addition to their normal income.

Edit: The BEA says Personal Income "does not include realized or unrealized capital gains or losses." So if you sell stocks, a house, pull money out of a 401k, none of that is included in Personal Income.

Also, I think like ~20% of Americans are retired? Presumably most of them would be considered dissavers here, except for those who retired with almost no savings and are living solely on Social Security.

zirror · 2 years ago
As a non-native speaker, I have never heard of dissaving. Is it a common word?
zirror commented on Hisense A9 Pro E-Ink Android Smartphone   hisenseeink.com/products/... · Posted by u/haunter
ploum · 2 years ago
I’ve been using an Hisense A5 daily for the last 4 years (so it is the previous model, which is less powerful and without Google Play store).

https://ploum.net/se-passer-decran-avec-un-telephone-e-ink/i...

Ask Me Anything about not having a true screen on your phone.

zirror · 2 years ago
How's the battery life?

u/zirror

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