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New comment by babkayaga in "Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed"

babkayaga — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:30:49 +0000

Still weird to me that most people are not just giving an LLM an access to an editor, forcing it to write shell scripts to edit files. Shrug.

New comment by babkayaga in "Letting Claude play text adventures"

babkayaga — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:26:26 +0000

or just use a skill like tmux or interminai to let it run any text adventure with no work.

New comment by babkayaga in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

babkayaga — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 06:03:34 +0000

Indeed. But their is something surprising here, however. people like chomsky would present examples like this for decades as untracktable by any algorithm, and as a proof that language is a uniquely human thing. they went as far as to claim that humans have a special language organ, somewhere in their brain perhaps. turns out, a formula exists, it is just very very large.

New comment by babkayaga in "Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion"

babkayaga — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:44:02 +0000

right. China. but Switzerland? Israel? what is going on here?

New comment by babkayaga in "Inside the university AI cheating crisis"

babkayaga — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 22:40:49 +0000

there is no crisis. stop teaching students to write trash, using ai or not. if the essay is good, it should get an A.

New comment by babkayaga in "Don't Get Distracted (2017)"

babkayaga — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:34:46 +0000

do you know what happens if military does not have a system to find and target specific people in a building? they just might need to bring down the whole building. everyone in it might die but at least your conscience is clean.

New comment by babkayaga in "ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials"

babkayaga — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 01:47:22 +0000

not because hezbolla and hamas are not trying.

New comment by babkayaga in "ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials"

babkayaga — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 01:44:31 +0000

ICC issued a warrant for very dead Muhammad Deif.

New comment by babkayaga in "ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials"

babkayaga — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 01:30:15 +0000

the warrant is not for genocide, you did not even read it, did you?

New comment by babkayaga in "OpenAI builds first chip with Broadcom and TSMC, scales back foundry ambition"

babkayaga — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 08:02:42 +0000

statisticsl probability in which distribution? stringing words is not at all how gpt works.

New comment by babkayaga in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

babkayaga — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:05:36 +0000

cleber. but china can blackmail you into working for them. you will have no recourse if it does.

New comment by babkayaga in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

babkayaga — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:03:16 +0000

surely more surgical than what these guys were doing, which is repeatedly shoot missiles at densely populated areas, for months.

New comment by babkayaga in "The rise of remote work may reshape college towns"

babkayaga — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 19:06:53 +0000

... but probably won't

Season of Docs: get paid to document open-source code

babkayaga — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:16:01 +0000

Article URL: https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26088196

Points: 1

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New comment by babkayaga in "Reviving Old X Code"

babkayaga — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 19:41:39 +0000

live xmille, great job keith!

one if the new cards says vehicle prioritaire. given card names are in French should be vehicule prioritaire i guess....

New comment by babkayaga in "Spirals, Snowflakes and Trees: Recursion in Pictures"

babkayaga — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:30:07 +0000

i noticed a bunch if spirals demoed seem to kind of twinkle when you scroll the page. is this a known optical illusion?

New comment by babkayaga in "How to Hide from a Drone"

babkayaga — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 11:10:16 +0000

>It’s smart to avoid using wireless devices like mobile phones or GPS systems Is this a thing? Thought a GPS system is passive ...

New comment by babkayaga in "Teaching quantum information science to high-school students"

babkayaga — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 06:31:02 +0000

does anyone have a link to the teaching material itself?

New comment by babkayaga in "IBM's Lost Decade"

babkayaga — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 16:54:32 +0000

You can move back in time using this device we call "memory". Up and to the left - value grows as you consider earlier values. Up and to the right - value grows as you consider newer values. Yes considering newer values after older ones is a reasonable default but it's not completely redundant to specify that's what's meant.

New comment by babkayaga in "California passes bill that classifies gig economy workers as employees"

babkayaga — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 05:50:09 +0000

I saw ballots bypassed by the jegislature and the governor multiple times in MA. Ianal so no idea about the technicalities.