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New comment by bkaae in "Dario, Please"

bkaae — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:33:08 +0000

I could do plenty of small bad things all the time and gain something small from it - yet I don't. I drive the speed limit when no one is around, I throw thrash in the right bag, I try to keep my general pollution levels at a reasonable place, etc.

I have plenty to gain from not following the rules, but I would not feel good about myself.

New comment by bkaae in "I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs"

bkaae — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:55:35 +0000

There is no language in the training of this, so there is no l.

New comment by bkaae in "44% on ARC-AGI-1 in 67 cents"

bkaae — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:52:40 +0000

Then nothing - that's awesome. People think that LLMs are the know-all do-all solution to every problem now.

Putting solutions in terms of cents is a great way to potentially win over some ai boosters imo. There are other ways to solve hard problems.

New comment by bkaae in "I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs"

bkaae — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:50:47 +0000

I read this as a response to the current hype around LLMs. He is showing computers can solve these issues, without using an LLM architecture. A lot of people have sort of forgot that machine learning is more than just LLMs these days.

I found it to be a very interesting angle.

New comment by bkaae in "Don't paste the AI, please"

bkaae — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:47:21 +0000

Translating a client question to an actual technical question is the hard part I guess. Google-fu is still a thing, and absolutely a thing you were/are getting paid for it seems.

New comment by bkaae in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

bkaae — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:12:33 +0000

Bless the lord that it's not been presented to us yet, because you just know that it exists already.

New comment by bkaae in "Grok 4.6"

bkaae — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:48:08 +0000

A lot of reasons.

I think illegally using natural gas generators to power his datacenters in residential areas, is pretty high on that list.

New comment by bkaae in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

bkaae — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:10:34 +0000

We should also normalize paying for content at the same time then.

New comment by bkaae in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

bkaae — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:28:00 +0000

I think that was his argument as well. It looks like there is no more data to find, but then it becomes important to find more data - lo and behold we can make more.

Sounds like the oil scare from 90' - we thought we were gonna run out of oil. But as oil gets more expensive it pays to dig further down to find the stuff that didn't make sense to dig up before.

New comment by bkaae in "I Have Thoughts on the iPhone Air"

bkaae — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:54:04 +0000

Did you get older over the last few years? That might make a difference.

New comment by bkaae in "Kimi K3-256k"

bkaae — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:31:46 +0000

Thanks for sharing - is this a normal feature request you are implementing in this example or is this a project from scratch? Trying to get an idea of how your workflow compares to mine.

New comment by bkaae in "I Forgot to Get Excited"

bkaae — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:03:42 +0000

I don't think I take LLMs for granted - but I've misclassified them as something else.

The reason why it's so cool now, is because we can run good models on our own machines now. That's really what makes it a hackable technology in my head. Calling an API is just another product.. Does that make sense to you?

I Forgot to Get Excited

bkaae — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:31:33 +0000

I feel like from day one, LLMs was talked about in relation to how it will change the world, how it's good or bad for business and the environment. But then yesterday, I was out walking with the dog, and it hit me how freaking cool this technology is.

I don't want to talk about where I am on the spectrum between booster and denier. I'm so sick and tired of hearing about it, and it doesn't matter in this context.

I spent the first 8 years of my career trying to make the computer understand reality through images - scanning receipts, finding defects on wind turbine blades, and other niche-but-important things. The amount of work it took to just read a receipt and get the text somewhat right.. It was insane. It was really fun work, but it was so hard to make the real world fit into boxes.

I feel like I completely missed being excited about LLMs - instead I got dragged into discussions about what it means. And it's not because I've lost the ability to care; I can get excited about a new hashing algorithm and other weird tech, but LLMs? it didn't even register as a technology. Maybe it's an uncanny valley kind of thing - where it doesn't look like a classic computer science thing, so my brain didn't register it as such?

During my walk I started thinking of the possibilities. And I know your mind might immediately jump to fully-fledged big-scope solutions, but just try to give it space in that other part of the mind - the part where it's cool and not a tool to change our society. We have no idea what's gonna happen - and that's fine - we've never known that. But what we do know is that we have this really cool technology that you can run on your own computer now.

You can actually literally IRL for real, make a python program yourself that you can talk to and it understands you and do things. All on your own machine. No nothing! IT'S LIKE A TOTALLY NORMAL TECHNOLOGY! It's so cool, I can't really believe it. It can even view images and explain it you, and I just.. I'm so excited now.

Don't let them take the fun out of this technology, and spend a few seconds thinking about that cool little trick that made it possible for us to talk to sand.

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