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New comment by grej in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

grej — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:57:49 +0000

They built Warhammer 40k servitors

New comment by grej in "Under Secretary of Defense Emil Michael Response to Dario Amodei"

grej — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:26:12 +0000

Thanks - edited for clarity that it was certainly not my quote.

New comment by grej in "Under Secretary of Defense Emil Michael Response to Dario Amodei"

grej — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:32:57 +0000

Shocking statement from a US Govt Official:

“It’s a shame that @DarioAmodei is a liar and has a God-complex. He wants nothing more than to try to personally control the US Military and is ok putting our nation’s safety at risk.

The @DeptofWar will ALWAYS adhere to the law but not bend to whims of any one for-profit tech company.”

Under Secretary of Defense Emil Michael Response to Dario Amodei

grej — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:32:57 +0000

Article URL: https://xcancel.com/uswremichael/status/2027211708201058578?s=12

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176543

Points: 5

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New comment by grej in "Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing"

grej — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:32:00 +0000

Yes agree, but it seems gemini drops off more quickly than other foundation models for some reason.

New comment by grej in "Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing"

grej — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:00:55 +0000

My strange observation is that Gemini 2.5 Pro is maybe the best model overall for many use cases, but starting from the first chat. In other words, if it has all the context it needs and produces one output, it's excellent. The longer a chat goes, it gets worse very quickly. Which is strange because it has a much longer context window than other models. I have found a good way to use it is to drop the entire huge context of a while project (200k-ish tokens) into the chat window and ask one well formed question, then kill the chat.

New comment by grej in "Fireman Sam (Commodore 64)"

grej — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:27:08 +0000

I never played this, but it reminds me the C64 Ghostbusters game which I loved!

New comment by grej in "Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite"

grej — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 03:08:21 +0000

I love the gemini models and think Google has done a great job on them, but no model series I use seems to get context rot more in long conversations. Which seems strange given the longer context.

New comment by grej in "Choose Your Own Adventure"

grej — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:00:27 +0000

I absolutely adored these books as a kid! Spend every dime of bookfair money on them every year and used to beg my parents to take me to the library to check out others.

I love the framing of them in this article as the gateway drug to interactive entertainment.

New comment by grej in "Stephen Miller's Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests in Immigration Raid"

grej — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 22:46:01 +0000

In addition to Korea being one of our most important military allies in the world, you need batteries for military drones, and the US is way behind in the development of a domestic manufacturing supply chain for next gen batteries.

So now we know clearly that nationalist xenophobia the true most important priority for this administration. Or at least, more important than either the domestic economic interests of their own base or strategic national security interests.

New comment by grej in "Tau² benchmark: How a prompt rewrite boosted GPT-5-mini by 22%"

grej — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:51:04 +0000

DSPy was ahead of its time and still underutilized.

New comment by grej in "Tesla remotely deactivates rapper's vehicle for singing about the Cybertruck?"

grej — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 01:16:39 +0000

Wow, if this is true this is some serious Black Mirror line crossing.

New comment by grej in "The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says"

grej — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 16:08:44 +0000

Out - A scammer convincing a grandmother to send money using an AI generated voice of their grandchild asking them for money

In - A legal ad tech company using an AI generated deceased grandmother to ask their grandchild to purchase a product

New comment by grej in "Mexico to US livestock trade halted due to screwworm spread"

grej — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 14:57:14 +0000

The US successfully eradicated screwworms here in 1966 with a brilliant integrated sterile insect technique - I think the very first use of it (and had previously funded helping other countries control it also). But if we had another outbreak spread, I doubt there's any shred of competence left in this current gutted federal government to do anything like that again. Maybe they can have the new ICE folks try to deport the screwworm flies.

New comment by grej in "Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300%"

grej — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 01:32:58 +0000

Related to this, is anyone aware whether there is a benchmark on this kind of thing - maybe broadly the category of “context rot”? To track things that are not germane to the current question adversely affecting the responses, as well as the volume of germane but deep context creating the inability of models to follow the conversation? I’ve definitely experienced the latter with coding models.

New comment by grej in "The North Korean fake IT worker problem is ubiquitous"

grej — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 14:41:12 +0000

Yes please, I'm also interested in hearing more about what you're building CyberMacGyver

New comment by grej in "Why LLMs Can't Write Q/Kdb+: Writing Code Right-to-Left"

grej — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:22:02 +0000

This is, in part, one of the reasons why I am interested in the emerging diffusion based text generation models.

New comment by grej in "Environmental Impacts of Artificial Intelligence"

grej — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 22:42:40 +0000

Linking energy use to the environment is a political choice, and Greenpeace are some of the worst offenders for making the situation worse by opposing nuclear power at every turn.

New comment by grej in "AI is draining water from areas that need it most"

grej — Sat, 10 May 2025 22:44:32 +0000

The conflation of AI and use of natural resources / energy use is mostly a political choice and a straw man.

New comment by grej in "Oil and gas money shapes research, creates 'echo chamber' in higher education"

grej — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 20:17:20 +0000

Petroleum - oil and gas - changed the world for the better. Not without creating other issues, but the dramatic increase in crop yields and overall standards of living, and dramatic decrease in famine are irrefutable. As we enter the AI era, worth taking that lesson that even the most beneficial of technologies can and do create unintended side effects.