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New comment by memoriyato3 in "Fable 5 On Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, With Plausible Deniability"

memoriyato3 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:38:11 +0000

standard deviation is misleading for non-standard distributions (fat-tailed, skewed, multi-modal, ...)

common mistake people make

New comment by memoriyato3 in "Regression to the Mean: on LLMs and the quiet death of the new"

memoriyato3 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:32:25 +0000

so the proof to the unit-distance problem was on the manifold, given it was outputed by a LLM?

is the proof to the Riehmann hypothesis also somewhere on the manifold and we just need to prod the LLM with the right prompt so it locates the point?

New comment by memoriyato3 in "Regression to the Mean: on LLMs and the quiet death of the new"

memoriyato3 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:29:50 +0000

Ironic that this website has exactly the regression to the mean kind of visual design that LLMs output

New comment by memoriyato3 in "Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed enough"

memoriyato3 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:04:57 +0000

well, Google refused to increase Meta quote of tokens, even Google can't supply so many (paid) tokens as Meta is burning

New comment by memoriyato3 in "Dark mode with web standards"

memoriyato3 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:39:44 +0000

I use an app to switch the Windows system theme between light/dark automatically based on time of day (similar to auto blue color reduction).

It's funny noticing how most Electron/WebViews/web-sites immediately switch too, and have good dark mode support, while non-web-tech native apps either only support light-mode, have a bad looking incomplete dark-mode, or require a restart to switch.

So much for "native GUIs are superior, consistent and respect the user". Microsoft is still struggling with adding dark mode support to most Windows included apps.

New comment by memoriyato3 in "Programmers need to start meditating"

memoriyato3 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 11:04:52 +0000

that's like "stop using a car, you can walk between cities and its healthier"

New comment by memoriyato3 in "Programmers need to start meditating"

memoriyato3 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 11:02:19 +0000

programmers were always against "software patents" - the idea of copyrighting algorithms and implementations

New comment by memoriyato3 in "Programmers need to start meditating"

memoriyato3 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 10:58:32 +0000

it was impossible to write code for 8 hours straight, you naturally had to stop

but you can prompt for 8 hours more or less

like running versus cycling - you can cover more distance by cycling and it's less intensive (I'm talking casual running/cycling, not racing)

agents are a bicycle for the mind

New comment by memoriyato3 in "EV Batteries Are Defying Expectations After Miles"

memoriyato3 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 10:54:25 +0000

I have enabled "charge up to maximum 80%" setting on my phone from day 1, and 2 years later the battery lasts noticeably less. maybe it would have been even worse without that setting.

New comment by memoriyato3 in "GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance"

memoriyato3 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:39:05 +0000

its called hedonic adaptation - you get excited by a new model, but then the excitement disappears, and you confuse that with the model being nerfed

New comment by memoriyato3 in "Web-based cryptography is always snake oil"

memoriyato3 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:29:05 +0000

having E2E encryption is a marketing feature, you need it if you want to be competitive in the market, so this is another incentive to add it

New comment by memoriyato3 in "Web-based cryptography is always snake oil"

memoriyato3 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:27:47 +0000

technically you could audit your local copy of tor source code, build it, and then never upgrade it.

still this wouldn't guarantee that all the other nodes are not compromised

New comment by memoriyato3 in "EV Batteries Are Defying Expectations After Miles"

memoriyato3 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:21:59 +0000

we have EVs for almost 15 years now, one would imagine some real world data on battery life was collected already, even if not widely shared

New comment by memoriyato3 in "EV Batteries Are Defying Expectations After Miles"

memoriyato3 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:20:10 +0000

the propaganda works because we are all familiar with the smartphone battery degradation after 2 years, so it seems logical that same thing will happen with car batteries

New comment by memoriyato3 in "Is The Economist Always Wrong?"

memoriyato3 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:03:00 +0000

psychohistory, some are already doing it today (LLMs simulating various people with various beliefs interacting)

New comment by memoriyato3 in "Is The Economist Always Wrong?"

memoriyato3 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:01:33 +0000

you can still judge if it was correct or not, irrespective of contrarianness, still a good signal to measure

New comment by memoriyato3 in "Is The Economist Always Wrong?"

memoriyato3 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 08:57:19 +0000

to quote Taleb: those who can, do (trade). those who can't, write about it (financial press)

New comment by memoriyato3 in "sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)"

memoriyato3 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 08:51:37 +0000

also helps adding negative conditions like "do not nitpick", or specific bad attractors that you see "do not investigate/report anything related to symlinks, they are not a concern"

New comment by memoriyato3 in "sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)"

memoriyato3 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 08:47:08 +0000

yeah, happened to me: "A is very wrong, you should do B", and on the next fresh review loop "B is very wrong, you should do A"

typically this means there is some ambiguity in the specification, and the model flips between alternative interpretations

New comment by memoriyato3 in "BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experiments"

memoriyato3 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 22:31:46 +0000

for SecureBoot you could use the Linux shim bootloader, to boot your stick, or a tiny Linux that runs your code, right?