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New comment by punty in "LLM Voice"

punty — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:06:08 +0000

But isn't one problem here that it's not just personal consumption? People bemoan the proliferation of food-service (Sysco et al) "slop" at restaurants. It seems like LLM writing for others is serving that $3 burrito for $15 without even trying to doctor it up. If you're not willing to put in the effort to think about and produce your writing it's probably best to keep it for personal consumption.

New comment by punty in "The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]"

punty — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:41:33 +0000

If you look through Ryan Williams' x thread he links to a google drive folder (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SAqEO1kt6wnA0NXuZecy...) with the OpenAI and Anthropic papers. There is also a new human contribution which is pretty accessible from Amit Sahai. I found this paper to be a more reasonable read, although the author(s) do state that their goal is to demonstrate a subexponential bound via an easier to follow approach.

Maybe it's a bit early to predict here but it feels like this approach might have a series of improvements similar to the progress made on the faster FFT multiplcation result.

New comment by punty in "The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]"

punty — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:31:41 +0000

2^(n/logn) will eventually be smaller than (1+epsilon)^n for any fixed positive epsilon. However, as log(n) grows quite slowly n will have to be exceptionally large. For epsilon=2^-D n will have to be something like 2^(2^D) large.

New comment by punty in "OpenAI Livestream"

punty — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:23:28 +0000

It appears so!

New comment by punty in "Every 5x5 Nonogram"

punty — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:15:54 +0000

I don't want to ruin the game for the community so will hold off on saying too much. I will say this- this game is very well designed so it's pretty straightforward to understand how it works without using anything more than the network tab of chrome :). No js, frontend puppeteering, etc. are needed. I might write it up when the game is close to completion!

New comment by punty in "Every 5x5 Nonogram"

punty — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 03:02:12 +0000

Some fun boards:

The empty board: https://pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram#21035201

The full board: https://pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram#13821100

A greeting board: https://pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram#4282670

A checkerboard: https://pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram#24204839

A board of love: https://pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram#14090887

Question block: https://pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram#18519948

New comment by punty in "Every 5x5 Nonogram"

punty — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 01:55:01 +0000

https://pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram#14823232