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New comment by storus in "How AI text watermarking works"

storus — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:09:05 +0000

Do you need to know the full conditional probability distributions of the model to tell if it's a watermarked text, or does this work without that knowledge, i.e. without having the access to the full weights?

New comment by storus in "US sells 30-year bonds at highest borrowing costs since 2001"

storus — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:59:19 +0000

Another wave of inflation is coming in the next 6 months or what?

New comment by storus in "How Compaction Works in Pi"

storus — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:34:56 +0000

The advantage of running local stack is that you can do the compaction at the time of inference, i.e. some tool call runs out of context, you can just pause inference, purge/replace old tool calls with their summaries or just logs by operating directly over tokens on a GPU, rebuilding KV cache (one time prefill hit) and resuming the inference, easily being able to e.g. read 1000 markdowns, each 50k long, in a single LLM call. That's not possible with current agentic harnesses using LLM calls.

New comment by storus in "Understanding is the new bottleneck"

storus — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:50:37 +0000

My main gripe is with Claude deciding to make 200 lines of code in a PR I need to review, instead of 3 lines of code somebody who understands the original algorithm/intent would do. And coworkers just YOLOing changes without understanding them. Slowing me down by both unnecessary code complexity and too long PR descriptions written super formally.

New comment by storus in "Anything Could Become a Battleground"

storus — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:27:47 +0000

Yeah, but you can bet on almost anything and have a proxy fight with people of a different opinion to you, and the winner gets the money of their opponents. So it's a "kinda battleground" in that sense.

New comment by storus in "Gloomberb"

storus — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:26:31 +0000

Some folks do fundamental analysis, some do technical analysis, most do a mix of those. You don't need Bloomberg terminal to extract fundamentals nor alpha. Maybe a better example would be S&P Capital IQ - you can essentially replace it with agents doing the web searches and extractions for you. Another 20-50k saved.

New comment by storus in "2026 Eclipse Webcams"

storus — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:24:20 +0000

I mean the whole eclipse was shortly before the sunset and shortly after the sunset you could see 6 planets nearby. That's quite unique, don't you think?

New comment by storus in "Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast"

storus — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:57:15 +0000

Wow, that's even faster than diffusion LLMs but with the Fable-level quality! Congrats!

New comment by storus in "Gloomberb"

storus — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:53:51 +0000

Can't you just use a bunch of agents to extract financial statements from company websites the moment they are published? OK, no insider info but you can still do quick agentic fundamental analysis and decide which companies are interesting.

New comment by storus in "Anything Could Become a Battleground"

storus — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:57:11 +0000

Isn't Polymarket essentially an instance of a battleground for anything?

New comment by storus in "People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more"

storus — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:26:54 +0000

Did your dad immigate from a country where nepotism/cronyism was the norm? Wasn't America unique in the ability to give this frugal person a chance to pull himself up by the bootstraps by giving him and his children the opportunity to earn a good living without knowing anyone in power? Do you want America that would look like your dad's original country, being a permanent underclass there?

New comment by storus in "People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more"

storus — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:55:20 +0000

Pointing out that cronyism/nepotism is giving the largest boost for one's success instead of "meritocracy" is pretty depressing...

New comment by storus in "2026 Eclipse Webcams"

storus — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:41:58 +0000

Don't forget 6-planet alignment.

New comment by storus in "2026 Eclipse Webcams"

storus — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:39:39 +0000

The main camera on YouTube from Leon, Spain, completely missed corona...

New comment by storus in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 quietly released"

storus — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:31:53 +0000

Probably nothing Earth-shattering in benchmarks? Flash can already replace Opus 4.5 for local agentic coding, maybe they didn't have a similar win for Pro?

New comment by storus in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

storus — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:58:52 +0000

Soon the whole US academia reputation will go down the drain and the degrees we all worked so hard for will have no meaning. How to shoot oneself in the foot 101.

New comment by storus in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

storus — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:54:18 +0000

10 years ago one could buy "spyglasses" on eBay with camera in the middle hidden behind a polarizing filter, looking like regular glasses. This Meta stuff feels like a bad copy of the same.

New comment by storus in "Is it all just vapourware?"

storus — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:49:27 +0000

Writing meaningful and correct code was always difficult. That we know how to generate pointless CRUD or half-baked apps using agents doesn't mean we can do them well. It's probably sufficient for selling them as a business but far from being great.

New comment by storus in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"

storus — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:10:52 +0000

Is there any cheap way to run personal websites without getting cooked by bots these days, degrading the performance? A $5/month VPS won't cut it anymore.

New comment by storus in "Discovery Loop"

storus — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:53:48 +0000

Many of those require a paradigm shift in our understanding of Universe, so I am not sure they are achievable with any convex combination of existing knowledge. We'd need some sharp mind connecting the dots but with heavy use of AI and incentives to use it, we might just never give a chance for such mind to arise.