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New comment by tipsytoad in "Two different tricks for fast LLM inference"

tipsytoad — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:09:00 +0000

Throughput is a metric for the total number of tokens/sec for all users in the system. Latency (ITL,TTFT) are individual user metrics.

New comment by tipsytoad in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

tipsytoad — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:09:11 +0000

The guys previous post was how rabbit r1 is revolutionising the smartphone. So I would take this post with a grain (heap?) of salt

New comment by tipsytoad in "We mourn our craft"

tipsytoad — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:50:29 +0000

Made it to the 5th stage of grief

New comment by tipsytoad in "I miss thinking hard"

tipsytoad — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:29:26 +0000

While I large agree, when I rely too much on agentic llm usage I come away feeling that I haven’t really learnt much over the session, and the code wasn’t really “mine”. It’s also easy to let your skills atrophy over time if you’re not careful, and for the hardest / interesting problems I often turn the llm off entirely and write out the code by hand, and come out a lot happier than just guiding Claude

New comment by tipsytoad in "LLMs will never be alive or intelligent"

tipsytoad — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 08:21:54 +0000

Someone not familiar with the field rediscovering the stochastic parrot argument from 3+ years ago

New comment by tipsytoad in "Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach"

tipsytoad — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 22:03:52 +0000

Clearly not from the UK. By US standards Labour would be socialist, and conservative (right) liberal at best.

New comment by tipsytoad in "NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Awards"

tipsytoad — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:55:27 +0000

It’s a quite deceptive paper. The main headline benchmarks (math500, aime24 /25) final answer is just a number from 0-1000, so what is the takeaway supposed to be for pass@k of 512/1024?

On the unstructured outputs, where you can’t just ratchet up the pass@k until it’s almost random, it switches the base model out for instruct, and in the worse case on livecodebench it uses a qwen-r1-distill as a _base_ model(!?) that’s an instruct model further fine tuned on R1’s reasoning traces. I assume that was because no matter how high the pass@k, a base model won’t output correct python.

New comment by tipsytoad in "The blissful Zen of a good side project"

tipsytoad — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 10:20:24 +0000

I get the same feeling that I'm "not being productive" while playing video games, watching tv, etc that seems to kill any enjoyment from doing these things.

For me learning piano has been a great alternative to programming in the off hours (typing is quite transferrable too!). Highly recommend if you're like me on screens all day.

New comment by tipsytoad in "I want a good parallel computer"

tipsytoad — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:17:19 +0000

Like, PyTorch? And the new Mac minis have 512gb of unified memory

New comment by tipsytoad in "I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days"

tipsytoad — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:38:24 +0000

I usually am a huge fan of “copilot” tools (I use cursor, etc) and Claude has always been my go to.

But Sonnet 3.7 actually seems dangerous to me, it seems it’s been RL’d _way_ too hard into producing code that won’t crash — to the point where it will go completely against the instructions to sneak in workarounds (e.g. returning random data when a function fails!). Claude Code just makes this even worse by giving very little oversight when it makes these “errors”

Python 3.14 Pre-Release

tipsytoad — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:29:42 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.python.org/3.14/whatsnew/3.14.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42683743

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by tipsytoad in "I'm a Luddite (and So Can You)"

tipsytoad — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 21:39:42 +0000

I wholly disagree with the comic, but a anti AI art take I’m more sympathetic to: https://x.com/soi/status/1815584824033177606?s=46

New comment by tipsytoad in "Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations"

tipsytoad — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 10:17:36 +0000

I don’t think this hits at the heart of the issue? Even if we can catch AI text with 100% accuracy, any halfway decent student can rewrite it from scratch using o1s ideas in lieu of actually learning.

This is waay more common and just impossible to catch. The only students caught here are those that put no effort in at all

The Practitioner's Guide to the Maximal Update Parameterization

tipsytoad — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:34:15 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.eleuther.ai/mutransfer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41625921

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by tipsytoad in "Leaving Neovim for Zed"

tipsytoad — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:58:02 +0000

Just another +1 that if you’re going to give vscode a fair shot, it’s much better to go with vscode-neovim than the standard vim extension. You can even map most of your config right over.

E.g. (mine) https://github.com/tom-pollak/dotfiles/tree/master/nvim

New comment by tipsytoad in "Structured Outputs in the API"

tipsytoad — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 14:32:25 +0000

How is this different from instructor? github.com/jxnl/instructor

namely, why did they take so long for something that just seems like a wrapper around function calling?

New comment by tipsytoad in "I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension"

tipsytoad — Fri, 03 May 2024 07:52:14 +0000

Looks really nice, but the only concern I had — how does the perf compare to more mature libraries like faiss?

DenseFormer: Enhancing Information Flow in Transformers

tipsytoad — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 18:13:57 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02622

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39793250

Points: 123

# Comments: 33

New comment by tipsytoad in "LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024"

tipsytoad — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:10:36 +0000

The most useful feature of llms is how much output you get from such little signal. Just yesterday I created a fairly advanced script from my phone on the bus ride home with chatgpt which was an absolute pleasure. I think multi-prompt conversations don't get nearly as much attention as they should in llm evaluations.

New comment by tipsytoad in "In 2024, please switch to Firefox"

tipsytoad — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 18:01:45 +0000

Switched to Firefox a month or two ago, mostly for ublock origin on android, and unlimited history (seriously, why is this not the standard?)

I've tried to like it but honestly it's been painful. MacOS Sonoma seems to have a hover bug, which has been unresolved through the last 3 bug fix updates. Performance is "fine" but seems to lag with many tabs open which was never an issue in chrome (this is on an M2 pro!) PDF reader also seems significantly slower as well. At this point I'm considering going back to chrome.