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New comment by wald3n in "The gay jailbreak technique"

wald3n — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:13:03 +0000

This doesn’t work for shit

New comment by wald3n in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

wald3n — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:12:40 +0000

This doesn’t work at all

New comment by wald3n in "A Survival Guide to a PhD (2016)"

wald3n — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 06:46:14 +0000

Karpathy is an interesting case of PhD gone industry and he mentions this topic in the article. In my field of computational social science it is sadly very taboo to happily leave the academy. Yet, they don’t do much to make it more appealing. My biggest win was to find a group of people outside of my research group that I liked collaborating with. Research is more fun as a team sport.

New comment by wald3n in "European Tech Alternatives"

wald3n — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:48:35 +0000

I don’t understand why Mistral gets so little recognition. They consistently have a top model on benchmarks such as LiveBench and their models are open source. Hugging Face is French, Black Forrest Labs (Stable Diffusion) is German, Weaviate is Dutch, Hetzner for IaasS. There’s AI here. Maybe hardware production is the bigger problem?

New comment by wald3n in "DOOMscrolling: The Game"

wald3n — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 07:35:14 +0000

Fun!