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The irony. A company building models and tooling to automatically produce code being attacked for using automatically produced code in the very tools that allow people to automatically produce code, presumably by somebody who wants to use their tools to automatically produce code, possibly because they believe that their approach at ensuring that automatically produced code is properly reviewed by a responsible human has to be more thorough than whatever that company does because of course they were going too fast and thus it can't be good

You make a reasonable point so I don't want to oppose it but just to offer more tricks in case some of you don't know them:

_less_ has a nice "&" command that is like "/" (search) but that filters instead like grep.

You can also pipe to an external command from less

My second reaction is: ah is this what the stolen IP from apple fuss was all about?

My first reaction isn't here yet

At least your math textbook was written by somebody who understood integration

It's not clear to me whether that tool exists or you hallucinated it into existence with this post

I just want to make the point that this is not normal

I'm not suggesting a change, I'm suggesting a public discussion about a change.

What I see is one political faction who wants to convince everybody that their desired outcome was in the constitution all along and we're just misreading it. My suggestion is that, if that's really what the people want, then the current democratic process should be followed to amend the constitution in order to clarify whatever rule is unclear. There are good reasons in place for such changes to require a supermajority.

If a supermajority cannot be reached, then let's have a discussion and figure out how to make everybody's concerns heard.

But that's so completely against the current populistic climate where the most boisterous and outraging claims are rewarded; so I know this won't happen; but that's what I think _should_ happen.

If people really want to stop this kind of birth citizenship tourism they must vote for people who will pledge to amend the constitution using the proper democratic process.

But today's climate is so hostile to any kind of rational discussion about how to change laws. One faction just wants to deny citizenship right now to any people they seem not "american enough" while the other faction cannot possibly entertain any change to the current system or else It would concede something to the populist faction

The reproducibility crisis reproducibility crisis?

What is pi-mono ? (I heard about pi)

I wonder why, out of the many things models definitely can't do, you choose "try" and "find out". Surely every time it proposes a solution and then gets possibly corrected by the human minder its "trying something out" and surely it can use tools like web search and code execution to "find out" stuff?

Damned if you reply with empty corpspeak, damned if you don't

There are many ways of implementing a curl | sh installer, some of them robust, some of them not.

However they all look the same to the end user.

That's a feature and also a potential source of problems since users cannot tell if that particular application they want to install Is implementing the installer correctly or not. The outcome is that most users just trust that application (possibly because it's popular and trusted) and that's fine but it also trains the public that this installation method is ok and that gives a positive feedback for other applications to also offer their software using that installer pattern until at least one of such packages is implemented very badly or sneakily malicious.

If only a curl had a flag where you pass the sha256 of the file and it first checks it against the buffered file before outputting it to stdout.

That would singlehandedly resolve this whole kerfuffle.

The install instructions will be a slightly longer one liner and that's fine because people copy paste it anyway

You presumably have no problem moving around in a car that you only control indirectly via a steering wheel, an accelerator and a brake pedal without ever actually powering the wheels

He presented himself as someone who has utter disregard for any form of coherence and people actually argued that that's what made him palatable to the masses. I don't think that someone who voted for him can in good faith claim they didn't know he would betray his promises. All they wanted Is for him to own the libs

We wouldn't have identities either if we were all clones and our memories could be edited and shuffled at each conversation.

For an agent to have an identity we would have to intentionally make it hard to context engineering and limit it to append only messages that mimick human communication.

I can implant a thought into your head. If I say "Don't think about a green elephant" for a moment you'll think about a green elephant. There are more sophisticated examples of a person implanting thoughts in somobodies head (e.g. propaganda) but that's about it, I can't literally edit thoughts.

Why on earth do we want to limit our ability to do more powerful context engineering in a substrate that offers that ability natively?

Presumably because for some use cases you want the context of an agent to belong to a different "administrative domain" and you so want to have control over what information reaches it and how can it affect it?

I assumed they are used to people being exhausted by those calls, so I was frankly surprised when she actually called again to complain

I guess the signal-to-noise ratio matters.

In the last 3 months I received 700 spam/scam calls to my phone, my wife received about 400. We can't turn off ringing for unknown callers and we're getting mad. A few days ago I vented to one of those call-center people trying to sell me a cheaper power utility for the Nth time, and told her to find another job or something like that; she actually called me back yelling at me that "any job is worth", and yelled at her that I cannot fucking receive sometimes up to 20 calls in a day, sometimes at quite annoying times of the day! It's getting ridiculous.

EDIT: I know not everybody is having the same experience in my country. Some people are only getting a few calls per week; I registered our phones in https://registrodelleopposizioni.it/ and also I'm using android's spam filter which filters out additional hundreds of calls automatically.

EDIT 2: I sometimes wonder if we're being harassed by somebody ; I cannot tell. The voices are often quite similar, but it might be the albanian accent that makes them sound similar.

EDIT 3: caller id numbers are always different

I wonder if opus 4.8 would also be able to fix the code too

But LLM can write code that can do math and count. Tool use, more broadly, has proven to be a very powerful way to let LLMs do what they're good at (handle the fuzzy and imprecise nuances of natural language, which includes the scooping of a lot of context) and delegate other things they're not good at to external tools, some of which if can write on the spot.

If you think about it, we humans do that all the time too.

I'm crap at 4 digit multiplication in my head, but I have no problem doing that with pencil and paper

I'm honestly unsure if I'm more annoyed by slop or by the anyslop police at this point

Fair enough, there _could_ be powerful models that are hidden from the general public, but I wouldn't call it "naive" to think the current capitalistic incentives are such that the only way to produce such models is to do exactly what we see out in the open with a handful of companies each trying their hardest to outcompete the other

An interesting way to rate limit access while also getting some data to analyze. They will lift this restriction later when they have more capacity

Why stop at bytes? Let's split it in individual bits and then look up the bits in pi!

But Pi's binary expansion is not very practical for this purpose, since it's 11.0010...

OTOH. e is 10.1011...

Let's stick to fractional digits (the ones right of the binary point) at index 0 we have 1 and at index 1 we have 0.

So, to encode a stream of bytes so that each bit is encoded as the index of that bit in the e, all you need to do is to xor it with 0xFF

You'll find this an interesting watch:

Reinventing Entropy Compression is Intelligence Part 1

3blue1brown https://youtu.be/l6DKRf-fAAM?is=ne73FCJ7ErXhzZ-v

Italy is no Denmark but you still require to register before selling you scrap copper.

I think it's a reasonable response for a real problem and refusing to do this due to some idealistic free market principle appears to me to be a sign of fanaticism.

Can an MCP provide prompts for your model to download and use CLIs (and ensure they have the right versions of those tools) in such a way that the data flows through the client side tools?

The more I read this thread the more I'm convinced that the main value of MCP is to provide a server managed release process. This is the same advantage that SaaS has over client side apps.

However MCPs couples with a client willing to run tools locally can provide the best of both worlds

Possibly. But otoh one cannot complain that agents don't produce high quality code while at the same time not allowing them to thoroughly go through all the steps required to produce high quality code

How do you determine what's a fair price?

The informed claim is not that the obscurity layer has no value. Quite the contrary, it has such a great value that it basically reduces the incentives to have great proper security and thus once the obscurity layer is breached the second line of defense is weaker.

The argument is that it's much easier to secure proper key material rather than design and config information that can often be leaked accidentally because it's actually directly manipulated by humans (employee onboarding, employee churn etc)