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Regressive JPEGs 4 days ago

oh i thought this was going to be a jpeg that loaded the highest-frequency data first and added the lower frequency data later

only insofar as it is 1. not illegal to do so or 2. the cost-benefit of violating such laws makes sense for the majority of users, who are not doing things that are actually illegal

because without such a critical mass of normal users you get something like tor or grapheneos that the state begins to associate with people engaging in unsavoury activity

can't you use font shaping rules or whatever it is to essentially begin a span of text with a "private key" that then causes the rest of the message to render correctly by combining with it (a trivial version could be e.g. a rot-N based on a given N)

essentially, yes

it's not about the prose quality, but about the fact that it seems like the service of deleting ai-generated code is also going to be ai-generated, or at least the service is being advertised via ai-generated text, which is…funny

Claude Sonnet 5 22 days ago

there was a vibecoded prediction market–style page that was put up yesterday (?) that got the date exactly right i think

On the Intelligence vs. Cost per Task Pareto Frontier: GLM-5.2 is on the Pareto frontier of the Intelligence vs Cost per Task chart, with the lowest cost per task among models at its intelligence level. GLM-5.2 costs ~$0.46 per task, compared to GLM-5.1 ($0.25), Kimi K2.6 ($0.31), MiniMax-M3 ($0.18) and DeepSeek V4 Pro (max, $0.05)

am i missing something?

When you invite guests in, you say "Please, come up!"

japanese also does this idiomatically: the verb 上がる "to rise" can be used for "to enter (a house)", which gives rise to expressions like お上がりください for "please come in"

Trivial Pursuits 2 months ago

But it would take a writer of rare skill – which Nguyen is not – to make it compelling reading.

jesus

reasoning itself just affords the model a ton of extra forward passes / "time to think"

the, como se dice, "misalignment" between the content of reasoning tokens and the actual output following the end of the reasoning is a separate problem, extensively studied by e.g. Anthropic