T3CHT
@T3CHT@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Is the AI hype still on or have the models plateaued? 1 week ago:
Thanks for sharing, interesting read and questions. Surely you’ll be down voted here for anything with AI… But c’est la vie.
Ive been doing coding projects in VS code which uses GPT, Claude and Gemini. Woe are the days when my credits are used and only GPT 4.1 is available. Claudes ability to research and architect multi step software solutions is very, very good and it rarely makes messes or spins tires compared to older models from just a few months ago. This is precisely what converted me to ‘whoa - ai’ which is adjacent to ‘pro ai’.
Lately I’ve been experimenting with customizing Gemini via instructions which include a link to a drive folder of md files with specific instructions for different agent tasks, such as performing specific market analysis, doing a news roundup with a specific list of topics and omitting prior reviewed items, etc. The files allow for both complex instructions or lists, as well as some chance to construct memory via logging. Results are a mixed bag, lots of additional function created, lots of mixed results.
Have you considered any tests of more complexity? Something like ‘write a program that…’ I think what will differentiate these models going forward is some have architect capabilities, strategy, insight, decision making, where others are agents - they do specific tasks well but have limits. With that model, the ai architect and it’s ai agents need to work as a team to complete a multi step task.
- Comment on I'm glad i grabbed this wii fit balance board from the trash a decade ago, wow! 1 week ago:
Got my wife one recently. She like the yoga bits, in guess. But, it’s in the closet.
Wii is still set up…what games are you digging?
- Comment on Trying to evaluate AI model generation 2 weeks ago:
I tried Meshy and Trellis and Hitem. Next I’ll try printmon.
Hitem has the best free option and portrait mode. Made some great busts.
Meshy looked great if cartoony with its model 6, but only let me download from model 4, which was a surprise and made monsters.
Trellis was in between and I ran out of huggingface tokens quickly.
I’d use hitem all day but not interested in paid subscriptions for my passing hobby. Hoping Bambu is handy with printmon again, though I expect it may be proprietary.
Also, all needed some cleanup, Bambu could fix slice and print but not adjust details and cuts. Started with Blender but the interface is hard for a CAD person. Switched to using Meshmixer, which works great, and just using Bambu to do a final fix of the stl before slice. Make solid is a helpful tool in Meshmixer if you get a good looking but imperfect stl, but you have to be careful to avoid losing detail.
- Comment on Trying to evaluate AI model generation 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, I’ll try printmon next. Any hidden limits or fees?
- Comment on it's a long distance relationship 3 weeks ago:
See also, ‘Purdue decay rate anomaly’ Why do researchers see correlation between nuclear particle decay and solar activity? Or don’t they?
- Comment on There are people out there who could utterly smash world records but no-one will never know as they haven't taken up that sport. 4 weeks ago:
Statistics, anyone?
If we’re a simple ‘normal’ population, your wife’s idea holds; there should be 1 in 1000 athlete in every 1000 people. to get a 1 in 1000 athletic performance with a 50% confidence you need only take 693 samples. So if many thousands have played, you’d expect to have seen peak performance.
But we aren’t distributed like that. Z score analysis of a measurable sport indicates a known top athlete like Usain Bolt is in the order of 5 standard deviations from the norm (depending what we consider the norm data set). That’s more like 1 in a million to one in 10 million to get a Bolt. Which implies millions need to try (and train) to get a Bolt level performance (3 humans in that tier so far, implies between 3 & 30 million have tried). So a Bolt seems to be reaching human limits, reinforcing the wife position position for that sport - we are approaching the human limit.
But wait - that is a popular sport, with a single simple measure. If there were multiple relevant independent measures (say hitting and pitching, or running and throwing), even just 2, the odds become astronomical of finding the best. A dual 1 in 1000 is a 1 in a million. A dual z=5 athlete is 1 in 12 trillion.
So the implication is that for more complex sports where multiple attributes apply, it is much more likely we have not yet seen peak human capabilities. It’s also much harder to measure and recognize when we do - so props to the legendary players, and keep searching for them. We won’t know how good they really were until we sample (play) the sport for hundreds or thousands of years. Finding peak is incredibly lucky/unlikely for our most popular complex sports.
- Comment on Many parents cab probably relate 5 weeks ago:
I have been to the science fair, and the county science fair, and the state science fair.
No, I didn’t touch my daughters project.
At county, there was an obvious element of parent projects, but judges interviewed kids and weeded out those who didn’t know much about the project. Some winners there still had obvious assists, but at least they could interview.
State was wild (CA). No parents in the hall during the day. Kids reported massive judging variations, little standardization and obvious tech bias. Her cognitive science category gave out all 3 awards for AI related projects.
Check in was insane. Allowed material were the board and a few feet of space on the table. People were pulling in with trailers. Massive arguments, tears.
Day of, kids were wearing fitted suits. Coordinated family outfits with ostentatious wealth on show. What a bizarre view of America.
- Comment on Many parents cab probably relate 5 weeks ago:
And let me guess, he’s “not a good test taker”?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Not quite. Dark forest says it’s dangerous out there, so everyone else is quiet. Not that we’re dangerous, but that we’re at risk by being noisy.
We pose no real threat to any other civilization, we can’t get to them.
It’s possible we’re being avoided because we’re loathsome in some way or various ways, but that’s not dark forest.
It’s also possible we pose a risk we don’t understand (disease, culture, loudness) so we’re avoided / quarantined, but that is also not dark forest.
More like Ostracized Planet.
- Comment on Where can I get sweet dish fish? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Menger cheese = string cheese 1 month ago:
Looks, there has gotta be a divide by zero in there somewhere, but I can’t find it.
But if I divide by less, Cheese = more/less cheese Which seems legit
- Comment on YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake 1 month ago:
This is another really good reason to be upset with the 10 yr warranty. It implies a longevity well beyond what this product can do.
And the waste. My god the waste. Piles upon piles of unrecyclable petroleum derived foam. Ok, in relative terms to our modern lifestyle it fits right in, but that’s not good.
And if it lasts half as long as they say, and they won’t touch it at the end of its life, what does that say?!
- Comment on YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake 1 month ago:
Fair point. It lasted 4-5 years solid. 6-8 clearly rapid failure.
Quickly is relative to the 10 year warranty.
I paid (usd 5k plus - king size) with a warranty in mind. Was told ‘our material is different, worth it’ - Full sales job. I’m technical, but details matter and they’re proprietary. I trusted the warranty + brand, which was a bad, expensive move.
Realistic expectations - memory foam lasts 4-5 years, more or less depending on pressure and humidity, and should be priced accordingly. YSK!
- Comment on YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake 1 month ago:
Thanks. Turns out I’m also mattress shopping! Appreciate the alternative option.
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- Comment on Viruses are millennia-old nanobots from ancient aliens that went astray over time with their corrupted replication-programming 2 months ago:
Turns out this is also the answer to the Fermi paradox. We’re quarantined.
- Comment on What do other languages use for "magic" words; or names and titles in fantasy and sci-fi novels or cinema? 2 months ago:
You should know the origin, and surprise - it’s Latin!
Per wikipedia: “The actual origin is unknown, but one of the first appearances of the word was in a second-century work by Roman physician Serenus Sammonicus… who in chapter 52 prescribed that malaria sufferers wear an amulet containing Abracadabra written in the form of a triangle.[12][13]
The power of the amulet, he claimed, makes lethal diseases go away.”
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 2 months ago:
You are on a tough path and I hope you succeed. Im glad to count you as a fellow citizen here and I hope it gets better for everyone here.
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 2 months ago:
Thanks for sharing your story. I’ve heard of one child policy but never from a 2nd child’s perspective.
Your story is a disturbing parallel to modern immigrant stories in the US, as well as others, im sure.
Healthcare is just one step above having a safe place to be in terms of human need, but places/governments that cant meet childrens basic needs in modern society are worth shaming.
- Comment on Hell yea 3 months ago:
Stone cold sphagnorubin.
- Comment on A cooperative TierMaker for consensus rankings 4 months ago:
See also: ranker.com en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranker
- Comment on Try the other side maybe 4 months ago:
Thicc for a 2D
- Comment on This mycelial network grew in a line 5 months ago:
All edges are lines. Very cool sighting!
- Comment on What’s the deal with unrelated content platforms trying to add a games section? 5 months ago:
This seems like the most relevant fact that most folks dont know. Games industry is WAY bigger than streaming. Digital media companies know this, and want to get a piece of the market.
• In 2022, the global gaming industry generated an estimated $184.4 billion.
• In 2022, the global recorded music industry generated $26.2 billion.
• In 2022, the global movie industry generated $26 billion in box office revenue.
