corey

if you're so smart why aren't you having fun

@segyges @ryu0000000001 Dang, rawdogging it

@ryu0000000001 behold

unfortunately both of these things are true

@hecubian_devil It requires a good amount of steering for a Great solution, but the standard quality is probably above most human software engineers. Low bar to clear though

@hecubian_devil No the code quality is mostly fine. It is easier to use reinforcement learning to make the models very good at things like code and math that have verifiable rewards (e.g. output from a compiler or interpreter) compared to something like prose with subjective qualities

I’ve been using Claude Code daily this past week, and its outputs seem very impressive to me, a wordcel who can’t code. But when I see AI prose, I can tell it’s bad. Which makes me assume the code is probably as kludgy and crass as its writing is.

@BecomingCritter @tenobrus That’s pretty fair and i can agree with that

@quantifiedmuse @tenobrus Great art has recurring themes on human nature, death, morality, order and chaos, irreversibility, the list goes on Politics can be a way to explore these themes, but what Weir is saying is that when the goal of your work is to make a political point it often flattens the text.

correct and based

@tenobrus @BecomingCritter I would go even further and argue it can’t really be great art unless it has something to say

@BecomingCritter it's true there's some baseline of boring politically biased garbage . but most truly great art has something to say.

@lapislagoons Interested in the film cameras

I'm selling a bunch of cameras... gonna take them to a shop here and maybe just sell them that way but if anyone is in the market I always like when cameras get passed on within networks so hmu if you're looking, film and digital

@sorceressofmath Hell we’re still managing warp and weft on nvidia hardware

Though another interesting part of this story is that the design of the first punch card reader was inspired by the loom, so maybe Marx was poetically more right than he could possibly have imagined.

@_ontologic @valhalla_dev Hell yeah brother

The lack of any fundamental curiosity at all about AI from the left has been one of the most discouraging things of my life, but that’s okay because I will simply become the epicenter of a new and cooler left that likes technology

@ssvankai It’s very good! The owner and his wife are very nice and hospitable. Honestly the best cheesesteak I’ve ever had. Can’t recommend it enough

this cheesesteak is from tokyo, japan, at a store called 日本橋 philly tokyo. their cheesesteak is so good that when they had a pop-up in philadelphia itself, people lined up for 2 hours down the block just to try it.

@turambar26 @CarloMonteschio @its_hipolita Trying to signal that they’re cool and well read (it has the opposite effect)

@CarloMonteschio @its_hipolita Why “ew”?

Not here to defend Rings of Power but Sanderson is either illiterate or has not read any Tolkien. The books often reference the hobbits' more violent past, and Hobbit society is made up of the nastiest most horrid, classist, small-minded, mendacious Little Englanders imaginable.

@hecubian_devil @fintwit_lurker Basically any strong preference for quality/purity/connoisseurship in a product is a huge signal that you are left of the average consumer of that product. Coffee, wine, bourbon, restaurants, film, music, architecture, art. It’s probably even true for, like, gun ownership.

mogged? brother, back in my day you were pwned

@repligate Me too

Dude I love the way this guy writes

@jkeatn Getting SJP is huge

happy to have Katy Perry, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Jeni’s Ice Cream now on board, but I won’t be satisfied until we get Elena Ferrante

@ShakeelHashim @KeyTryer Demons can’t feel shame

It is incredibly depressing to see OpenAI employees trying to spin the OpenAI-DoW deal as a good thing. OpenAI caved to the Pentagon's demands. Your technology can now be used for authoritarian ends. Own up to it.

@_ontologic I’m still debating whether or not the majority believed that or, if in reality, they truly believe in nothing and will say anything to get Their Side in power. Given the steady state of sycophants, I’m guessing the latter

Trump voters really convinced themselves he was the peace candidate lmao

@beffjezos Ah yes such powerful insight from a fat québécois scammer. Thank you Beff

Let's be real if the Dems had won OpenAI and Anthropic would have already been nationalized into a surveillance panopticon for them to stay in power forever

@SecWar @PeteHegseth Crazy how hard Anthropic has mogged you guys. Truly embarrassing

This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon. Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic. Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity. Cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of “effective altruism,” they have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission - a cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives. The Terms of Service of Anthropic’s defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield. Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable. As President Trump stated on Truth Social, the Commander-in-Chief and the American people alone will determine the destiny of our armed forces, not unelected tech executives. Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles. Their relationship with the United States Armed Forces and the Federal Government has therefore been permanently altered. In conjunction with the President's directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic's technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Anthropic will continue to provide the Department of War its services for a period of no more than six months to allow for a seamless transition to a better and more patriotic service. America’s warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final.

@Hikari_644 @lauriewired You're correct, I was wrong about PDAF counts being hardware defined. I was conflating that with the version of the sensor Panasonic used on the S5 that had no masked pixels to my knowledge. I should have mentioned the IR filter instead haha

No 'PDAF points' are software level definition. If a sony brand sensor has PDAF sensor, they are always repeat in fixed line of pixels. The 'xxx hundred' just means 'how many groups of pixels the software defined. Because single or two PDAF pixels can't focus at all. All you need is distance. In reality software calculates a group of L and R pixels in selection to get the results. So every sensor basiclly have same PDAF pixel counts, But the algorithm and power of processing determines how many the group can set.

A open secret is that all cameras are basically the same. Just look at the sensor. Leica SL2-S? IMX410 Sony a7 III? IMX410 Lumix S5II? IMX410 BMCC6k? IMX410 Same photosites…but they still manage different feels. The processing pipeline is where it gets interesting.