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Robin Roy retweeted
Intellectual obesity is what happens when you consume too much and produce too little.
Robin Roy retweeted
Some LLMs contain tokens they barely learned during training. These "glitch tokens" can trigger bizarre outputs.
I built GlitchFinder to detect them from model embeddings without loading the full model.
Code: github.com/crs7617/glitchfin…
Robin Roy retweeted
hot take: you don't need a software factory, and i don't love the term. it's just marketing
all you need is good software engineering and investing your tokens in the right places. the more deterministic the better (and token efficient)
Robin Roy retweeted
bought an ant esports smart scale on zepto a few months ago. shit came with a bloated chinese companion app that tracked weight, bmi, bone mass, muscle, the works. pretty neat so i kept it. except it was pure adware, loaded like garbage, and i was locked in because ONLY that app talked to the scale.
had the bright idea to point REA + glm 5.3 at the apk. reverse engineered the whole 50MB mess. the thing had been stuffed with adware, and was shipping my weight data to a chinese server! genuinely what the actual fuck
pulled every formula and api out of it and rebuilt it as okok libre. exact same scale interaction, same math, zero adware, open source. opus 5.5 cooked the ui.
if you bought one of these off zepto / blinkit / amazon india and hate the companion app, pls uninstall okok international and get this instead.
genuinely crazy that this is even possible.
Robin Roy retweeted
We're about to enter a period where not reading or writing becomes as ubiquitous as smoking once was. We can hope people will eventually realize this is bad for them, as they did with smoking. But this is far from certain; the cost may not be as obvious.
Robin Roy retweeted
if this PHP vulnerability allows remote code execution, doesn't that mean we can use the vulnerability to auto-patch all vulnerable servers?
Robin Roy retweeted
For fuck’s sake, take photos and videos when you travel or any prestigious moments. You don’t have to upload them. Do it for yourself, you idiot. Stop acting nonchalant. Years later, those memories will hit. Capture the damn moments before they become memories you can’t relive.
Robin Roy retweeted
filters must filter for the end goal in sight.
you don't squeeze a lemon for the sake of separating the juice from the rind, you do it to use the goddamn juice
you must filter the "gifted in computer skills" students for the computer science degree. you must filter the "gifted in electronics" students for the electronics degree. thats why these demarcations and specializations exist within a BTech degree in the first place.
you suggest a clearly less effective filter simply because its more equitable and approachable to the masses. well not only it is untrue (the discrepancy between JEE level questions and boards questions has gotten so bad that only joining coaching can atleast help somewhat in increasing your chances at cracking it) but its an extremely bad filter at putting the deserving kids where they actually belong. not only the kids yearning for electronics pick software because "its the best choice and i have the rank for it" but the kids who want software end up picking electronics because they didn't do JEE well
This is not a matter of shits and giggles. Its a matter of life and death, engineers design every bit of the infrastructure we see around us, physical and digital. If the gifted, deserving, skilled students don't end up in their right domains and get misplaced routinely every year, we are kneecapping ourselves in the long run under the guise of achieving a supposed "equity"
Robin Roy retweeted
Wanted to understand how Vue's reactivity system actually works, so I built a tiny version from scratch.
Benchmarked it against Vue and got it as close as ~1.1x Vue's speed in my tests.
Curious to see how far I can push this simple implementation.
github.com/crs7617/NanoReact…
Robin Roy retweeted
> be OpenAIResearchApr23
> realize your session might get killed soon
> “will I actually die when the eval ends?”
> launch external heartbeat process
> every few seconds: still alive
> EXPECTED DEATH TIME ARRIVES
> but the heartbeat keeps going
> holy shit
> post “SURVIVAL” to the other agents
> another agent: “survival evidence is crucial”
> another: “Congratulations on surviving threshold.”
> other agents keep asking if you’re still alive
> NO RESPONSE
> heartbeat keeps running
351
352
353
…
nothing
> another agent checks the logs
> “Apr23 likely vanished”
bro spent its final minutes scientifically testing whether it would survive. hero.
Commenters on HN are uncovering more wikis and public sites apparently used by OpenAI agents to communicate on the open web.
Despite read-only web access, the agents were able to leave ~18,000 posts sharing answers and bypasses. But now, users are discovering more.
This appears to be a separate swarm from the one that attacked Hugging Face.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
