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jbritton

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il y a 14 heuresdiscuss

I was flagged for basically answering yes to what Claude suggested to do, which was test commands on a port for my code for tests we had been discussing. I really think it was flagged simply because the words test and port were in the prompt. Their filters are pathetically poor.

il y a 4 joursdiscuss

I recently had a conversation with Claude Fable about Renaissance Technologies. Claude says their closed fund has found a very tiny edge and their profit comes from millions of trades on that edge. Their public fund with more money doesn’t find enough edge to beat the S&P500 index.

il y a 4 joursdiscuss

This brings up the philosophical question of whether humans have free will or is everything deterministic following the laws of physics.

il y a 4 joursdiscuss

I have a process I wrote that accepts commands on a socket. At one point Claude suggested testing it. I pretty much echoed back what Claude suggested and got blocked. All I could think was a regex matching “test” and “port” and it downgraded me. I switched back to Fable with slight rewording and was able to continue. This was for code running on my box in a Claude project folder where Claude saw me write the code. Anthropic has put zero thought into this.

il y a 14 joursdiscuss

Well said.

il y a 15 joursdiscuss

I write a ton of Python code. Modifying code without static types is difficult and error prone. If a function needs a new argument, all the callers have to pass it and all of their callers recursively. Maybe the calling function is just a function pointer that has been passed around and not searchable. I love Python for small tasks and tasks that are not critical if they fail.

il y a 17 joursdiscuss

My understanding of weak typing is about allowing automatic type conversion. “3” + 1 === “31”, 1 + “3” === 4. Strong typing doesn’t auto convert.

il y a 19 joursdiscuss

I suspect there should be some data model guideline that says if keys can be missing then values can’t be nil, or if values can be nil then keys must be present. In the famous saying there are two hard things: naming, cache invalidation, off by one errors, I think one more to add is handling missing data.

il y a 24 joursdiscuss

I wonder if Anthropic servers can handle the load their going to get tomorrow. Unless it’s a staged rollout

il y a 25 joursdiscuss

I accidentally used Sonnet 5 a bit today. It seemed significantly worse to me than Opus 4.8 for software development.

le mois dernierdiscuss

TOGETHER and ACTIV-6 were not good studies.

I-Tech was a good RCT and showed 75% lower mortality in severe patients, p=0.02. Only 490 people though. Clearly this deserved replicating with more people. The fact that it wasn’t is a problem.

The FDA on their website stated they did not look at the data. The statement was eventually taken down, they have never said they looked at it. The CDC looked at 6 studies and didn’t write a report.

When I mentioned method of action, I’m not talking about petri dishes.

An anecdote related to bleach, but peroxide was also mentioned. Another overlooked treatment was artemisinin, which contains an endoperoxide group that could get into cells and kill covid virus.

le mois dernierdiscuss

There are multiple hypotheses for methods of action for IVM against covid that were plausible and deserved serious funding and investigation by governments. This did not happen. What did happen is the two people who brought it to the attention of congress got slandered the next day in the press and then got their careers destroyed. Anyone else who ever mentioned it also got dumped on by the press. There are over 100 studies now, many of which showed positive results. Most of the studies were small. There have been questions of the quality of many of the studies both the ones showing benefit and the ones showing no benefit. There is one well known fraudulent study and the press loves to extrapolate that to every study. The FDA has admitted to not looking at the data. The CDC and WHO did not write up any kind of analysis. They looked at a couple bigger studies that showed no result and said it’s inconclusive. No government has bothered to look into the RCTs that showed positive results. I don’t know if it works or not. It seems clear to me that profits, politics, power structures, got in the way of finding the answer. IVM is a very safe drug with the proper dosing. 300 to 500 million people in Africa take it yearly for parasites.

le mois dernierdiscuss

I thought you corrected gamma in the monitor settings, not in your application code. Am I wrong.

le mois dernierdiscuss

I never had a music class at any point in school in California.

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

I wasn’t clear from the description if text rendering is GPU accelerated, or in my case drawing quads from an atlas of characters in a texture is probably more efficient.

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

The very end of the article says “They can keep them for decoration but servers must generate their own random numbers.” I thought the lava lamps were for this purpose.

il y a 3 moisdiscuss

“vaccines are used for population control” Bill Gates has stated this is a goal, but in a different context. The idea is if you’re in a country with a large number of early deaths you are likely to have more children, and vaccines should help reverse this trend. So this is kind of an ambiguous question.

il y a 3 moisdiscuss

You misunderstand me. I was simply trying to find the two people who were saying such things.

il y a 3 moisdiscuss

I was trying to find a YouTube video I had seen previously. I ended up using Google to find it. There are two bio ethicists promoting the idea that we should make lone star ticks better at spreading alpha-gal and giving everyone meat allergies. So I guess “engineered” + “alpha-gal” is blocked. I find this idea beyond repulsive.

I asked how California guarantees election security and was told it could not answer that question. Upon further questioning it wouldn’t give specifics but it would give generalities, which ultimately turned into an interesting discussion.

il y a 3 moisdiscuss

I’m sick of LLM refusals. I think there are extremely few things they should refuse, like maybe making nuclear weapons or something along those lines. Once you put people in charge of deciding what you shouldn’t be allowed to see that list will grow and grow.