Architeuthis @ Architeuthis @awful.systems

It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

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In every RAG guide I've seen, the suggested system prompts always tended to include some more dignified variation of "Please for the love of god only and exclusively use the contents of the retrieved text to answer the user's question, I am literally on my knees begging you."

Also, if reddit is any indication, a lot of people actually think that's all it takes and that the hallucination stuff is just people using LLMs wrong. I mean, it would be insane to pour so much money into something so obviously fundamentally flawed, right?

If you never come up with a marketable product you can remain a startup indefinitely.

Getting Trump reelected should count as 'billionaire philanthropy'.

thinkers like computer scientist Eliezer Yudkowsky

That's gotta sting a bit.

promise me you’ll remember me

I'm partial to Avenge me! as last words myself.

puzzles unlock at 2PM

Almost exactly at the start of office hours for me.

Day 9 seemed pretty straightforward, don't really have anything to add.

I almost got done in by floating point arithmetic, I think

My graph search solves 7-1 and passes the example cases for 7-2, but gives too low a result for the complete puzzle input, and there's no way I'm manually going through every case to find the false negative. On to day 8 I guess.

tl;dr: Day 5 was most perfectly fine code thrown out for me, because I ran face first into eliminating imaginary edge cases instead of starting out simple.

Nabokov's Lolita really shouldn't be pigeonholed as merely that, but I guess the movies are another story.

Dolores in Lolita was like twelve though, at least in the book.

edit: also I don't think Yud recommending The Softcore Adventures Of A Six-year-old In A Thirteen-year-old's Body as a Very Normal Book to his considerable audience fits this particular discourse.

Got stuck forever on 2-2 because of an edge case that only showed up in 7/1000 reports, ended up just brute forcing it, just ran the fitness function after removing one element at a time sequentially.

Then solved 3.x in like minutes because I could be worse at regex, posting code mostly because no-one else posted F# yet.

edited to fix spoiler header formatting

In case anybody skips the article, it's a six year old cybernetically force grown to the body of a horny 13 to 14 year old.

The rare sentence that makes me want to take a shower for having written it.