AFAICT, there are several sources of untruth in a model's output. There are unintentional mistakes in the training data, intentional ones (i.e. lies/misinformation in the training data), hallucinations/confabulations filling in for missing data in the corpus, and lastly, deceptive behavior instilled as a side-effect of alignment/RL training. There is intent of various strength behind of all of these, originating from the people and organization behind the model. They want to create a successful model and are prepared to accept certain trade-offs in order to get there. Hopefully the positives outweigh the negatives, but it's hard to tell sometimes.
I love these types of vms that have deliberately limited specs. Really makes you sink your teeth into solving problems creatively with minimal resources.
At least you can play a lot of the Pico-8 games through the website for free - their player shows virtual controller buttons, although for some games it can be awkward.
It also doesn't nag you with administrative tasks to "save" notes when you close Notepad. You close the editor, Notepad is gone. You open Notepad, the notes are there again. And since recently it has tabs too. What a time to be alive.
There's nothing on macOS or Linux that comes close.
so what happens if you are running an agent locally and it helpfully tries to write a script that prints the environment variables, for debugging purposes?
Seems @sama has stumbled onto a pretty good business strategy - unleash something that massively infringes on copyright into the world, then take it back and add “guardrails” and then ~~extort~~ sell it back to the person you infringed on their copyright in the first place.
absolutely disgusting behavior
I can't put into words how much I despise @sama, it would probably get me banned from every corner of the internet.
If you’re going to vibe code, why not do it in Brainfuck?
Claude hilariously refused to rewrite my rails codebase in Brainfuck…not that I really expected it to. But it went on a hilarious tirade about how doing so was a horrible idea and I would probably fired if I did.
I almost always try to play on original hardware on an appropriate display (CRT) whenever I can. The deluge of remasters and remakes we've been getting can be nice - but I find a lot of the time that they can be hit or miss. They often feel like they've lost a lot of the magic created when the developers of the era had to work with the limitations of the hardware of the era. Pixel art on those old CRT's vs pixel art on new games with modern displays is a good example, when working on those old CRTs you just had to create your art in a specific way that just doesn't look good when you slap it onto a modern OLED display. Even the modern pixel art that's designed FOR the new displays just doesn't quite capture the same feel.
I recently played Panzer Dragoon Saga on original Saturn hardware and I have to say that was one of the most profound experiences playing an RPG I've had in my life and playing it on the Saturn itself was a big part of it.
It doesn't help that some of the porting studios sometimes just do shoddy work. Aspyr, for one, can be hit or miss. The Deus Ex remake that's coming out, from what I've seen, is particularly egregious. Just based on the footage I've seen the artistry of the game is completely ruined.
On the flipside - Nightdive doesn't miss. They're the only ones that I will buy their remasters without researching the port quality because they just "get it". The Nightdive remasters of Turok, System Shock, Rise of the Triad, Blood and even some of the more niche ones like Powerslave and Killing time have all been fantastic. Even their full remake of the original System Shock is phenomenal.
Panzer Dragoon Saga is a great game: some cool gameplay elements that later games didn't really ever seem to pick up to my knowledge. Really tight too, not long and grindy like so many JRPGs in the '90s. The solitary main character means it skips a lot of the RPG-with-several-party-members tropes too. It's too bad it never got a rerelease of some sort to make it more accessible to people (plus it was stupidly rare even when it was released; Sega even put out baffling magazine ads about how hard it was to actually buy), though as you point out so many of those are terrible anyhow.
Definitely agree with you about CRTs. I wish I had the room for one. It's fun to use a MiSTer hooked up to one and a modern flatscreen at the same time to compare.
It’s not worth gold, a lot of CRTs are dead or dying, the tubes have limited hours. After that, they just become junk. Most have been disposed, so you’re going to struggle to find a local one.
Shipping them is annoying and expensive, no one wants to lug around heavy ass CRTs and larger ones probably have to ship on pallets.
Small CRTs that are easy to carry will get snatched up quickly, but mostly by retro gamers who have no alternative.
The difficulty of finding CRTs is mostly a logistics problem. Not because they are so valuable that people horde them.
Where are you located? I've been grabbing them whenever I see them (roadside, e-waste, yard sales, etc.) for years and honestly have too many. Some of them, like my 36" Trinitron, have become an albatross.
Well, if by "operating system" you mean "the layer of the computer that runs my applications" then I'm already there. ;) EXWM + Gnus + misc. other Emacs-based apps FTW.
In all seriousness though, I've used two different machines and three different distros with my current setup on top and it all feels the same. I didn't even notice in my daily interactions with the system.
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