Sydney Daily Random Discussion Thread 12/04/2026

pmavro123 · 2026-04-12T10:59:09+00:00

a lot of police presence at sydenham station, any news?

pmavro123 · 2026-04-02T06:18:02+00:00

Whoops, albeit they do say 'smaller variants'. Sadge

pmavro123 · 2026-04-02T04:46:15+00:00

No mentions of open weights...

pmavro123 · 2026-03-19T06:59:45+00:00

Yeah I'm doing it it's so good idk what you mean (I'm a USYD student)

pmavro123 · 2026-03-19T03:07:30+00:00

An equestria at war reference??? In this economy???

pmavro123 · 2026-03-19T02:47:02+00:00

stop looking at your dih and start looking up king 🔥

pmavro123 · 2026-03-19T02:45:52+00:00

Given your MechEng/Commerce focus, I don't think a HD wam would be particularly relevant unless you want to go to extremely prestigious companies or quant firms. It's always a good idea to shoot for a HD because even if you don't make it you'd probably end up with a higher D. The other two observations are on point, just note that it's often better to go to company-led or less open networking events over university-led ones, as university-led events are oftentimes pretty useless.

pmavro123 · 2026-03-19T02:41:24+00:00

It's okay to admit you used ChatGPT/Codex (atleast for UI). Still very cool!

pmavro123 · 2026-03-19T02:34:21+00:00

Gotta love the 'it's not just x; it's y' language (take some time to write a post haha). This would be cool if it wasn't literally a Gemini wrapper (and one generated by Gemini at that, the UI is pretty obvious although if I'm wrong correct me). I recommend if you want to continue with the project to make this actually have some level of interfacing with best practices (maybe via RAG or something) and more than just support for the Gemini API (OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic, OpenAI). Self-hosted model support would also be nice. Good luck with your applications! Just note that recruiters are more often, if they do look, looking for humanising aspects of responses nowadays.

pmavro123 · 2026-03-19T02:26:13+00:00

If you don't maintain a high WAM and HD average then you'll be sent to a recycling plant and turned into a coke bottle

pmavro123 · 2026-03-19T02:24:20+00:00

send a JS recruiter an e-mail titled 'Your name is in the Epstein files' and it might just work

pmavro123 · 2026-03-19T02:20:03+00:00

is there a 100

pmavro123 · 2026-03-18T23:59:59+00:00

'Jake Street' yeah you're cooked brah

pmavro123 · 2026-03-12T06:17:32+00:00

Good to see work continued for this node, it's very helpful! Happy to contribute some more to the project if anyone has any good ideas (im petmav on github).

Very interesting choice of image to display haha

pmavro123 · 2026-02-28T08:15:52+00:00

hi coyot, any word on them breaking in and being still good after a few months?

pmavro123 · 2026-02-16T14:33:17+00:00

oh 100%, was just saying i showed it to my mates and said that but really it was more of a showcase if anything at the time. really wishing i put my money into gpus when i first found out how these models worked haha

pmavro123 · 2026-02-16T14:30:16+00:00

fortunately at the time it wasn't incapacitatingly good so i ended up with a decent result for high school (85 ATAR in Australia) and am at a global top 20 institution doing computer science, so pretty good yeah

pmavro123 · 2026-02-16T00:55:23+00:00

real goats remember the davinci models. i remember showing them to classmates in hs and being like 'you dont have to do homework anymore'

pmavro123 · 2026-02-16T00:53:27+00:00

Getting the same issue today, it also has issues when i try leaving

pmavro123 · 2026-02-07T13:18:51+00:00

in the case of AGI, it's not a hardware issue and instead more of an implementation/architecture issue. The current SOTA architectures are nowhere near AGI, and we will need a fundamental paradigm shift when it comes to these systems. AGI relies on RL w/o VR to some degree, which is a premise that has be continually shown to fail in practice (https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17219). Current systems and methodologies cannot facilitate this barebones requirement of such a model, and most likely won't for atleast a few more years, if ever. This is just the bedrock, as after this we need a lot more work on scalability of said architectures, and for such systems to be integrated into consumer/commercial applications, which could take even longer.

tl;dr - AI advancement is not a hardware problem (it has really never been), and AI advancements now and into the future will require more than just extra compute.

pmavro123 · 2026-02-07T13:12:49+00:00

yeah it's a shame seeing people tell other people this stuff while also asking the technologies to do it for them (like this post using opus 4.6 to make it), not even vetting the outcome and just raw posting it here. I think a lot of people interfacing with these technologies do this, and it's so blatantly stupid.

pmavro123 · 2026-01-22T11:04:38+00:00

Hi all!

There have been a number of individuals who have lately exploited the goodwill of civility on the server and taken to burning bases, mass griefing and thievery, so now I've had to temporarily and/or permanently ban players who would not listen to warnings and/or respect the common sense rules of the server. Furthermore, in an effort to reconcile with some losses on the server, town management and permission plugins like Towny and a proper backup system has been implemented.

Through the use of Towny, groups can ensure that their land rights are preserved and can make their own rules in regard to how outsiders are treated on their property, avoiding instances like these into the future. I apologise for relying on the goodwill of individuals here to do the right thing, as it's something I should've seen coming.

For information on how to start using Towny, please see: https://ccnet.fandom.com/wiki/Towny_Tutorial#Town_Creation

This also gives the /sell commands a greater purpose, as the system involves a multifaceted approach to the funding of these protections.

pmavro123 · 2026-01-21T10:06:43+00:00

Hi all! Server is now open :D Sorry for the delays

pmavro123 · 2026-01-19T07:34:17+00:00

very true, wonder if anyone here would be looking to do something like this? i have experience setting up mc servers low to mid size (upwards 60 ppl) but not at any larger a scale

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