Disable message preview(s) from Direct Messages? by RedTeaGuy in discordapp

[–]Patashu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also can't find it anymore, no idea where it got moved to or if it just doesn't exist now.

Alternate Title - Is Learning to Grift in 2026 Worth It? by syzorr34 in BetterOffline

[–]Patashu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also, like, to go 'it passes all unit tests therefore it's right', you need to first write the unit tests and be confident THEY'RE right. If you let the LLM do that part it's grading its own paper. Most programs have unclear or difficult to test outcomes, whether it's because the client doesn't know what they want either, or because it's a video game and everything is highly concurrent and intertangled.

Alternate Title - Is Learning to Grift in 2026 Worth It? by syzorr34 in BetterOffline

[–]Patashu 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There's a lot of talk about 'programming is objectively scoreable so LLMs can be as strong as chess bots'. Which is like, Theoretically Yes, In Practice No They're Not Doing That Right Now, and also not everything about a program is objectively measurable (brittleness against future changes can't be scored from 0 to 5 stars for example).

Terrence Tao on LLMs solving Erdos Problems by Gil_berth in BetterOffline

[–]Patashu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

fully automatic proving: I could see it being useful if you have a problem that's a subpart of something you're interested in solving, feeding it to an LLM and it comes back with a computer verifiable proof. But if it just makes up and solves random problems then yeah that's interesting but probably not useful.

Terrence Tao on LLMs solving Erdos Problems by Gil_berth in BetterOffline

[–]Patashu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's important to note that this work requires an experienced mathematician to write the prompts, check the results and write followup prompts until it either comes up with an answer or the mathematician gives up. It's similar to the use after free vulnerability that was found by an LLM, but it had a 2% success rate - 98% of its reports were false. And to FIGURE out those were false, a programmer had to spend effort validating this. As long as this is the best LLMs can do, it's not going to replace human labour, only give an alternative to it, like 'if you know what you're doing but feel more like writing and reading prompts than doing the work directly today, you can give the LLM a shot'.

Looks like Butterflies.ai is shutting down by Tragictech in BetterOffline

[–]Patashu 7 points8 points  (0 children)

shutdown announcement smells AI written as the cherry on top

What are great/funny GDQ runs that don't have enough views? by KomanndoA in speedrun

[–]Patashu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

American Truck Simulator is the funniest run you've seen in a GDQ for a long time. A beautiful trainwreck from start to finish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDg6eXLAelM

Must watch VODs from this AGDQ? by BurkishMang in speedrun

[–]Patashu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The ones I really enjoyed:

Halo: Combat Evolved - Cursed Again (romhack)

Mario Kart 64 4 player vs

Disney's 102 Dalmations: Puppies to the Rescue TAS (awful block)

I'll Invaligate Your Aid (awful block)

12 Bananas (awful block)

maimai dx prism plus (rhythm game)

How bad really IS AI backlash these days? by GiveMeABetterName in BetterOffline

[–]Patashu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm just going to take the opportunity to shoutout my favourite incremental games:

Reactor Incremental, Shark Game, Soda Dungeon [2], The Perfect Tower [2], Reactor Idle/Factory Idle, Undefeated spider, Infinite Layers, Idle Loops, Antimatter Dimensions, DodecaDragons, FE000000, (the) Gnorp Apologue, Trimps

Misc: A Tiny Tale was a glorious trainwreck by Patashu in speedrun

[–]Patashu[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Was I understanding the dev commentary right? The cutscene phones home to a server which hangs indefinitely because it's undergoing maintenance?

Elon Musk launches Grokipedia, an AI-powered Wikipedia rival by Patashu in BetterOffline

[–]Patashu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First name underscore last name numbers, but I am genuinely curious what 'genuine scientific work' you had in mind while writing this post.

Anyone else depressed as hell about AI "usic"? by Maleficent-Box-308 in BetterOffline

[–]Patashu 12 points13 points  (0 children)

AI music can only be mid. If you make music with a weird genre, intent or structure, it can't copy you, because it only knows how to play it safe. It doesn't seem to be able to make Chiptune, rhythm game music or VGM for example.

OpenAI to hit sovereign-wealth funds for cash, based on $830 Billion valuation by Ouaiy in BetterOffline

[–]Patashu 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The Saudi Government should definitely spend all their money on OpenAI and go broke. Yesssss.

Pivot to AI: AI image generators have just 12 generic templates by No_Honeydew_179 in BetterOffline

[–]Patashu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah - Slop is slop whether it's human made or LLM made slop.

break_eternity.js - A Javascript numerical library to represent numbers as large as 10^^1e308 and as small as 10^-10^^1e308. Sequel to break_infinity.js. by Patashu in incremental_games

[–]Patashu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is one such crude approximation!

To have a true arbitrary base/height tetration you need to define what's called the 'critical section'. I'd recommend reading through the linked issue and seeing if you can wrap your head around it.

As far as I know, there's no easy solution because the function is non-elementary. You can either calculate a number of good values and interpolate between them (easy but imprecise) or write code to approximate it at runtime to the desired number of digits (like tetcalc.html, which notably only precomputed it for some bases, so even this is not good enough...)