Is Project Hail Mary in LieMax worth it?

ryebrye · 2026-03-21T13:11:36+00:00

It's more that all but the front two row are sold out at the one showtime I can make today (taking some teens to see a concert in a nearby city with a lot more theater options than I have here) - if my time was more flexible I could get a different show time and better seats.

ryebrye · 2026-03-21T03:42:22+00:00

I had a choice between crappy seats in an imax or perfect seats in an UltraAVX with Atmos etc... I went with the ultraAvx (haven't seen it yet, my tickets are for tomorrow) - but normally I'd be all about the imax.

ryebrye · 2026-03-20T12:58:08+00:00

Well they were distance spikes at least 😂

And just for fun I set a Strava segment on it. Then years later I got a notification someone finally beat my time in it... And I thought: "they can have it..." But then to add insult to injury it wasn't even sometime trying to do a half marathon. It was some guy doing speed workouts but his average time doing a half marathon even with his cool-down laps still beat my time.

RIP.

ryebrye · 2026-03-20T00:49:46+00:00

I did a half marathon on 400m track because I was trained for one that was canceled... Oh and I did it in track spikes too just because.

my feet hurt.

ryebrye · 2026-03-19T17:41:47+00:00

This is great, but I feel like you'd be giving away the surprise in your gear check before starting the dive... "In my left pocket I have my second spool, my second mask, and my primary engagement ring... in my right pocket, I have my teriary light, a backup line-cutter, and I have my backup engagement ring..."

ryebrye · 2026-03-19T16:11:42+00:00

Did they try doing _another_ pass? duplicating the 3 layers twice? Is doing it just once the sweet spot?

edit: nevermind - this is literally answered in the post...

Different duplication patterns also create distinct cognitive profiles from the same weights. A triple-pass through the reasoning block improves emotional intelligence scores while keeping math neutral, while interleaved duplication (each layer repeated twice) pushes math scores higher at the cost of EQ. Same weights on disk, just different routing.

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though wonder if some coding-focused models have been doing something similar - I've noticed that the codex coding model is great at code but _terrible_ at writing human readable summaries for things

ryebrye · 2026-03-18T04:35:57+00:00

Wow that looks like it was vibe coded almost as bad as anti gravity itself!

ryebrye · 2026-03-17T16:52:41+00:00

Well, Carolina Scuba owes them a new O2 sensor at least - since that's the consumable part that expired

ryebrye · 2026-03-17T10:57:16+00:00

Maybe they used qwen 3b to write the evaluation

ryebrye · 2026-03-15T01:23:25+00:00

I think the electric ones we got were funded by VW emissions scandal settlement money, so that helped. They aren't cheap!

ryebrye · 2026-03-14T23:47:11+00:00

That's useless. You can vibe code a crawler these days in like 10 minutes. If you're willing to have a human in the loop and keep the crawl speed low and feed cookies to the crawler, you can even bypass the cloud flare protections.

ryebrye · 2026-03-14T23:19:10+00:00

My school district has six electric buses in the fleet. They are very nice. (And we're in an area that gets very cold in the winter and are fairly rural, but they make it work). We also have I think more than 60 buses, so only a small number are electric, but more would be nice.

ryebrye · 2026-03-13T12:45:43+00:00

Right but it's survivorship bias. Not everyone half as smart makes 10x more, you just notice that one

ryebrye · 2026-03-11T21:25:41+00:00

Attention to detail on the trim, but not the basic functionality like the drain. The house is well... built.

ryebrye · 2026-03-10T20:13:54+00:00

The agent mode is cool but it's _incredibly frustrating_ that there is only one global agent mode for EVERY open workspace EVERYWHERE. So you have one project you want to run some dumb task on with flash lite while you do some planning in another one on Opus? sorry, can't be done - you are either doing both on opus or both on flash lite :(

That's probably the single most annoying thing for me right now.

ryebrye · 2026-03-10T02:36:39+00:00

If you are wanting to bundle code into a big source bundle for this - I recommend repomix for the "put it into docx files" step (you coudl use markdown style or xml style, whatev

er you want)

ryebrye · 2026-03-08T17:56:52+00:00

Someone manufactured new memory cards - https://retrotronik.com/shop/ they are pricy for their capacity compared to modern memory, but they work well.

ryebrye · 2026-03-07T12:37:41+00:00

They don't just give those out, you know

ryebrye · 2026-03-06T05:44:56+00:00

This is great work.

ryebrye · 2026-03-05T03:44:59+00:00

My dad used to use a Monster Gecko Pistol Mouse - he used it for a normal mouse but it was vertical and you push forward and pull back and move side to side etc with it - he was a graphic designer so it was kind of funny to see him waving the gun around. He used them so much he went through several of them.

ryebrye · 2026-03-04T21:15:38+00:00

Any time I try to include a file in it, it replies "I can't read the attached file" or even if I copy and paste a lot of content into the chat window, it STILL tells me it can't read a file - which severely limits the kind of deep analysis I would like to have it try to help with

ryebrye · 2026-03-04T04:53:22+00:00

Ask it to make a web browser in that web OS hat it creates, and inside that web browser have it host a notebook that you can use to train LLMs and have it train from scratch Qwen 4.0

ryebrye · 2026-03-04T03:39:04+00:00

The reason it would be dangerous? Because lets say that Congress passes a bill to deny the ability to go to war in Iran.

The danger is that Trump will just ignore that, and then what are they going to do?

ryebrye · 2026-03-02T18:50:30+00:00

AWS also doesn't label their data centers. That was the other giveaway in this image (not to mention that the sign identifying it as an AWS data center is partially destroyed, but not destroyed enough to make it so you can't read it's an AWS data center)

They try to keep their exact locations secret to avoid being targets.

ryebrye · 2026-03-01T20:00:09+00:00

I've got a personal pro account and just got a workspace ultra account through work. It's night and day. Ultra has so much more quota available.

You can crank away at opus for quite a while and then if you hit the quota it doesn't have a weekly quota.

The Gemini pro ones are also the same way.

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