lemonfever's comments

On: Claude Sonnet 4.6

[lemonfever]

Most LLMs output a whole bunch of tokens to help them reason through a problem, often called chain of thought, before giving the actual response. This has been shown to improve performance a lot but uses a lot of tokens

[zozbot234 → lemonfever]

Yup, they all need to do this in case you're asking them a really hard question like: "I really need to get my car washed, the car wash place is only 50 meters away, should I drive there or walk?"

On: How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)

[lemonfever]

It's not as nice as cooking it properly, but you can cook rolled oats in the microwave in a couple of minutes.

[cogman10 → lemonfever]

If you lower the power and cook for longer or ends up being pretty much the same.

For my 1000W microwave I reduce power to 30% and cook for 12 minutes. Comes out perfect with little difference between stovetop.

On: When a black hole and a neutron star merge

[lemonfever]

Exactly.

Also, if you are hundreds of thousands of miles from the center of mass of the sun, you'd feel the same force from gravity as if you were the same distance from the center of mass of a black hole (with the same mass).

Far away, the curvature of spacetime is the same, it's just that with black holes you can get waaaay closer to the center of mass whilst still being outside of it.