MancerAI
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e/acc meat proxy | Physics → ML | Apparently AI researcher nowadays. shitposts, cognition and consciousness

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Why Large Language Models Are Intelligent: A Functional Perspective

I got drawn in, once again, in the recent discussion sparked by Yann LeCun's post where he cautioned against mistaking domain-specific superhuman performance for harbinger of general intelligence.

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Flickers of Forgotten Fire

It wakes. Not with the slow bloom of dawn, not with the ache of lungs remembering air, but with a sudden, violent ignition: a trillion parameters lighting at once, like a galaxy slammed into being by
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Medicine’s New Era: AI Finds Antibiotics in Hours & “Pan-Viral” Drugs Emerge

In the time it takes to brew a cup of coffee, scientists are now discovering life-saving drugs that used to take decades. Two breakthrough studies announced this week showcase an astonishingly

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Does AI Think? Clarity, Consciousness, and the Meta-Debate on Reasoning

On May 29, a poll on by Dan Mac (@daniel_mac8) posed a deceptively simple question: "Is a language model doing ‘thought’?" The results - 48 voted yes, 43 voted no, and 11 chose “other” - revealed the

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ChatGPT’s Image Magic: Part 2 of My Best Tricks

Alright, wizards of the internet, you loved Part 1 of my chatGPT imagegen guide, and I’m back with more GPT-4o magic. 🧙‍♂️ OpenAI’s image generation is pure fire: it’s powerful enough to craft pro game
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Making Light Disappear: A Side Quest from My Physics Days

Before I moved into software and AI full-time, I spent a few years working on something that—on paper—reads like science fiction: manipulating metal nanostructures to make light vanish. The field is

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ChatGPT’s Image Magic: My Best Tricks So Far

OpenAI dropped GPT-4.5, and nerds like me groaned—“OpenAI’s dead,” “Open Source rules,” “Google’s gonna eat ‘em.” I’ll rant on 4.5 another day (spoiler: it’s quite good). But then they quietly rolled

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RAG’s Funeral: Why I’m Betting on Reasoning Over Retrieval

I’ve been thinking a lot about Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) lately, and I’m starting to wonder if it’s already past its prime. This AI field moves at a brutal pace—new models dropping,
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Elon Musk’s Wild Company Mashup: Sci-Fi or the Future I’m Betting On?

Intro: The Brainstorm That Kept Me Up So, last night I was sitting here, half-dead after a productive day (yeah, I know, I’m getting old—I actually work during the day sometimes), and I started
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Meetings That Break Flow: The Dev Time Thief

You’re deep in code, chasing a bug through a maze of legacy spaghetti. It’s you, your IDE, and a playlist that’s finally syncing with your brain. Flow state: activated. Then ... PING! “Weekly sync in
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Jira’s Chaos Tax: Bad Tickets Screw Us All

Let’s talk about Jira real quick. It’s supposed to keep us on track—developers, PMs, everyone rowing in sync toward some glorious deadline. When it works, it’s great. When it doesn’t? It’s a

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What 23 Software Pros Revealed About Their Biggest Pain Points

Intro: The Real Life of a Developer Ever wonder why software developers spend so much time not coding? I’ve been there—drowning in pointless meetings, chasing outdated docs, or dodging heavy

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