Why “Looking” is being discussed
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> The same model will benchmark very differently Providers probably serve quantized versions without disclosing it. Which is a real shame, because for certain tasks I would be p…
by vova_hn2 · Sep 11, 2026
Agreed, and while subjective experience can be misleading (being a Hofstadian "strange loop" is a strange thing) you'd think that if our entire perceptual and cognitive processe…
by HarHarVeryFunny · Sep 11, 2026
I can buy the idea that AIs are making people a lot lazier intellectually, on average. But I do think that for the atypical user that is "information-hungry," AIs are a massive…
by keiferski · Sep 11, 2026
There are no shortage of good harnesses out there, and you can re-use coding ones like pi, opencode, dsh even claude and codex. For most use-cases that is already the loop you n…
by neilellis · Sep 11, 2026
Well, recognizing (recalling) Pooh on a towel as being the same as a picture of Pooh in book can also just be regarded as generalization, same as recognizing that someone lookin…
by HarHarVeryFunny · Sep 11, 2026
Sounds about right. Looking back I’d already moved IE7 to “functional” support in late 2016[1] and was planning to do the same to 8 and 9 in the not too distant future. [1] http…
by robin_reala · Sep 11, 2026
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Looking is the act of intentionally focusing visual perception on someone or something, for the purpose of obtaining information, and possibly to convey interest or another sentiment. A large number of troponyms exist to describe variations of looking at things, with prominent examples including the verbs "stare, gaze, gape, gawp, gawk, goggle, glare, glimpse, glance, peek, peep, peer, squint, leer, gloat, and ogle". Additional terms with nuanced meanings include viewing, watching, eyeing, observing, beholding, and scanning. Looking is both a physical act of directing the focus of the eyes, and a psychological act of interpreting what is seen and choosing whether to continue looking at it, or to look elsewhere. Where more than one person is involved, looking may lead to eye contact between those doing the looking, which raises further implications for the relationship established through that act. Read more on Wikipedia