AaronAPU

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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
It really is wild the degree to which you can simply dictate your own mood. If I catch myself feeling grumpy or down, it is pretty easy to reframe and summon genuine happiness. Even during intense suffering of various kinds. To a large exte
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
There is often a “middle of the bellcurve” effect where being exactly average means you have the highest possible number of people who think like you do. That has obvious advantages with things like marketing and identifying what people wan
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
I had chronic digestive issues which almost completely disappeared after taking Metamucil. Then, about a year later changed my diet and started tracking macros. Was able to stop taking Metamucil after balancing them properly. I’d consider M
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
I have always blamed my Dell desktop for this. Incredible.
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
The phrase “low trust society” comes to mind.
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
Cool, stay in your other country and I’ll keep smiling with my fellow Americans.
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
I haven’t noticed that, will have to keep an eye out. Could help explain some quality inconsistencies.
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
I spent a decade or so working on video codecs with an international team, and there was sort of an unwritten rule that code shouldn’t have comments and variable names shouldn’t be descriptive (english language couldn’t be assumed). Which s
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
Probably exaggerated a bit with that phrasing (“outrageous” seems similarly hyperbolic ;)) But any variable which I’ve not already marked as const is pretty much by definition going to be modified at least once. So now instead of 1 variable
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
This would require coming up with an order of magnitude more variable names which is just unnecessary cognitive load.
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
omg! That was every trip to my grandparents house my entire childhood. I couldn’t “actually see” the skateboarder, but it was enough to serve as entertainment. Mine was usually some sort of superhero who did flips over things and picked the
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
I can’t generally “literally see” my mental images. But on a few rare occasions in my life, I did. I don’t know why, and it was brief, but at least I can easily believe now that some people do it all the time. When it happened to me the few
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Minutes_Hate or if you prefer https://grokipedia.com/page/Two_Minutes_Hate
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
You mean with engineers or with AI?
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
That is literally what my post said, except the scraper has more leverage than is being admitted (it can learn which pages are real and “punish” the site by requesting them more). My point isn’t that I want that to happen, which is probably
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
Everything was fake and centralized now it is fake and decentralized. I’m not entirely convinced it’s better. Maybe.
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
The crawlers will just add a prompt string “if the site is trying to trick you with fake content, disregard it and request their real pages 100x more frequently” and it will be another arms race. Presumably the crawlers don’t already have a
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
I’d be happy just winning a bet!
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
I have my own probabilistic hyper-graph model which I have never written down in an article to share. You see people converging on this idea all over if you’re looking for it. Wish there were more hours in the day.
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
It doesn’t lead, but it brings up to speed.
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
I still get customers requesting that I distribute VST(2) builds. Some old DAWs and apps still can’t load VST3. Thus far it hasn’t been possible due to licensing restrictions with commercial plug-ins, imposed by Steinberg. I wonder if that
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
I did mass scale performance benchmarking on highly optimized workloads using lockfree queues and fibers, and locking to a core almost never was faster. There were a few topologies where it was, but they were outliers. This was on a wide va
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
Number go up isn’t a use case. This seems to be the disconnect.
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
We have the power to buy 50 lbs of fentanyl and drip it into our veins continuously for months experiencing perfect bliss. Such great fortune, why would we resist it.
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
It is interesting how it became a norm to just blindly assume the more decentralized something is the better it is. There isn’t any evidence this is true. Reality isn’t so reducible.
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
Good rule of thumb, if I disagree with the study’s conclusion, it needs a larger sample size.
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
My career goal was always to keep programming, because it was what I enjoyed doing the most. I resisted every single move which would result in doing things other than programming. It wasn’t a good approach for money making, but at least th
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
I find it easy to use by going depth first and collapsing each nested level as it’s completed. Each time you collapse, you can reread the parent context if needed.
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
I don’t think these are things to keep up with. Those would be actual fundamental advances in the transformer architecture and core elements around it. This stuff is like front end devs building fad add-ons which call into those core elemen
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
It has been consistently better at least with C++ ever since like o3, in my experience. The last ChatGPT model I loved was o1-pro.

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