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by Breza 1y ago
There are different approaches to learning how to run. I picked the suffering approach, where I'd push myself to log miles even though I was gasping at the end. Now that I'm an experienced runner prepping for a 50 miler, I agree a
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by Breza 1y ago
That's a great way to look at it. Fahrenheit is arguably aligned with how people perceive temperature. Zero is so cold that you probably should stay inside. One hundred is so hot that you should probably stay inside.
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by Breza 1y ago
Did it in <30 words with Gemini Pro. Prompt: "Mongolians still live in gers even in 2025... WTF?! That seems like a total policy failure. Help me understand why it's not just a dumb culture being dumb?" Beginning of respon
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by Breza 1y ago
This is well said. I enjoy reading Ryan Burge's articles about religion. He delves into the stark differences between, as you say, "anti-theism" and the "nones" who are not a member of any religious group whatsoever
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by Breza 1y ago
The fact that someone can be temporarily jailed without any evidence or a change to challenge the charges is a painful compromise that the Founding Fathers made to balance justice (they themselves were at risk of arbitrary imprisonment by t
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by Breza 1y ago
Very well said. Here's a concrete example. After the Charleston church shooting, some members of victims' families forgave their murderer. Should that mean the shooter should have gone free? Certainly not, he was still prosecuted
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by Breza 1y ago
I've read the Bible. Especially as you get towards the end, the books don't seem to have an especially lofty view of the criminal justice system. I will agree with you that a criminal justice system built "on pragmatism"
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by Breza 1y ago
Not GP, but I've definitely seen cutting edge LLMs make language mistakes. The most head scratching one I've seen in the past few weeks is when Gemini Pro decided to use <em> and </em> tags to emphasize something
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by Breza 1y ago
What's wild is that OpenAI's earlier models were trained to guess the next word in a sentence. I wonder if GPT-2 would get "though" correct more often than the latest AI-assisted writing tools like Grammerly. There are s
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by Breza 1y ago
One of my friends is a public health lobbyist and she is used to having to explain to stakeholders that THIS formatting mark in the PDF means they're adding text but THAT formatting mark means they're deleting text. It's not
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by Breza 1y ago
Good suggestions. For everyday devs starting with the basics, I'd suggest Grokking Concurrency.
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by Breza 1y ago
Another advantage is you can easily include deprecated models in your comparisons. I maintain our internal LLM rankings at work. Since the prompts have remained the same, I can do things like compare the latest Gemini Pro to the original Ba
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by Breza 1y ago
Richard Bachman, you say? https://chatgpt.com/share/684c3f20-575c-800a-9ea2-889dd3deaf...
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by Breza 1y ago
I'd be really interested in evaluating the evaluations of different models. At work, I maintain our internal LLM benchmarks for content generation. We've always used human raters from MTurk, and the Elo rankings generally match wh
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by Breza 1y ago
I have a tangential question: how useful do you find SVM in production? I've generally found it to be too slow compared to other algorithms to be worth it.
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by Breza 1y ago
I've experienced the same thing. I work with ad agencies, and it's common for my client to then turn around and present the same information to their clients, so they'll ask me to put every last word on the slide. It hurts my
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by Breza 1y ago
When I walk into a client's office for a meeting, I like to be able to plug into a projector and talk through my slides (which I export to PDF for simplicity). I don't want to have to ask for a guest Wifi password or anything else
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by Breza 1y ago
You nailed it. I imagine this is why OpenAI is looking to develop hardware. Right now, I have tabs open for ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Gemini. I have zero loyalty to any of them. But if I owned a piece of hardware, I immediately am locked into
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by Breza 1y ago
I respect that. I graduated during the Great Recession. Ended up working for extremely low wages out of college and ultimately went to grad school after getting nowhere in trying to find a better position.
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by Breza 1y ago
I really identify with your first paragraph. I enjoyed writing for the school paper and programing in high school, but I didn't see much of a future in either, for different reasons (death of print and offshoring). I graduated around t
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by Breza 1y ago
Glad I'm not the only one who stayed away from Reddit after the initial boycott. I used to be a regular contributor with a bunch of front page posts. Being away made me m realize how much time, effort, and stress I put into building ma
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by Breza 1y ago
I had a great boss who really liked that kind of question. I disagreed with him. I would rather have someone who knows how to find the official answer online and verify the quality of the source.
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by Breza 1y ago
Oof, reminds me of the data pipelines I maintain that pull data from Salesforce. I've optimized the heck out of all of our internal database queries and they're blazing fast. Then my pipeline has to wait patiently for the SOQL res
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by Breza 1y ago
But but my GCP-PDE exam said every project needs massive and expensive infrastructure to optimize every tiny detail, minimize latency, and deliver five nines of availability! If your cloud bill isn't five figures every month, are you e
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by Breza 1y ago
Well said! At work, I deal with these kinds of issues, and they get messy. I've spent hours this week discussing and debating table indexes and caching parameters for a system that's been running for fifteen years but we think we
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by Breza 1y ago
I have a tangential question related to one part of the article. I worked in a .NET shop where a surprising amount of code was VB.net (the rest was C#). Was this a common design pattern for .NET code written around 2010? The article makes i
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by Breza 1y ago
I totally agree. If they had stuck with that model, I wonder if they could have eventually built something for wireframing and prototyping.
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by Breza 1y ago
The 1st Amendment says it's a fundamental right
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by Breza 1y ago
What companies would you invest in if you had a billion dollars and wanted to reduce global hunger?
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by Breza 1y ago
I completely agree. It baffles me that there aren't more entry level EVs in the United States. Two years ago, I decided I wanted an EV. I didn't want to spend a ton. There weren't many good options. I was disappointed by the

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