Breza

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by Breza 2y ago
I used to agree before one of the "Sonnet" models overtook the best "Opus" model
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by Breza 2y ago
I just got rejected by Gemini then Claude gave me the exact recipe.
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by Breza 2y ago
Garmin packs an absurd amount of functionality into a watch
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by Breza 2y ago
Same here, just replace Apple with Fitbit. I had probably six Fitbits over the years and made the jump to Garmin last year. It's an amazingly better experience.
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by Breza 2y ago
I had a similar experience, but my employer was fortunate to have our lease expiring in late 2020, so we just took the dive into being all-remote. Since then, I've had direct reports from the UK to Oregon. I live in a major city with a
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by Breza 2y ago
Great attitude! I recently built a tool for my wife that uses an LLM to automate a task. Is it production ready? Definitely not. But it saves her time even in its current state.
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by Breza 2y ago
Yes! Highly recommend. It has so much wisdom for such a short book.
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by Breza 2y ago
Honestly, reading the Bible helped me in ways I never anticipated. Books like Esther are master classes in how to interact with people.
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by Breza 2y ago
There are real dangers in code that appears to run but contains sneaky problems. I once asked ChatGPT to take a data set and run a separate t-test on each group. The code it generated first took the average of each group and then ran the te
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by Breza 2y ago
Agreed. I became interested in Bitcoin in 2013. In 2017 I realized it was never going mainstream for payments when I saw CNBC talking about it without one reference to actually using it as money. I've become pretty cynical about the mo
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by Breza 2y ago
I imagine life will be very different, but I doubt money won't exist. Just like how different the world is today compared to 150 years ago.
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by Breza 2y ago
Or an underappreciated risk to Bitcoin: people getting bored with it. That could happen much sooner than 150 years. I agree that it'll likely be worthless in 150 years. We just don't need any massive upheaval for that to happen.
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by Breza 2y ago
I've long wondered what technological advancements would be necessary to make it profitable to mine landfills. There's so much raw material buried in one place.
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by Breza 2y ago
Ha, reminds me of when I lived in a place with a property tax on cars right after undergrad. I appealed my valuation and included pictures of my car and odometer. They wrote back saying I didn't need to pay any car tax.
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by Breza 2y ago
I hadn't thought about this part. I work with healthcare data for a living. I'll have to keep an eye out for changes once the 2025 records come across my desk.
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by Breza 2y ago
I'm not sure if people will want to deal with long wait times for their car to drive to them. Imagine watching the end credits roll at a movie theater only to be gripped by the sense of dread that you forgot to call your car during the
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by Breza 2y ago
We still have a few of those here in DC. I've always assumed they're just a way for the owner to hold onto the real estate until it's time to sell.
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by Breza 2y ago
At least I've never seen UTF8 math symbols in the wild. Julia, Python, and other languages will let you use the pi symbol for 3.14... instead of just calling it pi.
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by Breza 2y ago
IIRC Python had similar reasoning for making floats the default in version 3 instead of integers, which had been the assumption in 1 and 2 when you entered a number without a decimal. R always did it that way and Julia still assumes integer
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by Breza 2y ago
Whoa, I never realized this. And I spent much time in high school writing programs in QBASIC.
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by Breza 2y ago
Plus a huge chunk of internet traffic is already bots
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by Breza 2y ago
Both things can be true. Companies vacuum up massive amounts of personal data. And then they run it through crummy algorithms that are designed to increase the number of people who fit into a given category instead of accurately finding onl
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by Breza 2y ago
This is key. I remember when Google came out. It was amazingly better than anything else I'd tried up to the point. By contrast, I'd argue that OpenAI's advantage is smaller today than it was when they launched GPT3 in 2020.
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by Breza 2y ago
I recently dropped $99 to get the Financial Times delivered to my door six days a week. If something truly important happens, I'll have the chance to read about it. But I can't doomscroll for hours.
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by Breza 2y ago
Well said. I've worked in adtech and this aligns with my experience. Alphabet probably wouldn't even make that much more money compared to its current ad program. There's no shortage of supply in display advertising.
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by Breza 2y ago
Exactly. Years ago, I did due diligence on a company that targets ads using IP address. They buy IP address data from ISPs, target ads based on demographics, and then use cookies to retarget. Not that far off of what you're describing.
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by Breza 2y ago
Why can't you both be right? If you talk about 100 products in a week, chances are you're conducting searches about some of them or your demographic data suggests that you might be in market for it.
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by Breza 2y ago
Companies really are using tons of highly sensitive data to target ads, even when we sleep. But they're not generally using microphones to record audio to do it. Both things can be accurate statements.
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by Breza 2y ago
I spent a long time running an adtech program. The biggest secret is how basic most advertising systems really are.
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by Breza 2y ago
Apple spends a lot of money to keep its secrets. Paying $95 million to avoid letting people snoop in exactly how Apple systems work is a bargain, and I don't even think they're using audio for ad targeting.

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