Jeff_Brown

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by Jeff_Brown 8mo ago
Needs audio examples! A YouTube link!
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by Jeff_Brown 9mo ago
I tried the API once. Burned 7 dollars in 15 minutes.
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by Jeff_Brown 9mo ago
This surprises me: "These modern systems are developed to sound human, natural, and conversational. Unfortunately this seems to come at the expense of accuracy. In my testing, both models had a tendency to skip words, read numbers inco
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by Jeff_Brown 9mo ago
In a country with 42 million inhabitants this doesn't seem like a big change even for canada, let alone for the global economy.
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by Jeff_Brown 9mo ago
Also there's a widespread stress of "how will I get by?" among old people that rich people dodge. And the people who make it a long time have probably learned how to push back against agents pushing them to work too much. I k
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by Jeff_Brown 10mo ago
Amen. I've been coding a big hobby project in Rust since July, after having spent years using Haskell for such things. I chose Rust because the primary DB I wanted to use (TypeDB) only had drivers for Rust and Python at the time. Rust
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by Jeff_Brown 10mo ago
Absolutely. Honestly some days I'm not sure the AI saves me any time at all. But on the other hand, writing thorough tests before coding the library is good practice with or without an assistant.
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by Jeff_Brown 10mo ago
Agreed. Some strategies that seem to help exist, though. Write extensive tests before writing the code. They serve as guidance. Commit tests separately from library code, so you can tell the AI didn't change the test. Specify the task
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by Jeff_Brown 10mo ago
If you're really ambitious you'll use two UUIDs for the ID, because for an app in which at least a billion people have at least 327 million random v4 UUIDs, the probability of a collision will be greater than 1%.
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by Jeff_Brown 10mo ago
What's the protein density? For ordinary mushrooms it's around 2.5% by weight, vs. around 27% for beef.
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by Jeff_Brown 10mo ago
Comparing stocks to Flo's is perfectly meaningful. It's often done when comparing, for instance, the price of a house to one's yearly salary.
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by Jeff_Brown 11mo ago
I often have them append to notes, too, but also often ask them to deduplicate those notes, without which they can become quite redundant. Maybe redundancy doesn't matter to the AI because I've got tokens to burn, but it feels lik
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by Jeff_Brown 11mo ago
The study is based on 100 cells from one 74-year-old man. The follow-up study will involve 150 individuals. I hope there's a very wide age range among them. They describe much, maybe all, of the variation as error, but one could imagi
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by Jeff_Brown 11mo ago
That is such a beautiful analogy that now I will read your other comments.
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by Jeff_Brown 11mo ago
Very occasionally I run into a speed glitch in Emacs but not nearly enough to drive me away, given that nothing else can do all the stuff it does.
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by Jeff_Brown 11mo ago
You list only academic positions. Has no popular software been written in it yet?
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Dimension-traveling fermions might explain dark mayter(popularmechanics.com)
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by Jeff_Brown 11mo ago
Depression, lack of motivation, are functional. They kick in when you don't think your prospects are good, prompting you to step back and think. If you were sufficiently convinced grinding LeetCode was a good career move, you would be
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by Jeff_Brown 1y ago
Call me a slacker but 40 days a week really feels like too much.
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by Jeff_Brown 1y ago
But why does that feel like anything? I could write a program that concurrently processes its visual input and its internal model. I don't think it would be conscious, unless everything in the universe is conscious (a possibility I c
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by Jeff_Brown 1y ago
Among others, this is a big reason I want effect systems to gain more attention. After having seen them, the idea that in most languages, the only option is that any function can do anything without keeping track of what it affects in its t
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by Jeff_Brown 1y ago
Indeed, I wonder to what degree these problems would be better solved by a habit of exploring what you earlier wrote, and having categorized it well, and constantly recategorizing. The power of writing is not in the initial draft, but in ho
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by Jeff_Brown 1y ago
A collection of systems is itself a system. The theorem would not recognize the distinction.
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by Jeff_Brown 1y ago
I just rub it in Docker to limit folder access and prevent it from being able to push to my remote repo. Indestructible.
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by Jeff_Brown 1y ago
I use them all the time -- indeed I just did. I love em-dashes.
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by Jeff_Brown 1y ago
You could say the same thing of hands. What really distinguishes capital from labor is not what counts as a tool, but market power. A large number of non-unionized workers are inherently at a disadvantage against a small number of employers
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by Jeff_Brown 1y ago
Caring is part of it. Having good measures is another. Older measures that worked might need updating to reflect the new, higher spaghetti risk. I expect Amazon to figure it out but I don't see why they necessarily already would have.
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by Jeff_Brown 1y ago
For me it dependa on scale. Asking AI for something small and specific is a joy. Asking it to make a big change is a nightmare I so far only try every time a new model comes out.
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by Jeff_Brown 1y ago
Drummers do it. It takes some training because the nerve to your foot is longer than the one to your hand, but with good audible feedback it can be done. (If your feet are a meter farther from your ears then the sound from them takes 3 ms l
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by Jeff_Brown 1y ago
2024 was already madness for translators and graphic artists, according to my personal anecdata.

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