Marazan

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by Marazan 6mo ago
VisiCalc was the killer app.
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by Marazan 7mo ago
"Very simplistic prompt" is the absolute and total core of this and the thing that ensures validity of the whole exercise. If you are trying to measure GENERAL intelligence then it needs to be general.
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by Marazan 7mo ago
Well, gotta hand it to the haters on this one.
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by Marazan 7mo ago
If only there was some kind of formalised "language" to, as it were, "programme" the automata but alas such a concept is impossible to conceptualise.
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by Marazan 7mo ago
> It's also not very great at meeting summaries especially those where many speakers are in a room on the same microphone. It is astonishingly poor at this. My intuition was that it should be good at this (it is basically a transla
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by Marazan 7mo ago
AbstractBeanFactoryFactoryInterfaceBeanContextFactoryBeanBean.java
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by Marazan 7mo ago
You can tightly constrain MCPs and shape the context that is shared back to the Agent. A skill is, at the end of the day, just a prompt.
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by Marazan 7mo ago
IBM share price is back to where it was pre-Anthropic press release.
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by Marazan 7mo ago
Are people who play the game as the developers intended using the tools the developer supplied cheaters? Wow, deep philosophical questions there. Gonna have to ponder if people who aren't cheating are cheaters.
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by Marazan 7mo ago
If they weren't motivated by a toxic sense of self regard and a desire to humiliate others they wouldn't cheat. This is axiomatic.
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by Marazan 7mo ago
> They don’t inherently want to see others suffer as they stomp Cheaters want to dominate other players, feel like they deserve to dominate other players and are perfectly happy for other players to suffer as long as they feel good.
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by Marazan 7mo ago
Wow, bit weird that Musk, who must have known about how badly xAI was doing, spent so much of his investors money buying out xAI. What an enormous blunder.
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by Marazan 7mo ago
What is the benefit of "moving compute to space"?
44.
by Marazan 7mo ago
It's good but it's no Asus eee901
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by Marazan 7mo ago
Flash was not particularly battery hungry (My go to example when HTML 5 demos started coming out was rebuilding a HTML 5 demo that was using 100% of 1 core into a flash app that used 5%). The reason it burned CPU cycles is that non-coders c
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by Marazan 8mo ago
Sure it is not a smoking crater in the ground but outages are frequent, multi-media content loads about 50% of the time and search is basically non-functional at this point. Let us never forget the "tweet reading limit" incident
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by Marazan 8mo ago
Yeah like bro you plugged the random number generator into the do-things machine. You are responsible for the random things the machine then does.
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by Marazan 8mo ago
I personally find LLM text exceptionally boring and tiresome to read. It is often incredibly voluminous and filed with trite phrasing that turns a one sentence idea into 3 paragraphs of pablum. Yes, this has been inspired by a senior manag
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by Marazan 8mo ago
It's LARPing. Everyone knows all the best programmers are using the command line firing off one line Awk scripts that look like runic incantations occasionally opening vim to do stuff at blazing warp speed. So the AI tools people build
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by Marazan 8mo ago
> They could have given the slave owners 3/5ths of a vote for each slave without the EC Yes, I suppose if you could accept the idea of a ludicrous hypothetical alternative that would have zero chance in reality of being implemented
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by Marazan 8mo ago
The Electoral College is part of the slavery compromise and the slavery compromise was a blunder.
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by Marazan 8mo ago
Yes, the Kelpies are suprisingly striking. I went along thinking they'd be a modestly interesting thing to see but the scale and sculpture work makes them a real "Wow" moment when you see them up close.
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by Marazan 8mo ago
> Without work people devolve into playing video games and smoking pot in their mom's basement. Skill issue
54.
by Marazan 9mo ago
Plonk
55.
by Marazan 9mo ago
Yeah, and then Uber sold off its self driving research team.
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by Marazan 9mo ago
Car buyers are not confused. The market is naturally highly segmented. My needs "every day low distance compact car that can cope with city centre narrow streets with once a month motorway driving" is not met by the same car as
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by Marazan 9mo ago
It's not their job to fix your bug.
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by Marazan 9mo ago
My favourite PostgresSQL optimization was running a SELECT on a multi-billion row table before running a DELETE so that the shared_memory_buffer would be filled with the rows that would need to be deleted. Postgres makes DELETEs single thre
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by Marazan 9mo ago
> that the democrats don't actually have popular policies. Democrat policies polled better than Republican policies at the last election.
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by Marazan 9mo ago
Ah, it is turtles all the way down.

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