MontyCarloHall

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by MontyCarloHall 8mo ago
>I know it seems hard, but just stop using Google, Amazon, Meta products. I noticed your own app's website [0] hosts videos on YouTube [1] and uses Stripe as a payment processor [2], which is hosted on AWS. You also mentioned that y
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by MontyCarloHall 8mo ago
That's a top-down organizational change mandating certain capabilities for all Amazon software. Unlike these AI mandates, it's not dictating the exact tools developers use to write that software, but rather what the software itsel
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by MontyCarloHall 8mo ago
>I'm sorry, but did you forget what page this comment thread is attached to? It's literally about corporate communication from CEOs reorganizing their companies around AI and mandating that employees use it. That’s exactly my p
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by MontyCarloHall 8mo ago
>Think about the Industrial Age transition from individual craftspeople working on small shops using hand tools to make things into working in factories on large-scale assembly lines. I wouldn't analogize the adoption of AI tools to
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by MontyCarloHall 8mo ago
That’s simply not true. Developers hand-writing assembly readily adopted compilers, accountants readily adopted spreadsheets, and farmers readily adopted tractors and powered mills.
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by MontyCarloHall 8mo ago
AI adoption is a bottom-up decision at the level of the individual worker. Converting an entire factory is a top-down decision. No single worker can individually decide to start using electricity instead of steam power, but individuals can
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by MontyCarloHall 8mo ago
Whatever happened to "show, don't tell"? Other productivity boosters certainly didn't need such memos; they were naturally adopted because the benefits were unambiguous. There were no "IDE-first company memos"
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by MontyCarloHall 8mo ago
This is just the Kolakoski sequence starting from the second term.
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by MontyCarloHall 8mo ago
You are still choosing random numbers here. The Kolakoski sequence has zero randomness whatsoever.
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by MontyCarloHall 8mo ago
>Can't you trivially force this to happen for any sequence? No, because there's no deterministic way to infinitely extend that sequence. In your first example: 1 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 4 4 x x y y 1 3---- 3---- 3---- 2-- 2--
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by MontyCarloHall 8mo ago
For those not getting this immediately (I sure didn't): _____________ sequence 1 2 2 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 run lens 1 2-- 2-- 1 1 2-- 1 Read out the bottom sequence of run lengths, and be amazed that it's the
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by MontyCarloHall 9mo ago
Animated Engines first came online in 2000 [0], and has essentially been frozen in time ever since. Now contrast it with this [1] from 2021. It's amazing how much web technology progressed in those two decades. [0] https://w
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by MontyCarloHall 9mo ago
>Berkson's Paradox seems to rely on the selection criteria being a combination of the two traits in question 100% correct. For traits x and y, selecting for datapoints in the region x + y > z will always yield a spurious negative
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by MontyCarloHall 9mo ago
Correlated attributes can still lead to the paradox, so long as the error measured parallel to the cutoff line (the "fuzziness" of the correlation) is greater than the slope of the cutoff line. Here are a couple cartoons to demons
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by MontyCarloHall 9mo ago
Couldn't this be explained by Berkson's Paradox [0]? [0] https://xcancel.com/AlexGDimakis/status/2002848594953732521
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by MontyCarloHall 9mo ago
This doesn't really look like pixel art; it looks like you applied a (very sophisticated) Photoshop filter to Google Earth. Everything is a little blurry, and the characteristic sharp edges of handmade pixel art (e.g. [0]) are complete
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by MontyCarloHall 9mo ago
The fact that it's the norm for the builders of mature software to stick around can lead to some gross engineering inefficiencies. For instance, a lot of Evernote's backend infrastructure was manually managed [0]: With Everno
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by MontyCarloHall 9mo ago
>Even humanity’s (weak) radio emissions would be detectable from tens of light years away, and stronger emissions from much further. That's not true. Non-directional radio transmissions (e.g. TV, broadcast radio) would not be distin
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by MontyCarloHall 9mo ago
>Nobody wants to be angry. I disagree. Why are some of the most popular subreddits things like r/AmITheAsshole, r/JustNoMIL, r/RaisedByNarcissists, r/EntitledPeople, etc.: forums full of (likely fake) stories of peopl
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by MontyCarloHall 9mo ago
>I am happy to bet that you're just not noticing the early rasterisation and filtered scaling going on macOS renders content on my 100 PPI monitor at exactly 100 DPI; 1:1, no scaling, so everything looks crisp at the pixel level. Th
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by MontyCarloHall 9mo ago
>Windows is the only OS that does scaling properly. macOS just pretends non-'retina' displays don't exist Not true. I use a high-DPI (~250) MacBook with a non-high-DPI (~100) external monitor [0] and the transition between
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by MontyCarloHall 9mo ago
The New American Oxford Dictionary defines "advertisement" as "a notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product, service, or event." By that definition, anything that mentions a product in a neutral light
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by MontyCarloHall 9mo ago
Even if you (i.e. your company) pay for the top-tier GSuite subscription, you still don't get an ad-free Google Search. Very curious ...
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by MontyCarloHall 9mo ago
Video ads are less lucrative than ads alongside search, which can be a lot more closely tailored to both the user and the search results at hand. The existence of YouTube Premium shows that Google is indeed willing to provide paid ad-free e
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by MontyCarloHall 9mo ago
Ding ding ding. Look at all the brands mentioned in just this thread. From a cursory look, I see: * WSJ * Bloomberg * Financial Times * Cartier * Kagi * Protonmail * Coca-Cola * HBO * Windex * Netflix * Azure * AWS We are all ourselves adve
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by MontyCarloHall 9mo ago
I think it will be even more subtle than that. How do I clean my laptop screen? Use a mix of distilled water and vinegar, and buff gently with a microfiber cloth. Avoid using cleaners like Windex, which is absolutely fantastic for g
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by MontyCarloHall 9mo ago
Kagi is too small and niche to have a proprietary dataset across its users large enough to make targeted advertising generate more revenue than subscriptions. OpenAI/Google/etc. operate at a much larger scale, large enough for tho
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by MontyCarloHall 9mo ago
That is exactly my point: there easily could be, but there isn't. Based on how many commenters on HN and similar sites bemoan how Google Search quality has precipitously declined and yearn for the Google of ~10 years ago, I think there
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by MontyCarloHall 9mo ago
Kagi is a niche product at best, with revenue literally orders of magnitude lower than Google's.
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by MontyCarloHall 9mo ago
I think ads will take the form of insidious but convincing product placement invisibly woven into model outputs. This will both prevent any blocking of ad content, and also be much more effective: after all, we allude to companies and produ

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