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by NiloCK 1y ago
This is pretty great. Might have been better to see before my typeface layperson's implementation of these guys: https://letterspractice.com/dbg/lp (note: root site not actually ready for publish. don't cl
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AI polarization is a little interesting. The AI generated image prompted the parent to not even consider whether the content was on topic. This might be a decent heuristic, but it's bound to throw out a lot of potentially useful stuf
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How could they possibly hope to undo bash commands, whose side effects could be anything, anywhere? Hey Claude... uh... unlaunch those
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This is mostly a joke, but objects in fantasy land are sometimes closer than they appear. Major cloud compute and OS infra providers should provide a global opt-out of public bystander-recording. OK, record me, but it will be known by my fa
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Can you go further and say that the Earth and sun "really" are orbiting the center-of-mass of the milky way? And does it end there? I guess that galaxies are far enough apart from one another to escape this logic with their relati
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At worst, it's harmful! From top of my layperson head: bruised insertion sites, tainted needles, tainted vaccine supply, customer capacity crowding for the pharmacy, squeezing supply capacity for actual target demographics, etc etc etc
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I sort of love this, but immediately wonder about curation. My feeds are pretty unpredictable - sometimes I have 40 new articles in a day, sometimes just a few. The cheapness of digital consumption and interface makes it viable for me to sk
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by NiloCK 1y ago
I don't know if I'm missing the mark here, but: you can in fact disable JavaScript in your browser. In Firefox, go to `about:config` and set `javascript.enabled` to false. Warning: lots of sites will break.
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Every augmentation is also an amputation. Calculators reduced our capabilities in mental and pencil-paper arithmetic. Graphing calculators later reduced our capacity to sketch curves, and in turn, our intuition in working directly with equa
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open source is distinct from Open Source(paritybits.me)
2 points by NiloCK 1y ago|1 comments
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Apologies if I was unclear, but I'm not worried about being understood. It's rare for me to write on the topic. My frustration is that I always have to guess at writers intention, and that the broader dialogue is confused by this
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The updated license in the BearBlog repo ( https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/blob/master/LICEN... ) doesn't seem to match the Elastic License very well ( https://www.elastic.co&#x2F
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The antitrust pushback against regulatory efforts to increase housing development is approaching a reversal of that New Yorker cartoon. [ set in an urban tent city ] "Sure, we destroyed the expectation of dignified living standards, bu
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Do the people in this corner use compilers? Would they agree that programmers who don't use them* have been replaced by those that do? *: I'm aware of cases like the recent ffmpg assembly usage that gave a big performance boost. W
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Ask HN: Appetite for Subscription MCP Servers?
1 points by NiloCK 1y ago|0 comments
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This looks interesting, and congrats on the launch. An immediate piece of critical feedback is that you should try to be a little more specific in the tagline. All MCP servers give context to coding agents - that's what an MCP server
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Subsidies can avoid simple economics! The third option is to dramatically juice the wages of woman drivers.
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Interesting to see downstream pricing effects from this. In general, riders with specific filters applied get higher quotes than riders without them. Uber either: - lets the market equilibrium naturally settle (meaning women requesting woma
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> Once it becomes economical to run a Claude 4 class model locally you'll see a lot more people doing that. By that time Claude 5 (or whatever) will be available over API. I am grateful for upward pressure from models with published
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I don't think that the comment above you made any suggestion that the plan is persisted between token generations. I'm pretty sure you described exactly what they intended.
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The most obvious case of this is in terms of `an apple` vs `a pear`. LLMs never get the a-an distinction wrong, because their internal state 'knows' the word that'll come next.
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Plus a randomness seed. The 'hidden state' being referred to here is essentially the "what might have been" had the dice rolls gone differently (eg, been seeded differently).
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Writing code was never the only bottleneck, and I'm sure there is personal variation, but for me personally it has always been the dominant bottleneck. My backspace and delete keys loom larger than the rest of my keyboard combined. Plo
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by NiloCK 1y ago
The Vision Pro flopped, but I don't see the connection to two-faced-ness. Help?
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https://github.com/patched-network/vue-skuilder https://patched.network FOSS toolkit for SRS and adaptive tutoring systems. Inching closer to proper demos and inviting usage. In essence, I'm looking to
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I, too, wrote a rambling take on the potential for LLM-induced stack ossification about 6 months ago: https://paritybits.me/stack-ossification/ At the time, I had given in to Claude 3.5's preference for python whe
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1. The N=1 positive result isn't the sole basis for expanded effort. The basis the is the compelling, research backed, causal mechanism that predicted the scheduling adjustment's success. 2. Does it? Speaking directly out of my bu
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I, too, built a POC autothink shortly after the Claude 3.7 release that included the `extended thinking` toggle. It's literally also called autothink: https://github.com/NiloCK/autothink https://www.par
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Maybe I miss the point here, but it seems to me that versioning the protocols is the specific solution to maintaining interop between different implementations.
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I'm working on a modular OSS stack for creation of interactive tutoring systems. Think anki + wikipedia + mathacademy + duolingo, but with very generic interfaces that allow for all sorts of interactive content (eg, one working prototy

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