SamPatt

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by SamPatt 10mo ago
The models are good enough now that anyone who says AI doesn't work is either not acting in good faith or is staggeringly bad at learning a new skill. It's not hard to spend a few hours testing out models / platforms and lear
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by SamPatt 11mo ago
Anecdotally, homeschooled children often speak and behave more like adults. Whether this is a positive or negative thing depends on the situation. Being precocious is something adults might think positively about (though not in all situatio
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by SamPatt 11mo ago
You blame the calculator for people's innumeracy? I'd argue it's a failure of education or general lack of intelligence. The existence of a tool to speed the process up doesn't preclude people understanding the process.
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by SamPatt 11mo ago
If we define intelligence as problem solving ability, then AI makes _me_ more intelligent, and I'm willing to pay for that.
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by SamPatt 11mo ago
I signed up. From GR area too. Good luck with this.
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Visualizing Why Bitcoin Can't Work over HF Radio(sampatt.com)
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by SamPatt 11mo ago
I can visualize things in a lucid dream, and it's identical to seeing for me. But I can only control it for a short time before I wake up. When awake, I have a "mind's eye," but it's more like what you're descr
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by SamPatt 11mo ago
I doubt this. I've done AI annotation work on the big models. Part of my job was comparing two model outputs and rating which is better, and using detailed criteria to explain why it's better. The HF part. That's a lot of exp
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by SamPatt 11mo ago
Good comment. This is the part people don't like to talk about. We just brand people as "mentally ill" and suddenly we no longer need to consider if they're acting rationally or not. Life can be immensely difficult. I&#x
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by SamPatt 1y ago
100% agree I've used Linux as my daily driver for well over a decade now, but there were quite a few times where I almost gave up. I knew I could always fix any problem if I was willing to devote the time, but that isn't a trivial
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by SamPatt 1y ago
I do exactly the same thing, and it works beautifully. We can't really be doing it wrong if it's working!
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by SamPatt 1y ago
Do backups in the same room count as backups?
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by SamPatt 1y ago
It absolutely won't go away. Even if OpenAI folds, the open source stuff is good enough that someone will build a compelling tutor platform in their place. It probably already exists.
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by SamPatt 1y ago
There is definitely stickiness if you're a frequent user. It has a history of hundreds of conversations. It knows a lot about me. Switching would be like coding with a brand new dev environment. Can I do it? Sure, but I don't want
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by SamPatt 1y ago
One point to add about integration between LLMs and Obsidian: plugins. Obsidian has a plugin system that can be easily customized. You can run your own JS scripts from a local folder. Claude Code is excellent at creating and modifying them
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by SamPatt 1y ago
LLMs cannot themselves calculate, but they are given tools which can. They're getting quite good at that now.
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by SamPatt 1y ago
Unfortunately, being serious about privacy is socially damaging. I've experienced it. I eventually accepted that being outside my home meant I gave up on my privacy. I still take it seriously in my home and online, but not in public. I
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by SamPatt 1y ago
It could be built to use local models completely. Open source transcription models are already good enough to do this, and with good context engineering, the base models might be good enough, too. It wouldn't be trivial to implement, b
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by SamPatt 1y ago
The average user will never need to answer ICPC questions though.
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by SamPatt 1y ago
The difference between using Cursor when it launched and using Cursor today is dramatically different. It was basically a novelty before. "Wow, AI can sort of write code!" Now I find it very capable.
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by SamPatt 1y ago
IQ is age-adjusted. Without the adjustment, it drops quite a bit. Some cognitive abilities diminish more slowly with age (so-called crystallized intelligence), but unfortunately, fluid intelligence drops noticeably much earlier in life than
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by SamPatt 1y ago
I don't believe it's dangerous at all. I followed a guided meditation audio initially. It focuses on deep relaxation, lying down and staying very still while you focus on awareness of your body and breath. I think folks who haven
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by SamPatt 1y ago
I suspect that's because these topics aren't discussed nearly as frequently as others here. My input as a non-religious, non-psychedelic user who has done some breathwork: it is simply changing something about the normal functioni
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by SamPatt 1y ago
Inflation is effectively taxation. Here's the University of Toronto's economics lesson on the subject: https://www.economics.utoronto.ca/jfloyd/modules/inft.html
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by SamPatt 1y ago
I own a house and stocks. And cars and other assets. Inflation still makes me poorer. I have a family of five. No matter how much my home value increases or how well the market does, I still need to pay to live.
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by SamPatt 1y ago
When life becomes more expensive due to taxation (inflation is effectively a tax), I'm very skeptical that the solution is more taxation.
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by SamPatt 1y ago
I hear you, he's the most vocal at the moment, but low interest rates have been popular among many policymakers and intellectuals throughout the history of monetary policy. _The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest_ by Edward Chan
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by SamPatt 1y ago
It's always been incredible to me that inflation is treated as though it emerges organically, "aww shucks, I sure wish my money didn't keep losing value randomly!" This is the result of policy decisions with well-underst
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by SamPatt 1y ago
More or less, but the private chain doesn't need to contain empty blocks. A more sophisticated attack would include all the legitimate transactions on the network except for their own transaction(s) which they're trying to double
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by SamPatt 1y ago
Of course it is an option - I lost 100 lbs this way, and kept it off more than 5 yeads. As you know, that's very, very hard. But I think these drugs are awesome. I have family members who are obese and don't seem to have whatever

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