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by SamPatt 2y ago
>No one cares about your family photos. This isn't about you. My wife cares. That was the point of my comment.
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by SamPatt 2y ago
You can love an art style and want to create images in that style without wanting to be an artist. My family and I absolutely love Ghibli films. I ran some family photos through 4o and my wife was thrilled. It made her day. You can call it
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by SamPatt 2y ago
I hear you, but I got into crypto in 2012. This was back in the day when we were trying to build a decentralized alternative payment ecosystem, not gambling on a speculative investment. The rest of the sentence is sort of the point: >whe
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Informed versus Uninformed AI Skeptics(sampatt.com)
4 points by SamPatt 2y ago|2 comments
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by SamPatt 2y ago
The models can be sycophantic, but they're also pretty good at correcting false claims. Probably better than human communities who bond over having fringe ideological beliefs.
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by SamPatt 2y ago
Fascinating claim, where did you hear this?
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by SamPatt 2y ago
Definitely give it a try yourself. It's very small and shouldn't be hard to test.
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by SamPatt 2y ago
>Just for example, if you're a local table tennis hotshot who can beat every rando at a local bar, when you challenge someone to a game and they say "sure, what's your rating?" you know you're in for a shellackin
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by SamPatt 2y ago
The majority of online content can decrease in quality while LLMs can increase in quality. If the decrease in quality is noticeable to you, then it can be accounted for by future model makers. We already know that quantity isn't everyt
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Can AI Tell You What You Need (But Don't Want) to Hear?(sampatt.com)
2 points by SamPatt 2y ago|0 comments
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by SamPatt 2y ago
Or an open source version you can play infinitely: https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/
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by SamPatt 2y ago
Great concept. I'm an avid geoguessr and wikitrivia player, you're definitely onto something here. I built a prototype version similar to this called PastPort last year, but I like your idea better. This uses Flux then image to vi
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by SamPatt 2y ago
>“Twenty or thirty years ago, the shipping industry made a major shift to natural gas, believing it was the fuel of the future. Now, we know it wasn’t the right step,” says Prousalidis. This sentence confuses me. The shipping industry ru
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by SamPatt 2y ago
For me, it isn't just about complexity, but about customization. I can have the LLMs build me custom bash scripts or make me my own Obsidian plugins. They're all little cogs in my own workflow. None of these individual components
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by SamPatt 2y ago
This looks fun, but the pain of documentation has lost much of its sting already because of AI. If you haven't tried Claude Code yet, give it a go, and you'll see what I mean.
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by SamPatt 2y ago
My site is a React front end hosted on Netlify, and the blog entries are markdown files I write in Obsidian. I also use Listmonk for my newsletter and Umami for analytics, both open source and easy to run from Pikapods. I wrote about my pub
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by SamPatt 2y ago
Hello - the link to apply only displays the engineering position. How can I apply for the developer relations role? Thanks!
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by SamPatt 2y ago
For fairly simple projects built from scratch, we're already there. Claude Code has been doing all of this for me on my latest project. It's remarkable. It seems inevitable it'll get there for larger and more complex code bas
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by SamPatt 2y ago
I suspect success of advertising is less about people falling for deception and more about information availability. If you know nothing about two brands except you've heard the name of one 50 times in ads, you'll probably try it
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by SamPatt 2y ago
I can see how it's worrying, but mostly as a replacement for real connections - if instead it supplements them, then not so bad. Most children love talking to a fun adult who enjoys talking to them. As parents we hope to be that adult
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by SamPatt 2y ago
A backup generator is wasteful? Where do you live?
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by SamPatt 2y ago
Surely there's a middle ground between culty techno-raptures and literally zero value? Of course there's hype. Turns out I'm older than you are. I've seen hype cycles. I've also seen incredible progress. Why not ack
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by SamPatt 2y ago
You sound like an old engineer who believes that the process you've mastered is the only conceivable way to do things. Saying LLMs are worth zero dollars shows a disconnection from reality so profound that I doubt you'll ever be a
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by SamPatt 2y ago
Sorry, but this is a ridiculous rant. Hallucinations have become much less common among the SOTA models, especially for coding with good guidance. I've been using Claude Sonnet 3.7 a lot the last two days, and to my knowledge, there ha
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by SamPatt 2y ago
R1 came out when Grok 3's training was still ongoing. They shared their techniques freely, so you would expect the next round of models to incorporate as many of those techniques as possible. The bump you would get from the extra compu
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Saving My Table Tennis League's Hard Drive–and Finding Lost BTC(sampatt.com)
3 points by SamPatt 2y ago|0 comments
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by SamPatt 2y ago
That's a great point about how using the models may actually just be revealing our own incompetence, not causing it. Maybe it's a quantity over quality issue. What if we're actually doing more of the thing - or at least we&#x
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by SamPatt 2y ago
This is already how society works, you just aren't wearing the glasses. Childhood education, entertainment, social networks are all constantly trying to guide our actions. Agendas are everywhere. AI might actually be more objective or
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by SamPatt 2y ago
Agreed. I don't usually cry reading an HN post. It pulls no punches, and is completely devoid of self pity. Relentless, ruthless reality, coming close to detachment even, but it's all so personal. Incredible post.
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by SamPatt 2y ago
I couldn't disagree more strongly. Her husband was a frequent HN user, and their story was known here. This is a continuation. I love seeing the human side of HN. This is an extremely unique perspective, a beautifully written but horri

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