SirensOfTitan

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by SirensOfTitan 1y ago
It's a commodity technology and VCs are investing as if this were still a winner-takes-all play. It's obviously not, if there were any doubt about that, Deepseek's R1 release should have made it obvious. > But it’s a shal
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by SirensOfTitan 1y ago
I guarantee you that I could surpass that revenue if I started a business that would give people back $9 if they gave me $4. OpenAI models are already of the most expensive, they don’t have a lot of levers to pull.
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by SirensOfTitan 1y ago
Right, so if the productivity gains were so blindingly obvious and immediate for everyone, mandates wouldn't be needed. These companies tried to quantify the productivity impact of work from home, so it's utterly bewildering to me
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by SirensOfTitan 2y ago
But how are you storing the session token in the browser?
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by SirensOfTitan 2y ago
Do you have any evidence to suggest that LLMs have increased productivity in software? And if so what is the effect size? I don’t really see any increase in the quality, velocity, creativity of software I’m either using or working on, but I
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by SirensOfTitan 2y ago
> We are slowly but surely witnessing the collapse of Western Tech scene Generally, I’ve found that almost no founders or friends I speak with have any vision for the future anymore. They care only about making money and do not care how.
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by SirensOfTitan 2y ago
I worked at Facebook for half a decade during its golden period and there were a lot of people who shared your sentiment. …in fact, when some folks suggested engineers organize, the types who complained about worker entitlement remarked: “w
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by SirensOfTitan 2y ago
Scientists like Sylvain Lesné whose alleged misconduct cost us over a decade investigating a dead end hypothesis should face substantial prison time. Considerable people have faced the horror of this disease with no hope for a cure in sight
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by SirensOfTitan 2y ago
Yeah, now that you mention it, Zed is saturating my CPU to 100% all the time now and it didn’t used to. …that bothers me a little, but tooltips when moving over symbols via my keyboard drive me crazy—they often sit above an LSP autocomplete
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by SirensOfTitan 2y ago
That’s hardly any better.
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by SirensOfTitan 2y ago
Yes, for sure, but the way Biden’s mental fitness was poor-pooed as misinformation for years and then Harris was installed at the last minute really undermines the “we’re the party of democracy” narrative.
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by SirensOfTitan 2y ago
Babashka/clojure is a fairly pleasant way to write scripts. I also think bun alongside typescript is quite viable, especially with the shell interop: https://bun.sh/docs/runtime/shell
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by SirensOfTitan 2y ago
I use nix darwin, which can wrap homebrew for a gradual migration over. Homebrew is ridiculously slow in my experience, and nix is quite easy when you stay on the happy path—and when you fall off of it homebrew is unlikely to help you anywa
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by SirensOfTitan 2y ago
You can go and use: https://github.com/blahgeek/emacs-lsp-booster …I hardly ever run into any performance issues anymore with lsp when using that. The author mentions it, and I use it with Doom every day with minimal i
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by SirensOfTitan 2y ago
To be perfectly honest, I’m extremely conflicted with this kind of legislation—natural physical social interactions have all but atrophied in huge swaths of American youth, and social media is the way kids ultimately communicate. I don’t th
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by SirensOfTitan 2y ago
AI has always had a terms problem, perhaps because cognitive science does too—one of the key features of the controversial but highly entertaining “Origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind” book was defining what consc
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by SirensOfTitan 2y ago
What I'm most curious about here is if a state actor comes to Apple with a subpoena and compels them to release information on an individual, what would Apple be able to release? ... I suppose this is ultimately a question that will be
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by SirensOfTitan 2y ago
The whole meme of “coding interviews” can illuminate how a person thinks is based on an entirely false theory of mind. When people are experienced in a particular skill, they often have reduced inner voice and experience inner quiet as the
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by SirensOfTitan 2y ago
I really enjoyed Gatto's "The Underground History of American Education," it's a refreshing and entertaining rebuke of the authoritarian/scientific management consensus on schooling, which has not changed much over
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by SirensOfTitan 2y ago
I really enjoy reading Andy's ideas on education--alongside Peter Gray (a psychologist who emphasizes the importance of play for education, https://www.amazon.com/Free-Learn-Unleashing-Instinct-Self-R... ) and Piotr Woz
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by SirensOfTitan 2y ago
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch You must first invent the universe” …no one “started from scratch", the sum of all knowledge is built on prior foundations.
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by SirensOfTitan 3y ago
Symmetrical 1G, Verizon, 60/month in NYC
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by SirensOfTitan 3y ago
Closed weight LLMs are unethical forms of theft that will privatize profits on a work that includes virtually all of humanity’s digital written work and serve to ultimately heighten wealth inequality as they get more sophisticated and start
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by SirensOfTitan 3y ago
My daily driver is emacs with evil. Is Helix’s modal editing worth learning?
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by SirensOfTitan 3y ago
Companies are using the macro monetary environment as justification to undermine bargaining gains employees made during COVID. In the same way, companies have been using inflation as a cover to raise prices higher. For established companie
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by SirensOfTitan 3y ago
I guess you could grant the equity on a standard vesting schedule with a 1-year cliff, but would your co-founder be comfortable firing her if it doesn't work out? You could also try more creative arrangements like performance-based eq
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by SirensOfTitan 3y ago
What is the probability that newer models are just overfitting various benchmarks? A lot of these newer models seem to underperform GPT-4 in most of my daily queries, but I'm obviously swimming in the world of anecdata.
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by SirensOfTitan 3y ago
I’m not a zero COVID person and just got on to living my life as normal after the acute pandemic, but about a year in I started developing autoimmune symptoms I’m still struggling to figure out. There’s a chance I was always going to develo
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by SirensOfTitan 3y ago
That’s a shame—we cannot allow a handful of companies and VCs to capture most of the value of AI, especially if it actually starts replacing human jobs, it’ll just accelerate wealth inequality and social unrest.
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by SirensOfTitan 3y ago
What kind of career refocus are you thinking about?

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