WaltPurvis

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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
My go-to grocery store does not use a scale in the bagging area. You don't even have to bag anything, you can just scan items and put them back in your cart, which is what I normally do. There is one employee standing there monitoring
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
> Not sure where you got this adaptation from. Perhaps they got it from the experience of being a human being. I and many other human beings would love to meet an alien civilization and form positive-sum interactions, yet at the same tim
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
That's very interesting. Do you have time to elaborate a bit?
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
I'm not saying I necessarily doubt this, but how do you know what the internal roadmaps of "most" big companies are?
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
>someone in the middle In the middle between AI and what?
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
Perhaps of interest (from today's New York Times): https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/coding-ai-jobs... There are many reasons why one might want a college education and college experienc
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
> The immediate and obvious response to the above is: turn up the temperature. I assume the students were using the ChatGPT web app (as ~99% of teenagers would); there is no way to adjust the temperature in the web app.
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
I'm glad I semi-read this article, because it alerted me to the fact I could switch my Office plan back to the old AI-free plan that costs ~30% less. Nice. (I'm a big user of several LLM products, but the AI features in Office are
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
FWIW, these instructions allow you to re-enable uBlock in Chrome 138. A temporary fix, but I needed a temporary fix so I could export my hundreds of custom filters (so I can load them into uBlock in Firefox). https://www.reddit.c
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
Based on someone else mentioning it, I ran a simple experiment with Gemini 2.5 Pro (a current state of the art AI model), reproduced below. To me, this makes it seem like we're a long way from having AGI. Perhaps someone can explain
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
I'm pretty sure Sam Altman's only mission in life is to be as personally wealthy as Mark Zuckerberg. Is that mission really supposed to inspire undying loyalty and insane workloads from OpenAI staffers?
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
They said in the announcement that these high usage limits are only while it's in the preview stage, so they may (or may not) be reduced later. I think (it's not clear, at least to me) that the CLI may be using cheaper models alre
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
Um, yeah... I made a faulty context switch there.
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
Do knowledge cutoff dates matter anymore? The cutoff for o3 was 12 months ago, while the cutoff for Claude 4 was five months ago. I use these models mostly for development (Swift, SwiftUI, and Flutter), and these frameworks are constantly e
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
I plugged those two quotes from Amodei into ChatGPT along with this prompt: "Pretend you are highly skeptical about the potential of AI, both in general and in its potential for replacing human workers the way Amodei predicts. Write a
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
>Not to mention most of it basically died when most models started supporting +1M context. Do most models support that much context? I don't think anything close to "most" models support 1M+ context. I'm only aware of
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
Egads. That’s really bad. I’ve had a few boneheaded responses like that, although I don’t recall any as awful as this example. I’m still figuring out when it’s going to be quicker and better to do something myself rather than putting effort
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
That's weird. What languages/frameworks/tasks are you using it for? I've been using Gemini 2.5 with Dart recently and it frequently produces indisputably useful code, and indisputably helpful advice. Along with some code
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
In my experience, if I create a ChatGPT project or a Gemini Gem, it seems to remember everything I put in the instructions, which includes my tech stack, specific packages I'm using, preferences, and so on. ChatGPT remembers some of
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by WaltPurvis 2y ago
It is often erroneously used when the writer means uninterested.
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by WaltPurvis 2y ago
This may be an erroneous and/or too simplistic answer, but I went through a couple rounds of using off-brand LEDs from Amazon in a chandelier, and they flickered badly when dimmed, then I finally ponied up a little more money and bough
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by WaltPurvis 2y ago
Using "terrestrial" to refer only to land-based life is proper, i.e., it's a common and accepted definition of the word.
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by WaltPurvis 2y ago
Well, I'm on a Mac and it 100% has been implemented for me -- I tried to figure out how to turn it off as soon as I first saw it, went to preferences, found the checkbox. I didn't realize that hasn't been rolled out to everyb
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by WaltPurvis 2y ago
You can turn it off. Go to preferences -> Copilot and uncheck the Enable Copilot checkbox.
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by WaltPurvis 2y ago
MGX has nothing to do with the Saudis. It's a UAE operation.
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by WaltPurvis 2y ago
Some relevant reading: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/the-role-of-clima...
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by WaltPurvis 2y ago
What is this app? Avast blocks the site as malware. False positive? "This URL contains malicious code that could harm your computer. If you’re willing to risk it, you can turn off your Avast Web Shield to continue. But we strongly reco
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by WaltPurvis 2y ago
How does moderation work on Bluesky? If it's not up to individual users to manually block every troll, bot, or disgusting person, who/what is doing that blocking?
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by WaltPurvis 2y ago
Perhaps historical accuracy takes a backseat to the need for illumination -- nobody wants to watch a movie with people sitting around in a room so dark you can't see what the actors are doing or their facial expressions.
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by WaltPurvis 2y ago
I couldn't be bothered to assess the quality of the content when the presentation is so childish -- performative aggression, cussing like a 12-year-old boy who thinks it makes him sound cool, etc., it's all totally unnecessary and

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