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by a_bonobo 1y ago
In my computational niche the bottleneck was always writing up the results :) And wow does AI help there.... It's not hard to get a decent first draft written by AI based on my existing results.
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
If I post something on my personal blog, and it's against the company's Code of Conduct, then I'm in trouble with HR. If I'm the company's CEO, then I'm in trouble with the board. You're not an island.
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
>Once you’ve achieved that — once you are virtuously selfconstituted — you will be self-assured and have reason to be so. You will be emotionally invulnerable to being pushed around. I don't feel that's true? I am currently in
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
>I know people running vibe coded startups. The software quality is garbage. But it does what they want. And that’s all they care about for now. Until a time when software quality impacts their business more than losing control does, the
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
>If an LLM can solve a complex problem 50% of the time, then that is still very valuable I'd adjust that statement - If an LLM can solve a complex problem 50% of the time and I can evaluate correctness of the output , then that is
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
There's some discussion here about DNA-specific compression algorithms. I thought I'd raise yesterday's HN discussion on 'The unreasonable effectiveness of modern sort algorithms' https://news.ycombinator
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
Fun little story I recently had using Subagents in Claude Code: I was working on a large-ish R analysis. In R, people generally start with loading entire libraries like library(a) library(b) etc., leading to namespace clashes. It's bet
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
>Leaked Ice document shows worker detained in Hyundai raid had valid visa >At least one of the Korean workers swept up in a huge immigration raid on a Hyundai Motor factory site in Georgia last week was living and working legally in t
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
Here in Australia, we've received org-wide approval to just not go to the US if we cannot help it. It's not worth the risk.
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
It seems you don't have BYD in the US, except for buses? Here in Australia you see far more BYDs than Teslas by now. They're cheaper with a bit more range.
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
What isn't an asset class for sale these days, with horrible consequences? Health? Housing? Water? Knowledge?
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
I was just thinking the other day, I haven't read a vim vs emacs flame-war in years .
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
I remember when that made the rounds on HN, it is one of the earliest examples of AI-generated classifications/summaries. I used to show braggoscope as an example in many talks... before vector databases, agents, etc.
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
Here in Australia, I know a plant is an invasive species when inaturalist/Seek can identify it :) It's not good with native Australian plants so I'd love to build a local solution. Shame it's closed.
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
Few years ago I read 'Between Silk and Cyanide': Britain's Wartime Spies and Saboteurs', the autobiography of Leo Marks who worked in the British Special Operations Executive. He designed cryptography for agents behind e
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
For the longest time, IT workers were 'protected' from Marx's alienation of labor by the rarity of your skill, but now it's coming for you/us, too. Claude Code is to programmers what textile machines were to textile
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
I've recently learned about Tuchman's law after I bought her A Distant Mirror at a booksale >Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubi
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
There's also Bonsai, it's parameter-free and supposedly 'better' than t-SNE, but it's clearly aimed at visualisation purposes (except that in Bonsai trees, distances between nodes are 'real' which is usual
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
This is what Naur, 1985, Programming as Theory Building is about! https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf The act of programming is building the theory of what the program does, so that you acquire new knowledge of d
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
I feel we're developing something like what made Test-Driven Development so strong: TTD forced you to sit down and design your system first, rather than making it all up on the fly. In the past we mapped the system while we were buildi
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
It eventually printed >send a single 0 byte followed by 'XR2K' for documentation. But so far doing that hasn't led to anything :)
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
This feels like Motte-and-bailey >The motte-and-bailey fallacy (named after the motte-and-bailey castle) is a form of argument and an informal fallacy where an arguer conflates two positions that share similarities: one modest and easy t
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
This is a great article. There's so much in these group dynamics that repeats group dynamics of communist extremists of the 70s. A group that has found a 'better' way of life, all you have to do is believe in the group's
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
I think I agree with you, it's harmful. If you sit down and unpack everything you're about to do you'll end up not doing anything, except what gives you the most pleasure. There are many things I started in my life that all l
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
Not that poster but since Covid, most people have a registration on the MyGov app that handles medicare, tax etc. You could easily add a one-time token mechanism to that app
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
This repo has a pattern where the in parallel jobs have different personalities: https://github.com/tokenbender/agent-guides/blob/main/claude...
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
Three massive differences between DNA and any other 'private data'. Once DNA has flown the coop, you won't get a new set of SNPs. That's it, it's a 'complete' picture of your SNPs (not your genome, yes, bu
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
Two common points crop up in these kinds of discussions: - what if you're part of a minority the government wants to disappear, like the Uyghur in China? DNA is indicative of many minorities. You don't have to commit a crime. - yo
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
The Disneyland Cinderella Castle lists Neuschwanstein among its (obvious) inspirations. So Cinderella Castle is a building commemorating a building commemorating an era.
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by a_bonobo 1y ago
>Enterprise systems aren't clean APIs waiting for AI agents to orchestrate them. They're legacy systems with quirks, partial failure modes, authentication flows that change without notice, rate limits that vary by time of day,

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