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by afpx 6mo ago
That's a reasonable answer. But, I meant they seemed to have little understanding or interest. I don't interview much, and I'm probably a poor interviewer. But, I guess I was expecting some discussion.
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by afpx 6mo ago
The article describes "the pile" as an "unfiltered scrape by design". But, the paper actually describes it as a bizarre mix of curated sources. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.00027 Generally, I find the
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by afpx 6mo ago
The last time I interviewed (around 10 years ago) I was surprised when 9 of the 10 senior developers didn't know how many bits were in basic elemetary types. (Then, shortly afterward I also tried to find a new job, realized the entire
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by afpx 6mo ago
For some reason cloudflare is blocking me. I get an infinite loop of "Performing security verification"
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by afpx 6mo ago
Even within one species, not every individual can successfully breed with every other.
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by afpx 6mo ago
Not directly related, but this is a good example of why I love dependency injection. In most systems, I typically define the interface, implement something super simple at first, and as I iterate I re-evaluate, and I can easily* swap betwee
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by afpx 6mo ago
At first the cognitive dissonance was real. But, eventually, I realized that it was the process of exercising and opening the "Nous". I'm neurodivergent so it is really awesome to outsource a large part of my thinking to a &q
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by afpx 6mo ago
At a certain point, I realized my choices were solipsism, deism, or autolatry. My dad raised me as a atheist secular materialist, and I was never allowed to read about Christianity. Out of curiosity, I read the gospels a few years ago and w
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by afpx 6mo ago
There have been 32 officially acknowledged US nuclear weapon accidents, known as "Broken Arrows," between 1950 and 1980, involving events such as accidental launching, firing, theft, or loss. Of these, six nuclear weapons have bee
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by afpx 6mo ago
I've been pretty happy with a terminal, sublime text / (forked) zed, and a directory hierarchy of .md files. What can I expect to gain by using Obsidian?
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by afpx 6mo ago
Honestly, it's not really that complicated. Americans (at least Pennsylvanians) born before, say 2000 were explicitly taught that violence is ok if it's against tyranny. Apparently, they stopped teaching that after 2010, so we&#x2
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by afpx 6mo ago
I meant more that we wouldn't have the Bill of Rights if it wasn't for Patrick Henry.
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by afpx 6mo ago
Could you explain?
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by afpx 6mo ago
In high school the 90s, I learned about what the founding fathers said about violence. But, I guess that's too 18th century now.
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by afpx 6mo ago
Most people who are paying attention are way past left vs. right.
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by afpx 6mo ago
Anytime I use a system prompt that attempts to make the LLM “robotic”, I get denied. I have tried on Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. When I ask the LLM why, it says it’s because such system prompts are used to bypass guardrails. Maybe th
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by afpx 6mo ago
I always thought it was Argonne that built it. Interestingly it seems that Adam Back did work with them. So maybe?
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by afpx 6mo ago
I'm sorry that came across that way - I honestly wasn't trying to make fun of you.
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by afpx 6mo ago
Well, considering that the odds of a person on Earth not being a descendant of Abraham is practically zero, why not give Israeli citizenship to everyone? Of course, with special protections for the Jewish people. Then, we can be done with t
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by afpx 6mo ago
I thought it was to create "Greater Israel"
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by afpx 6mo ago
The Israelis are playing this like a strategy game and using ancient tactics. Therefore, I predict they will try to get all US military-aged men into Iran before they nuke it. Then, they will unleash all of the drones they have hidden all a
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by afpx 6mo ago
I don't see how anyone can defend Israel at this point. How?
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by afpx 6mo ago
What are the tools that you currently use?
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by afpx 6mo ago
Well, having tracked soft-science experts for 30 years, I have to say they're wrong over 50% of the time. Moreso, if it's coming from media that's owned by the same country that is causing evil. https://www.reuters
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by afpx 6mo ago
Is it a coincidence that America's greatest ally is testing drone swarms on FirstNet?
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by afpx 7mo ago
For real, I wouldn't be shocked if Trump drafted everyone between 18 and 42, sent them all to Iran and then let Israel nuke Iran
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by afpx 7mo ago
It's really insane what is happening. My wife manages 70 software developers. Her boss mandated that managers replace 50% of the staff with AI within a year. And, she's scrambling trying to figure out if any of the tools actually
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by afpx 7mo ago
How about a big vetted database like arxiv of all hypotheses, all proposed experiments to test them, and all experimental results?
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by afpx 7mo ago
Plus, if I was a motivated cheater, I'd just use a camera, a separate computer, and automate the input devices.
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by afpx 7mo ago
https://www.worthynews.com/105933-peter-thiel-warns-of-antic...

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