alex_young

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   by alex_young 9mo ago

   I think “just” is doing a lot of work here. Steps I remember: 1. Put down everything so you have 2 free hands. 2. Mention that it will take a minute to the cashier. 3. Unlock your phone. 4. Find the Amazon app (this part is o
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   by alex_young 9mo ago

   This is some fine wine. I want to get x, y, and z marketing email but not w. They sent me something consider w. Outrage!
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   by alex_young 9mo ago

   While there is something here, I don’t think it’s quite the stark difference stated. Go watch a Coen brothers movie and tell me why it’s funny. We mostly all agree that these “dark” comedies are funny, and it’s precisely because nothing go
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   by alex_young 9mo ago

   Everyone can take advantage of rooftop solar. The power goes into the grid. This isn’t a zero sum game. We need both.
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   by alex_young 9mo ago

   The interesting part here is that they are apparently no longer even trying to use parallel construction [0] to cover this stuff up. They somehow feel confident that just saying we have this technology, we don’t say how we use it, but we wi
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   by alex_young 9mo ago

   I remember them for their luggables. ‘Portable’ computers in the 80s. https://www.vintage-computer.com/machines.php?olivettim18p
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   by alex_young 9mo ago

   An Open Letter to Hobbyists has a similar ring to it: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/su...
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   by alex_young 9mo ago

   I’m not sure I follow. What if LLMs are helpful but not useful to AGI, but some other technology is? Seems likely.
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   by alex_young 9mo ago

   Where is Vienam? Probably next to Camboia?
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    by alex_young 9mo ago

    In lieu of complaining about the downvotes, I’ll just quote George Santayana: “ Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”
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    by alex_young 10mo ago

    IPv6 means no more NAT. Your home computer can have the same kind of network connection to the rest of the internet as the server at the AWS data center. ISPs do not want this. That is all you need to know about why you can’t have IPv6.
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    by alex_young 10mo ago

    Edgar Dijkstra called it nearly 50 years ago: we will never be programming in English, or French, or Spanish. Natural languages have not evolved to be precise enough and unambiguous enough. Semantic ambiguity and language entropy will
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    by alex_young 10mo ago

    Doesn't Claude already use RAG on the backend?
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    by alex_young 10mo ago

    Lost humanity is right, and it stems from lost community. During the Great Financial Crisis astute observers pointed to the loss of local bankers for most transactions as a component of the multifaceted structural causes. When you have your
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    by alex_young 10mo ago

    Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20251226204255/https://nhmu.utah...
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    by alex_young 10mo ago

    https://archive.ph/YVt2I
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    by alex_young 10mo ago

    Here’s a video I took of an eruption in June: https://youtu.be/BGOSSNy1hN0?si=MIFkW7MkRDxJ5tUr
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    by alex_young 11mo ago

    Wouldn’t all of the people watching this from Vegas and LA count? More disturbingly, around 600,000 people in Japan.
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    by alex_young 11mo ago

    73% of AI blog post statistics are bogus. Subscribe to learn more.
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    by alex_young 11mo ago

    Yep, I meant to reply to myself. I was pointing out that the typo in my first comment could have been caught by an LLM.
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    by alex_young 11mo ago

    Maybe indeed an LLM would have caught my little faux pas, or perhaps invented a more eloquent one.
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    by alex_young 11mo ago

    …Sumerian, written in cuneiform, was humanity's first writing system. A language that hasn't been spoken in four thousand years. The same question circles again: Why am I doing this? Why am I trying to learn Sumerian, a l
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    by alex_young 1y ago

    There seems to be rather little evidence to back up this claim…
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    by alex_young 1y ago

    I love the narrative storytelling here, but the takeaways seem somewhat obvious. Lights on towers mean stuff, especially to airplanes. Lights are required for tall towers, and get this, towers next to airports. You can guess how tall a towe
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    by alex_young 1y ago

    If people are developing allergies to food, isn’t a logical first step to not expose babies to the allergens? It seems logical. It turns out to be exactly backwards.
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    by alex_young 1y ago

    It's not down time, it's degradation. No outage, just degradation of a fraction[0] of the resources. [0] Fraction is ~ 1
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    by alex_young 1y ago

    Presumably this little girl’s parents were arrested. What’s next for her? Hope she’s somewhere safe.
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    by alex_young 1y ago

    Definitely the tunnels. Buildings would need to be made out of lead or something. No windows.
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    by alex_young 1y ago

    Idk about all that, but the Smurfs are probably commies right? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jun/06/smurfs-accused...
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    by alex_young 1y ago

    Paywall free URL: http://web.archive.org/web/20250902215913/https://www.cnbc.c...