apical_dendrite

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by apical_dendrite 6d ago
Yes, look up NVA vet. They own 1000+ vet practices but they all sound like small, local businesses.
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by apical_dendrite 6d ago
That's one model of private equity, but PE has also been buying up very successful local businesses in areas like veterinary care. The PE firm keeps the name and branding of the local vet because people have traditionally wanted to tak
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by apical_dendrite 18d ago
Their own tweets are also pretty eyebrow-raising: > One option we discussed was that Tristan could be the lead author on a rewrite of OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes proof. It is in that context that I said “it would be simpler if Levent was not
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Sen. Kennedy rails against AI developers as 'high IQ stupid people'(politico.com)
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by apical_dendrite 28d ago
AI seems to compound this issue. One person can appear incredibly productive, say by submitting a huge volume of PRs, but that can slow down the rest of the team by deluging them with PRs and operational issues that they have to solve.
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by apical_dendrite 1mo ago
This is just wrong. A lot of people take tremendous pride in their work. Particularly highly-skilled people who have been doing the work for a long time. Joe Biden used to say this all the time - that a job is more than a paycheck, it'
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by apical_dendrite 1mo ago
With one colleague, I was leaving PR comments and he would just put my feedback into the AI and paste its response. So I decided to cut out the middleman and now I just @cursor and tell it to trim unnecessarily long comments.
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by apical_dendrite 2mo ago
Please provide a source. Also, are you also so sneering about the famine relief and AIDS treatment work that USAID was doing?
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by apical_dendrite 2mo ago
Is it a weakness of the individual or is it a systemic issue where management sees how fast a single task can be "completed" with AI so they set goals that can only be achieved if you offload everything to AI and then fall into th
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by apical_dendrite 2mo ago
We're currently wasting a lot of time cleaning up slop created by overusing AI. The loop is: developer uses AI to create a huge amount of code very quickly. But the developer didn't understand the underlying system very well so th
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by apical_dendrite 2mo ago
It's really important to define what "people who can leverage AI" means. I've found that using AI judiciously with close human supervision provides an advantage, but using the latest models with the latest harnesses can
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by apical_dendrite 2mo ago
There are so many other factors. Will people be pissed if they expected your output and got AI slop instead? Will you lose context on something that you really need to understand?
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by apical_dendrite 2mo ago
There are so many contradictions in this statement that either the person who wrote it is completely muddle-headed, or just a bad liar. > Nothing about our core business has changed – it remains strong and consistent a few paragraphs lat
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by apical_dendrite 2mo ago
I think this is a category error. Homer is the iconic writer of the Ancient Greek language and culture, not the modern nation of Greece. Cervantes and Dante are the iconic writers in the Spanish and Italian languages, respectively, not the
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by apical_dendrite 2mo ago
Do you consider Frost inaccessible (or for that matter politically-charged)? I think every kid who grows up in New England reads him in elementary or middle school.
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by apical_dendrite 2mo ago
As long as the leadership of AI companies and the prominent AI researchers are talking about P(doom) and eliminating 50% of white collar jobs, there will be a backlash. As long as the leadership of corporate America is using AI usage in per
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by apical_dendrite 2mo ago
@dang I don't understand why we're talking about some random posts from 12 years ago. I made a very simple point in the comments here - the headline and article make extraordinary, shocking claims that are not supported by the tex
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by apical_dendrite 3mo ago
@dang you want to weigh in here? Not really sure how you have a productive conversation when one party says that not only will they consider that anyone who disagrees with them is acting on bad faith, but they intend to disregard all rules
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by apical_dendrite 3mo ago
This is factually wrong. Israel is a "major non-NATO ally" https://www.state.gov/major-non-nato-ally-status Where in the text do you see anything about a "merger"? Bilateral agreements to develop technol
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by apical_dendrite 3mo ago
To quote the HN guidelines: > Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombin
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by apical_dendrite 3mo ago
There's a reason this article doesn't actually quote the text of this provision. The text itself is pretty boilerplate and has nothing to do with a "merger" of the US and Israeli militaries. It basically just tells the S
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by apical_dendrite 3mo ago
This is fucking dystopian. You're telling me that the people that I hired and that I work with don't have any knowledge or opinions of any value, and 90% of the time I can just ask a machine instead of talking to them. If that&#x2
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by apical_dendrite 3mo ago
This drives me absolutely crazy. My colleagues send me huge PRs to review (say 2000+ lines). I don't just paste comments from the LLM, I ask the LLM to review it, but I also review it myself. I only include ideas from the LLM if I thin
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by apical_dendrite 3mo ago
From a business perspective, a company that trains it's LLMs to having boring, mainstream, generally-inoffensive views is a big selling point over whatever the hell Elon is doing.
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by apical_dendrite 3mo ago
The best Anthropic models on VendingBench2 are Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, and Sonnet 5. Opus 4.7 scored more than twice Fable 5 max. Fable 5 - Low outperforms Fable 5 - Max, with Opus 4.5 in the middle. This seems to break the narrativ
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by apical_dendrite 3mo ago
One massive change is that there is almost no ethnic food on these menus (unless you include French). I looked at some of the LA menus and there were zero Asian, Mexican, or Italian dishes. It's impossible to imagine today that you cou
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by apical_dendrite 3mo ago
A tongue sandwich is still pretty popular in some cultures. My parents and some of their friends served it sometimes when I was growing up.
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by apical_dendrite 3mo ago
Given the work that Meta does and the scale that they operate at, there are absolutely real concerns about providing internal access to the activity on someone's work computer. To take an extreme example, Meta has employees who investi
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by apical_dendrite 3mo ago
Typically "candid" in photography means something like spontaneous and unposed (and therefore capturing something honest about the subject rather than unrehearsed). It doesn't imply that the camera is hidden, they just hid it
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by apical_dendrite 3mo ago
I don't know that one, but I do know gargantuan, and pantagruelian, which come from a 17th century novel by Rabelais as well as yahoo and Lilliputian, which come from a 1726 novel by Swift.

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