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by apothegm 1y ago
1. Because solving those problems isn’t a priority in terms of how to spend finite funds. 2. Because most people don’t know that there is such a field as library science let alone that what librarians are trained to do isn’t about borrowing
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by apothegm 1y ago
Ask. Not about them. Ask as you would ask if you were interested in using AI the same way. “What are our company standards and expectations around the use of AI for X?” “What editing are we expected to do?” That should give you a better sen
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by apothegm 1y ago
Ultimately, there are no right and wrong programming languages (except Visual Basic, lol, or maybe PHP 3). Sometimes a language is wrong for a specific project, but there’s nothing wrong with any particular language preference. I find it hi
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by apothegm 1y ago
If you’re not doing it for enjoyment, why bother?
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by apothegm 1y ago
I was taught in C. Over 20 years ago. I’m massively faster in Python, and have been since about 6 weeks after I picked it up. It sounds to me like part of that for you is about familiarity and another part might be about the specific proble
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by apothegm 1y ago
For me it’s because I enjoy building useful things more than I enjoy futzing with the details of code. I could build something useful in C. Or I could spend the same amount of time building a dozen useful things in Python. With the added
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by apothegm 1y ago
Buy nothing groups, curb alerts, thrift stores.
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by apothegm 1y ago
Creative control. It is VERY difficult to get an AI to depict things exactly as you want. And it tends to bias toward existing associations even when instructed otherwise.
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by apothegm 1y ago
All they’re doing is checking how well their response matched the (status quo) response they expected. Reasoning models don’t think. They just recurse.
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by apothegm 1y ago
Because it literally is a mirror of the status quo. Training an LLM is having it memorize everything anyone has ever said on the internet (or a reasonable attempt at approximating that). It operates by returning an averaged out version of t
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by apothegm 1y ago
Some upper middle class and coastal; some minimum wage or on disability, scattered across rural areas and small to mid-sized non-coastal cities. Politically anywhere from totally disengaged to far left; mostly but not all express views that
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by apothegm 1y ago
Spot on. At least among the people I know.
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by apothegm 1y ago
It’s a quote from Battlestar Galactica.
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by apothegm 1y ago
Make a product that solves a burning need. Share it with friends and family. If it solves a real problem, it’ll spread. My brother’s friend just did this. My brother forwarded it to me and our dad. I can’t wait for it to graduate from this
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by apothegm 1y ago
Nah, the truly sad part is that the study had to be done AGAIN when the original paper suggesting a link was withdrawn decades ago and other studies have disproven any link over and over and over again. That funding could have been used for
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by apothegm 1y ago
CAC is the right test for people who already have identified that they have major risk factors such as metabolic syndrome/T2D, high cholesterol, etc. It identifies whether heart disease has already advanced enough that the risk factor
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by apothegm 1y ago
This is the sort of research that makes you wonder what more meaningful research could have been funded with the same money.
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by apothegm 1y ago
This, btw, is news because scooter-aggressor traffic deaths are vanishingly rare. Far more people are killed by cars on a weekly basis in SF, but it’s so common it doesn’t make the news. Scooters are still the less dangerous to pedestrians
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by apothegm 1y ago
If p is undecidable in that case, then p ==> q is false. The meaning of the statement p ==> q is that p is never true without q also being true.
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by apothegm 1y ago
It’s also an operational issue. If the machine won’t be able to work for two hours while the update completes (or 20 minutes while IT straightens things out), why not let the patient sit or lie somewhere less uncomfortable for a little bit?
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by apothegm 1y ago
Cryptocurrency mining.
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by apothegm 1y ago
If consciousness is emergent, this seems much more likely to produce consciousness than the LLM route. Raising the ethical implications of creating a brain in a jar and then controlling its inputs and using it to think for you.
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by apothegm 1y ago
Classes? You don’t need a LOT of options. Just at least one that’s better and more extensible than this pattern.
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by apothegm 1y ago
Those infuriate me so much when I need a slight modification to the behavior of a third party library. Leaves no option but forking. There are such better ways to achieve encapsulation in modern JS.
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by apothegm 1y ago
If I’m looking for images because I’m curious what a thing really looks like, it’s counterproductive to see AI’s “artist’s conception” of it, which is often anywhere between not particularly accurate and a picture of something else entirely
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by apothegm 1y ago
Most of the speed improvements these days seem to be in greater parallelization rather than raw clock speed. That doesn’t affect web browsing much beyond the first few threads. Meanwhile, web front ends are just plain heavy, and network lat
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by apothegm 1y ago
What is it about coding that you enjoy? Do you like perfecting the code? Do you like creating a finished product that’s useful to people? Do you like solving difficult puzzles? At 3 years, you’re probably leaving behind the part of your car
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by apothegm 1y ago
Air is a very poor heat conductor, and among the best insulators. The thermal paste conducts the heat much more quickly. If it’s not touching maximum surface area on the things you want to conduct heat between, and the heat has to dissipate
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by apothegm 1y ago
The metal frame of a MacBook is part of the cooling apparatus. If something in the heat conduction chain got messed up (see the earlier comment about freezers and thermal paste), the chips are unable to shed their heat into the frame the wa
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by apothegm 1y ago
Not only widespread but being endorsed by the head of the US agency that’s supposed to be responsible for preventing outbreaks.

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