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by argee 8mo ago
Early on in Amazon’s history (long before same day shipping), they added a feature that would tell you, on a product page, whether you had recently bought that same product. The metrics spoke loud and clear: it caused purchase count to go
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by argee 8mo ago
I don't know about some of those "incantations", but it's pretty clear that an LLM can respond to "generate twenty sentences" vs. "generate one word". That means you can indeed coax it into more verbo
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by argee 8mo ago
> What I mean by that is: after reading through a brief description of a project, or a conceptual overview, they are no better than noise at predicting whether it will be worthwhile to try out, or rewarding to learn about, or have a disc
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by argee 8mo ago
I have RSI issues with my wrists. It really helps to have split ortholinear keyboards, if only because I have trained on them specifically to type without moving my wrists whatsoever (using a miryoku layout), while old habits persist on a s
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by argee 8mo ago
The actual founder of Bitcoin cannot touch their money without causing a lot of panic in the market. I believe Coinbase's 2021 S-1 prospectus explicitly listed "the identification of Satoshi Nakamoto... or the transfer of Satoshi’
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by argee 8mo ago
In other words, AI raises the floor. If you were already near the ceiling, relying on it can (and likely will) bring you down. In areas where raising the floor is exceptionally good value (such as bespoke tools for visualizing data, or assi
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by argee 8mo ago
When you say "notes", "community notes" is definitely not the first thing that comes to my mind. On your landing page one either has to scroll down the length of three folds or read some very small print for the first me
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by argee 8mo ago
I see, thanks for the clarification!
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by argee 8mo ago
HN already has a mechanism for flagging posts. If flagging low effort/trivial show HN posts were normalized, I suspect it would work just fine: if a human can't easily decide whether or not to flag it, they likely wouldn't. A
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by argee 8mo ago
Even if you can rebuild it, it isn’t necessarily “open source” (see: commons clause). As far as these model releases, I believe the term is “open weights”.
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by argee 8mo ago
When I was growing up (millennial) it seemed to me that the default for smart young people drawn to technical problem solving was something like aerospace, software or hardware was more or less a fun hobby, like it was for Steve Wozniak. No
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by argee 8mo ago
Could you elaborate on this? I can’t tell whether you mean to say that open source projects run into user-initiated time sinks that detract from their productivity (which is arguably the case for any public facing project), or whether priva
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by argee 8mo ago
I looked into AI scribes when they were new, finding them interesting, and spoke to many doctors. Across the board, the preference was for a human scribe, the reason being that they actually take away cognitive load by learning to work with
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by argee 8mo ago
The original [0] that this is in response to, essentially posits that something you cannot afford to ignore is going on, especially if you work in a white collar job. Admittedly a little bit of FUD [1] is going on with the "AI is comin
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by argee 15y ago
I don't think that's it either as Google Earth shows that imagery as being dated 3/22/2001, whereas the compound was supposedly only built in 2005.