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by arscan 1y ago
David Byrne is currently on tour and my wife took me to the show as a bit of a backup plan (her usual concert-going friends fell through). I think concerts are okay, but I usually get bored after awhile, which is why I serve as a backup gue
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by arscan 1y ago
Hmmm, I think it’s a bit paradoxical to try to come up with a fun term to encourage the spread of the concept, as the concept itself is quite dull by definition. It’s just software engineering. Boring process stuff where you do a bunch of o
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by arscan 1y ago
> but ChatGPT did it in 10min with some back and forth You might be underestimating the expertise you applied in these 10 minutes. I know I often do. > it's a toy example This technology does exceptionally well on toy examples, I
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by arscan 1y ago
I’m not an expert on American history, but this attitude feels a bit like a modern day adaptation of ‘manifest destiny’.
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by arscan 1y ago
its pretty easy to dispute and dismiss a single use case for indiscriminate/excessive use of inference to achieve some goal, as you have done here, but its hard to dispute every possible use case
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by arscan 1y ago
I also think it’s fashionable to have a smaller headcount these days. Historically, the dynamics of businesses encouraged rising headcounts, as ICs weren’t as valued as managers (salary caps basically, as impact for ICs is hard to measure u
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by arscan 1y ago
The story that I’ve heard (probably on here) is that the administration did it to make the tax bill look more balanced over the long term by phasing out that tax write-off, while giving them (or the next administration) time to reverse it b
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by arscan 1y ago
> Honestly, I was less than half as useful as the current crop of robots and they still tolerated (in fact, encouraged) my involvement. Don’t sell yourself short. External contributors are extremely valuable as they are often users and p
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by arscan 1y ago
Thanks for this. Browsing the latest sierra, microprose, etc games at the local egghead store was my absolute favorite thing to do as a kid. It was in a strip mall next to an actual mall, so my parents would get me to go along on shopping t
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by arscan 1y ago
The feedback loop from potential developer users of your API is excruciatingly slow and typically not a process that an API developer would want to engage in. Recruit a bunch of developers to read the docs and try it out? See how they used
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by arscan 1y ago
> Protocols and standards like HTML built around "be liberal with what you accept" have turned out to be a real nightmare. This feels a bit like the setup to the “But you have heard of me” joke in Pirates of the Caribbean [2003
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by arscan 1y ago
I have many fond memories of this game. Of course it had all the issues that existed in that genre — in particular it was easy to get stuck… forever. But being a kid back then with a lot of free time and not many other distractions it was g
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by arscan 1y ago
A danger with the arrangement of this article is that it takes awhile to get to the point, which actually in line with your view. He hints at it in the title and the very next paragraph, but maybe you didn’t get that far? > And this week
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by arscan 1y ago
I’ve been thinking of LLMs a bit like a credit-card-for-the-mind, it reduces friction to accessing and enabling your own expertise. But if you don’t have that expertise already, be careful, eventually it’ll catch up to you and a big bill wi
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by arscan 1y ago
Say what you will about the language, but I’ve come to appreciate how important it is to stick up for your users/customers, which is what Linus is doing here. It’s not ok to inconvenience them without an extraordinarily good reason to
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by arscan 1y ago
An aside, but it’s quite unfortunate that logger.info and logging.info are automatically linkified because of the .info TLD in this case. I don’t recommend clicking on those links.
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by arscan 1y ago
> Looking at the kind of mistakes Claude made, it seemed like a human could make those mistakes too (very useful feedback for us to improve our API ). This is something we've found for our API -- just having LLMs attempt to use it h
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by arscan 1y ago
This setup is also compatible with GitHub CodeSpaces, which I think is an exceptionally nice development experience if you are on something like a Chromebook, and gives you isolation from your local network. Also lets you share your app run
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by arscan 1y ago
There was an episode of Car Talk where a caller described this exact situation. In that case, for the model in question, there were only so many varieties of keys made, so you could use your key on some other cars.
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by arscan 1y ago
There was a time when Microsoft Word would treat the passive voice in your writing with the same level of severity as spelling errors or major grammatical mistakes. Drove me absolutely nuts in high school.
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by arscan 1y ago
What is the temperature on either side of this “wall”? My mental model here, which is probably incorrect, is that the “temperature” on the outside of the wall could be higher but the density is much lower, thus even less heat transfer going
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by arscan 1y ago
In other words, people are discovering the value of standard software engineering practices. Which, I think is a good thing.
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by arscan 1y ago
FWIW, the 19th century style dataset this is trained on doesn't seem to have any examples of delve [1], with the exception of: > It was into that bank that the creature had worked its way, and on listening I could hear it delving an
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by arscan 1y ago
I very much agree with this. Find a job where you can meaningfully contribute to a product that is important to your company (generates a meaningful amount of revenue), and after a little while the natural thing that happens is you become i
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by arscan 1y ago
And for the curious, this current iteration of AI is an amazing teacher, and makes a world-class education much more accessible. I think (hope) this will offset any kind of over-intellectual dependence that others form on this technology.
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by arscan 1y ago
Very cool, the interactivity of this makes this a much better learning tool than a set of static images (for me, at least). One minor suggestion: on mobile put the date scrubber on the bottom, otherwise my thumb gets in the way of the UI wh
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by arscan 1y ago
Hah, this is about the ~2010 Google ai contest “planet wars”. I participated in the 2011 iteration, ‘ants’, which was a fun but humbling experience. Anyone else try that? I recall the final winner’s solution was far less elegant than I ex
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by arscan 2y ago
Good ones are expensive to create and turns out there isn’t that much money in it. It wasn’t clear this was the case early on when HTML5 came out and really enabled these experiences. But after you make a few and realize how much goes into
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by arscan 2y ago
To technical people, sure. I don’t think the average person knows about provenance rules of subdomains though and how it’s useful… it’s more just a bunch of symbols they don’t care about. And we understand the threats here… a very real prob
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by arscan 2y ago
URLs are a part of the UX of websites. The domain often represents the first interaction between the user and the site. Domains that follow a strict hierarchical structure that aligns to some real-world hierarchy may not be the best first i

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