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by baxtr 4mo ago
There is a nice book by Jonathan Haidt about this called The Happiness Hypothesis. He uses a "Elephant and Rider" psychological metaphor to describe the internal battle between our rational mind (the rider) and our emotional, intu
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by baxtr 4mo ago
FWIW creatine is "one of the most studied supplements for muscle and strength" . But at the same time "creatine’s brain benefits aren’t as exciting as social media makes them out to be. The research at this point just doesn
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by baxtr 4mo ago
Even within London people dislike each other! Saw many non-Arsenal fans cheering for PSG yesterday.
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Some companies use product managers for this purpose. They translate the implicit domain knowledge of those experts into explicit requirements, mostly through interviewing.
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So in essence: it got harder because the easier parts have been solved for?
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by baxtr 5mo ago
Good stuff! Is there a reason you change the leaderboard graphs for the third and fourth one? Also: would be great to have an overview page with a summary over all test, like a total score or similar.
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by baxtr 5mo ago
Agreed. I have a doc appointment app, where I like the notifications to be on for reminders etc. Lately they started sending marketing messages through that channel. Now I’m sure it’s possible to turn off the marketing messages. But I bet m
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by baxtr 5mo ago
Hotels should start giving 5-star reviews to their guests I suggest!
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by baxtr 5mo ago
Fair point. Reminds me of the Warren Buffet quote: If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
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Fun times. Although I find it hard to blame them tbh. They’re incentived to do so because apparently investors don’t understand the difference.
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How can you be sure Eric Schmidt is telling “the truth” and Wozniak is lying? What’s your rationale and on the basis for such a claim?
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So basically a tiny mall?
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by baxtr 5mo ago
To reframe your great comment: Is it fair to conclude that DRAM is basically a commodity that can be specified well enough by a set of parameters? If so it won’t allow you to get any competitive advantage in your products and thus wouldn’t
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by baxtr 5mo ago
it’s fair to be skeptical. But then again we already know that this wasn’t the case with search results. So not sure why we would assume it is this time around.
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by baxtr 5mo ago
Absolutely agree. But enforcing is so much more effort than creating wiki pages with LLMs.
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by baxtr 5mo ago
I’m pretty sure there is an policy on their internal wiki saying you shouldn’t do that. Problem is: most employees don’t care to read these. Although I’m sure something like this could have been checked for during commit.
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by baxtr 5mo ago
Today is the day the old internet died. RIP.
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"How We Think" by John Dewey [pdf](bef632.wordpress.com)
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by baxtr 5mo ago
It’s gotta be coins though. Most famous example was Louis XIV who created medals specifically to preserve French history for future archaeologists. At that time they realized that they knew almost everything about Romans and Greek through p
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by baxtr 5mo ago
This is one of the unfortunate topics where calculating the costs of providing something is very straightforward, but the benefits (apart from being a decent human being) are near impossible to quantify without making wild guesses about cau
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by baxtr 5mo ago
That’s a great meta point. Intellectual honesty, saying "I don’t know", for example, is only possible in low-politics environments. Otherwise, you make yourself vulnerable to the wolves.
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by baxtr 5mo ago
I wonder if the 1-6 pages are all AI written nowadays and if people are allowed to use AI to summarize the pages. Anyone know?
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by baxtr 5mo ago
I wonder if you’re filtering for the right things. We usually hire for problem solving capabilities and not so much for technical know-how. That’s at least how I read your comment.
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> The moral of the story is that, even though all exponentials eventually become sigmoids, this doesn’t necessarily happen at the exact moment you’re doing your analysis. Sometimes they stay exponential for much longer than that! All e
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by baxtr 5mo ago
What kind of risk do you see?
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by baxtr 5mo ago
Akshually… I’d say they’re not the same but related. Goodhart’s is a corollary of Charlie Munger’s quote.
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“Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome.” ― Charlie Munger
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by baxtr 5mo ago
Huh. We did? Could you share a link to a paper? Curious to find out about the "why".
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Writing code by hand but blog post are written by LLMs?
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I think the key question is: How can you be sure the supervisor/orchestrator agents are reliable? You are just pushing the complexity down into another layer.

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