birdsongs

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by birdsongs 6d ago
My speaking only got better after speaking a lot with native speakers, just, a lot. And focusing hard on vowel sounds. In Norwegian specifically those kill a lot of understanding. If you can't immerse by living there, I really liked 1:
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by birdsongs 7d ago
The frustration goes away with time. It's always going to be slightly more friction and that's worse when tired, etc, but the cost becomes less. As someone who's done a second language to fluency past 30 years old, the larges
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by birdsongs 7d ago
Same, the marketing absolutely got me.
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by birdsongs 9d ago
No idea why you're downvoted, it's been shown constantly that models carry forwards biases from training data, and most of the global "dataset" is filled with these biases. It could go either way, really, but taking the
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by birdsongs 9d ago
> of dead randomness of nature I think I disagree. Have you ever been in a dense , old forest? It's an extraordinarily complex system of life and death, and I don't think it's bland dead randomness. Maybe that's me b
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by birdsongs 11d ago
The russian shadow fleet, you mean, illegally operating against sanctions imposed for the invasion of a sovereign nation and the use of war crimes? Yeah, they're going to get seized. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R
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by birdsongs 11d ago
> Europe is not a country I'm just using your own words, my dude: > It seems like Russia is everything Europeans think about daily. >Every each case when Ukraine has used European weapons to attack Russia; also every case when
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by birdsongs 11d ago
Do you mean here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukrai... Or here, where Russia just annexed parts of Europe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_war Or perhaps o
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by birdsongs 11d ago
> It seems like Russia is everything Europeans think about daily. Brilliant reply. Maybe if they stop attacking half of Europe, we'll stop thinking about them daily.
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by birdsongs 11d ago
My whole company (I hate it).
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by birdsongs 12d ago
> Sure it works fine because you havent yet experienced how much better it can be. Better in what way, though? It solved my problem, without issue, in a very elegant way. Perhaps I could tweak and optimise to make it solve it slightly fa
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by birdsongs 12d ago
I mean, thanks, but the PR was 60 lines of code and I've been doing this for over a decade, so I know how to critically evaluate the output. I don't want to do this, for what it's worth. But my company has gone all in, I&#x
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by birdsongs 12d ago
I think I'm just slightly higher level, it seems. I don't give it small tasks, I give it ticket level prompts and let it decide what to do. (It being frontier models). I don't have a harness or prompt. Just VS code integratio
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by birdsongs 12d ago
Tbf, didn't read the article because it isn't applicable to me. I don't use system prompts or memory, I just use models stock and write the problem out. Is it really 250k? I had a long running autonomous Astra session today t
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by birdsongs 13d ago
There's been a lot of changed titles recently, and it is quite annoying. I feel like that used to get corrected.
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by birdsongs 23d ago
Oh I already posted elsewhere here about this! Hah. I absolutely hate the font.
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by birdsongs 26d ago
People get really upset/defensive about this topic, I've discussed it IRL with colleagues and in other spaces. I don't know really why I said that, probably just hedging against crummy replies.
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by birdsongs 26d ago
I've gotten the same advice and I hate it, I agree with you completely. My brain can't tell the difference between this and a person, regardless of what's actually there (humans anthropomorphize everything, this is in our nat
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by birdsongs 26d ago
> These things are like teenagers who just discovered Ayn Rand. They're infuriating. I mean, look at their creators. (tongue-in-cheek)
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by birdsongs 26d ago
> The other day, it was a little like Claude was trying to find a loophole for ignoring my instructions, and being punchy about it: This is exactly how it works for me. Rules and requests are constraints and it will take every unconstrai
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by birdsongs 26d ago
> Yesterday Claude Code made 5 large edits to my codebase in planning mode (claims it used a bash script instead of standard read/write tools so the guardrails didn't trigger) it's why I put agents in containers. More and
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by birdsongs 26d ago
Thank you, should be top comment.
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by birdsongs 26d ago
I loathe how difficult Matrix is for normal people though. It's a nightmare to find a client, get an account, connect to your server, set up push notifications, and then navigate to a chat, much less set up encryption. Fine for us, m
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by birdsongs 27d ago
We used to degauss the CRTs because it looked cool and there was nothing else to do. Very adjacent to watching the defrag window maximised. I did it in computer lab and showed others and the teacher lost it, thought we were breaking things.
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by birdsongs 1mo ago
I don't need to provide anything, I'm not the one making claims. (Especially ones as wild as this.) That's... That's not how discourse works.
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by birdsongs 1mo ago
> See: modern liberal society and feminisim which leads to population collapse and destruction of the civilizations that embrace it. I would absolutely love any kind of reputable source on this.
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by birdsongs 1mo ago
Fine. We're already meeting the goals for free by virtue of building a secure product and infrastructure from the start. (Read: a good product.) When risk assessments and certs are required and roll out (1.5 years from now), we'll
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by birdsongs 1mo ago
This is so disingenuous. I've been part of two Norwegian hard tech startups in the past few years (one as a founder, one currently as an embedded lead) and all it took was our mech engineer (which you will always need) making an access
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by birdsongs 1mo ago
Reason number xxx that I never plan to return permanently. The longer I'm away the more bonkers things seem there.
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by birdsongs 1mo ago
Does it matter whether it meets the criteria of what you define as "intelligent" when the "next token predictor" throws a backdoor into openssh?

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