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by breck 3y ago
> You could even use LLMs to accelerate the process. Maybe LLMs are a good thing that makes your work easier! Oh I 100% agree. LLMs are amazing. Plenty of neural agents in my brain are on board. I use them everyday to work on problems in
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by breck 3y ago
The real-time, nicely designed view of it as shown in the screenshots looks interesting.
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by breck 3y ago
> Fuzzing instead of traditional types. In Candy, functions have to specify their needs exactly. As you type, the tooling automatically tests your code with many inputs to see if one breaks the code This is a neat idea and the screenshot
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by breck 3y ago
> individuals ‘dig their heels’ into protecting their own pet project/baby/solution/etc, mainly due to ego. Guilty of this. I worked for about a decade on a pet project to find a new family of computer languages designed f
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Fast Biology(press.asimov.com)
1 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
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Why do we subsidize fiction?(breckyunits.com)
3 points by breck 3y ago|2 comments
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by breck 3y ago
https://enhanced.org/
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Are CEOs Born Leaders? Lessons from Traits of a Million Individuals (2015) [pdf](hbs.edu)
1 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
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by breck 3y ago
I think Quora died because the premise was flawed: that high quality repositories of words would have a strong ROI near indefinitely. Now it is clear there is a new thing in our world (LLMs), and turns out repositories of well crafted words
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by breck 3y ago
I was an early adopter of 23andMe. I bought many as presents and recommended it to many, many people. I even bought some stock after the SPAC (not the best investment :)). I have no regrets, and still rooting for them. There is something ma
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There is way too much serendipity(lesswrong.com)
3 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
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by breck 3y ago
> I doubt we will have AGI by even 2100...Fundamentally I believe AGI will never happen without a body. I think this is very plausible--that AI won't really be AGI until it has a way to physically grow free from the umbilical chord
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World Brain(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
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A Planet of Parasites and the Problem with God(joyfulpessimism.com)
35 points by breck 3y ago|86 comments
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Making small games, which is fun in itself(abagames.github.io)
424 points by breck 3y ago|83 comments
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by breck 3y ago
> How does that benefit the author? You speak of "the author". But the current system does not benefit "the author". 1% of authors profit off copyright. 99% lose money on copyright (they pay more for copyrighted media
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by breck 3y ago
> why we feel it's OK to pirate news articles, but not other IP Who thinks this? I don't. I think copyright is wrong across the board. I would love if the same pattern of posting archive'd articles held for books, movies,
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Standard Template Construct(libstc.cc)
1 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
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by breck 3y ago
I'm curious if the ketogenic diet is regularly presented as a treatment option to those with epilepsy or is it primarily meds?
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by breck 3y ago
https://archive.vn/NVMny
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The Average Human Body Temperature Is Not 98.6 Degrees(nytimes.com)
5 points by breck 3y ago|2 comments
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by breck 3y ago
Interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13CZPWmke6A&t=5206s
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The Enhanced Games(enhanced.org)
2 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
864.
by breck 3y ago
I always assumed the Titanic went down further north. Didn't know there were icebergs that far south. Edit: they float there https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wea.2...
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by breck 3y ago
> the problem of making the form easy to understand (does it use language that’s easy to understand? omit fields they already have the answers to?) Great feedback, thanks! You are right, I basically just said "we should have TCP&#x2
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Elo Everything(eloeverything.co)
16 points by breck 3y ago|2 comments
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by breck 3y ago
Good point. I think mods of big subs should be required to be non-anonymous. BUT, they should also be paid because it is a ton of work. At the very least some kind of stipend. It does surprise me if Reddit was not paying the mods of top sub
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by breck 3y ago
This is my experience as well. Life changing if done on occasion (every few years in my experience). Some of the best days of my life (warning: every time I do them I start by seeing some seriously scary monsters before my positivity takes
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by breck 3y ago
The scientific models of the past were so dumb. Like the ancient Humoral Theory, which modeled health as `health = fn(blood, phlegm, yellow bile, blackBile)`. Or models like Ayurveda which is roughly `health = fn(Vata, Pitta, Kapha)`. Moder
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by breck 3y ago
Good question. The size of the problem will vary greatly by individual and their location. Do you live somewhere with a well run government operation? I'm currently dealing with a complicated situation in California. I live 2,600 miles

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