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by calpaterson 6mo ago
Interesting process. I wonder if he considered doing this with Anki. That would have given him a good SRS algo for free and Anki cards are also HTML+CSS+JS. I probably wouldn't try to put LLM calls onto my cards though
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by calpaterson 6mo ago
> The only oversight I think in the proposal is staggered distributions so that projects declare a UUID and the distribution queue progressively makes it available rather than all or nothing That is indeed an oversight - I wish I had tho
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Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider(calpaterson.com)
3 points by calpaterson 6mo ago|3 comments
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Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider(calpaterson.com)
2 points by calpaterson 6mo ago|1 comments
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by calpaterson 6mo ago
Fair, but it is part of a pretty large library system and you can order whatever you want to pickup at Oodi
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by calpaterson 6mo ago
I have heard of more than a few horror stories including filesystems lost and force pushes done. These tools have only been in use for a short time and the current harnesses/system prompts are quite limited. Claude code is mostly limit
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by calpaterson 6mo ago
And yet I could tell them apart with pretty good confidence. Why?
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by calpaterson 6mo ago
I got 8/9. Been away 2 years. The ones I rarely used or which don't have obvious "tells" that are hardest. For me, Jubilee is the most obvious - very distinctive sound.
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by calpaterson 7mo ago
Yes, I of course link to this post, which I think is great. But I think actually it understates the case. All three parts of the trifecta (untrusted content, private data and external comms) are not necessary. Really, the key problem is
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by calpaterson 7mo ago
I agree and one of the things that makes it harder to handle "disregard that!" is that many models for LLM deployment involve positioning the agent centrally and giving it admin superpowers. I mention in the footnotes that I think
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by calpaterson 7mo ago
Sometimes. That's the whole problem, in short.
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by calpaterson 7mo ago
I thought about mentioning fine-tuning. Obviously as you say there are some costs (the re-training) and then also you lose the general purpose element of it. But I am still unsure that it actually is robust. I feel like you're still
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An oral history of Bank Python (2021)(calpaterson.com)
1 points by calpaterson 7mo ago|0 comments
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by calpaterson 8mo ago
Yeah I have been able to use it as a complete novice with CAD, albeit making planning out quite simple household things. I feel like most of the opinions about FreeCAD online are out of date, since at least 1.0 if not later. I mainly use it
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by calpaterson 8mo ago
The Barbican is similar in many ways: a place that people either like or dislike depending on subjective personal preference but objectively has never actually worked very well. cf this programme from the BBC Archive: https://www
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by calpaterson 8mo ago
A shame. It's a huge complex of fairly sparse buildings right in the centre of the capital city. Listing it just puts big obstacles in front of changing it, which I really wish we could do. People just like how it looks but actually
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by calpaterson 8mo ago
You're taking about statistical averages but I'm talking about a significant minority of over-70s who are wildly dangerous. Most of them only stop driving when they cause an accident. Sometimes its a serious one. There are alread
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by calpaterson 8mo ago
> If they can improve, then why not? I'm talking about removing licences due to cognitive decline. It's not a temporary condition
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by calpaterson 8mo ago
Unfortunately what is needed are tests of driving ability. Most over-70s are significantly worse than the average driver and some are so dangerous they shouldn't be on the road at all. Politically very difficult to take people's l
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by calpaterson 8mo ago
Works well in some cases (eg some language learning patterns - but not all) but not in others. And even when you "create your own cards" you're usually using resources from elsewhere - eg native speaker audio on language car
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by calpaterson 8mo ago
"I thought part of the learning process is really engaging with the cards" I would substitute "the material" for "the cards" in this sentence. Making the cards yourself is one way to do that, but it's not
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by calpaterson 8mo ago
Longtime anki user here. I think the thing people never appreciate with flashcards is that deck maintenance is real work. And in many cases, it's not work that you can do yourself as a learner of the material: the deck really needs t
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by calpaterson 9mo ago
Finland has a whole national ID system, all interlinked. They aren't going to be scanning faces to implement this stuff here - and anyway the government here already knows what you look like.
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by calpaterson 9mo ago
The American LLMs notoriously have similar censorship issues, just on different material
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David Webb (Webb-site.com) has died(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by calpaterson 9mo ago|0 comments
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by calpaterson 9mo ago
> fruit is significantly more expensive than snacks This is a commonly repeated claim but it's usually not true. Fruit is, in fact, pretty cheap: In the US, bananas average $1.68/kilo: https://www.numbeo.com/co
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by calpaterson 10mo ago
No, it is significantly more difficult in other EU countries, yes. Here in Finland for example the process is actually no different than for a non-EU migrant (same amount of time taken for an unproblematic application, same amount of appoin
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by calpaterson 11mo ago
A lot of people are too proud to be associated with PHP. I am ready to admit that know nothing about the language except that a lot of people make cool things with it. My favourite PHP product at the moment is BookStack ( https:/&#x2F
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by calpaterson 11mo ago
Definitely one of the weaker areas in the current LLM boom. Comparing models, or even different versions of the same model, is a pseudo-scientific mess. I'm still using https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard . Perhaps there i
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The Python Software Foundation is facing significant financial challenges(pyfound.blogspot.com)
2 points by calpaterson 11mo ago|0 comments

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