coderatlarge

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by coderatlarge 3mo ago
well it’s widely understood that any large scale social media account is managed by a team and not the individual being represented and we seem broadly ok with that. what those teams produce is often vapid manipulative corporate bs which i
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by coderatlarge 3mo ago
i personally prompt to produce a baseline then re-prompt to tweak then re-re-prompt to re-order, then re-re-re-prompt to expand certain parts, then re-re-re-reprompt to properly cross reference internally , then re-re-re-re-reprompt to proo
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by coderatlarge 3mo ago
i wonder if you’re equally offended by a public figure hiring young people to ghost write for their social media accounts or their books etc
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by coderatlarge 3mo ago
prompt: if a family has four boys, would a bayesian conclude that their next child would most likely be a boy? fable taught me about the beta binomial and large observational studies that came down on both sides of the question about whethe
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by coderatlarge 3mo ago
curious to hear about your findings!
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by coderatlarge 3mo ago
i’m personally deriving a huge amount of value from the custom materials fable is assembling for me. for example i asked it to write a focused expository math paper on reed solomon to accompany an implementation module that it wrote for me.
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by coderatlarge 3mo ago
except for most other companies in the world.
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by coderatlarge 3mo ago
breaking some of these systems that humanity has been banging on for decades would be an elegant proof that the llms have outsampled us decisively. one word at a time, which is how we write too.
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by coderatlarge 3mo ago
i meant people who enjoy the idea of software even if they don’t necessarily need or enjoy the resulting software itself. it’s possible that some of the spreadsheet hacking has a similar flavor but lacks the natural language hook.
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by coderatlarge 3mo ago
i would make a similar argument for entrepreneurship and most things: do it only if you can’t bear the thought and reality of doing something else.
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by coderatlarge 3mo ago
i consider it as a very specialized subset (subgenre) of video games for a very narrow audience
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by coderatlarge 4mo ago
i use it primarily to enforce my personal conventions that are not super commonly followed in the wild. structure of comments at the top of .h , structure of bibliography in .tex, etc etc things that i would otherwise have to repeat periodi
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by coderatlarge 4mo ago
can i provision from within china or do i have to do it before i go there?
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by coderatlarge 4mo ago
looking forward to it!
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by coderatlarge 4mo ago
how do you plan to publish?
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by coderatlarge 4mo ago
do you offer non gfw esim for china?
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by coderatlarge 4mo ago
claude helped me build a functional visual modem (using the cameras and microphones/speakers) for mac/iPhone in about a day and <100 prompts. i’ve worked on mobile apps once 10 years ago and have never built one from scratch. i
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by coderatlarge 4mo ago
couldn’t the frontier labs simply compile their existing source code training data and have an assembly corpus to train on?
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by coderatlarge 4mo ago
how is “yemen” not a word??
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by coderatlarge 4mo ago
yes it may be valid for large values of “pretty soon”. the market is going to be irrational for as long as it likes :)
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by coderatlarge 4mo ago
your follow-up makes no difference to the main point under discussion : if you ask two different llms about a legal fact pattern and they independently reference the same law, then it is, in fact, more likely that the law is more relevant t
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by coderatlarge 4mo ago
if two llms independently cite the same law given a certain factual legal question then it generally makes it more likely that the law cited does, in fact, apply to the fact pattern in question ; i think you’re using “right” in a moral sens
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by coderatlarge 4mo ago
i suspect many licensed civil and other engineers may be looking at the currant situation as the moment when software people stop being able to just call themselves “engineers “ because they can type source code into an editor just like dra
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by coderatlarge 4mo ago
actually my feeling on this is that pretty soon unless you’re in the top 1% of performers for a software task it will become difficult to hold a role at a frontier company.
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by coderatlarge 4mo ago
I’m at the end of my career and got lucky to share your interests at the beginning of a specialist boom in your place i’d focus on delivering big wins for end-users via multiple roles ; i personally believe the days of being a specialist in
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by coderatlarge 4mo ago
I’ve seen passionate artisans waste way more time than focused, disciplined, mercenaries; i think it’s a situational choice
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by coderatlarge 4mo ago
testing is the new coding
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by coderatlarge 4mo ago
i don’t condone cheating but i also don’t blame anyone who follows a generally benign career path for its financial benefits.
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by coderatlarge 5mo ago
surely getting the same answer multiple ways suggests it is nore likely in the probability space?
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by coderatlarge 5mo ago
and yet: paternal filial cannibalism

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