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by colinhb 6mo ago
I have a lot of sympathy and affection for this project. When I started working in the US Congress in 2009, I was shocked there wasn't a more concerted effort to put US code in some kind of version control system. Over time (~15 years
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by colinhb 6mo ago
Thanks - appreciate it!
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by colinhb 6mo ago
Maybe something fossil-adjacent: - amber.dev - quarry.sh You’ll probably need to play with gTLDs to find something that works. Can also echo “scm” from fossil’s domain: - amberscm.dev Along with useX.com, Xhq.com, etc., patterns. Of the two
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by colinhb 6mo ago
Tangent - does anyone immediately recognise how this was typeset? I’m guessing it’s some kind of pandoc output? I read the original chapters online but appreciate this format.
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Generalist AI Doesn't Scale(daemonology.net)
2 points by colinhb 6mo ago|0 comments
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by colinhb 7mo ago
Wild! Fun to see 9p filesystem protocol continue to have a life in this form.
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Anthropic-backed super PAC spends $1.6M in primary race divided over datacenters(theguardian.com)
6 points by colinhb 8mo ago|0 comments
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by colinhb 8mo ago
From the intro section: > That's not an incremental improvement. That's a category change in how Claude Code navigates your code. I don’t know anything about the human(s) behind this project, assuming there are any, and intend
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Anthropic gives Opus 3 exit interview, "retirement" blog(anthropic.com)
43 points by colinhb 8mo ago|53 comments
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US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives(reuters.com)
546 points by colinhb 8mo ago|485 comments
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by colinhb 8mo ago
The article isn’t describing someone who learned the concept of sortable IDs and then wrote their own implementation. It describes copying and pasting actual code from one project into a prompt so a language model can reproduce it in anothe
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by colinhb 8mo ago
Quoting the article: > One trick I use constantly: for well-contained features where I’ve seen a good implementation in an open source repo, I’ll share that code as a reference alongside the plan request. If I want to add sortable IDs, I
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by colinhb 8mo ago
Did not replicate for me w/ Opus 4.6: https://imgur.com/a/4FckOCL
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by colinhb 8mo ago
Very much appreciated the internet's #1 dog-rating account covering this: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DUlye8NETR3/
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by colinhb 10mo ago
Skipped the metaverse, slotted between the two
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Story of a Beijing Vibe Coder(afraw.substack.com)
2 points by colinhb 11mo ago|0 comments
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by colinhb 1y ago
Can it self-drive a Tesla?
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by colinhb 1y ago
Neat. When working in a linguistics lab as an undergraduate long ago, we looked at spectrograms to identify sounds (specifically places of articulation) as much as listened to recordings. So it makes some sense to build a model on them rath
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by colinhb 1y ago
> is a polynomial inequality in 26 variables, and the set of prime numbers is identical to the set of positive values taken on by the left-hand side as the variables a, b, …, z range over the nonnegative integers. I hadn’t heard of this
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Example LLM code dysfunction – Go methods(gist.github.com)
2 points by colinhb 1y ago|0 comments
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by colinhb 2y ago
It's difficult to draw meaningful conclusions from country-level differences like this, especially when the countries are as dissimilar as the U.S. (pop. 340M) and Singapore (pop. 4M). Looking specifically at PISA, it's not usuall
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'King of the geeks': how Alex Gerko built a British trading titan(ft.com)
2 points by colinhb 2y ago|0 comments
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by colinhb 2y ago
Ah got it - pinned notes float to the top FWIW agree with your call on not building too many organisational tools in Thanks again for sharing; look forward to trying it out
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by colinhb 2y ago
Thanks for the clarification, still haven’t really played with it, but take it these are the mechanics (not the workflow)… * You have a big chronologically ordered list of notes * By default, all notes are in view * You can make a title (i
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by colinhb 2y ago
Looks great! One thing I’d suggest (which still isn’t clear to me but interested enough to investigate later): make the note taking workflow clear… * Is this a bunch of titled markdown docs organized (conceptually) into folders/hierarc
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by colinhb 2y ago
Archive link: https://archive.is/zwJbj This piece is responding to an Economist op-ed by Bret Taylor and Larry Summers representing the OpenAI board, and comes to many of the same conclusions I did. - Economist: https:&#x2
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Disturbing and misleading efforts to defame Helen Toner through misdirection(garymarcus.substack.com)
23 points by colinhb 2y ago|1 comments
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by colinhb 2y ago
Archive link (for paywall): https://archive.is/rwRju Key paragraphs... > The review’s findings rejected the idea that any kind of ai safety concern necessitated Mr Altman’s replacement. In fact, WilmerHale found that “th
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Bret Taylor and Larry Summers respond to former OpenAI board members(economist.com)
2 points by colinhb 2y ago|1 comments
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AI firms mustn't govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI's board(economist.com)
5 points by colinhb 2y ago|1 comments

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