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by crackrook 1y ago
I believe the false perception that geopolitics are cyclical is a major contributor to the political apathy that allows clowns to get elected, or it seems strongly correlated, at least. Some doors can't be shut, once opened, and the cu
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by crackrook 2y ago
The hypothesis is that knowing a person's voting activity helps one to predict that individual's values. I don't think the parent is claiming that the values that might be revealed by a 10 minute conversation are a predictor
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by crackrook 2y ago
Do you truly believe this will happen? I know these are crazy times but the idea of a then-82 year old man realizing a third term for himself seems a little absurd to me. Or do you mean this in a less literal sense, e.g. in the sense that h
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by crackrook 2y ago
At least the author isn't subtle about it? > Mix formal terminology with conspiratorial tone https://github.com/voynow/chat-with-jfk-files/blob/main/src%...
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by crackrook 2y ago
I don't mean to nitpick but I'm not arguing that it's burdensome or difficult to remember. I meant it when I said: > once you know what the rule is I agree that it makes access control obvious The rule is memorable and gro
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by crackrook 2y ago
What is it that you strongly disagree with? That it's silly? I never said it was wrong or harmful, once you know what the rule is I agree that it makes access control obvious - it's just a bit atypical for the capitalization of sy
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by crackrook 2y ago
I'm not angry about it but the fact that Go uses capitalization for access control is just so silly to me. Like something a child might design when figuring out how to hide secrets in a note.
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by crackrook 2y ago
In my view the core problem is the lack of proper sum types. Using product types to represent results seems fundamentally wrong; the vast majority of procedures only have 2 possible outcomes -- they fail or they don't -- 2 of the 4 out
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by crackrook 2y ago
Democracy isn't binary and doesn't start and end with elections. It is not democratic, for instance, for a president to subvert the powers of Congress (whose members also won their elections).
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by crackrook 2y ago
I've written a fair amount of Gleam for personal projects at this point and I actually really like `use` when the alternative is excessive indentation / callback hell. That said, I do feel like its existence is a bit contradictory
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by crackrook 2y ago
> Do you need a comment to tell what a member function called postOrderMessageToEventBroker does? Obviously not and the comment you're replying to hasn't asserted otherwise. They say, clearly, that comments should explain the _
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by crackrook 2y ago
I see, that clarifies things for me, it's not quite like the example I gave then. Even so, doesn't informing the model of the fact that some "tools" are available, immediately before asking it a math problem (that would
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by crackrook 2y ago
What do you imagine `tools` is doing if not a system prompt? I suggest reading the documentation: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/tool-us... The vast majority of features that Anthropic a
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by crackrook 2y ago
This still doesn't get at the point, with this example you've effectively constructed a prompt along the lines of: "Note: A calculator is available upon request wink , here's how you'd use it: ... Now, what's
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by crackrook 2y ago
No individual Kaggle solution achieved a result of 81%, rather an ensemble of models: https://x.com/fchollet/status/1865865271728390515 In my (possibly flawed) interpretation: o3's scores appear to be an achi
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by crackrook 2y ago
I have no clue if AGI will look anything like today's LLMs but I don't think the information we have about o3 so far suggests that it's particularly earth shaking or even a significant step towards AGI. From the ARC announcem
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by crackrook 2y ago
Those are fair points, I didn't mean to imply that there are only negatives, and I don't consider myself to be in the former camp you describe as wanting nothing to do with these "interns". I shouldn't have stuck wi
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by crackrook 2y ago
What I meant to say was that the model uses the verbiage of a maximally confident human. In my experience the interns worth having have some sense of the limits of their knowledge and will tell you "I don't know" or qualify i
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by crackrook 2y ago
I would hesitate to hire an intern that makes incorrect statements with maximum confidence and with no ability to learn from their mistakes.