danielvaughn

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by danielvaughn 2mo ago
Armchair analysis here, of course, but I'd bet that it's due to the sources that model training tends to assume as authoritative. If you look broadly at the material produced by the (American) academic world, the corporate world,
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by danielvaughn 3mo ago
According to the post, the first computer was in their trailer, but there's an earlier scene where they're using a monitor to view the raptor bones in a tent at the dig site. Not sure if that counts but I'd like to have learn
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by danielvaughn 3mo ago
I didn't articulate it, but what I meant was that I think we could swap these expressions out for _anything_, and we'd still find them irritating.
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by danielvaughn 3mo ago
It was not intentional, and that's what makes this thing so weird. I wouldn't categorize my sentence that way because it's subtly different enough than the LLM version, which has a very punchy cadence.
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by danielvaughn 3mo ago
It's not that it uses certain phrases, it's that it settles on predictable speech patterns and uses them incessantly. What's funny is that humans do this too, but we don't find it irritating; we just call it a speaking s
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by danielvaughn 3mo ago
Love this. Years ago I had an idea for something _like_ this but for public murals/street art.
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by danielvaughn 3mo ago
I've been considering going back to vanilla javascript, given the current power of LLMs. It could become unreadable spaghetti, but it does that anyway with frameworks.
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by danielvaughn 3mo ago
This is really neat. Also, the 19th century was far more conflict-prone than I thought.
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by danielvaughn 3mo ago
oddly enough, since AI can be used to read and interpret written text, it could itself usher in a return to physical pen and paper.
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by danielvaughn 4mo ago
They shoot you because they themselves believe in it. The violence is downstream from the belief.
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by danielvaughn 4mo ago
I got into crypto in 2017 when I came across the phrase "money is a technology". That idea fascinated me. But fast forward several years later, and it's obvious that money might be a technology in the sense that it's a t
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by danielvaughn 4mo ago
I'm not criticizing CEOs, only mentioning them because they're at the helm and the ones calling the shots at companies. But the psychosis has hit pretty much everyone, of all intelligence ranges. Also, I'm genuinely excited a
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by danielvaughn 4mo ago
It's not the same crowd. I know some genuinely extremely intelligent people (can't go into specifics) who have gotten bit by AI psychosis. It's been wild to see.
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by danielvaughn 4mo ago
We're in a dangerous valley where AI is _just_ good enough to fool some otherwise very smart people. Similar to the old adage of "a little bit of information is a dangerous thing." Lots of CEOs got duped into thinking that mo
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by danielvaughn 4mo ago
I'm pretty sure the original comment is about Colombia's reputation for great coffee.
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by danielvaughn 4mo ago
The web has its own storied color, albeit a tragic one. Rebecca Purple is a named CSS color, which was added in tribute to Eric Meyer's daughter, who very sadly passed away at a young age. That shade was her favorite color. https:&#x2
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by danielvaughn 4mo ago
I'd support it at the federal level. It's cruel towards people looking for work, and it costs them real time at a point in their lives when time is such a critical factor.
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by danielvaughn 4mo ago
What will always be hard and useful is to observe people, find a problem they haven't solved, and then solve that problem for them. AI has not, and will not, make that easier or less useful.
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by danielvaughn 4mo ago
I'm building a browser for designers: https://matry.design/
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by danielvaughn 4mo ago
As an American, I'm totally out of the loop on this one but it sounds interesting. I assume Derbyshire has a reputation?
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by danielvaughn 4mo ago
It's not just for myself, but I'm primarily creating it for myself - it's a browser for designers. I work in code but I often want a figma-type interface to explore different ideas without having to branch or litter my codeba
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by danielvaughn 4mo ago
lol I'm more speaking to reliability than the quality of the interface. git and ffmpeg are not exactly known for the most intuitive API surface, but I don't think I've ever encountered a bug with them in my 17 years. That&#x2
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by danielvaughn 4mo ago
I know I must be underthinking this, but I really don't know why native toolkits can't just implement some codegen thing that takes XML and produces the above. Like, all of that should be expressable with just <graph>
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by danielvaughn 4mo ago
I do agree with you though. It feels like the industry has steadily been getting worse, AI is just like pouring kerosine on the fire. I'm almost embarrassed to call myself a software engineer now. On a small bright note, I've gott
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by danielvaughn 4mo ago
To be fair, "excited by the promise only to be disappointed by the reality of the implementation" describes ~95% of my experiences with all software over the last 20 years. In fact only a few exceptions really come to mind - git,
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by danielvaughn 4mo ago
That's all true - I taught myself how to code from 2009-2012 so I remember what it was like. However, around that time there was also deep focus on architecture, an obsessive focus on rendering performance and page weight. Everyone cou
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by danielvaughn 5mo ago
It's amazing how much more readable this format is. I love it.
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by danielvaughn 5mo ago
I hate it so much. It's one thing to lean on AI for complex or toilsome work, but to openly supplant your own ability to interact thoughtfully with another person. It should be embarrassing.
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by danielvaughn 5mo ago
the whole company was a shitshow; that was probably the least insane thing i was asked to do there.
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by danielvaughn 5mo ago
Given how much shit the web gets from native developers, yeah kinda? They make it seem like it's light years ahead of the web, often arrogantly so.

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