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by davidthewatson 3y ago
^^ THIS ^^ The middle road I've taken is that I use various consumer AI tools much the way I used the Macintosh or the Atari ST with MIDI when they showed up while I was in music school, as tools that may be used as augmentative techno
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
I was surprised recently when I changed up my HTML and PDF toolstack not just how good pandoc was, but the entire ecosystem that had emerged around pandoc including pandocomatic and pandoc-resume.
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
No problem on the book suggestion. Chutkan deserves the success she's had since that book shipped. The book is not an easy read. It requires a strong stomach, to say the least. I was lucky to have a doctor who was thoughtful enough to
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
This resonates given my love of dogs and the huge chain of complex events that likely connects the sewage plant effluent that fertilized the lawn where I lived as a child and my emergent disease states that followed. Ignoring the fact that
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Bosses Should Tell Employees to Slow Down More Often(wsj.com)
5 points by davidthewatson 3y ago|0 comments
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
To say I'm speechless is a mild understatement. Thanks so much for sharing upset given the context of my question! Their explication of Venn diagrams is exemplary and compelling, particularly the banana and the way the Venn is elucidat
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
Nice! Thanks. Has anyone used loop? Radial menu with keyboard trigger caught my eye.
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
This makes sense! However, as I've commented on other software like this, why are none of the examples style-free Venn diagrams? That is, black on white 3 circle overlapping each other in pairs with a single shared triangle intersectio
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The Emergence of ToM in LLMs(arxiv.org)
3 points by davidthewatson 3y ago|1 comments
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This has already been posted but I'm afraid the title may have kept it low in the SEO race that is hacker news. Of note: "Although the results from vanilla prompts and the user study build the illusion of ToM abilities in LL
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
It's interesting that the paper mentions Andy Clark's work and hallucinations in separate threads but doesn't connect Anil Seth's introduction of controlled hallucinations and Andy Clark's work on that topic: https
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
I realized that I'd finally accepted my habit of reading Ken Wilbur and others sideways an odd paragraph at a time when I saw your comment here. Thank you for the idea that my nonlinearity is ok with a tip of the hat to leo buscaglia.
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
That's right. It's been a problem in war for decades. I'm happy to see a return to the defensive survival evacuation and triage role for AI, CV, and robotics as opposed to the regression from that role into autonomous killing
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
Technical innovation in metallurgy plays a significant role. It's easy to say that things are a distraction, but it's also only true in retrospect, unless you're on a spectrum of Turing award winners or the like. It's no
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
Thanks for your response. There was plenty of innovation clear to anyone with the proximity and education to recognize it, but your questions raise intractable issues of the proprietary information of any large corporation. From my naive co
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
I've seen a lot of bad marketing copy, but this deserves to be placed on a pedestal of achievement for its tongue in cheek projection of how seriously they took the creation of such a funny thing: "The Fart Machine is not just any
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
I was asked to share a TA role on a graduate course in HPC a decade ago. I turned down the offer. After a cursory glance, I can honestly say that if this book were available then, I'd have taken the opportunity. The combination of what
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
I'm happy to see the link here as I was curious about the subject given that my career started in US Steel's data center in Pittsburgh. I'm saddened by the fact that this retelling seems mostly negative and ignores a large pa
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
The problem is that some medical devices are approved despite their being demonstrably deadly as they are designed, manufactured, shipped, and used without sufficient oversight by the governing body of apologists put in place to oversee the
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
This is amazing! I'm saying that as a long-time user of a desktop setup consisting of Lin-Mac-Win boxes arranged left-to-right for at least two decades. Polyglot is to programming languages as multi-platform is to hardware. Fortunately
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
Does anyone know if the libs discussed here can do a basic 3 circle Venn diagram with the intersection highlighted? I didn't see any Venn diagrams in the examples. Thanks!
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
What founders, managers, and engineers share is the team responsibility for founding, managing, and engineering the product and its value proposition. A product's value proposition may be mostly subjective but is easily made objective
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
Me too, especially when the underlying root cause is siloed communication arising from founder burnout or sheer disinterest not the supply of product management thinking. It's as if you needed the subtractive design thinking of the two
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
PDF shares a common property with computational complexity and robotics: the magical world of software is no longer free from physics, as if it ever was. Software has reciprocity in creating these illusions and destroying them.
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
I thought being emancipated from word docs was freedom until I realized the suffering brought on by a left field version of wkhtmltopdf no one uses but someone built and distributed via pamac AUR. In software, Hybridization is Postmodernis
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
The paradox is that hybrids have MORE potential trouble areas than ICE but less reported trouble. All hail McLuhan.
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
I have a Brother business-class (whatever that means) color laser printer sitting in my wife's home office. It's so perfect, it's beyond even the legendary HP Laserjet 4 it replaced when the old reliable fell over six feet fr
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
The most interesting thing here is not the cult of personality battle between board and CEO. Rather, it's that these teams have managed to ship consumer AI that has a liminal, asymptotic edge where the smart kids can manipulate it into
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
Where do these fall with respect to the AI test generation tool I saw announced here from a YC-backed startup founder the other day and now can't find anywhere. I know selenium from a decade ago, but the others seem more emergent. Give

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