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by dbuxton 1y ago
I once lived in Moscow on a compound with an adopted rescue dog. The compound had a shock collar and invisible fence setup. Moscow’s street dogs are renowned for their intelligence. I have seen street dogs taking the escalators on the Metro
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by dbuxton 1y ago
Great question. For me reliability is variance in performance and capability is average performance. In practice high variance translates on the downside into failure to do basic things that a minimally competent human would basically never
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by dbuxton 1y ago
Fundamentally, we are at a point in time where models are already very capable, but not very reliable. This is very interesting finding about how to improve capability. I don't see reliability expressly addressed here, but my assumptio
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by dbuxton 1y ago
I had to do a MN1 application for my US-born daughter as both me and my partner were born abroad. As OP alludes to this is a sort of side quest called "registration" which if you don't do it before the child is 18 lapses (alt
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by dbuxton 1y ago
Not caused but correlated: doing something risky is much easier when you have something to fall back on - which I’d guess is a lot more common in the Ivies
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by dbuxton 1y ago
For me this is great for practice (I tried Russian). However the big missing piece for all these language learning apps is the lack of support for spotting and correcting errors in your pronunciation - as long as you say the word more or le
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by dbuxton 1y ago
I also got Anton. Looks like something's hard coded - or maybe a caching issue?
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by dbuxton 1y ago
I came here assuming that this was a clone of Gemini CLI (which is a clone of Claude Code). Both pleased and disappointed to be wrong.
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by dbuxton 1y ago
I find it weird that this is news and not: - That it's still way cheaper in most instances to book a return (especially where the "trip" straddles a weekend) rather than a one-way fare when travelling long haul - even if you
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by dbuxton 1y ago
Although in this case you actually have to be accompanied by another adult
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The MAHA report cites studies that don't exist(notus.org)
97 points by dbuxton 1y ago|33 comments
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by dbuxton 1y ago
I can't wait for the Rust port of QBasic Gorillas
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Ukraine can move beyond its Soviet architectural legacy(counteroffensive.news)
48 points by dbuxton 1y ago|18 comments
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by dbuxton 1y ago
Are there extensions that e.g. use NLP/LLMs/vectors to suggest potential links from elsewhere in ones KB? Could be a fairly straightforward plugin. (I haven't used Roam personally and have no idea if it even has a plugin arch
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by dbuxton 1y ago
Hey! Congrats on the launch. I just signed up for a trial account and I’m pretty impressed with the search API (haven’t used websets yet but looks cool). Our experimental use case is enabling quick and dirty integration of web-based docs in
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Show HN: [What I built in 30 mins with Cursor]: Archive.is browser extension(github.com)
3 points by dbuxton 2y ago|0 comments
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by dbuxton 2y ago
Insane as in “how can Meta be so crazy as to commit themselves to AR still just because it’s in their company name” or as in “insanely good”? Genuine question!
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by dbuxton 2y ago
This was one of my favorite features of Google Inbox (RIP). Does anyone know of a good browser extension that can reproduce this feature for GMail? Preferably one that just works with localstorage rather than forcing you to put your notes i
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by dbuxton 2y ago
https://archive.is/2024.08.17-041142/https://www.washingtonp...
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by dbuxton 2y ago
+1. I had simply never considered that one reason to not be a user of the dominant technology (writing, agriculture) was that adopting would mean losing control over one’s group’s destiny. Gives you a different lens on enterprise software
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by dbuxton 2y ago
On mine you definitely can make it so that there is no discernable backlight even in pitch darkness. Whether somehow it's still consuming energy I don't know. However I agree that generally the Oasis battery life leaves something
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GeoGuessr guy goes global IRL(nytimes.com)
2 points by dbuxton 2y ago|0 comments
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by dbuxton 2y ago
It seems like this is all compatible with the root cause being parental/family values of achievement rather than the school per se. As a parent, I’m always super conscious that one is tempted to praise the achievement, but this is good
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by dbuxton 2y ago
If you read the OP you will see that in one example that’s exactly what they do do - in order to reclaim the space occupied by HVAC and turn into more apartments!
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by dbuxton 3y ago
+1
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by dbuxton 3y ago
I'd quibble with the title. Based on my experience in London, most middle-class/white collar workers love car-free living. Most blue-collar workers don't like it. They continue not liking it once it becomes reality. (Although
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by dbuxton 3y ago
I've been thinking about doing something a little similar in spirit to this, namely smart payment credentials for LLMs to protect against misuse in situations where you have an LLM that makes buy/no buy decisions. The idea being t
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by dbuxton 3y ago
It's such a pain keeping track of all the `defaults write xxx` stuff when Apple updates. My current setup here in case useful to anyone: https://gist.github.com/dbuxton/3ccdfd88b05e1f2807c05fe32f50... (If anyone k
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by dbuxton 3y ago
Agree with this. I would say that the rate of progress from Mistral is very encouraging though in terms of having multiple plausible contenders for the crown.
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by dbuxton 3y ago
I don’t agree. RAG works just fine for this use case if you have a decent chunking methodology, good prompt design and some secondary safety rails. We do just this in our product ( https://hrharriet.com ). The challenge Microsoft

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