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> E = MC2+ AI this is so cringy
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careful comparing the orange site to Reddit; you'll anger the natives
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using an LLM for "creative writing" is like getting on a motorcycle and then claiming you went for a ride on a bicycle no, wait, that analogy isn't even right. it's like going to watch a marathon and then claiming you ra
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>that we'll just have to let ChatGPT drive the ship and knock everyone out in cryosleep so they don't mess with the ship. "Ah! It's good to be awake, Chat! Turn on the outside view so I can see where we are!" di
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>I’d been re-teaching Claude to craft Rest-api calls with curl every morning for months what the fuck, there is absolutely no way this was cheaper or more productive than just learning to use curl and writing curl calls yourself. Curl is
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Explain something to me that I've long wondered: how does Reinforcement Learning work if you cannot measure your distance from the goal? In other words, how can RL be used for literally anything qualitative?
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I stopped using AI assistance when I realized every time the agent made a change, I had to go behind and simplify it by about 80%. It's easier, faster, more fun, and produces a better end product if I just go ahead and do it myself. If
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That's a wild anecdote. I avoided KDE for YEARS because the guy that got me into desktop Linux told me it was terrible and I took his advice as a given. He and the folks he introduced me to all talked massive shit about KDE, and they u
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1y ago
better pull out of Asian and European markets too! the US isn't going to go down alone. in fact, you should just put it all in gold and keep it under your pillow
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> today you can get a kindergartener level chat model for about $100. Not hard to imagine the same model costing $10 of compute in a few years. No, it's extremely hard to imagine since I used one of Karpathy's own models to hav
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I'd imagine that these men use their publications to advertise their personas, and their livelihood is made via celebrity and appearances. That's why you know their names. Authors who make money primarily by creating art and selli
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what you are describing exists and is called a Professional Engineer in the US https://www.nspe.org/about/about-professional-engineering/wh...
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in any organization???
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what on God's green Earth could the CEO of a no name b2b saas have a use for long running agents? either your business isn't successful, so you're coding when you shouldn't be, or cosplaying coding with Claude, or you&#x
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> Latent reasoning doesn't really appear until around 100B params. Please provide a citation for wild claims like this. Even "reasoning" models are not actually reasoning, they just use generation to pre-fill the context w
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Hotels are a specially designated category for temporary housing so that permanent residents can exclude travelers from their neighborhoods. You aren't flipping it on its head at all, the reason hotels exist is because travelers exist
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I opened your page. 5 posts by Simon Willison and 8 by other authors. A comment by Simon Willison underneath this comment as well (now the top comment on the thread). Simon's spam game is CRAZY. There's a million blogs out there b
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> If you look at sales data, you'll see the #1 bestseller sells more than 10x more copies than #2 on the list All commercial art follows this pattern, a Pareto Distribution[0]. The top musician gets 10x what #2 does. Same with athle
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skimming the article it looks like this excludes transmission, construction, and disposal costs
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Oh sure, side with the harassers of a grieving person. Being harassed? Well you could just go away! Just stop using this service the rest of society uses! Too bad your dad died and people are harassing you about it! A ghoulish take. Victim
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i bet you could write an iOS client with support for reactions before matrix implements custom emoji
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at least when I help someone set up XMPP it doesn't have a single blessed client that tries to convince them to create an account on matrix.org
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a lot of people were wrong about supersonic commercial flight too
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> No struggle but the class struggle. No, see, there are other struggles. The reason Marxism is fundamentally totalitarian and always devolves into a single party dictatorship is EXPLICITLY because it attempts to explain all suffering as
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when my family used matrix for a couple years the e2ee features would randomly fail to decrypt history and would present my non technical family with that "match these emojis to unlock your account" screen all the time. between th
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> How long would it take for remnants of our civilization disappear if an apocalyptic meteor hit? Eons, the nuclear testing in the twentieth century left traces identifiable worldwide as I understand it, hence pre war steel and all that.
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what do you do when the person in front of you takes the deal and reclines anyway? Sue to get your money back?
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if the Internet actually managed to move to v6 the end of NAT and CGNAT would be a huge win. Also, look at the price of every v4 address you have to rent, and compare it to v6 and tell me there's no return. I've practically built
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based on what? LLM benchmarks are all bullshit, so this is based on... your gut? Gemini outputs what I want with a similar regularity as the other bots. I'm so tired of the religious thinking around these models. show me a measurement.
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not true, they do not have a super majority in the Senate and need a handful of Democrats to vote with them to achieve the 60 votes they need. that said, somehow the Democrats always find Republicans to compromise with them when they have a
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