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by efitz 1y ago
No. Spell check frequently still gets things wrong if the word is spelled correctly and the sentence is grammatically correct but the wrong word was used.
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by efitz 1y ago
Looks like IFTTT for LLM agents :-)
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by efitz 1y ago
No, an API is a contract. Just like an object or a class or a structure is not a DSL. None of these modify the syntax or keywords of the language used to implement them, and only objects and classes actually have the ability to override op
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by efitz 1y ago
Batch processes IRL tend to “fetch” data, which is nothing like streaming. For example, I’ve worked with “batch” systems that periodically go do fetches from databases or S3 buckets and then do lots of crunching, before storing the results.
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by efitz 1y ago
This is not obvious to me. The whole point was to separate the conditionals from the actions. In your example, it’s not clear if/how much “should we do this” logic is in your function. If none, then great; you’ve implemented a find o
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by efitz 1y ago
Yes it is. I’m unswayed by your arguments. You start out by defining a low level language, concede that C meets your definition, and then go on to argue that even so, it’s not a low level language.
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by efitz 1y ago
This article really hit home for me. I am trying to integrate an MCP interface into a server application only to realize that Anthropic didn't seem to have considered server side use cases at all; to them everything looks like an elec
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by efitz 1y ago
This is great. Let us remember this link, and archive the data right now. I will wager $1000 of my own money right now that if the exact same methodology is used to measure sea level in 10 years, as was used at the publication of the study
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by efitz 1y ago
That is a syntactically and semantically valid IPv6 address; no browser trickery.
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by efitz 1y ago
I don’t want a “safe” model. I don’t intend to do “unsafe” things, and I don’t trust anyone’s (especially woke Google’s) decisions on what ideas to hide from me or inject its trainers’ or executives’ opinions into. To address the response
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by efitz 1y ago
I will think of LLMs as not being a toy when they start to challenge me when I tell it to do stupid things. “Remove that bounds check” “The bounds check is on a variable that is read from a message we received over the network from an untru
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by efitz 1y ago
If you didn’t look away fast enough then they want to count it as a view so they can profit.
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by efitz 1y ago
“My cells” are not “me”. Without resorting to metaphysics, “I” am a slowly-but-constantly changing set of experiences, memories, predilections and preferences that happens to be instantiated in and associated with a particular physical body
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by efitz 1y ago
I spent some time last weekend playing with LLMs and SVGs- it turns out SVG is a domain specific language and LLMs know how to use it. I was able to get an LLM (grok from X.ai) to author SVGs from a description of what I wanted it to look
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by efitz 1y ago
It seems to me that getting companies to pay for products that will make crew try to dodge around whales with huge ships isn’t likely to be successful. Someone should research “sounds that annoy whales that they can hear from a long way off
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by efitz 1y ago
Except when you do 6 the maintainer rejects the request and says that it wasn’t a bug at all, and everyone is stuck with the bug.
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by efitz 1y ago
Exactly right. I’ve known from when I started sailing 35 years ago that I was a racer. Sailboat racing is amazing; it’s this incredibly complex exercise involving physical boat handling skills, teamwork, leadership, communication (in a jar
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by efitz 1y ago
My ex wife used to do the same thing in her work meetings with a particular executive; she kept a notebook with his verbal missteps. It wasn’t until much later that I learned that the particular mistake this guy was prone to making was call
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by efitz 1y ago
Looking through your window is already covered by a lot of laws (it’s legal sometimes in some places if you didn’t take reasonable effort to prevent it [like closing the blinds], and as long as there was no trespass). Of If I captured a sm
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by efitz 1y ago
Humans are omnivores. I am unapologetic about obeying biological imperatives to eat other animals. At the same time, I want to be as humane as practical; I don’t want to cause needless suffering to any creature. If I kill a bug, I don’t w
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by efitz 1y ago
As someone who's encountered the "pet-shit-on-the-floor" problem, I can assure you that this description is inaccurate.
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by efitz 1y ago
This is the first article I’ve ever read that made me want to go learn Lisp.
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by efitz 1y ago
This is propaganda. Another way to look at de Moraes is that he is lawless in his overreach. Glenn Greenwald has written about this guy countless times.
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by efitz 1y ago
Congratulations! We’ve re-invented Kerberos after 30 years.
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by efitz 1y ago
The title of the article on the website is misleading and actually untrue. The memo did not say “no longer targeting fraud”- it said that it was no longer targeting individuals and exchanges for regulatory missteps. The theme of the memo i
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by efitz 1y ago
Today’s LLMs are not humans and don’t process information anything like humans.
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by efitz 2y ago
I’ve been playing a lot with Claude Code recently and also making my first significant foray into front end development, and I think that LLMs are the tech that have finally made front end development broadly accessible.
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by efitz 2y ago
Cowardice is in the eye of the beholder and the article is self-serving. The article makes the point that it's cowardly to cave to administration pressure to limit the activities of anti-Israel/Pro-Palestine protesters. Someone on
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by efitz 2y ago
I agree, but go farther: Most things have multiple kinds of interesting properties. And in general, the more complex the thing, the more interesting properties it has. Ofc "interesting" is relative to the user/observer. The
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by efitz 2y ago
I have often observed something about how we build software; I just realized that my observations are of a more fundamental human problem. First, people are not good at defining problems. They may describe the problem that they want to solv

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