felideon

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by felideon 3y ago
> I made a fair amount of money with Phoenix and Elixir and I like them. As a consultant, startup founder, employee?
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by felideon 3y ago
Are you saying Gleam has failed?
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by felideon 3y ago
For those who don't know the reference: https://youtu.be/koTCXbV0jEw
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by felideon 3y ago
How long until the agents recreate AI Town in-universe? We wouldn’t be able to see it, but one of them could start talking about it. ;)
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by felideon 3y ago
Computational linguist. How does that not qualify them to write on the AI topic du jour, LLMs?
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by felideon 3y ago
Thanks. Removed and reported them for abuse when Chrome asked. Also pasted the link in the Grammarly offboarding survey, letting them know why.
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by felideon 3y ago
It also has that open source look and UX that mainstream users simply don't care for.
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by felideon 3y ago
> You can use each once or twice at most. Vary sentence length to improve readability. Does this part really do anything? Last I checked, ChatGPT can’t actually count. If it seems to comply, I would say it’s accidental.
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by felideon 3y ago
> LLMs are kind of a silly case because information isn't very dangerous. I’m with you that AI doomerism is just AI hype, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say “information isn’t very dangerous.” Misinformation at scale is extremely da
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by felideon 3y ago
> Now the company is growing at a rate that I need to hire people and build teams. And yet you didn’t post on the Who’s Hiring thread. :) Not that I’m looking, nor am I not looking, but sounds like an interesting gig.
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by felideon 3y ago
Interesting concept, but the article is referring to self-domestication[1]: > Yet he and evolutionary anthropologist Brian Hare of Duke University have long held that self-domestication—a phenomenon where wild animals develop traits that
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by felideon 3y ago
> Portable monitors have been around. Not reliable/valid cuffless monitors, though. That's relatively new, if I understand correctly.
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by felideon 3y ago
It'd be interesting to read the study limitations, but, at 35 participants, a larger and diverse cohort would be warranted to see how this translates in the real world. Aktiia has done some studies for its product and works by taking a
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by felideon 3y ago
> becoming a renter again and losing a much larger chunk of their paycheck every month to housing Except it is now cheaper to rent than to own[1]. If you have to move for a job, you rent for at least a year if not a few years as you get
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by felideon 3y ago
A number of years ago we were designing a way to specify insurance claim adjudication rules in natural language, so that "the business" could write their own rules. The "natural" language we ended up with was not so natu
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by felideon 3y ago
The Santander region (department) of Colombia, where Socorro is located, is beautiful. Incidentally, Santandereans are very prideful of their region, so it's no surprise they'd have knee-jerk reactions against these findings.
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by felideon 4y ago
Have never tried it, but apparently double click to undo works. [source: https://twitter.com/buritica/status/1598518847018979329?s=20 ]
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by felideon 4y ago
> Especially there is no world-model, and no inner state. Some people argue otherwise[1]. It’s an interesting debate. [1] https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1631502179323215872...
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by felideon 4y ago
The creator has an interesting home page, too: https://maxbittker.com
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by felideon 4y ago
By contrast, I enjoyed the entire piece, read another one of your posts, and subscribed to your newsletter.
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by felideon 4y ago
How are kids supposed to know what they’re supposed to be learning about at a particular point in time?
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by felideon 4y ago
That would still be "education", so I’m not sure what part you mean it will replace. Do you mean it will replace educators? If so, who exactly would be creating these “high level” video courses? Also who would provide the curricul
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by felideon 4y ago
This will be a huge hit to Karafun’s subscriber base. I’ve paid for a couple of months before. Having this as part of my Apple Music or One subscription would give me no reason to ever subscribe to it again, assuming feature and library par
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by felideon 4y ago
Interesting, and good to know! But wouldn't you say that students are better off not submitting their scores if they scored low on the tests? Only given a sufficiently high enough score does it become a "nothing to lose" situ
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by felideon 4y ago
> there are people to chat with on IRC. > If the question is "Are there still people that use IRC?", then "Yes.". That's a reasonable interpretation of the question. Even so, a lot of IRC communities have move
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by felideon 4y ago
Same. Haven't used WeeChat in a while, but I used to get a lot of value from using it with Bitlbee via a cheap VPS.
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by felideon 4y ago
> This is a linux computer where the terminal is the primary intended interface. Good point. As Yegge said, "[It's] all just plumbing for Emacs, anyway."[1] [1] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/04&
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by felideon 4y ago
> Nice aesthetic, but useless. FSV of useless , maybe. In theory, there's a market for retro game designers who would appreciate this device for their hobby. Kind of tempted to buy it myself to replace late night or in-bed usage of
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by felideon 4y ago
Ah, yes, the McCommunion Cups.
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by felideon 4y ago
> people were looking for concrete examples of mistakes startups made (so they can avoid it themselves) Which he has written about before: http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html My first impression was that the title

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