fnordpiglet

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by fnordpiglet 5d ago
As a parent people from prior generations do not get the current situation. I actually agree that this is a useful use of the agentic work tools - and it’s the only case I mentioned above I’ve used it for successfully, if not saving of time
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by fnordpiglet 5d ago
But aren’t all of these currently fully achievable with normal chat these days?
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by fnordpiglet 5d ago
I ask this in every thread on muse / OpenClaw / whatever platform. I’ve never gotten a clear answer beyond “yeah me too”: Does anyone have any meaningful use cases that have actually improved your life in some measurable way? I’ve
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by fnordpiglet 5d ago
It’s load shedding. They’re reducing consumption for capacity balancing at your expense. Whenever there are rate limiting storms Claude gets dumber. They also shift capacity for new releases, and Claude gets dumber leading up to it. Self ru
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by fnordpiglet 5d ago
The Opus 4-6,4-8,5 arc is exactly this. As one person commented in here, opus 5 is a terrorist. This is undeniable. Opus 4-6 was awesome. 4-8 was worse behaviorally but produced better code. Fable seems to be following the same enshittific
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by fnordpiglet 5d ago
Come - the median retirement age 401k balance is $97k. This isn’t useful, and most people get a 401k default enrollment without contributions so account existence isn’t a useful metric. Your odds aren’t better if you don’t contribute. I’d
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by fnordpiglet 5d ago
Bond yields aren’t comparable to property cash flow; especially leveraged property. Additionally they are highly susceptible to rates and capital risks. It’s also technically a lot harder for most people to juggle a 401k annuity structure.
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by fnordpiglet 5d ago
Interesting what I found objectionable was his expectation that everyone around him follow his internal process, regardless of its steps or urgency. Someone who has an ounce of leadership realizes that a team is a puzzle of different pieces
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by fnordpiglet 6d ago
I’m confused by the mechanics. How do they know you’re reading unless you have a device that records you reading while you read, so is likely the device you’re reading on - encouraging people to stare at devices? I actually read on my phone
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by fnordpiglet 6d ago
I think you’re touching on a lot of things here which form a self reinforcing web A) pensions don’t exist so people need cashflow to retire. You either save enough capital that you can build an annuity for yourself or you have cash flow inv
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by fnordpiglet 6d ago
You may, but if you read the link, you’ll find it consistent with the second law of thermodynamics despite being clever about it. The demonstration of consistency requires a modern understanding of information theory, but it’s been long rea
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by fnordpiglet 6d ago
Complications vs simplifications was a restatement of Occam’s razor as you assuredly know and knew. However complications added can be doors to other hidden processes that are simply poorly understood or observe. The increase in complicatio
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by fnordpiglet 6d ago
Something in this is contradictory and just hoping for a clarification - over investment in real estate should drop costs. I assume you mean under investment leading to prices requiring an overly burdensome amount of personal investment in
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by fnordpiglet 6d ago
Is this an “instantly be arrested by the secret police” app for those where such things are censored? The glowing reviews would reflect quite the survivor bias.
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by fnordpiglet 6d ago
I’d note that occams razor is a probabilistic statement and not a law.
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by fnordpiglet 6d ago
The answer is that they don’t literally go backwards in time showing reverse causality. They are representable in QFT by reversing the time component of their counterpart, which doesn’t impact how they interact with broader causality, just
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by fnordpiglet 6d ago
IANP, but Ive always thought you should be able to observe reverse causality in a positron if true. That’s the primary effect of going backwards in time - a reverse in entropy. The other side of the theory is the positron hidden in the prot
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by fnordpiglet 6d ago
It’s hard to believe in 2026 someone would bemoan that nothing has progressed in cancer research. Cancer has no single cure, but survival durations are absurdly crazy for most common cancers compared to 30 years ago. Current treatments are
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by fnordpiglet 6d ago
I don’t get it - what does paying for the premium tier buy you then? I’ve always been willing to pay for content, and happy to pay to not see ads. But this is bizarre - pay less, see ads; pay more see ads? Disney+ is probably the least val
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by fnordpiglet 7d ago
Because, knowing what to induce in its behavior is the key - by understanding things like Postels law, I can direct the agentic loop towards patterns of development that avoid the cascade of issues that seem endemic in modern agentic harnes
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by fnordpiglet 7d ago
Clinton, who won the majority of votes or Harris who in a few months forced Trump to a plurality win? Both were admittedly weak and forced, but Clinton would have won had any one of number of factors been different, and Harris walked into a
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by fnordpiglet 7d ago
My view is at the end of 35 years in the industry the current wave of “software” and “systems” engineering coming out of the AI harness community is pretty garbage. But web technology and distributed systems followed a very similar arc, as
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by fnordpiglet 8d ago
They’re fairly useful as constrain domain classifiers due to the low memory requirements means you can stuff a lot of them into a less expensive GPU farm and get really decent throughout with pretty good results over all. At least that’s my
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by fnordpiglet 9d ago
Forecasting = modeling + intelligence
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by fnordpiglet 9d ago
I for one welcome our part human part mouse brain overlords.
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by fnordpiglet 15d ago
I have a suspicion that the caring is starting to mount, otherwise there’s no need to offer a $1.3T election bribe (which I’ll file a the other dividend / bribes that were never sent and the bridge Trump sold me)
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by fnordpiglet 15d ago
Triple digit when summed I assume? If they were going to try this it needed to be done months earlier when the protests were raging. Instead the brain trust fumbled the initiative and let the Iranian leadership kill and scourge their local
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by fnordpiglet 15d ago
Glad kids can’t learn how to use AI effectively at school! Would only want them on laundered accounts to cheat, rather than official school accounts to learn the tools for practical purposes. That would be a real shame. My daughter’s school
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by fnordpiglet 15d ago
Except the thread is about trains
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by fnordpiglet 16d ago
When you say most places, I assume you leave out most of the world in this? The number of countries with broad complete train networks is small compared to the land mass of the earth inhabited by humans. Even considering urban areas, most

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