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by foo42 7mo ago
Since Kagi small web was on HN a few days ago I've been visiting multiple times a day and spelunking around. I've added a number of interesting feeds to my RSS reader off the back of it already.
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by foo42 7mo ago
I was looking into Fedify just yesterday! I'm trying to decide whether to A) try and make my blog an activity pub instance of some sort, B) host my own Mastodon instance, or C) Use someone else's Mastodon server and link to my blo
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by foo42 7mo ago
minor nit to pick: Welsh accents are British accents as Wales is in Britain. In fact by some definitions it's the most British part. People from outside the UK often use British as synonymous with English, and in the context of accents
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by foo42 7mo ago
I feel like activity pub was supposed to / does enable this. Perhaps someone better informed than I could comment.
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by foo42 7mo ago
Yeah I've been wondering if the increasing coding RL is going to draw models towards very short term goals relative to just learning from open source code in the wild
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by foo42 7mo ago
I've been thinking about this recently and it seems like the most enthusiastic boosters always suggest difference in results is a skill issue, but I feel like there are 4 factors which multiply out to influence how much value someone g
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by foo42 7mo ago
I salaried employees who are paid by time, and are paying their own Anthropic bills. Initially there is perhaps a mitigating advantage of briefly impressing ourselves or others with output, but that will quickly fade into the new normal. Ne
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by foo42 7mo ago
> And this is the best country in the world, with the best system of government, because private citizens can voice their disagreement with such actions, including by refusal to participate. On the off chance other Americans were unaware
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by foo42 7mo ago
Sounds fun. Can't beat a good whimsical project!
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by foo42 7mo ago
I've been wondering recently if there's some practical path forward for some sort of co-op based LLM training. Something which puts the power in the hands of the users somehow.
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by foo42 7mo ago
while we're talking pronunciation I'm on an (entirely pointless) one man mission to have "lemon" stick as a pronunciation of "LLM".
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by foo42 7mo ago
The only two models I ever hear non technical people mention are ChatGPT and occasionally Gemini
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by foo42 7mo ago
I hope you're right, but is there any guarantee that there will continue to be institutions willing to spend the money to produce open models? I almost wonder if we need some sort of co-op for training and another for hosted inference
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by foo42 7mo ago
I've been taking a similar approach with my own exploration.
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by foo42 8mo ago
I worry that if the reality lives up to investors dreams it will be massively disruptive for society which will lead us down dark paths. On the other hand if it _doesn't_ live up to their dreams, then there is so much invested in that
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by foo42 8mo ago
I agree. While I'm generally sympathetic to the idea that humans and LLM creativity is broadly similar (combining ideas absorbed elsewhere in new ways), when we ask for something that already exists it's basically just laundering
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by foo42 8mo ago
Same for me. I also make extensive use of adding links to anything relevant. Spent a bunch of time discussing something in a slack thread: link it. Read some documentation: link it. Had a chat with an llm in a chat window: link it. Writing
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by foo42 8mo ago
After at least a century of labour saving devices being produced and widely adopted in all areas of our lives, how much less time do we spend labouring now?
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by foo42 8mo ago
I'm currently reading "The disappearance of rituals" by Byun-Chul Han which is highlights the roles of ritual to bring people together into those shared experiences which bind people into a shared narrative and world view. Th
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by foo42 10mo ago
geek code is worthy of its own hn submission
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by foo42 10mo ago
I am in a position I suspect many would be envious of. I've never seen any of these films. My first experience waits ahead! Where should I begin? I have kids in the 10-15 year old bracket if people think they'd make a good family
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by foo42 10mo ago
that's a good analogy
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by foo42 10mo ago
Like many here, I too blog for the mental exercise of composing, the human desire to express, and a faith that posting to the public web is some how intrinsically worthy. On the first point I've found I get a lot of benefit from the po
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by foo42 10mo ago
I find the problem I have is once I get going on a problem I can't shake it out of my head. I end up lying in bed for hours pleading with my brain to let it go if I've not found the time to finish it during the crumbs of discretio
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by foo42 10mo ago
Do you have any links to places which would better fit that? it's perhaps telling of another flaw in this community that I find I need some way to clarify this isn't snark or sarcasm.
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by foo42 11mo ago
I was thinking about this subject just this week. I think an ideal set up for me would be if I could boot my laptop to an different user on the same os where I only had 1 or 2 apps: Obsidian for notes, and possibly an e-reader for some use
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by foo42 1y ago
People interested in the history of the internet may enjoy the book "Where wizards stay up late". I'm sure there are other good books on it too (perhaps others can recommend below), but that's the one I read and enjoyed.
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by foo42 1y ago
A side effect of the non-deterministic behaviour is that, unlike previous increases in abstraction, the high level prompts are not checked in to the code base and available to recreate their low level output on demand. Instead we commit the
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by foo42 1y ago
The tradeoff of higher velocity for less enjoyment may feel less welcome when it becomes the new baseline and the expectation of employers / customers. The excitement of getting a day's work done in an hour* (for example) is likel
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by foo42 1y ago
I write with my hand below the line to avoid smudging. A consequence of this is my pen meets the page at quite a shallow angle which I find is perfect for fountain pens but scratchy with ball points. These days I do very little hand writing

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