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by foobarbecue 6d ago
Interesting. Does your output end up being shorter than your input?
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by foobarbecue 7d ago
It blows my mind that anyone would ever use an LLM to write, if communication is their goal. LLM writing takes your prompt and adds stuff you didn't write, burying your meaning and making it harder for the reader to get your message. W
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by foobarbecue 7d ago
"Streamline and improve" is redundant. Pasteurization is great. "jacking it with corn syrup" is nonsense. I'll get my writing tips somewhere else.
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by foobarbecue 8d ago
But we're cutting drug prices 500, 800, 1700%! Numbers nobody thought were possible.
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by foobarbecue 12d ago
The weird thing is I've seen LLMs "typo" stuff pretty often. Yesterday I asked Gemini a question about the Python Twisted framework and it answered about Deferreds but misspelled it as "Deferends" in one spot.
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by foobarbecue 12d ago
Video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg
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by foobarbecue 16d ago
I couldn't parse "Getting that model has meant taking on something else."
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by foobarbecue 21d ago
This "cognitive virus" is pretty similar to the original sense of the word "meme" as concieved by Dawkins.
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by foobarbecue 21d ago
I agree, except for the use of the word "yet" . I think what's missing is fundamental. I think the reason it sucks so much to work with LLM-generated code is that LLMs will never "know" what it's like to be hum
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by foobarbecue 22d ago
Cambridge alum here. Agree; admissions is a crapshoot. Job interviews are a crapshoot. C'est la vie.
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by foobarbecue 28d ago
Forcing a short delay is such a powerful technique. I use this when I'm at risk of binging a show. If I'm tempted to let Netflix continue into the next episode, I say "ok maybe, but let's get up and do something else for
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by foobarbecue 1mo ago
Not sure if you're joking, but I remember noticing the same thing last time I spent time there (2017). Lumber yards tend to have a lot of lumber. It's kind of like when you drive by a feed lot and they have an implausible number o
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by foobarbecue 2mo ago
Ah, thanks for the explanation. I didn't realize you were sharing the actual prompt.
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by foobarbecue 2mo ago
By "decompress," "eliminate deictic language," etc. are you trying to say "speak simply and clearly?" Eschew obfuscation...
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by foobarbecue 2mo ago
Of course it's clear which is more likely in this specific case, but from the semantic structure I read (present tense) it the other way around. It actually struck me as a grammatical error when I first read (past tense) it. If I said
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by foobarbecue 2mo ago
Trying to buy this on Amazon seems to trigger a bug. If I do "buy now," I get a strange text-only "out of stock" page. If I add to cart and try to check out, I'm redirected to the "switch account" page, wh
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by foobarbecue 2mo ago
Not at all. I for one welcome our new overlords.
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by foobarbecue 2mo ago
Holy crap I hope that's not true. I've also had unguessable pages indexed, though, and don't have an explanation.
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by foobarbecue 3mo ago
I think the complaints attenuated in the last in the last 10-15 years because javascript itself became a much better language. Things really started to change with ES5. The introduction of let / const, modules, async, .?, template stri
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by foobarbecue 3mo ago
Ah. I was expecting some technical jargon. You do you, man...
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by foobarbecue 3mo ago
Ok, I'll bite. What's "foxwork"?
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by foobarbecue 3mo ago
Interesting, the linked article does say that. Pretty sure I learned the effect was the opposite (high CO2 --> slower respiration). Note that that was ~15 years ago when I would have read that. Maybe I just misunderstood, or thinking has
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by foobarbecue 3mo ago
EDIT: ignore this; I was confused / misinformed It's about pH. CO2 creates carbonic acid when it dissolves in water. Your blood pH, in turn, controls how much you feel like you need to breathe. So with high CO2, your respiration r
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by foobarbecue 3mo ago
Aaand now OP has fixed it in the HN post title. Still wrong in the linked article.
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by foobarbecue 3mo ago
Argh, autocorrect got me. Thanks, fixed.
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by foobarbecue 3mo ago
It's "Galapagos" or "Galápagos," not "Galapogos."
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by foobarbecue 3mo ago
"This article is ... spellchecked with AI" ??? Why on Earth world you use an LLM for that instead of a spell checker???
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by foobarbecue 3mo ago
There is actually no legally available English version of this ebook now, so if you want the ebook piracy is the only option. Presumably Amazon still has the rights to sell it, but due to a technical glitch and disinterest, they aren't
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by foobarbecue 3mo ago
I bought a Kindle copy of Steven Baxter's novel Ring. One day, I decided to re-read it and downloaded it to a new device. It had changed from the English edition to the German translation! Amazon eventually admitted that this was some
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by foobarbecue 3mo ago
Except actually real whereas Frank Abagnale fabricated all of his supposed cons (read The Greatest Hoax).

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