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by gabriel666smith 9mo ago
If you're a Philip K. Dick-head, you might enjoy the episodes of the podcast Weird Studies which cover his life and work. The hosts often focus on his Exegesis , mentioned in the article. It feels like a privilege to hear two very s
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by gabriel666smith 10mo ago
+1! Hanson is one of the gold-standards on this. It is idiosyncratic, you're right - to the speaker / reader as much as the writer (is my contention with their work). Personally, I do take 'ment' as a feminine ending the
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by gabriel666smith 10mo ago
This is a great example, and not odd as an analogy at all. It surfaces something subtle. Language architecture is really interesting, I think, for programmers who have bought into the LLM hype in any meaningful way. It's an important f
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by gabriel666smith 10mo ago
What a nice thing to say, thank you. A pleasure to be even a vague signpost toward work that's so rewarding. Enjoy your evening(s)!
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by gabriel666smith 10mo ago
Of course! This is my favourite example, from Sense and Sensibility, because it announces itself with "burst", and that's the novel where she deploys it most: "Elinor could sit it no longer. She almost ran out of the roo
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by gabriel666smith 10mo ago
She was such a good marketer of ideas, and at sneaking them into more palatable constructs. The opinion you replied to frustrates me when I encounter it. She was only doing "magical thinking" in her narratives so much as her novel
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by gabriel666smith 10mo ago
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a robot suit to ride around and fight things with." I was visiting Jane Austen's House Museum last year and it alway
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Show HN: The Port Augusta Times – "All the news that's fit to generate"(henrygabriels.github.io)
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by gabriel666smith 11mo ago
I don't think equating "extremely close" with "pretending like it can" is a fair way to frame the sentiment of the comment you were replying to. Saying something is close to doing something is not the same as saying
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by gabriel666smith 11mo ago
Interestingly, Gemini 3 Pro Thinking clocks in at 2nd place - behind Horizon Alpha, but ahead of any actually-released model checkpoints - on the TvP Benchmark, with a score of 71.8%. This blows Sonnet 4.5 (64.8%), GPT5.1 (58.7%) and Opus 4
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by gabriel666smith 11mo ago
A perfect joke, really.
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by gabriel666smith 11mo ago
An old joke that I was thinking about recently: Two local government consultants - tasked with seeing if it'd be financially beneficial to dig a new tunnel so that cars don't have to drive up and down a mountain - dig two small ho
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by gabriel666smith 11mo ago
I'm about a mile from this right now. The grotto is unpleasant - absolutely, in my opinion, a Victorian (give or take) rich man's folly, per the Wiki. The imagery is all faux-Mediaeval - mostly the standard utter nonsense Rosicruc
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by gabriel666smith 11mo ago
Location: UK Remote: Sure Willing to relocate: Actively Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10xS4vaI8Vp1pN9lNpu8d2kSQ... Email: henrygabrielsmith@gmail.com My last full-time role was being in charg
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by gabriel666smith 11mo ago
I've spent a few weeks building and using a terminal LLM client based on that RLM paper that was floating around a little while ago. It's single-conversation, with a tiny, sliding context window, and then a tool that basically fuz
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
Are you able to give a sense of how many questions, which domains they were split over, and how that split looked in % terms? As a user, I want to know - when an improvement is claimed - whether it’s relevant to the work I do or not. And wh
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
Is there any information at all available, anywhere, on what Cursor Bench is testing and how? It's the most prominent part of the release post - but it's really hard to understand what exactly it's saying.
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
>Harry Potter('s)... influence will continue as long as there are people. That was a fun sentence! What do you see as being the predominant, near-universal metaphors and narratives supplied by Rambo ? That's an absolutely fasc
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
I don't think books are things you can benchmark & create rankings of (fun as it would be to try) which I guess my initial comment implied. But I think I might disagree - my sister recently had a daughter, and there is so much beau
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
Haha. It's lucky that art is subjective, so I'm definitely right :-) I wasn't saying a piece shouldn't stand on its own on first viewing - that is not hospitable, IMO. I think you misinterpreted what I was trying to sa
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
One of my favourite things a book (or video games, paintings - every single type of art) can do is: On first read - hint that there are stories hidden under the surface, available only to those who have already experienced the art's en
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
We already kind of have a solution for this with SLAs. Humans, being (probably) non-deterministic, also fuck up. An expectation of a level of service is, I think, reasonable. It's not "zero mistakes ever", just as it can&#x27
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
I think that sometimes we forget the fact that famous people have regular people brains under their famous skin. I knew a guy who, hitting fifty or so, with more time on his hands, got really into collecting the wrappers of "Tunnock&#x
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
A real classic. As an author who was asked by my publisher to perform my own audiobook: 1. There is a reason 'reader of audiobooks' is a profession - it is stupid difficult. I will never do it again. 2. I loved this tape so much.
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
No - that's what the drugs are for. Only joking (for real). I appreciate that, thank you. And I can totally see how my comment above might read patronising to people dealing with shit that is functionally much, much worse than the situ
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
Thanks man, appreciate it, and kudos for stopping. I might quit, I guess, when my fiancee has to for pregnancy, should it eventually stop being funny to tell her how wonderful each individual cigarette I smoke is. But I really, really love
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
OK, that's all fair, and I understand all of it. I can't tell you whether it was 'that sad of a death', I'm afraid - one of the ways I cope with the abject horror at all the suffering that exists is by convincing my
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
I agree wholeheartedly. I've been (I am?) addicted to many substances, from fruit-flavoured nicotine juice through to heroin. I find self-deprecating humour useful, personally. It helps me not wallow, to take the cravings less seriousl
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
This is cool, but, man, I felt like such a pathetic excuse for a human being when, brutally craving nicotine, with my vape empty of the fruit-flavoured juice that I am literally addicted to like the stupid pathetic baby that I am, and stuck
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by gabriel666smith 1y ago
No - thank you. Really fun drum machine.

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