gallerdude

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by gallerdude 2y ago
Yeah, in fact, most interfaces - video editing, Airbnb, 3D modeling - are some sort of visual interface. I understand code isn’t resembling a physical object. But books and paintings were our best approximation of reality, then technology a
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by gallerdude 2y ago
For someone who loves Ted Chiang, what adjacent writers would people recommend? I tried Borges, and I like him, he just seems less accessible and intentionally opaque at points.
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by gallerdude 2y ago
I would imagine he’d been thinking about it for a while, and maybe with all the buzz about him at the same time of the release, he was asked to decide.
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by gallerdude 2y ago
Interesting that they didn't mention a bump in capabilities - I wrote a LLM benchmark a few weeks ago, and before GPT-4 could solve Wordle about ~48% of the time. Currently with GPT-4o, it's easily clearing 60% - while blazing fas
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by gallerdude 3y ago
What big changes has Microsoft made? The whole Java/Bedrock split seems like a mess, and the updates have been enjoyable, but certainly nothing to write home about. The only vaguely interesting thing I can point to is Minecraft Dungeon
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by gallerdude 3y ago
FYI, the URL is broken. Highlighting this, despite it not aiding my job prospects, demonstrates the integrity I'd bring to Tildei :)
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by gallerdude 3y ago
I don’t think spending is their primary constraint; they’re probably looking for talent, no matter the cost.
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by gallerdude 3y ago
This looks amazing. Over the last year, I’ve gone from a casual Disney/Ghibli fan, to a really deep lover of hand-drawn animation. The expressiveness and attention to detail are astounding. I also really like really smooth and intuitiv
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by gallerdude 3y ago
There is also an adjacent problem, where management cares very little about features which improve things for the users. And no matter how many great engineers they have, they don’t get used on things that people would care about.
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by gallerdude 3y ago
So far
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by gallerdude 4y ago
Everyone talks about the machine that makes the chips, but I’ve never heard mentioned the machine that makes the machine that makes the chips. (I guess it’s probably just a bunch of regular machines, but it feels like there’s got to be some
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by gallerdude 4y ago
The entire movie, in my estimation, is understanding the feelings of paranoia post-9/11. The point was that while ideally, we would like to be like Lucious and have principles, the fear of terrorism justified mass-surveillance. (Hones
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by gallerdude 4y ago
I hate that this became an insult. Therapy can be a really useful thing for a lot of people. I don’t know why some people need to punch down at people who are already hurt.
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by gallerdude 4y ago
Animals viciously murdering each other for food is also natural, that doesn’t mean it’s preferable. I would imagine if death were cured, a very small percentage of people would actually want to live forever. I imagine most people would want
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by gallerdude 4y ago
1. Maybe, but I’m sure there’s more that I want to do in life than what I listed out in about 10 minutes 2. My point isn’t that they should experience those things, it’s that there’s so much to experience. 3. What’s the point of anything? 4
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by gallerdude 4y ago
Yeah, there are downsides to everything, the question is whether pros > cons. Imagine tomorrow, some mystical cosmic event made it impossible for people to die of natural causes. Would you institute a law that once someone made it to 100
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by gallerdude 4y ago
I'm young, and most older people I know have peace with the idea of death, so I could be totally wrong. Yet, I never understand the idea that curing death would be a bad thing. There is so much in the world to experience - what does it
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by gallerdude 4y ago
There are a lot of great lines in this, but the one that’s always stuck with me is simply “bullshit is the junk food of experience.” It’s a perfect metaphor in so many ways, there’s some fundamental truth glowing behind it like a lightbulb.
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by gallerdude 4y ago
I think the fundamental message is very relevant to software development: question everything. It’s really easy to get so caught up in the layers of abstraction, that we forget that we’re making software for people. A chef who painstakingly
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by gallerdude 4y ago
IIRC, macOS was the first platform it was released on.
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by gallerdude 4y ago
Why don’t you ask him?
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by gallerdude 4y ago
This is good to know. It could also be that people with large phones underestimate how much they'd be able to adjust to smaller phones.
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by gallerdude 4y ago
There's a breakthrough that I've been waiting for that I haven't heard anything about: when will an AI agent (probably a language model) discover something scientific that humans had not at the time it was trained. What if th
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by gallerdude 4y ago
For me, the people who want smaller phones are the textbook example of a vocal minority. I've read so many Hacker News and r/apple threads about how people love and miss phones you can use with one hand. And then every few years a
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by gallerdude 4y ago
The odds we're about to live in a biopunk world just increased.
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by gallerdude 4y ago
Adjacent topic: how does someone with strong computer science algorithm start designing pcb’s? Like if I wanted to, say, create a computer which randomly added together integers and displayed them on an LCD, where would I even start to lear
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by gallerdude 4y ago
I think that saying social media can't make the future better is like saying the internet itself can't make the future better. It seems obvious to me that both can improve humanity.
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by gallerdude 5y ago
This is extremely interesting. We’ve had some amazing AI models come out in the past few days. We’re getting closer and closer to AI becoming a facet of everyday life.
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by gallerdude 5y ago
Maybe I’m naive, but I see this as a coincidence. If it was an hour later, then maybe there would be something.
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by gallerdude 5y ago
Neural networks feel like a type of strange magic, like a hack that shouldn’t work but definitely does. This helps reduce that feeling, in the best way possible.

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