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by gavmor 2y ago
I've been using an LLM as DM Assistant for almost a year, now, by way of EchoDelphi[0], a tool we built at a public weekend hackathon[1]. It listens to the game, then sends the transcript for inference. I've been prompting the LLM
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Do Ghibli images represent the most significant—lucrative, high-margin, world-changing, or ubiquitously impactful—vertical to which generative models can be applied?
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Can you articulate the kinds of business problems Erlang is particularly well-suited to solve? When you choose Erlang for a project, what kind of return on investment do you think it typically offers? Does it lead to significant cost saving
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Have you used `bun --hot`?
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I have an intuition that the comment you're responding to has a lot of truth to it, but I am going to have to educate myself to give you an answer. One thing I do know is that JS and Lisp both treat functions as first-class citizens, a
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[content creators] want ads and they're going to be consuming underground ads from their ad dealers. Examples: AudioGO, PodcastOne, Acast.
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> Not worth it to compute the embedding for Indy If IP holders submit embeddings for their IP, how can image generators "warp" the latent space around a set of embeddings so that future inferences slide around and avoid them--n
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I'm very comfortably leaning heavily into "local first," and "persistence last" with vite, preact, and peerjs. I'm honestly looking into hono.js literally because of that meme video, and because I like the ide
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I've always held a passing curiosity about civil engineering; have you ever seen someone make the reverse switch? Or, is the career of a SWE simply that much more enviable?
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> There’s... folks that pair because they’re a crutch for one or two other engineers [who] never improve. I can imagine this happening if neither pair is all that good a communicator, and if the seniormost never employs a little Socratic
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Yeah, I love this stuff! Compiling data from multiple pages into a single paragraph in the time it takes to read one page? Great stuff. I can't imagine living without Perplexity. Oh, sure, it hallucinates a lot, and in dangerous ways,
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by gavmor 2y ago
How do LLM queries differ from organic?
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Yes! Deployed and "validated by users" were on my wishlist, too! Some projects I was on had very large Acceptance queues awaiting various stakeholders. It was a little awkward, and could have been better accommodated. And, of cour
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> they design and invent and create and have absolute control over what they do. In this dream, what is the role of UX researcher? Of product manager? How many such "elite" engineers are working on the product at one time? What
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In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-tac-toe", Sussman replied. "
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No, and neither will a software engineer wash her hands of a bug , but a construction engineer isn't responsible for the layout of a building being overly labyrinthine—that's on the architect. Likewise, product managers and des
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It's hardly the fault of the engineer that products are poorly managed, or poorly designed.
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How's NeXTSTEP for a11y?
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There are various ways to (de)couple the compiler to/from vscode, but it's definitely handy to have inline typechecking. Is this possible without running the compiler?
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The nodejs ecosystem can be quite elegant, convenient, and fun! It's not at all where it was ten years ago. > All in the end to serve pieces of static content. It's mind boggling. This is doesn't sound like an adequate jus
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> I don't want to use NPM for my project. I used to feel that way coming from the Ruby / Rails ecosystem, but ultimately I settled leaned heavily into the "convention over configuration" maxim and try my best to adher
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by gavmor 2y ago
Was this supposed to embed maps in emails, etc?
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I've a rudimentary familiarity with control systems, yes. Glad we're on the way same page! I'm not satisfied with your response, but I'm losing my grasp on the analogy. What are we dampening? Inertia, no? Imparted by the
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> Social stability is far more valuable than any social media business In an ever-changing universe, how can we have social stability without innovation?
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> the Bluesky Discover feed I know nothing about it, because exclusively use custom and niche feeds!
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> force social media platforms to offer support for custom feed algorithms This sort of legislature could bankrupt a startup—and, by extension, discouragement investment—by driving them to pursue a technical achievement that's out o
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Sure, but it's nice to be reaffirmed, and maybe this is handy grist for discussions with friends, family, and colleagues.
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Glad to see Bluesky mentioned. I look forward to trading custom feed algorithms like Pokémon: https://stronglytyped.uk/articles/bluesky-firehose-meet-hack...
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Ooh, how novel, and we'll-executed. I imagine this might be useful in conjunction with a minimap as "terrain". Useful, that is, in terms of getting a proprioceptive "feel" for the anatomy/topography of a docume
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While I agree somewhat with my sibling comment's assertion that "aggregate information across billions of humans can compensate", somewhat, I'd like to offer that a lot of important output is non-digital, as well! For ex

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