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by gcanyon 11mo ago
I know one feature Siri has added in the past fifteen years, because I always complained that Siri couldn't "text this photo to my wife." I would demonstrate to people that this doesn't work, complain about the lack of d
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by gcanyon 11mo ago
Is it really that hard to switch to [google|libre|apache|free|etc.|etc.]? It seems like at the university level the ideas are the important part, and the need to write/spreadsheet at the bleeding edge of functionality much less so?
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by gcanyon 11mo ago
So how close is this to “RAG for tools”? In the sense that RAG handles aspects of your task outside of the LLM, leaving the LLM to do what it does best.
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by gcanyon 11mo ago
> When it comes to culture, I believe that things change rather than go up or down. In the '80s movie Trancers, Jack Deth is a visitor from the future, and as he's slicking his hair back with water from a flower vase a woman fr
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by gcanyon 11mo ago
> The difficulties in search are almost entirely dealing with the large amounts of data, both logistically and in handling underspecified queries. I would expect the difficulty to be deciding which item to return when there are multiple
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by gcanyon 11mo ago
Thanks, I did. Maybe I just have linty pockets? It can charge sometimes if I press the lightning cable end down or up just so. And that gets a little better maybe if I toothpick it, but only maybe and only for one or two times?
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by gcanyon 11mo ago
Similar -- I'm currently nursing a 13 mini (the lightning port barely works, so I'm on magsafe). and before that I had an iPhone XS I think -- that one I managed to break the screen (the only time I've ever done that, I dropp
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by gcanyon 11mo ago
If the Vision Pro were $1000 I'd buy it without hesitation. At $1500 I'd eventually talk myself into it. At $3500 I'm just waiting.
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by gcanyon 11mo ago
I'm at the point where I need to redefine cmd-z, x, c, v because my left thumb doesn't want to do that dance anymore. It's been painful for a year, and I finally got to the point of redefining it a couple weeks ago. And the m
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by gcanyon 11mo ago
> So that is essentially the ceiling in terms of accuracy. I think this is mistaken. I remember... ten years ago? When speech-to-text models came out that dealt with background noise that made the audio sound very much like straight pink
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by gcanyon 1y ago
well, it isn't his department...
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> Planes don't need tracks. But let's all take a moment to acknowledge that it would be awesome if they had them. Can you imagine the shenanigans you could get up to designing a nationwide 40,000-foot-high rollercoaster syste
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> As for trains, during rush hour trains can be so full you might be squashed against the door unable to move I don't know why this never occurred to me before, but: is there a reason they can't run more trains or higher-passen
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I did this (bignum) library for Livecode specifically for PE. https://github.com/gcanyon/bignum
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I've solved about a hundred PE problems in Livecode, maybe 40 in Python, and about 20 in J. I highly recommend giving it a try in a language you don't know, it's fun! Especially with something as obscure as J.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
This movie is for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_(film)
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> Do not use a calculator. Do it in your head. You wouldn't ask a human to do that, why would you ask an LLM to? I guess it's a way to test them, but it feels like the world record for backwards running: interesting, maybe, b
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I was just talking with my wife yesterday about how readily people assume they have superior competence to or greater insight than experts in a given field. I'm not picking on you in particular, but your comment jumped out at me. Subs
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> 15 digits A billion (-1) is only 9 digits, even with only one "name" that would likely be sufficient, or 10 maybe digits at the absolute extreme.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Gathering all the metaphors (I know) here for reference: - "All toupées look fake. I've never seen one that I couldn't tell was fake." [1] - All CGI in movies looks fake. It jumps out at me every time I see it.&q
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I think they mean existence in general, not the existence of any specific thing. Meaning that if there were no “existence” then we wouldn’t be here to consider its nonexistence.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I've had a concept 2 rowing machine for almost 20 years, so I (automatically) have a detailed record of every workout for two decades. N=1, but for me at least, I have clear evidence that the same level of effort does not produce the
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by gcanyon 1y ago
A question and a suggestion: 1. How much of a first-mover advantage is there? 2. Maybe have the first player only execute 5 instructions on the first turn, to remove whatever first mover advantage there is -- that way at the end of ea
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Shall we play a game?
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Hello, fellow LA traffic sufferer! I used to do the 210 to the 2 to surface streets to Century City, and the 210 to the 118 to the 405 to Santa Monica. There was no transit that was going to tame those beasts :-) but a commuter motorcycle i
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by gcanyon 1y ago
That almost seems like cheating. Like the very very old joke where the guy is standing on the train station with two large briefcases beside him, talking on an impossibly small cell phone (this was a joke around 1995). Another man walks up
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by gcanyon 1y ago
It would almost have to be very efficient -- they're saying it can do something like 500HP continuous, and it doesn't have enormous fins all over it for cooling.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Anyone have info on how energy-efficient moving walkways are on a person-mile basis? I'm guessing not very, but I'd love to be wrong. Taking a moving walkway instead of a subway would be awesome (assuming you could figure out the
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by gcanyon 1y ago
There's a book out there (I don't remember the author, title, or anything really) written by a guy who traveled around the world, over several years, in a VW bus(?). The thing that struck me is, he got home within a couple days of
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I think Nisus was the app that had a fun About... window easter egg: if you did it with the option key down, little stick figures would assemble (or disassemble?) the dialog letter by letter, running back and forth frantically to do so. Nis

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