globnomulous

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by globnomulous 5mo ago
> The reality is that a human will learn, given any materials including LLMs, but only if they truly desire to learn. We've had MOOCs, gigantic libraries, all full of free information. You can obtain a PhD level understanding in any
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by globnomulous 5mo ago
> The LLM has terrible judgment but an encyclopedic knowledge Bingo. Claude can bang out nearly correct code when I give it an idea, but it doesn't have the idea and repeatedly misjudges both how much work remains and what kind. On
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by globnomulous 5mo ago
Use expensive models at high effort
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by globnomulous 5mo ago
Ah, that actually makes a lot of sense. Thanks for explaining. I'll try to tone it down -- and work on a more neutral brevity. Thanks!
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by globnomulous 5mo ago
Could you expand on this?
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by globnomulous 5mo ago
> Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative. Could you explain how this applies? I don't mean to be difficult -- really. I appreciate that Hacker News is a gre
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by globnomulous 5mo ago
Probably just "be lucky."
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by globnomulous 5mo ago
Oy, yes, correct, thanks for this.
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by globnomulous 5mo ago
Oof, thanks for the corrections.
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by globnomulous 5mo ago
Extinctions followed homo sapiens across the planet millennia before the emergence of the technologies that you seem to think make the world 'complicated.' The Greek work biblos, for book, derives from the name of the region of th
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by globnomulous 5mo ago
> enable entirely new modes of interaction. AI allows 3D content to be created in more efficient ways than ever before. A perfect and novel fit for spacial hardware and software, that natural habitat for 3D. If we're certain, and it
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by globnomulous 5mo ago
> It is not at all clear which should be the output impedance of the amplifier as a function of frequency to ensure the least degradation of the sounds in comparison with the input signal. > So it may happen that a vacuum-tube amplifi
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by globnomulous 5mo ago
I love this. I'm wondering: what skills did this project hone? What are you better at now than you were before you undertook it? Or was it just for fun?
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by globnomulous 5mo ago
Maybe combine the threads, dang?
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by globnomulous 5mo ago
Precisely. And this is why all the MCP servers that people at my company are writing aren't worth using: their apparent goal is automate as much as possible. They're encouraging people not to pay attention. This results in bad cod
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by globnomulous 5mo ago
Twenty minutes ago Claude digested about a dozen pipeline definitions, a sequence of build files and targets, read the scripts they use, found the variable that I could reuse for my purposes, and made the appropriate change in the right (lo
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by globnomulous 5mo ago
I was an LLM naysayer for a long time. During that time I would have agreed with you. Recent experiences have changed my mind. The accuracy I get from models does not suffer from the problems you describe, and many of the issues you're
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by globnomulous 5mo ago
That's an excellent point. To be fair, I allowed myself to work on this while I was sick only because it was fun. This was a bit like scratching an itch, because I'd had the germ of an idea for a while and wanted to get it out of
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by globnomulous 5mo ago
I was an LLM naysayer for a very long time. I continue to have serious reservations about the ethics of LLM use and the likely economic effects (these tools are likely to empower the owners of capital and disempower labor). On the other han
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by globnomulous 6mo ago
I can't argue with this professor's argument because I don't know it, but I can only say that, intuitively, this sounds like an example of the false dichotomy I described in my previous comment. I've never met a math stu
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by globnomulous 6mo ago
> It's one thing to memorize arguments in favour of a position. It's another to actively defend your positions against those aggressively invested in proving you wrong. John Stuart Mill argued that only the latter activity prod
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by globnomulous 6mo ago
He may have little name recognition, but he's considered, at a minimum, one of the most important, influential, masterful nonfiction writers of his generation.
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by globnomulous 6mo ago
Yes, definitely. There was tourism in Greece in the Classical Period, too. Epidaurus is a good example: a major religious sanctuary, side by side with a theatre and athletics venues, all part of the thriving local economy propped up entirel
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by globnomulous 6mo ago
This is so nice to hear! I regret not spending more time with the New Testament when I had the opportunity (my time for Greek is essentially nil at this point). It's such a treat to run across people who savor the language the way you
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by globnomulous 6mo ago
I know just Ancient Greek. When I was in the country, I was consistently blown away by how much I could understand, even without knowing Modern Greek. A billboard for cigarettes contained their equivalent of the surgeon general's warni
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by globnomulous 6mo ago
Modern Greek has so much continuity with ancient that, if you know ancient, you can read plenty of signs and pick your way through pamphlets at museums and archaeological sites. Every Greek I have known has valued that continuity and histor
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by globnomulous 6mo ago
I'm quite surprised by the negativity of the comments in this thread, especially contrasted with the positivity and enthusiasm I see in other threads. I'm an AI pessimist. I don't like it. I have resisted it. You'll find
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by globnomulous 6mo ago
Microsoft fired all QA people ten or fifteen years ago. I'd imagine it's a similar a story: boxed software needed much higher guarantees of correctness. Digital deliver leaves much more room for error, because it leaves room for e
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by globnomulous 7mo ago
I should add: I'm not saying LLMs can do my job for me. I still find them tedious and clumsy. I do better work when I write my own code.
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by globnomulous 7mo ago
> Unfortunately this doesn't fix a bigger problem... I just don't enjoy vibe coding as a craft. There's something special about sitting down in the morning with your coffee and taking on a difficult programming problem. Yo

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