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by greybox 1y ago
The UK has tripwire forces in Estonia, this ship has already sailed my friend.
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by greybox 1y ago
This article simply has it's facts wrong. I live and work in Iceland as a software engineer, I work a ~37hr week and work 5 days a week. Local councils tried a 4-day work week a few years ago and ended up not implementing it. I'm
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by greybox 1y ago
> only possible because most of the rest of the world was devastated by WWII Maybe this is the situation the Trump administration is striving for
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by greybox 1y ago
I don't understand why. Why would I want a Facebook AI assistant? I dont understand why its in messenger and WhatsApp either?
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by greybox 1y ago
I recommend skimming over the first few chapters of crafting interpreters, the main value there is the recursive descent algorithm and abstract syntax trees, the rest is implementation. I've been developing my own language [1] and that
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by greybox 1y ago
I don't see AI inference becoming the main computational primitive. It will always be faster and more efficient on the execution side to just write some code to do a task, than it will be to ask an AI to do the same task. Unless nobody
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by greybox 1y ago
One question I continue to ask myself when I see impressive AI examples like this, (because it is impressive) is "are we solving the right problems"? Instead of training an AI to produce a tonne of JS to create something that&#x27
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by greybox 1y ago
Yes
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by greybox 2y ago
That was fun, thank you! Whatsit Daily Challenge Completed in: 3:28 #1 (1:02) #2 (0:43) #3 (0:29) #4 (0:43) #5 (0:32) https://www.whatsit.today/
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by greybox 2y ago
> the most powerful technology humans could ever hope to build If you're correct, that's a rather depressing thought
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by greybox 2y ago
I'm troubled by the amount of people in this thread partially dismissing this as science fiction. From the current rate of progress and rate of change of progress, this future seems entirely plausible
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by greybox 2y ago
But (as I understand it) how the Fed tracks inflation is the consumer price index, which does take things like "the price of shoes" into account.
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by greybox 2y ago
One unintended benefit of this move might be reducing greenhouse gas emissions from global shipping ... if US consumers are consuming more US made products, the supply chain for those projects will have gotten significantly shorter in nauti
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by greybox 2y ago
If a pair of shoes today costs $30, and a pair of shoes tomorrow costs $60 (not saying this will happen, just positing a scenario), from a consumer perspective, there has been 100% inflation in the price of shoes. It doesn't matter tha
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by greybox 2y ago
Something I try to remember when discussing politics or playing Scrabble: "You can be right, or you can have friends"
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The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking [pdf](microsoft.com)
203 points by greybox 2y ago|138 comments
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by greybox 2y ago
Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared” “[A] key irony of automation is that by mechanising routine tasks and leaving exception-handling to the human user, you deprive the user of the routine opportunities
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by greybox 2y ago
Working fine for me
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by greybox 2y ago
Iceland is a nice halfway point between the EU and the American continent, its a 5 hour flight from Boston and a 3.5 hour flight from London, its not a bad place to consider
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by greybox 2y ago
thank you for your contribution to society!
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by greybox 2y ago
Insane, I wonder if we eventually end up with a non-search-engine indexed version of the web that's more like browsing in the 90s where websites just had to link to oneanother to get noticed . . . . I love that the solution to LLM scr
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by greybox 2y ago
I very much liked this: > We made painting feel like typing, but we should have made typing feel like painting. I think this quote is worth ruminating for a few while. It reminds me of some Bret Victor talks.
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by greybox 2y ago
I've not yet managed to successfully write any meaningful contribution to a codebase with an llm, faster than I could have written it myself. Ok sure it writes test code boiler plate for me. Honestly the kind of work im doing requires
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by greybox 2y ago
I completely agree, I was coaching someone recently who finished the CS50 computer science course, who had some very funny ideas about what programming was, It was very clear that they had big holes in their understanding, so I took the exa
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by greybox 2y ago
I guess what needs to improve more than anything, is the teaching and documentation of these new APIs. There are over-arching ideas that pull things together, but they aren't alluded to in the documentation, you need to attend a traini
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by greybox 2y ago
You make some very good points here. I've watched the talk too and criticism of it is important. I have to say though Blow is right when he says: "you can't just Draw pixels to the screen" I am a game engine programmer a
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by greybox 2y ago
Iceland is already in Schengen, it's a bit like Norway in that respect, without the benefit to it's currency that all the oil brings
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by greybox 2y ago
Should be renamed: "How to not offend people with fragile self-esteem"
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by greybox 2y ago
I kind see the points he´s making, however I think there's something subtle here that's worth talking about: > Rather than empowering the next generation of web developers to achieve more, we might be training them for a career
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by greybox 2y ago
This is great, A tighter feedback loop is always better for everyone. I'm also getting some serious Déjà vu for the web tools of the 2000's. History really does rhyme

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