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by gwd 1y ago
There's something strange about this whole narrative. I don't know anything about the science or personalities at all (except for having seen a number of Hosselfelder's videos, and what she said in her recent video about Wei
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by gwd 1y ago
I cannot construct a consistent worldview that places value on the "experience" of a 100k of neurons inside an ant, and not on the millions of neurons inside an LLM. Both are patterns imposed upon states of matter. Even if you&#
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by gwd 1y ago
Strangely enough, I had a conversation w/ Claude comparing our experiences. Prompted by something I saw online, I asked it "Do you have any questions you'd like to ask a human", and it asked me what it was like to have
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by gwd 1y ago
> I'm not sure what a "moderate amount of Mandarin" means; if it's on the lower end, you might be interested to know that the "other" sense does survive in Mandarin, in the words 其他 ["other"; extre
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by gwd 1y ago
>>> he is 考慮ed as the 正当財産 of some 一 or 他 of their 娘s. > This doesn't appear to be a problem, but I still felt the need to call out what looks like the use of an exclusively masculine pronoun (in modern Chinese) to refer t
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by gwd 1y ago
I mean, I don't have much objection to kill a bug if I feel like it's being problematic. Ants, flies, wasps, caterpillars stripping my trees bare or ruining my apples, whatever. But I never torture things. Nor do I kill things f
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by gwd 1y ago
> Overall you are probably correct, but there are certain benefits from the Chinese character system. I mean yeah, it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good. But consider this: We could do the same thing in English as in Japan
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by gwd 1y ago
Look, given current technology there are exactly three options: 1. Don't have a front-facing camera on your laptop. Your actual laptop screen can be as close to the edge of the laptop case as technology will allow, with no bevel. 2. H
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by gwd 1y ago
Yeah, every new word flushes the entire pipeline. I end up typing long words that I happen to know (prestidigitation) faster than short words, because I can "fill up the pipeline". Not clear if there's any intelligence selec
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by gwd 1y ago
I mean, I get what you're saying, but the fact is 1. Golang is used in web and api servers 2. Json is the lingua franca of data for the web, so golang does a lot of json processing 2. The golang stdlib json packages haven't had mu
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by gwd 1y ago
> How do we reconcile these two comments? I think that's a core question of the industry right now. The question is, for those people who feel like things are going faster, what's the actual velocity? A month ago I showed i
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by gwd 1y ago
I mean, especially rent that occurs on random times and random properties that you have no way of avoiding. :-D
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by gwd 1y ago
So hang on, you play with just properties and simple cards; so in this simplified version of the game, you're mainly just trying to collect sets?
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by gwd 1y ago
Life is full of uncertainty. Learning to take calculated risks, where most attempts fail but a few ones pay off big, is an important life skill. Reading other people's behavior to infer hidden information is another one -- Jane Stree
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by gwd 1y ago
Haha, I just taught my 5-year-old "high card" poker last week. He loves it. Planning on doing a similar progression. Not sure when to stop showing the hands at the end when people fold. He's still in the place where he re
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by gwd 1y ago
> I’m not spending months of engineer effort to save $435K Would you do it to save 1000x that much? Because you're missing 3 zeroes.
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by gwd 1y ago
"Words aren't remembered, but presence is."
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by gwd 1y ago
I agree that we have a new situation developing; but we're not going to get any clarity unless we see clearly what the new situation is. There are several things you're still conflating: 1. The ability of an entity (human or AI)
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by gwd 1y ago
He gives two examples that are meant to prove his point, but they don't really convince me. The first example is the image: the AI has seen the famous photograph of the Ferguson riots, and (with 6 prompts?!) manages to get something fa
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by gwd 1y ago
There was a good essay I saw a bit ago, talking about how this shift from "fraud" to "identity theft" neatly started shifting the victim from the bank to the individual. E.g., 30 years ago, if someone claiming to be me
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by gwd 1y ago
> The actual new and non-traditional meaning of “literally” is as a generic intensifier "Literally" is used as an intensifier in two situations: 1. When speaking neither figuratively nor hyperbolically -- i.e., when the thing y
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by gwd 1y ago
Here's where HN needs a "cry-laughing" emoji. :-)
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by gwd 1y ago
> I remember that there is truly no correct way to say something Weirdly, that's not what this says. It specifically says you can't say this: > * John will both try and kill mosquitos. or > * I tried and finished the ass
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by gwd 1y ago
I've used both aider and opencode with both Opus and Sonnet. Opencode, at least initially, used Claude Code's exact prompt; and I found the results surprisingly different. Perhaps it shouldn't be surprising; after all, we do
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by gwd 1y ago
I'm not sure what "10% performance gain" is supposed to mean here; but moving from "It does a decent job 95% of the time but screws it up 5%" to "It does a decent job 98% of the time and screws it up 2%" t
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by gwd 1y ago
I'm a solo founder. I fed it a fairly large "context doc" for the core technology of my company, current state of things, and the business strategy, mostly generated with the help of Claude 4, and asked it what it thought.
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by gwd 1y ago
Cheaper is an understatement... it's less than 1/10 for input and nearly 1/8 for output. Part of me wonders if they're using their massive new investment to sell API below-cost and drive out the competitor. If they&#x2
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by gwd 1y ago
Not sure what you mean... banks definitely have to worry about people unexpectedly coming and asking for all their money back [1]. The difference is, that risk management is the bank's core business. That's not the business Anth
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by gwd 1y ago
> Why don't they count it as revenue the moment the credits are issued? You've gotten the revenue but you haven't paid the cost for that revenue yet. Those are essentially un-cashed checks that the accountants have to kee
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by gwd 1y ago
> What incentives are they trying to create? One obvious explanation is that pricing is strongly related to the price to them , and that their only incentive is for people to use an expensive model of they really need it. I forget which

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