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by hodgesrm 1y ago
I think it's actually the other way around. The US Civil War predated social media by 150 years. The root causes were slavery and states rights. The result was a bloody conflict whose effects lasted for generations. That's an exis
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Only a fraction of our customers insist on locking the contract terms. It's far less than half, and it's not correlated in an obvious way to the value of the contract.
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I understand your argument, but the distinctions you are making seem really hard to uphold. Adapting to LLMs means we'll adopt new standards for quality or more likely re-emphasize old ones like assigning trust to specific authorities
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by hodgesrm 1y ago
> You're missing the point. In the past bad writing was just bad writing, and it was typically easy to detect. If AI generated text were well written, would it matter to you? Is it bad to use Grammarly? I don't see anything inh
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by hodgesrm 1y ago
I see. So you're saying you were also in Terminal 2 at Heathrow?
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It seems like everyone is getting too worked up about AI generated text. Yes, it's bad, but bad writing has existed forever. We don't see most of the older stuff because it disappears (thankfully) into oblivion and you are left wi
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No, at least not in all cases. Customers incur review costs and potentially new risks if you change contract terms unexpectedly. In my business many large customers will only adopt our ToS if we commit to it as a contract that does not chan
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by hodgesrm 1y ago
This is a big motivation for running your own models locally. OpenAI's move to deprecate older models was an eye-opener to some but also typical behavior of the SaaS "we don't have any versions" style of deployment. [0]
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by hodgesrm 1y ago
Thank you for this post. I don't write much code as I'm currently mostly managing people but I read it constantly. I also do product management. LLMs are very effective at locating and explaining things in complex code bases. I us
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It's OK provided there's a garbage collection procedure. But the write-up seems to regard this as optional. > Deletes accumulate in tombstone files over time. Eventually we would want to coalesce 100 small tombstone files into
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by hodgesrm 1y ago
Have to agree with the Economist on this one. I've been to a couple of conferences this year in Europe that covered AI. (Example: State of Open Con 2025) The conversations in the hallway were largely about how to regulate AI, not how t
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The Tech Jester Who Pranks San Francisco(nytimes.com)
3 points by hodgesrm 1y ago|2 comments
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Martin Casado is a counter-example. His writings on technology starting with his phd thesis are very informative. [0] He’s the real thing as are many others. [0] http://yuba.stanford.edu/~casado/mcthesis.pdf
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What real-world problem does any of this solve? For instance, how does it protect my IP from being vacuumed up and used by LLMs without permission from or payment to me?
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How can such a delightful article only have 2 upvotes? (One of which is mine.) I had no idea that such an addressing scheme existed, nor that it was so nicely documented by the USPS. Thank you OP!
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by hodgesrm 1y ago
> You don’t have to understand lambda calculus LISP style programming, and you don’t have to understand manual memory C style programming. That and the fact that Python has become the interface for scripting operations on a huge number
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Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off?(wsj.com)
1 points by hodgesrm 1y ago|1 comments
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One hopes so. Many of the comments assume an ideal human driver, whereas real human drivers are frequently tired, distracted, intoxicated, or just crazy.
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Well there is strong anecdotal evidence of exactly this happening. We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you sho
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by hodgesrm 1y ago
Ah, one of my all-time favorite Shakespeare quotes. Another is: "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!“ My father used it frequently when we were kids. I found out decades later it was a quote from Ki
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by hodgesrm 1y ago
> i've found that something even better than excessive preparation ... is letting yourself be honest about the content. This is so true. It's a lemma to the famous quote "Always tell the truth; it's the easiest thing
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Given the chaos currently infecting the world, overuse of em dashes--or any use for that matter--is the last thing a rational being should worry over. Other than splitting infinitives and ending sentences with a preposition, of course. They
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by hodgesrm 1y ago
> You don’t need to know all the laws of Mississippi to serve such customer, or any laws from anywhere else other than Italy. Except that in this case it's more like applying state sales taxes to online purchases. That has been a th
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by hodgesrm 1y ago
Looks nice! Thank you for posting. I plan to try it out.
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AI-Skilled 20-Somethings Are Making Thousands a Year(wsj.com)
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Share your issues with Hitchhiker's Guide. It never resonated for me. Fortunately the diversity of books matches the diversity of human tastes.
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I just read "Slow Horses" by Mike Herron. It's easily as good as the show on Apple TV and was lots of fun to read. I can't imagine anything more entertaining.
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> Now as a hiring manager I’ll say I regularly find that those who’ve had humanities experience are way more capable and the hard parts of analysis and understanding. The humanities, especially the classic texts, cover human interaction
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Google is watching(not-a-tech-bro.ghost.io)
83 points by hodgesrm 1y ago|71 comments
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> When was the last time that productivity gains translated directly into a quality of life increase for the workers? It's easy to be cynical, but productivity gains in agriculture are the main reason why we have enough to eat. Less

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