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by iambateman 5mo ago
Giving an LLM write access is insane but I gave LLM’s read-only access to our database and it’s been a huge productivity win. Executives who wouldn’t take the time to build a report are happy to ask an AI agent to do so.
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by iambateman 6mo ago
At some point, the market for markets will demand better regulation than this. But I find it a little absurd that anyone is still putting their money into these markets with story after story of obvious fraud.
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by iambateman 6mo ago
But it does work in conspiracy theories which is what we have here.
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by iambateman 6mo ago
Occam would disagree.
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by iambateman 6mo ago
I also live about half an hour from Congaree. I wish it was a state park…it’d be on everyone’s list of “coolest state parks.” It doesn’t have the same wow factor as other national parks, but it’s a special place for sure. See you at the fir
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by iambateman 6mo ago
Microsoft teams: not as bad as people say, except for this situation. I have accidentally sent so many messages trying to get to a new line.
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by iambateman 6mo ago
They buried the lede… Participation in sports betting appears to make people about 2x more likely to be delinquent on their loans. Whether you think that’s “bad enough” is another question, but the article doesn’t make it very clear what th
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by iambateman 6mo ago
I mean…keep reading. For the affected population, it’s around 10 percentage points—or double. So people who sports bet are twice as likely to be delinquent as those who don’t. I’ll give you that the effect is smaller than I expected. Here’s
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by iambateman 6mo ago
I hear the slot machine thing a lot but I don’t get it. I use Claude Code every day for coding because it makes me way more productive. But I don’t resonate with the slot machine effect. Can you expand on what mechanism you see that give it
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by iambateman 7mo ago
I think Warhol’s quote is nostalgic but incomplete. I’m priced out of the best cars, best houses, best home theater systems, best schools. Even someone making $300k/year can’t afford all of the best of everything. Sure, the iPhone ha
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by iambateman 7mo ago
It has a real “where the wild things are” feel…which is the art used to decorate my local library. A lot of people have chosen to take the Hobbit as seriously as its older brother—-including Peter Jackson—-and have missed out on the absurd,
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by iambateman 7mo ago
TBH, I learned about how to use em dashes from the AI controversy and now I find them really useful. I just hope my writing carries enough voice and perspective that people respond, even if there's an em dash or two.
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by iambateman 8mo ago
What would be better policy, in your opinion?
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by iambateman 8mo ago
We are going to have to find new ways to correct for low-effort work. I have a report that I made with AI on how customers leave our firm…The first pass looked great but was basically nonsense. After eight hours of iteration, the resulting
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by iambateman 8mo ago
This is why no one should ask for advice of personal consequence from an LLM, yet. Coding? absolutely. Coding advice? sure. Email language? fine. Health & relationships? hell no. They're not ready for that yet.
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by iambateman 8mo ago
The R2 was the first time I seriously thought about spending up on a vehicle. It looks good. But $45k++ is just wild to me. It seems like the market is undervaluing used EV’s, so hopefully the depreciation curve will bring these down to $30
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by iambateman 8mo ago
I’m going to be thinking about this comment for a while—-and I think you’re basically right. Almost none of the code I wrote in 2015 is still in use today. Probably some percentage of people can point to code that lasted 20 years or longer,
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by iambateman 8mo ago
I do not mourn. For my whole life I’ve been trying to make things—beautiful elegant things. When I was a child, I found a cracked version of Photoshop and made images which seemed like magic. When I was in college, I learned to make website
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by iambateman 8mo ago
Honest question…given how developed our sensibilities are around docs, file storage, and spreadsheets, what is the hard part to this? Don’t get me wrong…something is hard…I still use Microsoft Word because I feel like I have to. But what is
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by iambateman 8mo ago
I recognize most of the top 50 usernames but I have no idea who dragonwriter is. Maybe we just have opposite interests but that was a surprise.
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by iambateman 8mo ago
This is lame. The original creator of Wordle would’ve been more Spiny.
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by iambateman 8mo ago
I think they use their eyes to see the Peace Bridge and were saying it's fairly close to their experience. :D
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Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings(antirender.com)
1844 points by iambateman 8mo ago|453 comments
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by iambateman 8mo ago
Not a chemist…but if someone can carry on 3 bottles at 3.4 ounces each, now they have 10 ounces. Two people do it and it’s 20 ounces. All within the “TSA Standard.” This is where the liquid limit never made sense to me…if we were serious ab
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by iambateman 8mo ago
This is becoming less of an issue, but there’s no question it’s a barrier. To be honest, the bigger barrier I see is around political will to charge the true social cost of gasoline. Some nonprofits think the true cost of burning gas is $10
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by iambateman 9mo ago
Recommendations of things to read in that vein?
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by iambateman 9mo ago
You’re currently using the internet.
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by iambateman 9mo ago
The opposite is increasingly true… I spent the past 6 months rebuilding a medium-size company’s CRM. They were on Salesforce for a decade, and now they’ll own their data based on the work of a single engineer. For Salesforce, the moat is in
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by iambateman 9mo ago
I’m enjoying the thought of seeing this in the state fair art gallery next to the other seventh grade art. It’s wild that someone could be that good that young.
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by iambateman 9mo ago
But that's how literally all software adoption curves work... The 1980's version of simonw was explaining to people how to use Excel, too. (though 40 years later, things are still pretty bad on the Excel front, hah)

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