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by iandanforth 4mo ago
"We received the directive from the government today at 5:21pm (ET)" This sounds exactly like the opening line from an apocalyptic sci-fi film.
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by iandanforth 4mo ago
Brutal. I love it.
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by iandanforth 4mo ago
Ah, ok. There's a whole body of literature here that I think divides our opinions. I would recommend "Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare)&quo
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by iandanforth 4mo ago
Sorry if I was unclear. I don't work in finance. I do work with agents. I think expert engineers in finance who are guiding agents are adding a lot of value because of their knowledge of finance. Because I lack that knowledge of fina
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by iandanforth 4mo ago
"I ended up working in software development roles in the domains of finance, bookkeeping and payment processing, where I had great autonomy and a close and candid relationship with Product Managers and stakeholders. I learnt a lot abou
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by iandanforth 4mo ago
The point being that we're beyond where that's a responsible choice. Empathy for an organization enforcing its rules above the actions of those protesting them means either an ideological alignment with the censorship or an ignora
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by iandanforth 4mo ago
Wut? I pilot LLMs all day but there's no way in hell I'd agree to be at the helm of a finance product. That first pillar is still there. Maybe the author isn't aware of the impact they have, but I know, with the evidence of
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by iandanforth 4mo ago
A reminder to anyone who finds themselves in this kind of situation, do not engage with the rhetoric of the enemy. You cannot win an argument where they set the rules. So here, where they question whether or not they were "protesting&q
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by iandanforth 4mo ago
Claude can directly drive Codex or Codex can drive Claude. Both already produce logs. It's unclear what value this intermediary brings.
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by iandanforth 4mo ago
This is a great move for OpenAI and one that should worry Anthropic. Bedrock was the only way I could use foundation models for a while given AWS lock-in and security requirements.
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by iandanforth 4mo ago
Putting two adaptive dynamic systems next to each other is tricky. Your eyes and these glasses could easily create a positive or negative feedback loop or begin oscillating. So while cool I hope they have some experienced controls people on
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by iandanforth 5mo ago
I have similar projects in mind. How were these printed?
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by iandanforth 5mo ago
Deepmind hype is the worst hype. They do genuinely cool stuff and talk about it publicly, but don't make it available . Or it's only available to a tiny select few. Just shut up about the things you're doing until they are r
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by iandanforth 5mo ago
Huge fan of zoning reform, however I'd love to see equal effort in lending reform. The availability of multi-million dollar mortgages on 30 year terms means that we all get poorer. Getting people into owned homes is a dream left over f
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by iandanforth 5mo ago
I don't understand how people can use the phrase "right-size" without a crushing sense of embarrassment and shame. Did you swallow a business consultant from 1990? That and phrases like "go forward strategy" say eit
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by iandanforth 5mo ago
I found the section on publishing very interesting. Even if the quality of the output is up to snuff, where should it go? Arxiv doesn't allow AI written work. The author proposes that only work that has been certified by human should b
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by iandanforth 5mo ago
Try this thought experiment. If, in 6 months, the agents were better coders than you are, would this argument still hold? This is a personal thought experiment so think it through for yourself. What would the consequence be if the agents re
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by iandanforth 6mo ago
Anyone know if these are already powering all of Gemini services, some of them, or none yet? It's hard to tell if this will result in improvements in speed, lower costs, etc, or if those will be invisible, or have already happened.
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by iandanforth 6mo ago
First I'm hearing of them and with this ownership I'll be highly skeptical of any of their content if I do happen to watch.
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by iandanforth 7mo ago
I like this idea! I don't need the LLM bits, and want it to run on an old Android tablet I have lying around. Can anyone recommend similar software where I can get wikipedia / street maps / useful tutorial videos nicely packa
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by iandanforth 7mo ago
I'm very happy about this change. For long sessions with Claude it was always like a punch to the gut when a compaction came along. Codex/GPT-5.4 is better with compactions so I switched to that to avoid the pain of the model sudd
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by iandanforth 7mo ago
I don't think we won't get AGI if Anthropic were to implode, and frankly, right now, I'd rather have someone say clearly, "They cannot stomach the existence of someone telling them 'No' or adhering to moral pri
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by iandanforth 7mo ago
TLDR (story, not math) - Knuth poses a problem, his friend uses Claude to conduct 30 some explorations, with careful human guidance, and Claude eventually writes a Python program that can find a solution for all odd values. Knuth then write
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by iandanforth 8mo ago
Totally reasonable project for many reasons but fast tools for AI always makes me chuckle. Imagine your job is delivering packages and along the delivery route one of your coworkers is a literal glacier. It doesn't really matter how fa
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by iandanforth 8mo ago
The crucial thing is that Tesla's valuation has the hype projects baked in. The fact that it never delivered self driving or a robotaxi fleet and is now being saved solely by an import ban on Chinese EVs means that any success he had w
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by iandanforth 8mo ago
While this seems to detect posture fairly well, the screen blurring doesn't work for me despite allowing what appear to be the relevant permissions. (macOS 15.1)
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by iandanforth 8mo ago
This seems to be the classic discussion over what counts as reliable. Humans aren't particularly reliable, and as any hardware engineer knows, even if you have provably correct algorithms your software system can never be 100% reliable
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by iandanforth 9mo ago
This is a crime. It is an unlawful act of aggression which may defacto trigger an international armed conflict. There will be paper thin justifications of course but those are merely to give loyalists talking points and a thread to grasp to
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by iandanforth 9mo ago
Pages like this are why I love Firefox reader mode. It doesn't matter what font crimes the author commits, with a single click it becomes legible again! Good content should never be missed because of an author trying to stab you in the
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by iandanforth 11mo ago
FYI if you're getting a contrast MRI in the near future, avoid vitamin c. https://hscnews.unm.edu/news/unm-scientists-discover-how-nan...

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