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by istjohn 1y ago
The UI will be a thin, flexible facade over a chatbot.
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by istjohn 1y ago
> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that". https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguide
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by istjohn 1y ago
This is neat, but I did find an error in the output pretty quickly. (Disregard the mangled indentation) # Use the Session as a context manager with requests.Session() as s: s.get('https://httpbin.org/cookies&
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by istjohn 1y ago
Why do you think it's supposed to be cheap? Developers are expensive. Claude doesn't have to be cheap to make software development quicker and cheaper. It just has to be cheaper than you. There are ways to use LLMs cheaply, but it
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by istjohn 1y ago
Wait until you hear what happens to male chicks.
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by istjohn 1y ago
It's maddening that you can't switch away from the app while it generates output. To use the Deep Research feature on mobile, you have to give up your phone for ten minutes.
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by istjohn 1y ago
Perhaps they use evaporative cooling towers?
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by istjohn 1y ago
It's clearly not. In the original screenshot there are 6 files with the prefix "I.2J", but in the GPT version, there are only four.
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by istjohn 1y ago
> No guarantees that Google discover a meaningful business model here... I don't understand this sentiment at all. The business model writes itself (so to speak). This is the company that perfected the art of serving up micro-targe
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by istjohn 1y ago
I believe conversation is a one of the best ways to really learn a topic, so long as it is used deliberately. My folk theory of education is that there is a sequence you need to complete to truly master a topic. Step 1: You start with recep
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by istjohn 2y ago
We're just in a transitional moment. It's not realistic to expect LLM capabilities to leapfrog from marginally better autocomplete to self-guided autocoder without passing through a phase where it shows tantalizing hints of being
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by istjohn 2y ago
One thing I do appreciate about my Christian upbringing is having a church community, particularly as a parent. Has anyone found a good substitute?
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by istjohn 2y ago
If you want to raise an atheist, go all in on Santa Clause. It's a great inocculation against superstition.
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by istjohn 2y ago
With a rate limit of 50 requests per day
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by istjohn 2y ago
The top 50% of college freshman math and physics majors is approximately equal to the top 1% of all people.
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by istjohn 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43023698
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by istjohn 2y ago
Hilarious. In addition to lots of moo's and moo-ack's it hallucinated random words and phrases that weren't in the script.
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by istjohn 2y ago
> Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair. > She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pre
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by istjohn 2y ago
It's not resizeable on mobile.
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by istjohn 2y ago
They've already scraped my Github.
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by istjohn 2y ago
I transcribed the podcast for you, but I think you're right. https://pastebin.com/raw/PG5JdAKv
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by istjohn 2y ago
Your cross section area is off by two orders of magnitude. They currently are drilling a 0.008 m² hole at one meter per hour with 1 MW of power. They hope to scale that up to a 0.032 m² hole while maintaining the same rate of depth penetrat
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by istjohn 2y ago
Thanks, I never read that one. Yegge's writing is just delicious. He could write a guide to watching paint dry and I would savor every word.
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by istjohn 2y ago
AI weapons will soon make successful revolution quite unlikely.
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by istjohn 2y ago
I don't think it's practical to eliminate wealth inequality. But we can certainly limit it. I would also be less concerned about wealth inequality if we had more robust legal frameworks to prevent wealthy people and institutions f
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by istjohn 2y ago
I've had this issue in Aider with Claude 3.7
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by istjohn 2y ago
Maybe simultaneously give it one or more other pitches that you consider just on the line of passing and then have it rank the pitches. If the evaluated pitch is ranked above the others, it passes. Then in a clean context tell the LLM that
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by istjohn 2y ago
To play devil's advocate, do optical illusions disprove human intelligence?
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by istjohn 2y ago
It matters if one person can buy Twitter on a whim and use it to pursue his ideological goals, or if one person can buy The Washington Post and dictate it's editorial positions, or if a small handful of people can fund an effort to ide
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by istjohn 2y ago
Someone should tell them.

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