jameshart

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by jameshart 6d ago
Yep. Languages would be much better if they followed an RFC process.
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by jameshart 6d ago
Great way to frame it. But it does rely on just chance that the nouns you’re talking about will slot into different categories. Would be much more useful if pronouns let us refer to ‘the previously mentioned subject’ or ‘the previously ment
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by jameshart 6d ago
There's also a vast gulf between 'startup culture' and 'Enterprise engineering'. But the general sense of "this voice is for a specific context, and it is not 'weekend ZX Spectrum hacking project'&quo
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by jameshart 6d ago
This is, as always from Grant Sanderson, thought provoking and opens new insights. It occurs to me on reading this that there’s a connection to other computerized mathematical activities. Occasionally some computer lab in the past would ann
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by jameshart 6d ago
* do nearly as well
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by jameshart 6d ago
What’s interesting about the project might no longer be ‘wow, someone figured out how to do that, I guess they must have a MASSIVE BRAIN’, but we can still wonder at the fact that the hardware can be made to do such a thing. If someone find
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by jameshart 6d ago
> If the author didn't do this for themselves - to learn, to show off their skills - then why bring it to life? Isn’t wanting a thing to exist reason enough? It’s a bit like seeing someone post an instagram photo of them eating a
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by jameshart 6d ago
I think some people prefer their labours of love to involve the expenditure of actual labour.
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by jameshart 6d ago
Sure. If I ask my roommate to go make me a ham sandwich without mayo, I expect them to observe basic hygiene practices, too, but I am comfortable with them just handing me the sandwich and saying ‘there on you go - sandwich’ rather than “He
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by jameshart 7d ago
Use AI to write things for you to read that you wish someone else had written . ‘Give me a summary of the research on this topic’; ‘Write a report on this data to help me make a decision’. ‘Take this transcript of a meeting and write me
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by jameshart 7d ago
If you’re familiar with the way in which documentation artifacts like this fall out of a Claude project, you will recognize that every place where Claude says ‘this changes everything’ or ‘this is the load bearing insight’ most likely resul
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by jameshart 7d ago
You can do a lot with custom agent prompts. Just telling Claude ‘this is only a personal project, we’re messing around here’ changes its tone somewhat already. It’s still Business Claude, but more Casual Friday Claude, less Monday Morning S
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by jameshart 7d ago
Claude’s written voice is so distinctive, anyone who has spent time working with Claude instantly recognizes it. Which, if you think about it too hard, says something slightly profound and a little disturbing about identity…
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by jameshart 7d ago
It’s Claude’s earnestness that’s so disingenuous in this kind of write up. This voice Claude has where it believes the work is important and deserves to be taken seriously , and where it takes ever part of the process where it has to a
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by jameshart 8d ago
If you’re familiar with tptacek’s writing you would be confident this is deliberate and recognize it as an ‘I see what he did there’ moment. If not, it does risk planting the seed of doubt - have I been duped once again into reading tokensl
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by jameshart 9d ago
The footnote which says that is the design durability against equipment failure literally begins: > In the unlikely case of the loss or damage to all or part of an AWS Availability Zone, data in a One Zone storage class may be lost. For
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by jameshart 10d ago
Because nobody actually knows what anybody else’s job consists of. But everyone is familiar with how jobs work in the ‘romcom job universe’ where workplace stakes are generally driven by ‘I have this really important make-or-break presentat
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by jameshart 10d ago
A lot of the sample images shown of ‘traditional’ architecture in this piece are not what you’re talking about - they aren’t ’traditional materials’ or ‘traditional techniques’, they just use choices of exterior cladding and window layouts
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by jameshart 13d ago
You can only defend your trademark with respect to product categories that you actually market. Unless IKEA were in the business of selling parody video games, their trademark doesn't apply. Wait... is that why IKEA just put out a paro
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by jameshart 14d ago
There’s some great thinking on this topic from Nicklas Lundblad in this Hannah Fry video on AI Agents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzR5aOElvw He talks about how agents/delegates extend the agency of the people w
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by jameshart 14d ago
To be fair to yourself, the fact that C# terminates pending tasks when the main method exits is something most C# devs don’t have to deal with because they’re mostly working in the context of long running servers and apps.
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by jameshart 15d ago
> destroyed the yardstick … that has traditionally been used to measure how much they have contributed This goes much broader than mathematics or academia. This is the entire basis via which society distributes its wealth: based on a lab
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by jameshart 15d ago
You’re portraying a lot of these things as if they exist in a continuum along a fuzzy line from ‘not cheating’ to ‘cheating’, but the reality is it isn’t fuzzy at all. It’s cheating to submit work you didn’t do for assessment as if it is yo
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by jameshart 15d ago
It’s not so much ‘we are not in a position to verify’ as the fact that the person who said the thing, and what they said, is itself newsworthy . If you’re reporting that “Government sources say Houthis have ‘taken control’ of an island” th
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by jameshart 15d ago
Of course the best way to have your ideas dismissed is to label them a ‘manifesto’, but there’s some interesting ideas in here. I’m particularly struck by the fear that we might be becoming less collaborative as developers turn away from on
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The Multiplayer AI Manifesto(fullstackdeeplearning.com)
4 points by jameshart 15d ago|1 comments
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by jameshart 15d ago
This touches on some of the topics that drove Sergey Karayev to write about ‘multiplayer AI’ - https://fullstackdeeplearning.com/working-with-ai-agents/mul... The fact that work is retreating into private chat sessions
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by jameshart 15d ago
We have the same. Do you know why the ‘every audio connector known to man’ box contain every audio connector known to man but yet never a stereo 1/8” headphone-jack to headphone-jack cable?
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by jameshart 15d ago
Put a USB C to A adapter on each end and you’ve got yourself a perfectly serviceable USBC cable.
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by jameshart 16d ago
Embedding spaces are all about analogy. I’m confused why there seems to be a dismissal of the most basic ‘strange loop’ of the LLM - the fact that it’s evaluating a context to choose the next word, then reevaluating in a context where that

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