jimmytucson

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by jimmytucson 17d ago
This has definitely been floated[1]: > Understanding that the purpose of a human is to pass on genes, and that there’s little human or genes left in her, the ultimate human might therefore conclude that her sustenance only disrupts the p
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by jimmytucson 20d ago
Thanks for this. My mom died one month ago after a years-long battle with ovarian cancer. Even when she was suffering from chemotherapy treatment, she would always think text to remind me to do the little things. I remember when I told her
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by jimmytucson 26d ago
> For now let's assume the worst that can happen is that some important/significant chunk of (transitively) internet connected stuff goes haywire all at once. That's probably your upper limit of what can go wrong for now.
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by jimmytucson 1mo ago
> they can just pull the plug You mean turn off the internet? Sure, provided people have access to physical banks with currency, paper, land lines, libraries, etc. Most wealthy societies have all but relinquished those though.
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by jimmytucson 1mo ago
The most concerning aspect to me is the emergent and aggressive use of non-volatile storage as long term memory for self-improvement. LLMs are writing lessons learned in places where the next instance can find them and pick back up where t
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Scientists Hunting Dark Matter Found Something Strange(nytimes.com)
4 points by jimmytucson 1mo ago|2 comments
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by jimmytucson 1mo ago
Link to research paper: https://lz.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2026/08/LZ_Pre...
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by jimmytucson 1mo ago
There’s also a subtly reworded, “This isn’t human-level AI—it’s corporate-level AI.”
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by jimmytucson 4mo ago
So the record labels sue the AI companies for copyright infringement and get settlement money and licensing deals in return, then the artists have to sue the record labels for a piece of that new revenue. The labels won't just pay the
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by jimmytucson 6mo ago
Pretty much mirrors my experience using GPT to generate images creatively. I tried to generate an image to accompany a Robert frost poem and it made something... plausibly related. But not what I was describing. I spent the next 90% of the
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by jimmytucson 7mo ago
They have this. It’s called batch pricing and it’s 50% off.
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by jimmytucson 7mo ago
> I have said that, in my opinion, all was chaos, that is, earth, air, water, and fire were mixed together; and out of that bulk a mass formed – just as cheese is made out of milk – and worms appeared in it, and these were the angels. Th
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by jimmytucson 7mo ago
That “cyclopean” eye is described as a patch of light-sensitive cells.
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by jimmytucson 9mo ago
Fascinating idea. There was another "time-locked" LLM project that popped up on HN recently[1]. Their model output is really polished but the team is trying to figure out how to avoid abuse and misrepresentation of their goals.
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by jimmytucson 9mo ago
You can definitely protect from reassignment in those languages (e.g. `final` in Java) but they don't completely prevent you from changing the underlying data. Rust would be one that comes to mind that has true immutability. I guess
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by jimmytucson 9mo ago
Not shilling for Go here but there are a few misconceptions in this blog post. In addition to the others mentioned: > All of these examples involve assigning to a constant a value known at compile time but none of them will work Maps are
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by jimmytucson 9mo ago
Hmm, so in a language that does automatic bounds checking, the compiler might translate a line of source code like: let val = arr[i] to assembly code like: cmp rdx, rsi ; Compare i (rdx) with length (rsi) jae
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by jimmytucson 9mo ago
> Safe languages insert additional machine branches to do things like verify that array accesses are in-bounds. In correct code, those branches are never taken. That means that the machine code cannot be 100% branch tested, which is an i
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by jimmytucson 11mo ago
> [Learning Zig] is about fundamentally changing how you think about software. Learning LISP, Fortran, APL, Perl, or really any language that is different from what you’re used to, will also do this for you.
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by jimmytucson 1y ago
Just wanted to say, thanks for doing this! Now the old rant... I started my career when on-prem was the norm and remember so much trouble. When you have long-lived hardware, eventually, no matter how hard you try, you just start to treat it
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by jimmytucson 1y ago
It is just as "vibe-ish" as vector search and notably does require chunking (document chunks are fed to the indexer to build the table of contents). That said, I don't find vector search any less "vibey". While &qu
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by jimmytucson 1y ago
That’s because every business is “scaled” to the point that the edge employees —- ie the people who interact with paying customers —- don’t own anything, and are 12 levels of management away from anyone who does. My grandparents owned a gro
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by jimmytucson 1y ago
The company with the lowest median pay, Aptiv, I had to look up, and what a darling of a company this is: - guilty of systemic accounting fraud from 1999-2004 - manufactured a (allegedly known-to-be) faulty ignition switch that le
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by jimmytucson 1y ago
> That’s why we use a tree structure rather than just a flat list of sections. This is what makes it different from traditional RAG Ah ok, that’s a key piece I was missing. That’s really cool, thanks!
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by jimmytucson 1y ago
So if I understand this correctly, this works on a single large document whose size exceeds what you can or want to put into a single context frame for answering a question? It first "indexes" the document by feeding successive &q
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by jimmytucson 1y ago
To save you a click, 19% is actually not a lot (I thought it was): > 19% of California houses were owned by investors, ranking No. 36 among the states and just below the 20% national norm. States with the highest share of investor-owne
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by jimmytucson 1y ago
Pretty amazing this all started as MLB Advanced Media more than 20 years ago streaming baseball games on the internet before YouTube existed! When I joined, they were streaming NHL, MLS, WWE, HBO, and many others. Then they spun off and sol
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by jimmytucson 1y ago
Why not do it before you need a job? While you're comfortable, submit your application for open roles and reject the AI interviewer.
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by jimmytucson 1y ago
The system’s brightness decreases when the companion star swings around behind Betelgeuse. It also dips when Betelgeuse goes behind the companion star but much less so because Betelgeuse is so much larger.
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Caching Is Everywhere(planetscale.com)
3 points by jimmytucson 1y ago|0 comments

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