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by jordanpg 2y ago
I'm a patent attorney. One fantasy that I have is that AI will be a forcing function that will drive all the needless verbosity out of patents. For example, every patent is 50 or 100 pages of what amounts to bland, unreadable backgrou
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by jordanpg 2y ago
A canopy of unblown leaves can cause damage to the surfaces underneath through mold or mildew. In some cases, this damage can be effectively permanent if let go long enough.
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by jordanpg 2y ago
Framed this way, it seems like remote work can actually be an effective filter that can identify and screen out low performers.
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In our future, someone is going to do a study that attempts to measure what I'm going to call the "AI shame index." This will be a measure of the delta between a person's stated usage of AI and the person's actual u
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by jordanpg 2y ago
Our ability to extract such a small signal from noise that is so large we don't even have words for it is truly extraordinary. It strains credulity to the absolute maximum -- and yet these results are repeated, again and again, all ove
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by jordanpg 2y ago
Fair enough. I think I was just reacting to the "watch the video" suggestion which is a continuous source of irritation to me especially in the complicated video game word (e.g., Paradox games).
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by jordanpg 2y ago
"Don't feel like scrolling? Watch the video instead!" Please add a TL;DR here as well. Some of us never want to watch the video instead.
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by jordanpg 3y ago
It's very likely that this person will be responsible for, among other things, farming a great deal of work out to other law firms that will bill quite a lot more than $300k/year.
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by jordanpg 3y ago
You used the word in the sense it commonly used, which is something like "often-repeated" or, more frequently, "shared a lot on social media." While I agree that this is consistent with the WP definition in the broadest
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by jordanpg 3y ago
I think more or less the same thing about the word "meme" as you have used it.
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by jordanpg 3y ago
As I'm reading this, I'm also streaming the regional First Robotics regional championship in Georgia: https://www.twitch.tv/gafirst2 I note without comment that those kids aren't in school right now.
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by jordanpg 3y ago
[Stephen Wolfram sits up.]
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by jordanpg 3y ago
This is very cool, congratulations. When I was in law school, I sometimes visualized the "common law" as a web of interdependencies. This is a similar visualization, although it doesn't quite capture the dependencies, at lea
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by jordanpg 3y ago
A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky are the books that opened my eyes to the utter incomprehensibility and weirdness of what intelligent alien life would really be like if it's out there. I also credit the Transcend as b
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by jordanpg 3y ago
People like PG are at the apex of this weird fawning worship of entrepreneurs and getting rich that particularly affects the tech world. This culture places great intrinsic real value on not having a boss. But of course this is all made
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by jordanpg 3y ago
Putting aside the well-known issues with academic publication that this problem highlights, another aspect of modern publications more generally that LLMs are going to disrupt is word bloat. Too many words. For example, many academic paper
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by jordanpg 3y ago
100% agree. Until this tech has the same form factor as a pair of glasses and no wires it will be stuck in the realms of gaming and porn. Not a small market, perhaps, but hardly a seismic shift in life on Earth.
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by jordanpg 3y ago
Somewhere on this site is a developer who thinks this is a good idea. Or whose boss thinks this is a good idea. I'd love to hear a defense of this practice.
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by jordanpg 3y ago
Yeah, I mean, isn't this pretty obvious? It's no different from any other web application in this respect.
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by jordanpg 3y ago
> but are we sleepwalking into a future where no one knows the basics? Maybe the basics are just being redefined. Perhaps there are some irreducible concepts to which programming can be reduced. Maybe the programmers of the future need
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by jordanpg 3y ago
I'm not interested in voice assistants because they suck at the moment. When they achieve something like 99.9999% accuracy and near-undetectable latency, I will become much more interested in them. As it stands now, if I have to repeat
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Rail Route v1.0, a tycoon and management game(railroute.eu)
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by jordanpg 3y ago
I also have a mom who has/had this. It started as fibromyalgia. Then it was multiple chemical sensitivity. Then it was chronic fatigue syndrome. Then it was a autoimmune disorder. Most recently it is an exotic form of lupus with ex
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by jordanpg 3y ago
You make good points, but I do think that the proliferation of WFH has the potential to poke a bear that wasn't getting poked before. Just one more thing to make those people unfortunate enough to find themselves in certain ruts to fee
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by jordanpg 3y ago
> obviously you can't WFH if your job is... I think this part of the problem deserves a lot more attention. There is a social contract aspect to employment and that only works when all the players think things are fair. It simply ca
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by jordanpg 3y ago
> We don't train models on noise. We train them on coherent data. The very act of writing is where intelligence lies. A model can only present that intelligence. It cannot create it, and it is not aware of it. There is no objective-
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by jordanpg 3y ago
Apple AirPods Pro are the only BT device I've ever used that just works.
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by jordanpg 3y ago
> The biggest problem with email addresses as 'permanent' identifiers is that people's email addresses change even within a single organization (for example, a university). They change for the same collection of reasons th
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by jordanpg 3y ago
Yes. This video is now required viewing in intro trademark classes at law schools to illustrate this point.
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by jordanpg 3y ago
I think OP was being a little hyperbolic, but I know what they mean. Little things add up. Certain minor issues become chronic. Waking up with minor aches and pains is somewhat frequent. Sleep issues are common. It falls short of feelin

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