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by jorl17 11mo ago
As a (rather obsessive, perhaps compulsive) poet, I will indeed remain in my camp :) (I do get what you're saying. Yet, I am not convinced that processes such as tokenization, and the inherent discretization it entails, are incompatibl
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by jorl17 11mo ago
It is a tale as old as time, and one which no doubt all of us repeat at some point in our lives. There are hundreds of clichéd books, hundreds of songs, and thousand of letters that echo this sentiment. We are rarely capable of valuing the
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by jorl17 11mo ago
Utilitarianism is a bitch, huh? (I make this remark merely as a gag. I think you pinpoint an issue which has been unresolved for ages and is knee-deep into ethics. One could argue that many of our disagreements about AI and progress (in a b
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by jorl17 11mo ago
I disagree with your view on creativity, and indeed find LLMs to be remarkably creative. Or perhaps, to sidestep the anthropomorphization issue, I find that LLMs can be used as tools to produce creative works, greatly amplifying one's
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by jorl17 11mo ago
100% this. Just don't expect to get decent code often if you mostly rely on something like cursor's default model. You literally get what you pay for.
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by jorl17 11mo ago
Maybe it's a matter of the websites I use and my specific usage patterns. I've used many browsers throughout the years: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Arc, Zen, Orion. For many years I ran safari because it was so energy-efficient and t
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by jorl17 11mo ago
I've tried Orion a couple of times. I even used it as my default browser for ~3 months about two years ago. Most recently, I tried to use it again about 2 months ago, but it still had loads of bugs and, most of all, was painfully slow.
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by jorl17 11mo ago
Oh, sure! 1. The Book of Disquiet by Bernardo Soares/Fernando Pessoa ("Livro do Desassossego" in the original Portuguese) 2. 1984 by George Orwell 3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 4. The Design of Everyda
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by jorl17 11mo ago
I'd place it 5th in my overall favorite books list. It is certainly one which has influenced me deeply and continues to do so, ever since I first read it 13 years ago.
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by jorl17 1y ago
When I get my way reviewing a codebase, I make sure that as much state as possible is saved in a URL, sometimes (though rarely) down to the scroll position. I genuinely don't understand why people don't get more upset over hitting
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by jorl17 1y ago
This exactly! Can't move from iterm2 until this feature, which is absolutely essential to me, is implemented. Love the work they're doing though!!
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by jorl17 1y ago
Our AI systems "work" because we can derive meaning from the words that we feed into it, right? We put words in, train, and words come out. How would that exactly work with animals? "Woof in, woof out" still means not kn
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by jorl17 1y ago
What a refreshing level of honesty! Admitting that perhaps your new method also doesn't work. Thanks for sharing that! It's often lacking from online discourse. (I also prefer easy-to-solve challenges. And usually bring up more co
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by jorl17 1y ago
My comment will focus only on a subset of the article: the part regarding AI. While I agree with the sentiment that AI has changed the practice forever, and therefore it is pretty silly to forbid AI during interviews (much like it was alway
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by jorl17 1y ago
Alec is probably my favorite YouTuber. I remember catching his videos before he really blew up and they ticked all my nerd boxes! Unlike other youtubers I enjoy, I never seem to get tired of his content — keep going!
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by jorl17 1y ago
This is only very vaguely related but this title made me think of a very touching book on the subject of learning: Flower for Algernon. I definitely recommend it for those who enjoy thinking about what life is like for people of different p
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by jorl17 1y ago
Do you have any resources (search engines, prompts, MCP, other tools) to help with this? I feel that it is quite obvious the next century will have China leading the pack, and I'd really like to be able to prepare for that.
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by jorl17 1y ago
My "favorite" Google dark-pattern, for which the dreamy kid in me hopes they get fucking sued to oblivion for how offensive it is[1]: 1. Open safari 2. Type something so that it goes search google 3. A web results page appears 4.
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by jorl17 1y ago
Can't reveal for confidentiality reasons but I know several examples, and have worked and been working on a couple, too. But my claim isn't that there's no developer involved, it's two-fold: 1. LLMs do allow for features
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by jorl17 1y ago
I mostly agree with all your points being issues , I just don't see them as roadblocks to the future I mentioned, nor do I find them issues without solutions or workarounds. Unreliability and difficulty reasoning about potential failu
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by jorl17 1y ago
We have a system to which I can upload a generic video, and which captures eveeeeeerything in it, from audio, to subtitles onscreen, to skewed text on a mug, to what is going on in a scene. It can reproduce it, reason about it, and produce
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by jorl17 1y ago
Exactly! Here's my take: 4o tens do be, as they say, sycophantic. It's an AI masking as a helpful human , a personal assistant, a therapist, a friend, a fan, or someone on the other end of a support call. They sometimes embellish
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by jorl17 1y ago
12 months ago, if I fed a list of ~800 poems with about ~250k tokens to an LLM and asked it to summarize this huge collection, they would be completely blind to some poems and were prone to hallucinating not simply verses but full-blown poe
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by jorl17 1y ago
This, and if you add in a voice mode (e.g. ChatGPT's Advanced Mode), it is perfect for brainstorming. Once I decide I want to "think a problem through with an LLM", I often start with just the voice mode. This forces me to s
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by jorl17 1y ago
The difference is the agenda of the reader, sadly.
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by jorl17 1y ago
Suppose we have an LLM in an agentic loop, acting on your behalf, perhaps building code, or writing e-mails. Obviously you should be checking it, but I believe we are heading towards a world where we not only do not check their _actions_, b
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by jorl17 1y ago
Microsoft's decision to name this product Copilot has to be the result of some form of internal sabotage, I refuse to believe otherwise. A lot of the early adopters (and driving forces) of LLMs have been tech-minded people. This means
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by jorl17 1y ago
Perhaps due to HDR handling?
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by jorl17 1y ago
While I definitely oppose ads in WhatsApp, I do know several people who use WhatsApp as a tool to get news, know what's going on in their town and/or community (sports club, etc), among other things. It's their way of being i
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by jorl17 1y ago
It's so good to see Haxe mentioned! I ported an entire AS3/Flash game to Haxe that my friends had written during our college years, as a kind of "thank you" present for ten years of friendship (adding mobile, cross-platf

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