jtwoodhouse

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by jtwoodhouse 1y ago
Two things are true here. The em dash shouldn’t automatically be a sign of AI writing. That said, they’re also been quite overused in recent years, which is probably causing them to be overrepresented in models. You shouldn’t have that many
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by jtwoodhouse 1y ago
What does it say about us that we think this is AGI or close to it? Maybe AGI really is here?
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by jtwoodhouse 1y ago
Nothing says “I don’t respect you” like giving someone a sequence from a random text generator.
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by jtwoodhouse 1y ago
This is nothing new. Critics wanna be challenged. Audiences don’t.
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Ask HN: What's a RSS feed you would recommend?
5 points by jtwoodhouse 1y ago|5 comments
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by jtwoodhouse 1y ago
It’s called the Rule of Three. It’s a good writing practice, but it can be overdone. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(writing)
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by jtwoodhouse 1y ago
"A good deal of literary criticism serves only to reinforce a caste system which is as old as the intellectual snobbery which nurtured it. No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person.” — Stephen King
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by jtwoodhouse 1y ago
There’s a clip floating around where Bowie referred to the internet as a new lifeform. I think about that a lot.
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by jtwoodhouse 1y ago
What should you know? You might have a lot of fun tinkering with your own personal text editor. It’s like building your own permacomputing environment. I started using Emacs org mode to help me make sense of a manuscript after struggling wi
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by jtwoodhouse 1y ago
Word of mouth has been and will be always the most reliable form of curation.
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An Uber-Geeky Text Mode in a 40-Year-Old Editor Saved My Novel(tomheon.com)
2 points by jtwoodhouse 1y ago|0 comments
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by jtwoodhouse 1y ago
Any decent headline can be accused of being clickbait. The entire point is to get the reader interested.
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Life Is a Trolley Problem(jtwoodhouse.com)
1 points by jtwoodhouse 1y ago|0 comments
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by jtwoodhouse 1y ago
Where’s the joy in that? We don’t have to replace humans for everything.
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by jtwoodhouse 1y ago
AI doesn’t solve that problem. It reflects the biases of the trainers.
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by jtwoodhouse 1y ago
Experience is suffering. A rich westerner is free to write whatever he wants about China but without firsthand experience or skin in the game, he shouldn’t expect his takes to be credible or respected.
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by jtwoodhouse 1y ago
Justifying AI writing with the example of women’s writing is false equivalence and, frankly, demeaning to women. As humans, women suffer for their work and literally bring the rest of us into the world. AI has no feeling or stake in this wo
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by jtwoodhouse 1y ago
I'm working towards something similar with an Emacs configuration. That way, it's a workflow I could use on a daily driver as well. I was initially skeptical of the learning curve, but the power of Emacs is well worth it.
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by jtwoodhouse 1y ago
Just came by to admire that last line.
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by jtwoodhouse 1y ago
This metaphor nails it. In this day and age, the way around walled gardens is to build your own walled garden apparently.
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by jtwoodhouse 1y ago
Some legit writers actually use the em dash — how else would it end up in the training data?
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by jtwoodhouse 2y ago
They were all intended as disposable? That would likely be news to the authors and musicians behind those works.
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by jtwoodhouse 2y ago
We only suffer from these platforms because we put up with them. Social media is not the be-all, end-all. There's a world of grass to touch outside of these walled gardens.
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by jtwoodhouse 2y ago
This is brilliant. Content is infinite. Time and money are not. It’s like sending an unstoppable force down a bottomless black hole.
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by jtwoodhouse 2y ago
Passion doesn’t have to be fixed. It can and should evolve over time as you grow as a person. And it’s okay if it’s a rabbit hole that leads to other rabbit holes.
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by jtwoodhouse 2y ago
I always chuckle when I see “slams” and “blasts” in a headline. It sounds like Zuck is in a cage match with Tim Cook, but no, the truth is rarely that exciting. Media outlets make cheap stories out of the most passive-aggressive nonsense.
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by jtwoodhouse 2y ago
Carter proved it's never too late to add a new chapter to your story if you're still alive. He was much more influential as a diplomat after his presidency than during it. RIP.
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by jtwoodhouse 2y ago
The economic reality is both parents are usually working these days. Parenting responsibilities are a lot more shared than they used to be while men identify strongly with how they perform at work. It’s a squeeze.
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Saving Satoshi: An open-source game for learning Bitcoin programming(savingsatoshi.com)
25 points by jtwoodhouse 2y ago|3 comments
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by jtwoodhouse 2y ago
The flaw with this argument is you don't really know which books will change your life and when that will occur. There's no looking at a cover and reading a blurb on a dust jacket and knowing for sure it's a banger. Sometimes

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