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by kashyapc 10mo ago
The article on "effortocracy"[1] is pretty very well done. Quoting the end of the article: "... if you take anything away from this, it is to recognise that if meritocracy is based on achievement only, then we must be sure n
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by kashyapc 10mo ago
The person you're quoting has a point. Everyone is losing their minds about this. Not everyone needs to be on top of AI developmemts all the time. I don't mean you ignore LLMs, just don't chase every fad. The classic line (wh
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by kashyapc 10mo ago
> seemed to me like Op.1 b-flat minor was the one that would be overplayed I don't watch much movies, but haven't seen Op. 9 No. 1 often in many places. I hope it remains that way! No 2 is wildly popular for its lovely long o
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by kashyapc 10mo ago
My top book of the year: Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times , Alan Walker A riveting read by a legendary musicologist and biographer. Walker spent about ten years researching this. It is 700 pages, which seems daunting but he makes this a
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by kashyapc 10mo ago
Yeah, I often write locally in Emacs Org-mode, generate the HTML from it, and then copy/paste that into GDocs.
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by kashyapc 10mo ago
Recently, a people manager in an engineering team send a giant 19-page "document" to a team mailing list. He said, "I was able to get Gemini to help me pull together this document. I hope you find it interesting." Whe
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by kashyapc 10mo ago
Hi, I think we both agree to a good extent. A couple of points: > the flaw with this logic is that you're treating "prompting an LLM" as equivalent to "communicating with a human" Here you're making a big c
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by kashyapc 10mo ago
> It helps a lot if you treat LLMs like a computer program instead of a human. If one treats an LLM like a human, he has a bigger crisis to worry about than punctuation. > It always confuses me when I see shared chats with prompts and
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by kashyapc 10mo ago
I know what you mean, it's the uncanny valley. But we don't need to "pretend" that it is a machine. It is a goddamned machine. Surely, only two unclouded brain cells can help us reach this conclusion?! Yuval Noah Ha
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by kashyapc 10mo ago
"Because LLMs now not only help me program, I'm starting to rethink my relationship to those machines. I increasingly find it harder not to create parasocial bonds with some of the tools I use. I find this odd and discomforting [
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by kashyapc 10mo ago
It's not merely cost per word, but it is even more bizarre: "cost per word thought ", whatever that is. Most of these "word thoughts" from LLMs of today are just auto-completed large dumps of text.
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by kashyapc 11mo ago
"... the way to commoditize suppliers and internalize network effects is by having a huge number of unique users. And, by extension, the best way to monetize that user base — and to achieve a massive user base in the first place — is
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by kashyapc 11mo ago
Related: I don't see a mention of Michael Tomasello. He did some good work in comparitive studies of other primates and humans. One of his main ideas is how "joint attention" is what separates humans from the Great Apes. Look
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by kashyapc 11mo ago
> where people passionately project the term consciousness onto LLMs They have all drunk too much AI cool-aid. I doubt these people have any meaningul education in fields such as biology, neuroscience and related life sciences. Quite sim
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by kashyapc 1y ago
Like someone else mentioned in this thread, I'm not a "traditional" Emacs user. I use Emacs only for Org Mode; for the rest I use Vim, or occasionally something else. (For the rest of your question, there are some good respo
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by kashyapc 1y ago
Not only the "Vexations" is to be played 840 times but he also instructs: "It would be advisable to prepare oneself beforehand, and in the deepest silence, by staying very still" I recently listened to a Sati recital
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by kashyapc 1y ago
Exactly! I left out that detail with the hope that the reader will discover it ;-)
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by kashyapc 1y ago
Thanks for sharing; I didn't expect to see Erik Satie on HN :-) It's a lovely little vignette of Satie's work and life. If you haven't already, give a listen to his Gnossiennes and Gymnopédies . Beautiful melodies wit
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by kashyapc 2y ago
Thanks, this is an interesting take. The 4 reasons for "radiating intent" make sense. It works in moderately high-trust organisations. I also appreciate the author (Eliz Ayer) adding the below nuance: "In all fairness, yo
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by kashyapc 2y ago
Geoffrey is one of the best open source citizens. Congrats on all this great progress! Please take care :-)
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by kashyapc 2y ago
SPoF is not the only concern. Gerrit search is painful . You can't search the internet for a keyword that you wrote in v10 of some Gerrit patch, unlike on list-based workflows. Also, there's too much point-and-click for my tas
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by kashyapc 2y ago
> Arguably his reprimand of Martin is a clear signal that he will never show Rust any favor, but he hasn't said anything explicitly. [...] I don't see it that way. Linus is conscious of not becoming a bottleneck on every top
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by kashyapc 2y ago
I've used Gerrit myself for nearly 10 years. I recognize it's strengths and like it for what it does. I also am comfortable with mailing lists and Git Hub and Git Lab. I've lived in "both worlds". IIUC, the Kernel
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by kashyapc 2y ago
Thank you for taking time to write this! Based on your description, it sounds like reMarkable mostly matches my current setup. I'm a heavy user of (mechanical) pencil and paper. Being an "excellent offline device" also matche
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by kashyapc 2y ago
Thanks to your comment, I just discovered Supernote. If you have time, can you comment on the build quality of Supernote, compared to remarkable? I'm a sucker for high-quality materials and thoughtful aesthetics. Metal / glass ov
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by kashyapc 2y ago
Yeah, I noticed their slick marketing 3 years ago. I was thinking about reMarkable because of its Linux friendliness. Thanks for mentioning these other devices. I used to have a Kindle Paperwhite (I see it is different than Scribe), butI
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by kashyapc 2y ago
They mention "reMarkable Paper Pro", but I'm not willing to pay a subscription for such a physical device that already is quite expensive. I see reMarkable says[1] you can use it without a subscription, but I'm not con
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by kashyapc 2y ago
As rwmj says in this thread, there are already several mature KVM-based solutions that you can run yourself, if you have the staff who can manage it. Disclosure: I also work in Red Hat's virtualization team, but not on converting gus
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by kashyapc 2y ago
Hey, I bucked that important step back in 2012 ;-) So far, HM is the only "social" online place where I participate. What you say reminds me of an ancient Greek saying (I think it was Epictetus). I'm paraphrasing from memory:
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by kashyapc 2y ago
True, it depends on the quality of the human on the other side. If it's a mindless front-line support person parroting a script, "did you try restarting the computer?", then I'd take a smarter AI too.

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