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by kenjackson 5d ago
In fairness this is the boring stuff for a lot of people. :-)
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by kenjackson 7d ago
Turns out that humans aren’t great at comprehensively consistently searching known search spaces.
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by kenjackson 7d ago
Can someone post an event poster that they think is incredible? These posters all look fine to me, but the comments seem to know much better ones - but at least in my memory I can’t recall any much better.
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by kenjackson 8d ago
"How do people not understand that some laws only make sense at a certain scale? " Honestly, this is because its something that is basically never discussed or reasoned about. The closest I can think of is "personal use vs c
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by kenjackson 9d ago
> this is ABSOLUTELY not how actual mathematicians see their field While this might be true, I think this is the big pivot that will need to happen. Math, as a human endeavor, will all be applied. We will use LLMs to do the math and di
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by kenjackson 9d ago
How does 1password get replaced with a Google search? I assume he built his own 1password system...
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by kenjackson 11d ago
There's a key phrase you may have missed. "So the plants crossed over and started moving east along the coast and up into the interior. Beyond that point, there were no merchants. But when a woman married into the next clan over,
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by kenjackson 11d ago
If the point of math is understanding then maybe our incentive structure is wrong. Maybe it should be teaching the concepts to as many people as possible rather than just continuing to write papers that 10 people in the world understand, w
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by kenjackson 12d ago
But one of the things AI also excels in is summarizing and can do so hierarchically. One of my favorite things to do with a concept I'm new at is "ELI5" then "explain like I'm a high school student" then &quot
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by kenjackson 12d ago
Best is a relative statement of quality. And in this case reflects the lack of alternatives more than anything else. But if there are better please let me know.
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by kenjackson 12d ago
Maybe I have been. And how was Jaguar impacted? I haven’t seen a Jaguar ad in a decade, and almost as long one of their cars.
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by kenjackson 12d ago
It does appear there have been some people who have looked at this before but it’s unclear how many(here’s an example of a request from readers in 1927 https://toebes.com/Flynns/Flynns-19270813.htm ). That said there is
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by kenjackson 12d ago
Honestly, I suspect most people will have no idea about these ads. I know I don’t.
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by kenjackson 12d ago
Yes the Sketcher slip ons have been a game changer. Also their shoe laces seem to be constructed so that the knot doesn’t untie over time. I had a single knot lace that stayed intact over four months of daily wear. Most comfortable shoes e
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by kenjackson 15d ago
Yes. I forgot about that section. That is probably the one thing that the AI companies can and should do better on.
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by kenjackson 15d ago
I didn't know this article was about that issue at all. Yeah, if the issue is properly citing work then yes, OpenAI needs to do that. But the article read like it was tackling a completely different issue.
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by kenjackson 15d ago
"how to make sure that, as AI changes the way work is done, we do not lose sight of what that work was meant to achieve in the first place." That sounds like an "us problem", not an AI or OpenAI/Anthropic problem.
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by kenjackson 15d ago
Good essay. The author seems to recognize his hypocrisy and why there won't be a lot of sympathy from society. As someone who wrote his first program in 1980, I've actually been really excited about AI. This morning I already wr
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by kenjackson 17d ago
I update my phone now when the battery requires two full charges to 100% to last throughout the day. But there's no feature I'm looking for. My current phone is a 13 -- so I guess it lasted five years, which seems crazy long for
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by kenjackson 17d ago
Everyone in my family wants one... assuming it works well. We spend a lot of time on our phones, and a lot watching video. This seems like the ideal device for that.
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by kenjackson 17d ago
Strongly agree. And as one of the major AI companies, this is extremely tone deaf. If they saw a human (even if assisted) was making great progress on a major problem then you give them space. You don’t swoop in with millions in token spe
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by kenjackson 17d ago
But you’re seeing huge effects in three years, not a generation. The report notes “The change in mean scores that can be explained merely by the changing composition of the student body, however, never exceeds a few points.” So for Portugal
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by kenjackson 18d ago
Not that quickly though.
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by kenjackson 18d ago
What a great story! I'm not sure why I felt teary eyed reading it, but I was. If you're here in the comments but haven't read it -- it is worth the read.
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by kenjackson 19d ago
The problem with school children is most books that are assigned have no volta for them. Part of it is that modern storytelling has a much quicker volta through tv, movies, YouTube and now shorts. It’s hard to justify to a kid a 90 minute
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by kenjackson 22d ago
I actually started by saying "reasoning" is a strong statement because as you note, it's really not reasoning. It's about intuition. And yes, if you've seen it before then intuition doesn't play a role. But
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by kenjackson 22d ago
Reasoning is a strong statement here. But it is fair to say that it usually is not intuitive to us. An example is if I gave you a huge sheet of thin paper (huge so that folding isn’t an issue) - how many times could you fold it in half unti
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by kenjackson 22d ago
Can definitely write college level essays and have for a while. The jobs is that when LLMs first started getting popular, but aren’t quite common professors were that some of the worst students in class started writing the best essays. Now
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by kenjackson 24d ago
They don't all suck equally. Here's the order, from best to worst. Amodei Google SamA Zuck Elon
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by kenjackson 25d ago
I agree. LLMs write really well, but probably too consistently in terms of style. That said, I did recently ask AI to do an editing pass over some writing I did, and I was surprised that it missed a tense mismatch that I had (not within a

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