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by kenjackson 6mo ago
This was a masterclass in science writing for laypeople. Going to find more from this author.
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by kenjackson 6mo ago
I don’t think these companies are hurting for access to code.
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by kenjackson 6mo ago
You can set your prompt to do that. You can have it be extremely skeptical. You can even make it contrarian, if you wanted to be extreme. My current prompt challenges me often, and wants to find weaknesses in my argument.
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by kenjackson 6mo ago
LLMs will need to develop a notion of trustworthiness. Interesting that part of the process of learning isn’t just learning, but also learning what to learn and how much value to put into data that crosses your path.
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by kenjackson 6mo ago
The economics for the company aren't great for people that make high frequency use of it. And I suspect that people that would pay for such a service nowadays would make good use of it. Regarding the 5d guarantee -- I suspect that mos
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by kenjackson 6mo ago
Protected speech can be beyond politics. Politics doesn't subsume all protected speech.
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by kenjackson 6mo ago
So private companies shouldn’t get to determine who they provide services to? Assuming no extremely malicious intent, I’d be fine if they said it was only going to McDonalds because the founders like Big Macs.
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by kenjackson 6mo ago
I think it’s also that contrarianism generates an argument they can follow - it’s often much more simplistic along some axis. For example, flat earthers superficially have a really simple model. Throw a ball up, of course it comes down. Y
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by kenjackson 6mo ago
While I agree with the sentiment, using AI to write the final draft of the article isn’t cheating. People may not like it, but it’s more a stylistic preference.
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by kenjackson 6mo ago
OK, I didn't think to disable switch to thinking (didn't know this was a mode). When I did that then it did get it wrong -- oddly it took about the same amount of time, so thinking mode wasn't taking longer, but it was more
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by kenjackson 6mo ago
Weird. I tried in chatGPT auto and it worked perfectly. I tried like 10 variations. I also did the letters in words. Got all of them right. The one thing I did trip it up on was "Is there the sh sound in the word transportation&quo
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by kenjackson 6mo ago
Whenveer I see these papers and try them, they always work. This paper is two months old, which in LLM years is like 10 years of progress. It would be interesting to actively track how far long each progressive model gets...
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by kenjackson 7mo ago
I learn a lot from code I read, but don’t write. Did the author not read the code and simply threw it over the fence?
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by kenjackson 7mo ago
Not revisionist at all. or Netflix, or Amazon, or Uber, or PayPal, etc… Netflix and Amazon both were competing against brick and morter that were everywhere. Blockbuster was in every town, usually in every major neighborhood. The thought
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by kenjackson 7mo ago
This is all valid (except probably the last sentence), but it also describes so many attempted changes right until they become darn near the default. This sounds like why I heard Redfin wouldn’t work, or Netflix, or Amazon, or Uber, or PayP
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by kenjackson 7mo ago
I’ve read your posts for the past 25 years - originally on slashdot (not literally you). As you proposed, I think you’re fundamentally wrong. I got my MIL a Chromebook and it was probably the single worst technical support decision I ever m
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by kenjackson 7mo ago
Code is usually over specified. I recently used AI to build an app for some HS kids. It built what I spec’wd and it was great. Is it what I would’ve coded? Definitely not. In code I have to make a bunch of decisions that I don’t care a
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by kenjackson 7mo ago
Well I think there are some people that disagree.
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Ask HN: Best practices or example workflows for agentic development (March 2026)
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by kenjackson 7mo ago
It may be unreliable to you. I see the life of most people around me getting better. Even people that are somewhat poor (not dirt poor, but free lunch poor) have homes, three squares and snacks, PS5, mobile phones with cellular data, and
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by kenjackson 7mo ago
Allergies are not simply overactive immune response. It’s the wrong type of response. What’s really intriguing is how much we can do innate immunity that we have done relatively little with.
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by kenjackson 7mo ago
> The phrasing "HR isn't there to protect you, it's there to protect the company" applies more here. I agree (although had interpreted the statement originally differently). Unfortunately, the part about "XYZ is
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by kenjackson 7mo ago
> His first mistake was complaining to HR about another employee griefing him. HR is always going to consider the initial complainer as "the problem." I can say this definitely isn't always true. In the companies I'v
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by kenjackson 7mo ago
Wait -- I'm fairly certain this is obvious to the person you were responding to. It may not be obvious to a lay person (who may not even know LLMs are trained at all). But I think this is obvious to almost all people with even a smal
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by kenjackson 7mo ago
The most frustrating part for me is that this is how I used to write. I was always doing, "Why X works, but Y doesn't" and stuff like that. I may have seemed trite or pompous (or both) in the past, but now it seems like I&#
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by kenjackson 7mo ago
OK, someone needs to write up an accurate version. This is a fascinating topic, especially for those of us where C64 was one of our first computers. The Vic20 was my first-- I sold my computer games door-to-door on cassette... "sold&
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by kenjackson 7mo ago
So interesting! There was a level of creativity back in those days that we seem to not have as much nowaydays. Now things seem to be based more on math and things like signing. As a C64 user a kid one thing I didn't realize was this:
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by kenjackson 7mo ago
What if Trump were to say elections are illegal due to the war. We need to delay them. And Republicans in congress did nothing. And the Supreme Court decided not to hear any cases related to it. What then? We’re learning the US governm
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by kenjackson 7mo ago
That statement was not on my voice, but the coming voice from this administration. IMO there is never a reason to withhold elections.
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by kenjackson 7mo ago
A plan? Actually there is. This is all part of the backdrop to end US elections. We can’t have elections in the middle of a major war. And if we do have them we must greatly constrain how they are held while we are at war.

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