kixiQu

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by kixiQu 8d ago
Even pre-LLM: I've found a lot of colleagues (mystifyingly to me, both seniors and juniors) who really want to be able to turn their brain off when doing investigations into complicated cross-system behavior (feedback loops abound), an
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by kixiQu 10d ago
did you reply three times to my comment?
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by kixiQu 10d ago
negative parallelisms everywhere in an advertorial for digital downloads: truly the era of LLM advertising if this had had the period source material in it, it'd've been fun to see, though. pity.
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by kixiQu 10d ago
> If you don't want your content to end up in some database/archive don't publish it for the whole world to see. This principle somewhat reminds me of the line that "If you're not paying for the product, you are
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by kixiQu 11d ago
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.h
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by kixiQu 29d ago
I really like this kind of thing but I wish there were more tutorials to help get good with keyboard shortcuts. vimtutor was lifesaving
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by kixiQu 29d ago
Does this mean it'll be on Bedrock soon? I hear great things about this model but I want AWS data handling practices...
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by kixiQu 1mo ago
I definitely agree with your sentiment in general. However, I'll note that I find this sans serif to have a nicer feel than many I see these days (even among humanist ones) and it's cool that they've managed to achieve that w
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by kixiQu 1mo ago
This seems directed at people who are angry about Things In General. AI as a whole. The Industry. In reality, I think a lot of folks who are the most angry are angry about specifics they observe - tokenmaxxing policies impacting performance
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by kixiQu 1mo ago
It's interesting to think how nearly-e-waste level hardware could combine with something [home-cooked]( https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/ ) to be really cool, especially for folks who might have
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by kixiQu 2mo ago
I am trying to re-find it but there was a study I'd read that was saying that in general if you don't break it down, there's a massive amount of weight stigma impact on women's employment but not men's. However, i
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by kixiQu 2mo ago
I think there's a lot of just-world fallacy going around re: how I keep running across the following pattern online now that GLP-1RA drugs exist. Commenter A (esp. often a woman, though of any age): I lost a lot of weight and people tr
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by kixiQu 2mo ago
This is interesting to me because in my job as a senior dev I can tell that there are greater opportunities for me if I can improve my skills. As a result, I think this may speak to your work environment more than the nature of being seni
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by kixiQu 2mo ago
Plausible-sounding mechanisms like you're presenting here do not add value to the discourse without data. There are tons of plausible mechanisms we could make up absent empirical evidence to distinguish them.
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by kixiQu 2mo ago
> Which is better is ultimately subjective Most folks subjectively prefer having light after work because that's when it's more fun to do stuff. Unfortunately, the health impacts are (objectively!) worse under permanent daylig
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by kixiQu 3mo ago
My sense is the same as the authors that LLMs + an Anki-like -> mediocrity. But I feel like there ought to be such potential there! Even just things as simple as rewording the same question a bunch of equivalent ways to avoid recognizi
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by kixiQu 3mo ago
I would also support this if there were a way to do it without privacy implications for actual adults. Unfortunately, there is not, and more unfortunately still, there is not widespread understanding of that fact. I think our industry owes
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by kixiQu 3mo ago
https://hidefromit.substack.com/p/there-is-no-evidence-you-s... <-- somebody claims that's kind of a ghost citation effect. (for what it's worth, I'm quite pro-sunscreen, it just seems to keep worki
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by kixiQu 3mo ago
https://vbuckenham.com/blog/how-to-find-things-online/ V used game guides as an example of how LLMs corrode a culture of user-generated material provided out of love / desire for clout / etc. and I think
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by kixiQu 3mo ago
This is not rambling and it is not abstract. The content here is about the second-order effects of "getting AI to write code for you" in less supervised ways. I'll cede the author could have polished this to more concise ef
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by kixiQu 4mo ago
I fully agree! It is in keeping with that sense that it is important that I object to a system where society expects non-parents to do it for free within a mesh of social obligation, and where that burden falls disproportionately on one gen
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by kixiQu 4mo ago
Believing "if X, Y" is not unacceptable in 2026. That was the analysis of the recent FT article too, pointing to the fertility rates in different countries with different success in expanding education to women. The difference is
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by kixiQu 4mo ago
https://wol.iza.org/articles/how-does-grandparent-childcare-... In theory very little of it has to be about women specifically, but practice is different. (The expectations that used to exist for ~teenage girls to ba
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by kixiQu 4mo ago
I wish society had taxed me (desired path zero children) more in some way that would have routed the resources to my friend who would have wanted to start having kids earlier and have more. Instead, the combination of regional housing cri
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by kixiQu 4mo ago
Do you believe the same people were saying those things? (Were they really?) The idea that "different attitudes towards labor have been expressed by different people" doesn't feel too remarkable
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by kixiQu 4mo ago
Imagining a version of this that scales by how long I've been using the phone since the screen's been off. If I need to check something quickly, I want the internet and processing to be fast, because checking my phone a lot is f
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by kixiQu 4mo ago
> This is an addiction and reaching for the phone is just what gives relief to whatever pain one might be experiencing. Just removing that is laying ground for a substitute. This model would not suggest the results seen in studies like t
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by kixiQu 4mo ago
This is really interesting! I don't know that I would have expected the result, but it's laid out well. Easy to absorb the wrong paradox into one's mental model of the world...
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by kixiQu 5mo ago
I'm pretty sure all these models have terms of service that make the user assert that they have permission to use the content you're feeding into them (clickwrap infringement-is-the-user's-fault). This kind of integration mak
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by kixiQu 5mo ago
Amazon is big and inconsistent enough that "somewhere in Amazon, <XYZ> is occurring" is statistically true, no matter how nutso-sounding your <XYZ>.

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