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by kranner 1y ago
> No ones like programming that much. That's like saying someone love speaking English. You have an idea and you express it. I can assure you both kinds of people exist. Expressing ideas as words or code is not a one-way flow if you
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by kranner 1y ago
"The spirit of the language" is just a restatement of your original assertion about "actual English", based on what seems an assumed authority to make such a claim.
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by kranner 1y ago
Yes, I believe the same venue that he first went to on the second night, so the wrong one.
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by kranner 1y ago
My uncle turned up drunk for my wedding reception. He’d got the venue wrong and had already spent an hour at a different wedding reception eating and drinking, easy to do at Indian weddings with a huge number of guests. But that’s only half
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by kranner 1y ago
I'd shared this article last week with the meditation group I'm part of, describing the author's state of mind on the eve of surgery as a state of samadhi. It's a great description of the state I end up in during almost
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by kranner 1y ago
Unfortunately in India it’s nearly impossible to get a prescription for stimulant medication because of “abuse potential” even if the psychiatrist acknowledges you exhibit ADHD traits.
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by kranner 1y ago
> And it’s not harmless — it leads to broken logic, messy hacks, and subtle bugs that only show up in production. The AI-specific use of em dash with the list of three near-synonyms following, the "it's not just this", the
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by kranner 1y ago
> your 'angrezi se hindi' would be 'añgrezī se hiñdī' That should be 'aṅgrezī se hiṅdī' per IAST. In Devanagari: अंग्रेज़ी से हिंदी If it were ñ instead of ṅ, the Devanagari would be अँग्रेज़ी से हिँदी which
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by kranner 1y ago
I've run lots of guided meditations through whisper-large-v3 and anything with long periods of silence gets a "© Mooji Media" line added at the end of the transcript. None of these have actually been from Mooji.
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by kranner 1y ago
I've always thought of songs with human vocals as cries of conspecifics, impossible to ignore and thus highly distracting.
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by kranner 1y ago
Previous discussions on psychonetics and deconcentration of attention seem relevant, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10028317 Personally I've found a continuous open awareness style of meditation has really h
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by kranner 1y ago
That's how I had parsed it also. But to me adding another level in the outline sounded as if you had meant: A (B) . C
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by kranner 1y ago
But the phrase after the semicolon is at the same level as the initial phrase (I would have loved to employ nesting with parentheses while writing in natural language (though I restrict myself to one level when writing for others (but not a
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by kranner 1y ago
I think the idea that one has to leave a mark on the world before one dies is overrated and not super useful. First, what would such a mark be like for you? Is it something you could plausibly achieve with all the resources within your reac
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by kranner 1y ago
Lassi is a traditional drink where I’m from and contains only salt traditionally. Sweetened lassi is a relatively recent restaurant-led innovation. When I was a kid “lassi” meant salted; you had to specify “sweet lassi” for the sweetened ve
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by kranner 1y ago
> Kvaas contain alcohol, doesn’t it? I think only as much as kombucha, not enough to cause a buzz
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by kranner 1y ago
Some people, sure, but not all people.
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by kranner 1y ago
Taste is subjective. To people not used to consuming any alcohol the wine might taste worse than plain grape juice.
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by kranner 1y ago
Also plenty of traditional cold drinks that are savoury or can be savoury: doogh, ayran, lassi, jaljeera, buttermilk, kvass
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by kranner 1y ago
I think the idea may have been that these would help with bad Indian roads — even our potholes have potholes — but the police neglected to account for having to participate in the odd car chase now and then.
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by kranner 1y ago
The Samuri, sold in India as the Gypsy and used extensively by Indian police, did rollover alarmingly often until the 1993 model when the track width was increased by 90mm.
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by kranner 1y ago
> an app on my phone that instantly calculates futures prices and margin requirements for given position sizes and predicted market movements. That sounds like something for which one should be spending the money on professionally dev
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by kranner 2y ago
Mixed scripts as well. In March 2024 I asked Gemini Advanced (whatever the version was at the time) to transliterate an image which had the following Persian text on it: > یوسفی بود ولی هیچ خریدار نداشت Its output was: > Yoosefi بود و
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by kranner 2y ago
> Build one to throw away, as they say. I believe Fred Brooks clarified this to mean you shouldn’t hesitate to throw away your first attempt if it comes up short despite your best effort. If an LLM came up with the first implementation
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by kranner 2y ago
Sorry, but your comment is practically a case in point. Your points would have been better made if they had been organised into separate paragraphs. I'm assuming you dictated it off-the-cuff: I apologise if that wasn't the case.
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by kranner 2y ago
I've seen something similar play out badly, in the context of young Indians (and other South Asians) who are underconfident in their use of English but need to use it in professional contexts. Some I know personally have gone from aski
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by kranner 2y ago
I don't know about 1-4 and 5 seems an honest mistake. Is there a source for the misleading GPU count? Dario cites Dylan Patel, and pt 4 cites Alexander Wang, but these are just claims so far. As far as censorship regarding Chinese hist
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by kranner 2y ago
Yes but at least it was possible for that poet to have felt what I feel they might have felt while writing that poem. And the closer they are to me culturally the more likely it is that I am not misidentifying their emotions entirely. Also
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by kranner 2y ago
I’m happy to use LLMs in all other contexts, quite enthusiastically actually. I’ve got DeepSeek 32B running locally on a beefy PC already. It’s just in the context of poetry, and literary writing in general, that I feel differently about th
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by kranner 2y ago
Thanks, I respect your choice as well.

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