kristiandupont

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by kristiandupont 19d ago
I think GP wasn't pointing out your "s" but rather your "d" at the beginning. At least, I also assumed that you meant "reindustrialise" rather than "deindustrialise".
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by kristiandupont 2mo ago
Why is that "the point"? You are the second person in this thread to insist on owning it. I get why it's problematic, obviously, but if it produces statistically better results (which I have no idea of), I don't think it
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by kristiandupont 2mo ago
>When does it get too abstract? When the abstraction detracts more value than it provides. I think this is an interesting direction to explore. Plotly is fine. So is D3 and plenty of other solutions, but neither represent the ultimate pi
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by kristiandupont 2mo ago
Perhaps the newer features of React are but thankfully those bits can be completely ignored.
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by kristiandupont 3mo ago
>I went back and explicitly told ChatGPT not to resolve details that didn’t exist in the file. I don't know what the author thinks this could have meant, other than "give me the original". Making up details is what he is
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Claude was safest – and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days(kottke.org)
3 points by kristiandupont 3mo ago|1 comments
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by kristiandupont 3mo ago
This thread goes into further detail: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8146/are-u-s-co...
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by kristiandupont 3mo ago
Oh certainly, I was asking what the benefit would be to the opposite!
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by kristiandupont 3mo ago
I wrote x86 assembly back when we were switching from real mode to protected mode, and I still have a feeling that I would not have been able to answer whatever question you asked there in a way that would satisfy you. I also could no longe
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by kristiandupont 3mo ago
What would be the benefit of this, besides from looking cool?
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by kristiandupont 3mo ago
You can quit apps from the activity monitor. It really does appear to be simulating an OS underneath. I am blown away.
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by kristiandupont 3mo ago
I don't think it's entirely down to that. They have extremely optimized supply chains: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/h7McXnWRCQY
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by kristiandupont 3mo ago
Very nice! Reminds of this classic, focused mostly on the sounds: https://github.com/ange-yaghi/engine-sim
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by kristiandupont 3mo ago
It is to me. And I agree that the term is losing value because it's becoming ubiquitous but it's the differentiation from the first versions of ChatGPT etc., which were purely user input -> LLM -> output driven.
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by kristiandupont 3mo ago
>I know within a second I am sorry to be pedantic, but the correct phrasing would be "I think I know within a second", which seems like a pretty important distinction.
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by kristiandupont 3mo ago
>LLMs-as-AI can only give us probabilistic outputs based on inputs I am not completely sure what you are saying here, but it sounds like a variation of the "it's just a stochastic parrot" argument, which is reductionist. T
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by kristiandupont 3mo ago
I think the two complement each other perfectly and will continue to do so. I keep writing AGENTS.md files for soft rules and custom linter rules for hard ones which IMO is the best of both worlds.
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by kristiandupont 3mo ago
I've heard this sentiment repeated and I believe it, but at least the purpose of my own blog is to communicate insights I've had. I almost make a point out of not blogging unless I feel that I have something truly interesting to s
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by kristiandupont 4mo ago
The US suffers from Duverger's Law which means that any vote for anything other than one of the two big parties is wasted. In my country, we currently have 17 different parties, each with different variations of policies. Some are outl
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by kristiandupont 4mo ago
What do you mean? It's a way to mitigate a certain attack vector and as far as I can tell, it works as intended given the circumstances it was designed under.
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by kristiandupont 4mo ago
I don't know whether the author has the competence to theorize about these things or not. What I do know is that understanding the intricacies of how LLM's work does not mean that you are likely to understand or foresee societal
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by kristiandupont 4mo ago
>Making systems fully deterministic ignores the entire purpose of having agents involved. That sounds backwards to me. I hope that most places don't see "having agents involved" as the ultimate purpose, but will use agents
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by kristiandupont 4mo ago
>no, at no point would airplanes have been falling out of the sky The assertion may have been unfounded, but I think it's just as unreasonable to assert the opposite. Bugs have cascading effects and in a sufficiently complex piece o
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by kristiandupont 4mo ago
I am reminded of this course in university where there was a written assignment with a minimum page count. Even at that time, I remember thinking: "If I am able to express everything necessary in just one page, that should give me the
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by kristiandupont 4mo ago
The backend for a game is not just an .exe file. It can be a mess of a system that relies on all kinds of services that need maintenance and that one dev who knows how to reset the cache. I agree that it's shitty that buyers can lose a
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by kristiandupont 4mo ago
I feel similarly. I really liked React when it came out because compared to the alternatives at the time, it just felt perfect. I still prefer it over almost everything, including Svelte, Vue and Solid. But I have started using Crank ( http
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by kristiandupont 4mo ago
What people mean is obviously that you use JS primitives for looping, branching, conditionals, etc. over some DSL. Everybody knows that the tags are added syntax, there is no conspiracy here.
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by kristiandupont 4mo ago
It reminds me about this video where John Cleese talks about creativity. One of his points is that his work was better than some of his more talented peers simply because he set aside more time to let ideas mature: https://www.yo
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John Cleese on Creativity in Management [video](youtube.com)
17 points by kristiandupont 4mo ago|0 comments
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by kristiandupont 5mo ago
For one thing, just about every airline in the world is a potential customer.

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