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by lanstin 5mo ago
Nice write up and nice that networking stuff is working well enough that a JavaScript app has to worry about this degree of accuracy.
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by lanstin 6mo ago
The hidden truth about economics in my lifetime.
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by lanstin 6mo ago
I just randomly watched that a month or two ago. A really interesting idea.
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by lanstin 6mo ago
They might be less willing to get on a sail boat where they could be swept off and nearly drown.
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by lanstin 6mo ago
The effort to still the mind moves the mind so much. Zen also teaches one to stop fiddling with the mind/body so things unfold into a natural smoothness. One may have stupid thoughts filling the monologue without becoming upset and wit
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by lanstin 6mo ago
There's two aspects to meditation: focus and insight. Focusing the attention on one specific thing, whether a statue, flame, the breath, a mantra, increases the ability to direct focus. When focus is reasonably steady and one relaxes i
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by lanstin 6mo ago
>The emptier the mind, the slower the passing of time. In a good way :) like the present moment opening up into pure stillness/infinity - slightly different than sitting and having the thought pop up "It must be 20 minutes now&
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by lanstin 6mo ago
It's kind of hard to say this unless you go out of your way - the scaffolding for interacting with the raw model is a lot better now for many tasks. Is it that 4.7 is so much better than 4.5 or claude 1.119 is so much tuned to squeeze
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by lanstin 6mo ago
No big brother or big sister?
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by lanstin 6mo ago
He's a Field's Medalist so that's automatically one of the most important living. He is good at explaining things; I leaned on his Analysis textbooks when I was taking analysis and functional analysis to great effect; in a re
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by lanstin 6mo ago
It allows you to rearrange your alertness budget in time if not in total.
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by lanstin 6mo ago
I don’t know. I kind of like a social safety net, unemployment insurance, limits to the work week, free education for all future adults, paid holidays, mass voting, multiethnic democracy, product liability laws, etc. Our modern society owes
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by lanstin 6mo ago
Volunteer to be the official image maintainer - I had emacs-nox and (screen) installed fleet wide for my own utility :) I had a friend that even had his public keys added to the /root/.ssh/ but I didin't go that far -I d
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by lanstin 6mo ago
Old war story: I had an old Sun 4/260 with 2 1G drives - I had SunOS on 1 and Gentoo on the other - my initial Gentoo install worked for a while but then the portage directory used all the configured iNodes - really weird errors and I
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by lanstin 6mo ago
The places where solutions are discussed in a way that is best long term solution may well exist in a language subspace with politeness, calmness and thoughtfulness. Getting the model to those areas of linguistic space is useful; as is pres
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by lanstin 7mo ago
It's a language/compiler/function call stack feature, not existing as far as I know, but it would be awesome - the caller of a function would specify what resources/syscalls could be made, and anything down the chain wou
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by lanstin 7mo ago
There are so many advantages to deployable artifacts, including audibility and fast roll-back. Also you can block so many risky endpoints from your compute outbound networks, which means even if you are compromised, it doesn't do the a
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by lanstin 7mo ago
Also there's no reason why a horizontally scalable service can't be stress tested with 2x or 10x of prod load in non-prod environments.
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by lanstin 7mo ago
For years I worked at a large company with so many blockers for everything that I always worked like this all the time - have 5 projects so when one becomes blocked for external deps, you have one to pull out and work on. There is a contex
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by lanstin 7mo ago
I have lived in the DC metro area inside the beltway or in Sillicon Valley my entire adult life and have only had above ground power wiring. Despite tree ordnances and wind storms and a grid so aged if we see lightning we lose power.
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by lanstin 7mo ago
I did not realize all the dendritic synapses were excitatory, I always thought it depended on the specific neurotransmitters released. Thanks, this is cool. I am curious what will happen when we build LLMs that have the equivalent of chemic
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by lanstin 7mo ago
Also your eyes are good at seeing patterns. If the formatting is all consistent the patterns they see will be higher level, long functions unintuitive names, missing check for return success; make bad good look bad is the idea. Carefully re
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by lanstin 8mo ago
Human life includes a lot of adversarial training (lying relatives) and training in temporal logics, which would seem to be a somewhat different domain than purely linguistic computations (e.g. staying up late, feeling bad; working hard at
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by lanstin 8mo ago
Why would you think a system that can reason well in one domain could not reason well in other domains? Intelligence is a generic, on-the-fly programmable quality. And perhaps your coding is different from mine, but it includes a great deal
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by lanstin 8mo ago
Have you ever tried to trick an LLM? Did you have trouble?
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by lanstin 8mo ago
Email itself cannot be regarded as a reliable delivery method. That said, I host my own email service, have for decades, and often have problems sending to people. I am not running a product on it, and so my recipients usually will check in
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by lanstin 8mo ago
The gas town discord has two people that are doing transformation of extremely legacy in house Java frameworks. Not reporting great success yet but also probably work that just wouldn’t be done otherwise.
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by lanstin 8mo ago
If this was about a useful part of the economy rather than financialized credit access, I would care. Paying 10x to US residents to provide a better Amex experience really doesn’t incentivize anything that is long term useful. Now when mate
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by lanstin 8mo ago
Only if some smart companies start and keep choosing long term customer satisfaction over dollar measured growth.
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by lanstin 8mo ago
Ideas don't count - it's persuasion and execution that matter. One of the several reasons that the rule is not ruled by smartness/rationality.

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