liamwire

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by liamwire 8mo ago
What's depressing and shitty about Brisbane's weather?
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by liamwire 9mo ago
It takes an incredible stretch of the imagination to conflate colonialism with freedom, when the two couldn't be more at odds, definitionally.
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by liamwire 10mo ago
It'd be extraordinary compelling to genuinely have a unified mechanism to explain depression treatments, but I am not qualified to make heads or tails of the research. Wondering what the take of those with relevant experience is on thi
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by liamwire 10mo ago
You can use my phone number, +61 400 000 000 :)
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by liamwire 1y ago
Sincerely, I’ll be thinking of you tomorrow. Best wishes with your treatment, give it hell.
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by liamwire 1y ago
That seems incredibly prescient for accounts created before even GPT-1. Obviously broad data scraping existed before then, but even amongst this crowd I find it hard to believe that’s the real motivator.
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by liamwire 1y ago
What an absurd take. If we use FLOPS as a crude measure, the Air would be comparable to the leading supercomputers of ~1999/2000. There's many reasons why that's a very poor comparison but ignoring the absolute insanity of th
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by liamwire 1y ago
Air, as a product line, quite famously started with Jobs emphasising the thinness of the MacBook Air by pulling it from a paper folder. Taking what are ultimately marketing terms as literal face-value descriptors isn't particularly use
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by liamwire 1y ago
If you take Apple's presentation at face value, most of the iPhone Air hardware is within the plateau, with the rest of the body being almost entirely battery. So it's not immediately obvious that even if they did do away with the
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by liamwire 1y ago
Huh? GeForce NOW is a resounding success by many metrics. Anecdotally, I use it weekly to play multiplayer games and it’s an excellent experience. Google giving up on Stadia as a product says almost nothing about cloud gaming’s viability.
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by liamwire 1y ago
I have to ask out of curiosity, why is your first comment made with one account, and the reply with a similarly-named alt?
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by liamwire 1y ago
I thought the world had broadly moved onto the moment magnitude scale?
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by liamwire 1y ago
Queensland, Australia introduced state-wide $0.50 public transit fares a year ago, and it’s been a raging success. Conveniently, this also eliminates the entire problem class of needing to calculate fares. Mind you, for those unfamiliar, QL
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by liamwire 1y ago
Really? It’s always felt to me like it was app availability — for all the efforts, the app marketplace was a fraction of a fraction of the competitions’, and much like the network effects in social media, if you can’t catch up quickly, it c
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by liamwire 1y ago
Natural? Sure. Deserved? Not really, not unless we’re also forthcoming in our lack of foresight and the times we plainly got it wrong.
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by liamwire 1y ago
I’ve found this problem to be compounded by the use of stimulant medications — no matter how aware of the phenomenon one is going into a task, it can feel nigh impossible sometimes to avoid locking into whatever path I’m on as the drugs kic
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by liamwire 1y ago
Brilliant visual demonstration, really helps build an intuition for the concepts at play.
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by liamwire 1y ago
What a harrowing account. Incredibly moving, and evocative of many thoughts I’d long since forgotten, having grown up alongside multiple children with cerebral palsy, early enough to not think anything out of the ordinary of it at the time.
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by liamwire 1y ago
Seconding the sentiment, this was a brilliant read that gave me a newfound appreciation for the art of cartography, but also for giving oneself over to a pursuit fully. Truly excellent.
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by liamwire 1y ago
So, to recap, your gripe, with my gripe, is that I hold the author to aesthetic standards that differ from your own—and that that’s… wrong? Do I have that right? I ask genuinely. I want to understand your position better here.
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by liamwire 1y ago
Is that what I did, though? I disagree. Rather, what I hoped to articulate was a sense that being able to viscerally feel that an author holds a very obvious position from the outset of an article, and then not seeing them make even the f
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by liamwire 1y ago
Your comment was the one that really made all of this sink in, thanks. Wow.
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by liamwire 1y ago
I read the entire essay. It comes across wholly uninspired. Some thoughts: > But do the apologists even believe it themselves? Latham, the professor of strategy, gives away the game at the end of his reverie. “None of this can happen, th
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by liamwire 1y ago
It’s incredible how quickly Apple changed course on this after being told to have the person responsible front court next week to explain in person why they feel they can defy Gonzalez Rogers’ orders. It should be said, there’s a lot of nua
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by liamwire 1y ago
It feels like this is the required level of speed-up needed re. time-to-first-token to make continuous vision useful for on-device applications like an assistant that can see and take action on your screen, ala the original Apple Intelligen
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by liamwire 1y ago
Seems really interesting, and the in-browser demo and model was a really great hook to get interest in the rest of the research. I’m only partially through it but the idea itself is compelling.
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by liamwire 1y ago
I know this is repeated ad nauseam by now, but as an ardent user of em dashes for many years pre-LLM, I think this a bad heuristic.
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by liamwire 1y ago
I’ve had similar experiences in recent weeks, enabling search in ChatGPT with o4-mini-high to fix previously insurmountable hurdles I’d run into wrt breaking changes in libraries that have occurred outside the model cutoff dates, and for wh
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by liamwire 1y ago
Buffet, famously, is known for not having great dietary habits. I agree with you, but he’s not a good example here.
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by liamwire 1y ago
Situations like this make me incredibly grateful for the various industry ombudsmen we have in Australia. Often it’s only a case of submitting the initial complaint to the provider, having it be acknowledged, and advising them that they’ve

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