m0llusk

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by m0llusk 5mo ago
Meanwhile many LLM users have seen generated code quality drop as prices and service are brought in line with costs. If graduate student level work costs many times the price of a student worker then why bother?
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by m0llusk 5mo ago
It turns out to be more interesting than that. For example, there is no other ape with skin resembling that of marine mammals. And that is just a start. Mankind is seriously weird.
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by m0llusk 6mo ago
The details of the story are interesting. Backups stored on the same volume is an interesting glitch to avoid. Finding necessary secrets wherever they happen to be and going ahead with that is the kind of mistake I've seen motivated
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by m0llusk 6mo ago
With all the exotic drilling tech making fracking work, it seems like geothermal is a natural pivot since much of the challenge is controlling the cost of drilling deeply.
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by m0llusk 6mo ago
Medical device companies are run very differently from most technology development companies. They have to be because the stakes are high, evaluation criteria are different, and medical related marketing and sales have separate industry man
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by m0llusk 6mo ago
This defensiveness just makes the situation worse. If they came across as at a disadvantage and doing their best that could attract help and admiration. Trying to cover things up while being hostile just makes them look like reactionary c
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by m0llusk 6mo ago
That isn't really true, though, at least not when actual common usage is considered. As the studies of "Trendslop" have revealed, LLMs aggressively normalize output. What they do is generate content based on averages over l
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by m0llusk 6mo ago
Being cautious and an autistic mathematician also I am prone to heavy qualification. This causes very large blocks of my writing to be highlighted as "Hedge Stack" which isn't really helpful. Lots of Overused Intensifier an
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by m0llusk 6mo ago
There is a word for this kind of thing: Trendslop. Asking LLMs for advice consistently generates average responses as if the questions were being asked of the training sample population. It is reversion to the mean as a service.
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by m0llusk 6mo ago
Bullshit is more dangerous than lies.
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by m0llusk 6mo ago
No need to swarm the carriers. Support craft are far more vulnerable, absolutely required, and low in numbers at this time.
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by m0llusk 7mo ago
That is easy. Those top apps in mobile stores are constructed in part with compilers which are under great pressure from developers to generate good code as quickly as possible. There is often bloat at the level of the development environ
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by m0llusk 7mo ago
There is a huge space of possible software solutions. A very large amount of software that has real value involves using basic methodologies to build interfaces to databases and enable some known business logic. Writing this kind of softw
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by m0llusk 7mo ago
Macbooks are standard fare for tech workers. Having reached the top of the mountain it should not be a surprise that there are heavy winds. Instead of behaving like custodians of the cathedral we get fast movement with breakage and an emp
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by m0llusk 7mo ago
stable as in house always wins?
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by m0llusk 7mo ago
When sites show me a bunch of ads and slow my machine with tracking then I just close the window. They don't want me to read their articles anyway. When a company shows you who they are ...
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by m0llusk 7mo ago
Studying the effects of recreational drugs is similar to studying diet in terms of the level of complication. The headline "No evidence" is a good example of the discourse about this subject. There absolutely is such evidence, b
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by m0llusk 7mo ago
That is bad use of statistics. San Francisco forms the core of an urban conurbation of over eight million people.
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by m0llusk 7mo ago
Good news, F-35 performance has surpassed expectations significantly! Bad news, F-35 production and deployment cost have surpassed expectations massively!
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by m0llusk 7mo ago
Why bother with ad blockers? These organizations don't want you reading their articles, so take the hint.
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by m0llusk 7mo ago
This is turning out to be a huge issue for me as my frequent use of em-dashes makes my remarks trigger people effectively disrupting attempts to communicate. Maybe my communication needs to change or maybe these objections are yet another
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by m0llusk 7mo ago
There are multiple ends in conflict. Code skillfully constructed using abstractions that fit well to the problem space can be extended, maintained, and refactored as necessary to serve customers and markets from high to low level over long
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by m0llusk 7mo ago
There were many involved factors, but the 2008 financial crisis was started when Ben Bernanke raised interest rates.
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by m0llusk 7mo ago
Strictly speaking not directly related, but this kind of thing always reminds me of the classic Gogol story: https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/storiespdf/the-nose.pd...
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by m0llusk 7mo ago
Most of my recent interviews have been mostly people telling me that I am an idiot because I can't leetcode proficiently enough, so those jobs going away doesn't really effect me and at the same time makes sense. LLMs should be g
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by m0llusk 8mo ago
There are ways to advance rapidly without causing problems for large numbers of people. LLMs are being forced everywhere and the result is a mess. Being serious about a promising new technology usually means going slow and emphasizing wha
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by m0llusk 8mo ago
> Every developer I know uses AI for coding now. Currently I am working on a code base that is rapidly evolving for customer fit and is hoped to be around for a while. Going over recent decisions about what abstractions to focus on and
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by m0llusk 8mo ago
Arguably a powerful demonstration of why even simple creatures make use of parenting as a strategy to improve the success of their offspring.
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by m0llusk 8mo ago
Just imagine if this move cascaded out of control and it ended up being the Trump administration that got blamed for pricking the AI bubble. This could become one of the most expensive power grabs in all of history.
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by m0llusk 8mo ago
In public you should assume you are being recorded on video. The idea that my bodycam can't be connected to cloud identification tools is weird.

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