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by madrox 2y ago
How is this so different from committing to making decisions based on metrics? Or delegating policy to subordinates? Dereliction is defined as a failure to fulfill an obligation. This candidate, if elected, would still be fulfilling obligat
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by madrox 2y ago
Quite right
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by madrox 2y ago
I don't think the OP was pointing to it as a example of positivity but an example of a business model (donation supported)
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by madrox 2y ago
I think the author is in the right ballpark, but frames it in a way that makes me wonder if they're right for the wrong reason. News has always been partisan and flawed. The internet just makes the flaws more obvious, because no single
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by madrox 2y ago
You can't blame creators for playing the game. All they have is that thumbnail to market their content.
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by madrox 2y ago
I can't speak to Netflix. At Disney the willingness to experiment with streaming UX was thin on the ground six years ago. It was about making something that felt like a direct Netflix competitor. Other experiments have shipped since th
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by madrox 2y ago
Depends on the content and how it tends to be consumed. That might work for YouTube but maybe not, say, Netflix or services that stream movies. We did a mix of human curation and random selection, noting which random selections were success
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by madrox 2y ago
Well done. My team built this at Disney six years ago when we were trying to solve content discovery problems. The problem with endless carousels of thumbnails is that it really doesn't draw you in. Sometimes you just need to drop peop
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by madrox 2y ago
Was going to mention this myself. The nuance of this problem is fascinating! Always check your assumptions on the underlying distributions.
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by madrox 2y ago
I have a degree in statistics yet I've never thought about the relationship between linear models and business decisions in this way. You're absolutely right. This is the best comment I've read all month.
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by madrox 2y ago
Funny enough, there's a DSL LLMs already tend to be trained on: JavaScript. Just teach the LLM the function signatures it has to work with, then execute the script in a VM
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by madrox 2y ago
I have a saying: "any sufficiently advanced agent is indistinguishable from a DSL" If I'm really leaning into multi-tool use for anything resembling a mutation, then I'd like to see an execution plan first. In my experie
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by madrox 2y ago
I, too, wouldn't mind living in that timeline, but that's just not going to happen for a number of reasons that are so obvious as to not be worth enumerating. Dwelling on unrealistic solutions prevents you from perceiving the poss
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by madrox 2y ago
I don't see a future here that doesn't involve significant legislation over network security and include jail time for major offenses. Every time something like this happens, there's always that organizational Cassandra (usua
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by madrox 2y ago
That's great, I guess, but the point is that all work is ephemeral. Whether it lasts five years or 100, there's going to be an end date. When you're on your death bed, is "my code was in production longer than average&qu
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by madrox 2y ago
I wouldn't say this is about being rich or not. My father helped shape my perspective, and as he used to say: "I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better." [1] He literally grew up in poverty, but he saw his
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by madrox 2y ago
I'm not sure what kind of luck you're talking about. I'm not "post-money" and have to work for a living. I've never gotten a startup exit. I am well compensated the way someone with 25 years of work experience
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by madrox 2y ago
I resonate with this a lot. There is a time horizon beyond which the work we do doesn't really matter. No code I wrote five years ago is in production today. A vanishingly small number of products I built are still around. The act of b
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by madrox 2y ago
1984 was edgy for its time. I think the difficulty is that the iPad is no longer an edgy product. The least edgy thing you could be these days is an iPad owner, and this ad wasn't the one to change that.
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by madrox 2y ago
This really shows how much sentiments about technology have changed in the last five or so years. If this ad came out in 2018 it would have been received differently, I think. The buzz has worn off. People don't see doing everything on
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by madrox 2y ago
If this fact began in the last decade, I'd agree with you, but the linked Scholastic report shows this phenomenon pre-dates phones. Interest in reading at different ages has held steady dating back to at least 2010. 2010 is before most
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by madrox 2y ago
I get what you're saying about them already being Google employees, but this feels like a loophole and not a material difference. I could see this being exploited if there ever were offshoring rules. Just hire your offshores a month or
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by madrox 2y ago
There's lots of examples of outcomes from moves like this in the industry, so you'd have to be pretty naive to not expect these effects. Therefore, it's more likely these outcomes are intended. I'm ready to believe this
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by madrox 2y ago
I, too, could not read a chapter of Harry Potter and then tell you how many times a word was used. This isn't what my brain (and by extension LLMs) is good at. However, if you told me ahead of time that was my goal for reading a chapte
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by madrox 2y ago
I recognize it's irrational but I'm more afraid of excel files than executables in many ways
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by madrox 3y ago
I've tried it before. I didn't find it meaningfully better than a moleskine with grid paper (in some ways worse) or sticky notes around my monitor. Again, paper for task management doesn't work for me
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by madrox 3y ago
I've tried workflowy before and it didn't stick. Something about the combined notetaking aspect made it difficult for me to conform to.
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by madrox 3y ago
As someone who has used every TODO method under the sun over the last 20 years and talked to other people on their own work tracking journeys, I think task management to be a deeply personal thing that has to map to how you think and do thi
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by madrox 3y ago
Well done. This is everything I love about Omnifocus but with better collaboration. If you can give me a Windows version so I can also use this on my personal workstation this is an instant buy.
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by madrox 3y ago
The author raises some good points that, I think, are ultimately moot. Most concerns hinge on either the president using this power maliciously or Bytedance not selling Tiktok. The president already has a lot of scary power to wield if they

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