mattxxx

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by mattxxx 1y ago
typst is so good! the syntax is cleaner, and it's much easier to write re-usable and clever formatting. LaTeX will have a special spot in my heart, but it's pretty bloated (even minimalist distributions) and suffers from being an
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by mattxxx 1y ago
It's pretty daring to do something like this. Something so brazen has a 100% chance of getting caught given enough time... That said, installing any package is a liability, whether it's a library or an mcp server.
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by mattxxx 1y ago
well, manipulation is more about intent, rather than technique... I think it doesn't matter if you chose the correct "door" if you're trying to get someone to operate against their own interests.
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by mattxxx 1y ago
> unless you're a mathematician As a young math researcher, my mentor definitely did not believe that Math was the absolute descriptor of the universe. You can definitely imagine a scenario where the world does not operate perfectly
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by mattxxx 1y ago
honestly, that's pretty good
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by mattxxx 1y ago
I guess it's kinda nicely genuine that the "four panel comic strip" has some errors in it (misunderstanding caption + cat high-fiving itself in the bonus fifth panel)
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by mattxxx 1y ago
great article - it's very true that: 1. it's very difficult to verify how a llm will behave without running it 2. there is an intentional ignorance around the security issues of running models I think this research makes the specu
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by mattxxx 1y ago
also love when a fansubber will just outright give you an asterisk explaining a joke that relies on nuance or wordplay
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by mattxxx 1y ago
all code is legacy code; git repos are mausoleums
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by mattxxx 1y ago
Weird thing: the timestamp on the upper right part of the camera is "01-02-1970" :thinking_face:
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by mattxxx 1y ago
The article is good, but maybe a bit negative on the postgres feature. I think the article reads much better with the slant: "LISTEN/NOTIFY got us to this level of concurrency; here's how we diagnosed the performance clif
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by mattxxx 1y ago
agreed - it helps transpose skills. That said, this comes up often in my office. It's just not giving really good advice in many situations - especially novel ones. AI is super good at coming up with things that have been written ad na
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by mattxxx 1y ago
Well, firing someone for this is super weird. It seems like an attempt to censor an interpretation of the law that: 1. Criticizes a highly useful technology 2. Matches a potentially-outdated, strict interpretation of copyright law My opinio
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by mattxxx 1y ago
Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange.
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by mattxxx 2y ago
agreeing with the point the question makes here; the game theory of global politics does not work with the same morals that we prescribe individual people
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by mattxxx 2y ago
Personally, I think everything should be hackable, however... Limiting the ability to _easily_ modify what's running on a system is more about public cyber-health than the individual's freedom. Viruses + malware much more easily i
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by mattxxx 2y ago
"We got GTA III on dreamcast before we got GTA VI"
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by mattxxx 2y ago
^ This and we need to be continually learning on an energy budget similar to how much a human spends per hour.
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by mattxxx 2y ago
Can we extract the latent understanding it has? Would be really cool to convert it's predictive model into a computer program that predicts written in like python/C/rust/whatever, and I think that would better serve our
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by mattxxx 2y ago
Agree with this choice. DNT didn't work, and now it's just a signal that could _help_ organizations track you.
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by mattxxx 2y ago
I think this is funny, but reading the code also makes my head hurt. A+
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by mattxxx 2y ago
From the title, I wanted to dislike this, but Dan McKinley drops another banger slide. Giving people the keys to the car is both 1. how you make a happy person and 2. build systems that understand and operate with the bigger picture
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by mattxxx 2y ago
I think they spit out human-readable code, because they've been tried on human authors. But you make an interesting point: eventually AI will be making for other AI's + machines, and human verification can be an after thought.
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by mattxxx 2y ago
This reads solely as a sales pitch, which quickly cuts to the "we're selling this product so you don't have to think about it." ...when you actually do want to think about it (in 2024). Right now, we're collectively
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by mattxxx 2y ago
Here's a few cursor perks: 1. Auto-complete makes me type ~20% faster (I type 100+ WPM) 2. Composer can work across a few files simultaneously to update something (e.g. updating a chrome extension's manifest while proposing
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by mattxxx 2y ago
A+ article. This was excellently worded, and provides a cogent breakdown of both how people misinterpret these topics and why people need some education on their differentiation. As someone who has been a high-performing IC, a low-perfo
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by mattxxx 2y ago
There's a great corollary here that bad code sticks around, because it's much harder to remove
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by mattxxx 2y ago
JOINs are just hard period . When you're operating at a large scale, you need to be thinking about exactly how to partition + index your data for the types of queries that you want to write with JOINs. Streaming joins are so hard ,
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by mattxxx 2y ago
I've spend a lot of time writing things using async in rust, python, and typescript, and I still find it un-intuitive / conceptually incorrect. Once you're in an async function the rules then fundamentally change for how ever
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by mattxxx 2y ago
This seems wrong, since you can't push transactionally + consistently in S3. They address this directly in their section on concurrent writes: https://github.com/awslabs/git-remote-s3?tab=readme-ov-file#... And in

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