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by mmcconnell1618 16d ago
Plato's cave comes to mind here. A text response that can't be differentiated from a human response does not change the fact that there is a difference. If I record your voice and then put a friend on the other end of the phone, I
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by mmcconnell1618 1mo ago
Interesting decision to build the whole aircraft instead of the propulsion system only. I wonder what the decision process was between retrofit of existing turboprop frame vs. build from the ground up? I would expect the level of effort and
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by mmcconnell1618 3mo ago
Even if they could "do it better" it is still locked into a single device/vehicle and can't match the eco-system that Apple and Google have developed across a family of devices and services. In order to really compete, t
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by mmcconnell1618 5mo ago
10MB for the Google Homepage! 44MB for Facebook Homepage! I have not been paying attention to website bloat. Wow, and people were annoyed when a site had to download a whole JQuery library for a single function.
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by mmcconnell1618 6mo ago
Anthropic clearly doesn't understand that customers see their brand as "Claude", Google's brand as "Gemini" and OpenAI's brand as "ChatGPT." They have so many plans and exclusions that they risk
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by mmcconnell1618 6mo ago
NASA "Force?" It sounds very similar to Space Force and Air Force and adds a militaristic tone to NASA. Maybe that is the intent. I know that NASA and the military are closely linked but the general brand of NASA is a the science-
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by mmcconnell1618 7mo ago
I've built a few transportation simulations where I started out with pathfinding methods like A* but the compute cost doesn't scale well with 10,000 or 100,000 agents running around. Pre-computing flow fields for common map destin
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by mmcconnell1618 7mo ago
Also, have massive layoffs every few months just to keep people on edge. AWS wants people to leave with RTO and badging policies, comp range shifts lower unless you have year over year ratings, and an obsessive push to force AI into every p
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by mmcconnell1618 8mo ago
I made a decision to reframe "news" as the "fear network" so my brain had that context as I found out the news of the day. The article had an interesting perspective on information diets contributing to overall pessimism
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by mmcconnell1618 9mo ago
Marco Rubio needed this for his presidential run in 2028. Does this mean that Putin will look the other way for Maduro as long as Trump looks the other way when Putin captures or kills Zelenskyy? Have they officially agreed to divide the wo
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by mmcconnell1618 9mo ago
Learning to play individual notes from sheet music only helps you learn one song. The breakthrough for me was thinking in musical structure. - There are 12 keys on the piano just repeated - A scale can start on any of those 12 keys - The &q
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by mmcconnell1618 9mo ago
Color grading is pretty interesting. Please share good resources if you find some.
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by mmcconnell1618 9mo ago
Technical: - Understand how to deploy teams of agents effectively to accomplish significant goals - Learn ECS/Dots in Unity to scale a system to hundreds of thousands of actors Non Technical: - Improve people management skills for lead
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by mmcconnell1618 1y ago
I do the same. It lets you see exactly what the LLM is using for context and you can easily correct manually. Similar to the spec-driven-development in Kiro where you define the plan first, then move to creating code to meet the plan.
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by mmcconnell1618 1y ago
When you get the answer you want, follow up with "How could I have asked my question in a way to get to this answer faster?" and the LLM will provide some guidance on how to improve your question prompt. Over time, you'll get
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by mmcconnell1618 1y ago
Doesn't MacOS already render as 2x resolution and downsize in order to do font smoothing? Looks are important to Apple and I think they are willing to add custom hardware capable of handling these type of effects without killing batter
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by mmcconnell1618 1y ago
There was a time when everyone hand-coded HTML. Then came Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage which promised a WYSIWYG experience. No one would ever need to "learn HTML and CSS" because the tool could write it for them.
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by mmcconnell1618 1y ago
Self-learning opens new training opportunities but not at the scale or speed of current training. The world only operates at 1x speed. Today's models have been trained on written and visual content created by billions of humans over th
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by mmcconnell1618 1y ago
I just read Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis which has an interesting perspective that "cloud capitalism" is replacing traditional capitalism and competition. A few players are assembling their own fiefdoms inside dominant web&
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by mmcconnell1618 1y ago
English and other languages come with lots of ambiguity and assumptions. A significant benefit of programming languages is they have explicit rules for how they will be converted into a running program. An LLM can take many paths from the s
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by mmcconnell1618 1y ago
Looks like an opportunity to sell a price negotiation AI to all consumers. Get paid on both sides of the AI wars.
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by mmcconnell1618 1y ago
One thing these models are extremely good at is reading large amounts of text quickly and summarizing important points. That capability alone may be enough to pay $20 a month for many people.
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by mmcconnell1618 1y ago
Some cruise lines, like Norwegian, have specific solo travel fares and cabins and even social events just for solo travelers
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by mmcconnell1618 1y ago
The reproduction cost for the 2nd copy of media is near zero just like software. Handmade or customized furniture is more expensive because it takes more labor for each copy. With media, the cost is fixed, even if it is large. Once the firs
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by mmcconnell1618 1y ago
There is no regulation or legislation that is telling Amazon they can/can't or should/shouldn't post this information. Amazon appears to be responding to the wishes of the President out of fealty or fear. The threat of a
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by mmcconnell1618 1y ago
I've been thinking about the need for something like this. Another person told me the idea was like Neo in the Matrix saying "I know Kung Fu." I think the most powerful idea is to create unique bundles of context for specific
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by mmcconnell1618 2y ago
Idiocracy in real life. The AI told me to drink Brawndo. Why? Because it has electrolytes. My AI said electrolytes are good.
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by mmcconnell1618 2y ago
HR departments are constantly looking at "market rates" for jobs which is a fancy way of saying they share salary data or get it from ADP and have much more information about what people are willing to accept. At hiring time, they
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by mmcconnell1618 2y ago
Ironically, if you are a contractor going through a staffing agency, when you are "fired" from a contract, you generally still get paid something by the agency and get "bench time" to train up your skills or work on inte
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by mmcconnell1618 2y ago
If you do a lot of video calls, you can also consider how to light yourself so that you show up well on camera. The traditional three-point lighting setup is a good place to start. A key light which is the brightest, main light source, a fi

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