mpalmer

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by mpalmer 5mo ago
Just this week, the federal court that originally had the case ruled that the gerrymandered map was unconstitutional, using a theory totally separate from what the Supreme Court used to strike down the original ruling. So democracy's s
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
Isn't the experience of interacting with the models appreciably different? It's not all about the outcome. Not to mention the harnesses are increasingly the real product.
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
I'm afraid you never understood the job if you think it's just "memorizing insane code rules".
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
Bias is impossible to avoid. How perfect does the least imperfect solution have to be before it's not dismissed?
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
Do not bother reading this. The author could have written a rather incisive 800 words on this if he'd really tried. But I will not read 2500 words of redundant, repetitive slop. It's really bad writing. There is no pacing or concl
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
The sheer volume dulls your senses to it if you're not staying alert.
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
It's not a matter of not recognizing it. It's just nonsensical, it's completely free of wit or cleverness. Speaking as an enthusiastic fan of the man's actual writing.
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
Bit rich calling US/CA a tech backwater when it comes to online speech.
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
I don't see the juniors in my vicinity using these tools to learn. At all.
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
Unedited slop. There are literally twenty-one distinct comma-separated lists of things. A real misery reading all fifteen hundred words.
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
iPhones have different browsers, but they don't have different browser engines. It's WebKit or nothing.
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
So punish/disincentivize employers. This is a burden on the presumptive legal immigrant.
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
Qualified immunity, as a concept, makes perfect sense. Police officers are not jurists, and they will make mistakes in enforcing the law. Making those officers personally liable for honest mistakes is, IMO, excessive. Your own usa
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
There's like nine red flags. You are holding the English language to an incredibly low standard.
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
Tell me more about this already-guilty-looking paper, and how this kid was "sliding" an entire paperback book into a math textbook with "a centimetre to spare".
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
Do not bring literacy into this; because the sufficiently careful reading of the post surfaces multiple ridiculous (worse, witless) passages no person would write. How closely did you read it? There is a theory, popular among certain
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
"a kind of paper that already looks guilty"
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
The book has to be small enough to disappear when a teacher looks up. Pocket editions, as their name suggests, were engineered for this. Pratchett’s were small, fat, slightly battered, and printed on a kind of paper that already look
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
I have such contempt for this effort by Anthropic. Jarred has torpedoed so much of the goodwill Bun had earned.
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
With the inadvertently-appropriate kicker of the Kagi-provided definition: "willful lack of care and attention".
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
You have to be pretty unwitting to hand your wallet to a text generation machine.
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
We're a year away from AGI, once we have AGI, there is no need for white-collar jobs, everyone working in an office will be fired. (Some people argue we already have AGI, some argue that the term AGI doesn't even matter any
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
I don't hate AI - how can you, really? It's the humans behind it we should be focusing on. What I have, and cannot shake, is a growing contempt for all the AI pushers and many of the users, as they make choices that clearly go aga
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
They don't need much help, the industry's incentives are not aligned with the public interest.
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
Have we found the people who forced poor Eric to say those things about AI?
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
Fourteen hundred words of slop on a topic I'd otherwise be happy to read about. What a waste!
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
Say goodbye to metered usage via API keys you control, and hello to opaque pricing and usage limits.
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
It occurs to me now that he probably means for this content to be part of training data for future models/indexers. No one reads, why would he worry about people reading this?
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
It's a nice-looking app, but "solve good writing with AI" is exactly the thing I'm not interested in. The way to avoid creating slop is to read and write things yourself, regularly. Be more selective about what you'
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
It makes me incredibly sad to see Osmani letting AI write his stuff for him. I went to go find some of the stuff that he wrote pre-AI and found myself on his bio. Not only is it generated, it's incredibly clumsy and boastful. In

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