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by niobe 8mo ago
Postgres has a large manual not because it's overly complex to do simple things, but because it is one of the best documented and most well-written tools around, period. Every time I've had occasion to browse the manual in the las
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by niobe 8mo ago
Reminds me of how if you make a complaint against a lawyer or a judge it's evaluated by lawyers and judges.
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by niobe 8mo ago
If it was framed as "show us how you would break down this problem and think about it" then sure. If it's the gotcha quiz (much more common in my experience) then no. But if that's what they were going for it should be s
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by niobe 8mo ago
I would hope anyone with the knowledge and interest to run OpenClaw would already be mostly aware of the risks and potential solutions canvassed in this article, but I'd probably be shocked and disappointed.
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by niobe 8mo ago
Having said that, there is nothing there that isn't public information. I guess the CIA's name added some weight but this could easily be published by any public institution interested in foreign affairs.
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by niobe 8mo ago
Guily by (lack of) association!
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by niobe 8mo ago
If I was asked that question in an interview to be a programmer I'd walk out. How many abstraction layers either side of your knowledge domain do you need to be an expert in? Further, being a good technologist of any kind is not about
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by niobe 8mo ago
Is there a good technical breakdown of all these benchmarks that get used to market the latest greatest LLMs somewhere? Preferably impartial.
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by niobe 8mo ago
Hello, nice write up. I'm curious about your deal with the factory and downstream suppliers.. did all these iterations and fixes cost more every time? Or it was a fixed contract? How does that all work
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by niobe 8mo ago
isn't that what Simon Willison's `llm` does? edit: [link]( https://github.com/simonw/llm )
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by niobe 8mo ago
Good news everyone!
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by niobe 9mo ago
True but every science headline is misleading, loaded or exaggerated. My pet peeve "X found where it should not exist". What they mean is "scientists are pleased because there's some new evidence that is not explained by
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by niobe 9mo ago
This article taught me nothing except first-world tech consumerism is out of control. Why is that interesting? Because I think it's part of why the tech bros consistently over-estimate the relvance, pace and world-changing potential of
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by niobe 9mo ago
Also super unlikely, and only worth discussing except as a theoretical exercise. We just aren't undoing centuries of law. Same reason trusts are here to stay.
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by niobe 1y ago
On the other hand, SV development culture is often obsessed with early release and adding features, traits I would identify with short-termism, rather than improving usability and minimising bloat (trends not rules). So a little old school
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by niobe 1y ago
I say, what a splendid tale.
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by niobe 1y ago
paywalled
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by niobe 1y ago
could simply be 41 instances of the same server in 41 regions, not necessarily a cause for concern. Starlink is a global service after all. I'd be more concerned if 41 instances were sharing one key.
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by niobe 2y ago
calling it "last" is defeating their own premise - that tests need to keep pace developments in ability
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by niobe 2y ago
Wow, old google seemed to care about the quality of their data and the service they were providing to users, and then apply reasoning to achieve those aims.
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by niobe 2y ago
Go outside, everyone's real .. at least for the time being!
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by niobe 2y ago
Excel is in our DNA and will never die
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by niobe 2y ago
I am a technical musician for 40 years and I couldn't understand the points he was trying to make... poorly explained
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by niobe 2y ago
that's one good take away I guess
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by niobe 2y ago
I knew you guys were all psychos/s
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by niobe 2y ago
True, but of the same importance, the speaker cannot be measured independently of the room in a home setup. You need an anechoic chamber, or at least a large and very quiet space. Even a decent size living room will alter the measurements c
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by niobe 2y ago
But to some approximation we do know how an LLM plays chess.. based on all the games, sites, blogs, analysis in its training data. But it has a limited ability to tell a good move from a bad move since the training data has both, and some o
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by niobe 2y ago
I don't understand why educated people expect that an LLM would be able to play chess at a decent level. It has no idea about the quality of it's data. "Act like x" prompts are no substitute for actual reasoning and de
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by niobe 2y ago
> There is SO MUCH we haven't figured out about how to use them yet. I mean, it's pretty clear to me they're a potentially great human-machine interface, but trying to make LLMs - in their current fundamental form - a reli
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by niobe 2y ago
The algorithm makes several false assumptions AND misses some crucial points about harmony that affect chord naming. One of each below: - Chords are definitely not always built on thirds. Mainly the traditional western sounds are. - Even mo

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