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by nphardon 2mo ago
Wow we just had a post on here a couple weeks ago about Jeff Dean supporting dissident voices at Google.
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by nphardon 2mo ago
That's fine but not entirely what I'm trying to understand. There is an aspect of it that connects back to the Qanon mentality of having insider information and a level of expertise beyond the society sanctioned experts. There a
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by nphardon 2mo ago
Anyone have insight into the overlap of techies and armchair military experts? Every thread like this ends up overflowing with comments like "Let me explain to you what's really happening..."
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by nphardon 2mo ago
> we are teaching robots intelligent whole-body control, fine dexterity, *and teamwork*... That's the most Skynet thing ever.
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by nphardon 3mo ago
always a good day when we get an a post on front actually related to hacking on hackernews.
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by nphardon 3mo ago
How many times can we have the same discussion.
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by nphardon 3mo ago
I think a lot are also opting for startups. I think the number of million dollar value start ups is up quite a bit right now. That h1b prisoner comment is starrrrrk (and true to my experience as well).
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by nphardon 4mo ago
How old is your mother? Iirc PSEN1 correlates to very early AD, like late 30s early 40s. My dad had full blown AD at 65, with serious cognitive decline starting at 63, and that felt very early to us all. My dad had no AD biomarkers on fu
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by nphardon 4mo ago
The tech co I work for just massively scaled token usage after the copilot price changes. If there was a chance for ai to replace anyone, it's gone now.
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by nphardon 4mo ago
This is funny, i get it; but the idea that using LLM's precludes thinking is silly. We're doing some heavy lifting over here. There's a lot of noise around pie in the sky ai show n tell projects, but then there's quiet
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by nphardon 4mo ago
This also reflects the failings of the teachers to teach in a way that is conducive to learning given the current cultural landscape.
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by nphardon 4mo ago
It's wild; at my shop in Silicon Valley they dropped us from unlimited use to 60% prem budget on copilot. People are walking around like zombies.
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by nphardon 4mo ago
Yea, math is a crazy thing. just "a tool to solve problems" is a wild take. On one extreme, there's an edgy but logical / plausible hypothesis that we live in a universe of mathematical objects, and at the other, math
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by nphardon 4mo ago
Man, I just got into a killer flow with it, minimal guardrails, having it doing lots of independent work all the way to task completion, and my company dropped our prem token allowance to 60%. I was hitting 2k+%. So I just got hamstringed
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by nphardon 4mo ago
I've been telling less experienced engineers: The moment you hit submit on your change, it is your code not claudes, you wrote it, you are responsible for: understanding it, explaining it, supporting it.
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by nphardon 4mo ago
There's tons of things I like about llm's, but I'm sick of Ai show'n tells. It feels like I'm in kindergarten.
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by nphardon 5mo ago
"One of the things that LLMs do is plagiarism as a bigger scale."
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by nphardon 5mo ago
Ah, I'm one of the outliers, I have more friends now and a richer, healthier social life than I've ever had before. I'm 45, I do have a 7yo kid and wife, two dogs, a full time job, just like everyone else on here for whom the
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by nphardon 6mo ago
There's some analogy around learning to play a song without using your ears and painting without using your eyes. Like the silliness on the drawing side is obvious. The benefits gained by using your ears to learn music (again this i
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by nphardon 6mo ago
I also havent noticed the degradation and I'm not on Claude Code. I'm on week 4 of a continuous, large engineering project, C, massive industrial semiconductor codebase, with Opus, and while it's the biggest engagement I&#x2
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by nphardon 6mo ago
I agree. The LLM writing turned me off to the article, and the ELI5 style is off putting.
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by nphardon 7mo ago
Seems like my co is shedding US jobs and moving them to Taiwan, and paying up to 75% less in salary.
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by nphardon 7mo ago
Where does this money go? I see that some is lost value, like in the downed aircraft, but what groups are profiting off this crazy flow?
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by nphardon 7mo ago
Must be a fun time to work on open problems. I published my graduate research close to a decade ago, often find myself fantasizing about tackling open problems with Claude.
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by nphardon 7mo ago
Yes! Also shopping is an insidious thing. Now it's no longer a shopping tool. For me a common flow would be like, 1) think about some thing 2) instantly I'm scroll shopping somewhere 3) remember I'm too frugal to buy thing
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by nphardon 7mo ago
I went *browserless on my device and it has solved my screen compulsion issues with very little downside. It has been the most effective step I've ever taken. I realized I really love msg'ing friends, having access to maps and na
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by nphardon 7mo ago
honestly, you couldn't even build your own house.
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by nphardon 8mo ago
I knew about this but never attended, so cool!
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by nphardon 8mo ago
There's a great discussion with Stephen Wolfram on the Sean Carroll podcast. Listening to it made me think very highly of Wolfram. He's a free thinking, eccentric, mathematician, scientist; who got started doing serious work at
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by nphardon 8mo ago
Recently I went back to The Ecstasy of Communication by Jean Baudrillard which I couldn't get through back in the day when I first picked it up. I used Haiku to walk me through the first chapter, and Haiku would not state anything ver

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