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by o_nate 1y ago
Exactly. In many organizations this is a coordination problem at the organizational level, not an individual lack of initiative. I imagine if someone looked at an army, they would say, hey these guys are just polishing their boots, and fill
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by o_nate 1y ago
If you click through to the breakdowns by gender, you'll see the despair numbers are actually higher in young women than in young men. So this isn't a male-only issue.
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by o_nate 1y ago
Well, it's an interesting question. I'm not sure we really know what "thinking" is. But where the rubber meets the road in the case of LLM agents is whether they can achieve the same measurable outcomes as a human agent,
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by o_nate 1y ago
I don't want to blame Alan Turing for this mess, but his Turing Test maybe gave people that idea that something that can mimic a human in conversation is also going to be able to think like a human in every way. Turns out not to be the
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by o_nate 1y ago
Maybe it's too soon to say that autonomous LLM agents are the wave of the future and always will be, but that's basically where I'm at. AI code completion is awesome, but it's essentially a better Stack Overflow, and I d
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by o_nate 1y ago
Hard to justify the valuations of these companies based on the potential market for what is essentially an IDE plugin.
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by o_nate 1y ago
There's a lot I can relate to here... and also some things I disagree with. I read a lot of these same authors as a bored and slightly alienated Gen-X teenager, and agree with a lot of what the OP says about their appeal. Network TV an
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Our wounds heal slower than the cuts and scrapes of other primates(newscientist.com)
3 points by o_nate 1y ago|0 comments
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by o_nate 1y ago
Really beautiful writing. Like a prose poem. Definitely going to bookmark this blog.
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by o_nate 2y ago
I guess my point is that sound waves are not terribly controversial. A simple device can measure sound waves present in the air. It would be much more difficult to build a device that told you whether music was playing. Reasonable people co
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by o_nate 2y ago
It seems reasonable to me to say that soundwaves exist in the world, but music only exists in our brains. There is something added in our perception of the soundwaves that turns them into music.
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by o_nate 2y ago
Maybe there needs to be a disclaimer on all Gen AI outputs: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the product of the model's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resembl
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by o_nate 2y ago
That is an interesting question. I guess one way to approximate a very rough, back-of-the-envelope type of answer would be to look at the average daily dollar volume traded and the total market capitalization. So for instance with the Nasda
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by o_nate 2y ago
There's an old game in the investing world of trying to time the top of a stock bubble by picking out the most breathless headlines and magazine covers, looking for statements such as the famous 1929 quote from two weeks before the mar
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by o_nate 2y ago
I had a problem with my previous pair of glasses. I think they were defective. I won't say where I got them, but it's a popular chain. My new pair is from a different optometrist. On paper, the exact same prescription, but my visi
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by o_nate 2y ago
Maybe I'm cynical, but I think most people probably comment without reading things all the way through, and in this case you can't just read the first paragraph and get the gist of the article. It takes a bit of time to digest the
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by o_nate 2y ago
At least for the type of coding I do, if someone gave me the choice between continuing to work in a modern high-level language (such as C#) without LLM assistance, or switching to a low-level language like C with LLM assistance, I know whic
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by o_nate 2y ago
Perhaps the proportion of synthetic rubber (vs natural rubber) is increasing in tires?
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Conversational Alexa being unveiled on Feb 26(9to5mac.com)
7 points by o_nate 2y ago|1 comments
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by o_nate 2y ago
Apparently it takes more than just installing the app. They have to be a registered rewards member. Presumably would be fairly easy for the store to figure out any users who were abusing the system and remove their accounts.
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by o_nate 2y ago
This sounds like a creative solution if it can work reliably.
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by o_nate 2y ago
A corollary to this is always have a good roll-back plan. It's much nicer to be able to roll-back to a working version and then be able to debug without the crisis-level pressure.
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by o_nate 2y ago
A big part of this advice boils down to the old adage: "Don't remove a fence if you don't know why it was put there." In other words, when making changes, make sure you preserve every behavior of the old code, even thing
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by o_nate 2y ago
If you feel like you are missing key parts of the argument, like I was, it might help to switch the view from "short" to "long" - there's a little slider on the right hand side of the screen. This adds in some parag
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by o_nate 2y ago
Add a global variable? Let's not go there, please. Anything would be better than that. In this case I would bite the bullet and change the signature, but rather than just adding the one additional parameter, I would add some kind of ob
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by o_nate 2y ago
I agree that pragmatism probably isn't much help in resolving these kinds of ethical and political questions. It might be helpful in terms of focusing the discussion when arguments get excessively metaphysical or abstract, but if peopl
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by o_nate 2y ago
I'm not sure it requires philosophical agreement in all particulars in order to agree on practical consequences, e.g. an empiricist and a rationalist may disagree on epistemology but agree on the consequences of going outside on a rain
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by o_nate 2y ago
I don't think James would deny that there are many cases where our simple black and white view of truth as something existing in the world independently of what we think of it is perfectly adequate, however, pragmatism is intended to d
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by o_nate 2y ago
I also have long felt that anyone who has the ability to read and write at a high-school level in their primary language also has the mental capacity to learn to do math at a high school level. As a pedagogical challenge, I think the main s
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by o_nate 2y ago
I think its important to be aware of functional style and the weaknesses of OOP, so you can write OOP code that avoids the worst pitfalls. Classes still remain a nice way to organize code, but you should try to make them immutable if you ca

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