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by oldsklgdfth 13d ago
In my experience, I'm usually revising TV shows and movies that I enjoy. Say I want to rewatch the office or snatch. I just don't have the patience for the dongle to wake up and refresh all the banner ads, then the app to load, th
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by oldsklgdfth 13d ago
Working in video ads has validated that I basically never pay for video or music services. 90% of dev time is spent optimizing the monetization path while the playback path needs to be good enough. Anecdotally, appleTV never remembers which
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by oldsklgdfth 1mo ago
It can become political, like anything else. But isn't inherently. It does not attempt to answer some political or ideological question. The question is "do you want to teach the tool and its use or do you want to teach thinking m
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by oldsklgdfth 1mo ago
You bring up politics when this topic is about technology adoption in education. Grew up in Greece and was shocked that calculators are used in high school math. An interesting note: "And teachers will not be able to ask A.I. to grade
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by oldsklgdfth 1mo ago
I generally agree that the business does not see increased productivity and revenue from AI, if it does it is small enough to be within error. That said, if everyone (not just devs) came in and there was no AI, the org would come to a halt.
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by oldsklgdfth 1mo ago
There is some footage on youtube[0] that provides an aerial view and some perspective on the scale of this thing. From rock climbing, I have a sense of erosion features and their scale. Turbulent flow can carve out huecos in sandstone. They
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by oldsklgdfth 1mo ago
How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book
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by oldsklgdfth 1mo ago
Merchants pay the transaction cost. In my parents business in the early 2000s customers would ask in advance if they could use a CC. Some places installed ATMs in the corner (still a thing in some places), but quite unpopular. Rather than l
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by oldsklgdfth 1mo ago
I grew up in a restaurant in the US. Tipping is a counterintuitive evolution in wages, I’ll probably dig in more. Anecdotally, a waitress could easily earn more than minimum wage during a shift. Sometimes easy clearing $100 when minimum wag
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by oldsklgdfth 1mo ago
reminds of college when everyone would use chegg, but knew it was a shortcut. the difference now is it is shamelessly encouraged. one interesting topic is code reviews of AI code. code reviews have always been a bottleneck on the team and t
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by oldsklgdfth 1mo ago
when the tool becomes a crutch you end up with a limp. at work, i can tell that people are not thinking and losing the ability to thinking hard. I keep coming back to what LLMs "really" are. Recursive autocomplete, it keeps choosi
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by oldsklgdfth 1mo ago
I appreciate the sentiment and I'm pretty curious how I could train an LLM, even are really basic one from 5yrs ago without nuts hardware. That said, I a good starting point for a 17yo is reading about perceptrons[0], then the basics o
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by oldsklgdfth 1mo ago
you can't always get what you want, sometimes you get what you don't need.
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by oldsklgdfth 2mo ago
My brain tingles when I hear "three letter letter agency did X" But my take on the question: "why is it being pushed by algorithms" is that it is a property of the medium of "algorithmic feeds". YT, shorts, etc
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by oldsklgdfth 2mo ago
My mind tingles when I heard about three letters and subverting the public. Reminds me of the CIA make Jackson Pollack and modern art popular. The idea I come back to is that history has its own momentum. You may be able to nudge it in the
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by oldsklgdfth 2mo ago
I wish we had more shame at my work. We are "AI-first" and even those skeptical have given in. Code, docs, slack messages, issue triage. PMs sending devs an AI bug root cause that reads like a treatise. My view is that whatever t
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by oldsklgdfth 2mo ago
Classical AI conjures up the image of Christopher Bishop[0]. My early introduction to AI. I suspect the theoretical side of AI is growing more, but likely focused on performance improvements on the transformer. At some point the transformer
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by oldsklgdfth 2mo ago
Either way, you'll learn something along the way.
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by oldsklgdfth 2mo ago
AI is not making engineers more productive. It makes them lazy and think less critically. Also leads to soft-mindedness.
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by oldsklgdfth 2mo ago
A compounding factor is when requirements are filtered through B2B layers. At which point the end-user is not the customer and it turns into a game of telephone. Apple sidesteps this issue with vertical integration.
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by oldsklgdfth 2mo ago
"The things you own end up owning you" is a quote on my whiteboard. It reflects the reality of tradeoff between possessions and investment in maintaining them. If you have lots of interests that you decide to get into, you buy lot
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by oldsklgdfth 2mo ago
you ever go climbing and it doesn't meet your expectations and that disappointment rolls into the next work week?
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by oldsklgdfth 2mo ago
Interesting. I had not considered how scale affects these mental model. Now I wonder if depending on the scale, one model is better suited. Or maybe they both can be modified based on the scale. Maybe self-interest is easier to reason about
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by oldsklgdfth 2mo ago
> Never attribute to stupidity what can be attributed to self-interest. Interesting. Sounds like a counter-point to Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity". I use Hanlon&
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by oldsklgdfth 2mo ago
I agree with the content of the post. It does feel like a post stating things that are obvious, were someone not blinded by technology. Curious if others have noticed a trend of going back to "old school" methods, once there is re
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by oldsklgdfth 3mo ago
By common law I refer to British common law which pops up in opinions. References to "domicile" come from common law (in Trump v Barb). I may be mistaken.
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by oldsklgdfth 3mo ago
IANAL, but pretty curious of SCOTUS. I just read a lot of the opinions. (I hate that the pdf does not have a table of contents). I've used the mental model of math and theorems to reason about it. In this model, all laws have to be con
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by oldsklgdfth 3mo ago
I watched the live chat to get the news about these opinions. Good on the reporters that cover the opinions and post updates. Without much editorialization I may add. As an aside, I find it very exciting that audio of oral arguments are bro
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by oldsklgdfth 4mo ago
Can remember how I set it up. Tap the back of my iphone 3 times and it toggles greyscale. Makes taking and looking at photos nice.
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by oldsklgdfth 4mo ago
Thinking out loud: using follow/unfollow you transmit a signal with no information. using the timing between the signal you are encoding symbols. I think this is called Pulse Position Modulation[0] First step is to characterize the del

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