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by sdenton4 7mo ago
AI doesn't just hide your voice -- it improves it!
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by sdenton4 7mo ago
to hazard a guess: the better your coding model is, the less you have to assess your fundamentals, and thereby suffer arrested development.
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by sdenton4 7mo ago
Any amount of friction reduces the amount of slop. What proportion of clankers are going to realize that they need to warm up the accounts two weeks in advance? Answer: a proportion that your never going to see with that barrier in place. W
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by sdenton4 7mo ago
Eh, even for a senior engineer, dropping into a new codebase is greatly helped by an orientation from someone who works on the code. What's where, common gotchas, which tests really matter, and so on. The agents file serves a similar r
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by sdenton4 7mo ago
I strongly support this! For the last few years, I've been signing up as a Hugo voter, and read a bunch of great stuff that I otherwise would have missed. Sometimes the best books are a bit divisive, but still make the shortlist. (Sain
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by sdenton4 7mo ago
They don't actually solve the problem in 2 seconds - at that point, they are running on a sample of only 3,000 vectors! Then they get it down further, but still find it will take a loooooong time to get through all 3B: "With these
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by sdenton4 7mo ago
Depending on how 'one-off' the query is, sequential read is the right answer. The alternative is indexing the data for ANN, which will generally require doing the equivalent of many queries across the dataset. On the bright side,
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by sdenton4 8mo ago
It's the story of foxes and hedgehogs... Both have a time and place. Sometimes you need people who can aggressively put out fires, and sometimes you need people with deep focus for the long haul, who aren't overly distracted by th
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by sdenton4 8mo ago
And the total human population in prehistory was tiny, likely under a million for much of that time, and possibly dropping to a few thousand at some point. The total human experience of those 250k years may not be much more than the last fe
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by sdenton4 8mo ago
When the victim's relatives send them money because they need to eat and pay rent after handing everything over to the scammer, the persistent backdoor lets that money be drained as well... You're underestimating the persistence a
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by sdenton4 8mo ago
It would be really cool if someone developed some standard language and methodology for measuring the success of binary classificaiton tasks... Oh, wait, we have had that for a hundred years - somehow it's just entirely forgotten when
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by sdenton4 8mo ago
The study makes it clear that the people footing the bill for the tariffs are in the US - it is not the rest of the world paying Trump's taxes, it's Americans, whether directly as consumers or importers.
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by sdenton4 8mo ago
Here's evidence : https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/news/americas-own-g... "Importers and consumers in the US bear 96 percent of the tariff burden."
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by sdenton4 8mo ago
Taking a slightly closer look at the paper, you've got K repositories and create a set of test cases within each repository, totaling 130-ish tests. There may be some 'repository-level' effects - ie, tasks may be easier in so
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by sdenton4 8mo ago
You're measuring binary outcomes, so you can use a beta distribution to understand the distribution of possible success rates given your observations, and thereby provide a confidence interval on the observed success rates. This week h
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by sdenton4 8mo ago
Yeah - it's interesting where the edge is. In theory, an llm trained in everything should be more ready to make cross-field connections. But doing that well requires certain kind of translation and problem selection work which is hard
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by sdenton4 8mo ago
This is a very reasonable drawing of a bicycle. It has a solid rear triangle, and forward swept front fork, which is an important detail for actually being able to steer the bike. The drivetrain is single speed, but that's fine, and th
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by sdenton4 8mo ago
Yeah, I would assume that transcodes kill this eventually...
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by sdenton4 8mo ago
Why let the perfect be the enemy of the good? A $1 fee is fine for Indian software developers and it kills the spam. If it's a greater burden for people in India than the US, well, not all solutions are perfect, but some are useful.
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by sdenton4 8mo ago
Not that word, in the context of contributing to an open source project that you're likely already benefiting from. ie, if you want to contribute code, you must also contribute financially.
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by sdenton4 8mo ago
The 2.5s round trip communication latency isn't going to be great for chat. (Alongside all the other reasons.)
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by sdenton4 9mo ago
If you brake too hard, you might fly over the handlebars.
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by sdenton4 9mo ago
As the bard said: "You think your living in the land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy."
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by sdenton4 9mo ago
We should round up and reeducate people with glasses. /s
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by sdenton4 9mo ago
This doesn't match my experience at all. Mid last year I helped run a workshop on AI explicitly for laid off federal science workers. The people involved were clearly extremely intelligent and knowledgeable, passionate about their rese
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by sdenton4 9mo ago
Independence is ridiculous - the underlying llm models are too similar on their training days and methodologies to be anything like independent. Trying different models may somewhat reduce the dependency, but all have read stack overflow, R
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by sdenton4 9mo ago
The only real problem I could see is if the general purpose microcontroller is significantly more power-hungry than a specialized chip, impacting the battery life of the earbuds. On every other axis, though, it's likely a very clear wi
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by sdenton4 9mo ago
The one true result of education research is that one on one education is vastly more effective than classroom education. While I have no doubt you had good results home schooling, you will almost certainly run into difficulty scaling your
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by sdenton4 9mo ago
This is how we had a major boom in middle-class wealth int he US post WW2. If you are only selling coconuts, a single raw material, yes, you will run into supply constraints such that prices go up. But that isn't how economics works. Y
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by sdenton4 9mo ago
It's a collective action problem. If everyone pays higher wages, there's a greater supply of money for buying stuff / solving problems (assuming the higher wages aren't eaten by rents). No individual form recoups all of

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