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by semilin 2mo ago
Anyone who believes the objective quality of the end result is the sole end goal of all tasks will have no self worth when technology surpasses them. This is true for essentially any task, because there is almost no end result that cannot b
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by semilin 2mo ago
For small projects and hobby-programming, OpenCode Go is great, and its model performance is quite strong in my experience. Every time it's mentioned, there are people loudly claiming that it has terrible, quantized models, though thi
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by semilin 2mo ago
Looking the same is not itself the problem. This is a same-looking that indicates a lack of human thought underlying it. That is a problem, and it is concerning to me if one does not think this.
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by semilin 2mo ago
What a rude approach! I will always prefer the more classic and civilized way of waiting for the dictionary to invent new words for me to use.
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by semilin 4mo ago
Why? LLMs are not humans.
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by semilin 4mo ago
Or you could have read it more closely before posting a comment saying it didn't make sense. You know, the old school way.
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by semilin 4mo ago
What does this have to do with Vim?
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by semilin 4mo ago
They can be in the training set but not deliberately trained for. There may be a lot of people posting pelican svgs, but not typically because they're high quality and worth replicating.
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by semilin 4mo ago
Absolutely. While we're at it, why should asbestos be regulated? You can just not go in buildings that have it.
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by semilin 4mo ago
"Nuanced discussion" doesn't necessarily mean the sort one would have with a human. Statistical apologies are never going to be meaningful. One could edit nonsense into the context window and the model would attempt to ration
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by semilin 4mo ago
This is entirely irrelevant. The problem is that anybody can make a Microsoft Form and there's no obvious indication that it's a form from Github without digging around.
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by semilin 5mo ago
Those are just hyphens, actually. En dashes are for ranges (e.g., 1–4, which is admittedly hard to distinguish from 1-4), not compound words. Point stands though—LLMs do love compound words and dashes in general.
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by semilin 5mo ago
It is upsetting. Is it worth surrendering one's practice of thinking and communicating effectively in order to resist corporate overreach? Or is such a neglect doomed to result in the very problem of passivity that this post pushes bac
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by semilin 5mo ago
"${name}: ${features.join(", ")}" This is in the very first example you see on the site. If it's a mistake, that's not encouraging. If this is actually how the language works, that's even less encouraging
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by semilin 6mo ago
It felt very strange to me that the author construes belief in the hard problem as some sort of spiritual baggage from unempirical religious view. He seems to want to pit the "new understandings of reality developed over the last three
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by semilin 8mo ago
There's an irony to people repeating this claim without even having read the Phaedrus. If they had, they'd understand that the concern with writing was that it was not able to respond as a human in dialogue. One could think that
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by semilin 8mo ago
It's especially hard to express "happiness" across languages. It's a word that is hard to define and generally has no perfect synonyms between languages. It ranges broadly from "present feeling of contentment"
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by semilin 8mo ago
Your ellipsis leaves out the answer to your question. The paragraph is contrasting "ChatGPT says" which is annoying, but transparent (as LMGTFY), with "sloppypasta" which includes no such indicator. Admittedly, the parag
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by semilin 9mo ago
It can be both. I went through a very similar experience with school -- it was miserably boring to me, and I found solace in valuable and educational experiences I sought out myself at home. In this way I empathize strongly and I agree that
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by semilin 9mo ago
Short stories. At my high school (from which I graduated a few years ago) practically no one read anything assigned. Yet I observed in a short story class I took that at least the majority of students consistently read the stories, and this
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by semilin 9mo ago
This is reductive. It's true that interest conquers inattention, but the attention span crisis really represents a prioritization of exploitation over exploration. That is to say that many people are far less able to seek value in thin
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by semilin 9mo ago
If you really care about something, screen addiction does not interfere. A friend of mine has a terrible Instagram addiction, yet has developed for himself a certain degree of cinephilia lately -- we've watched long movies together in
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by semilin 10mo ago
To be fair, the alt-input is a generalized system for inputting Unicode characters outside the set keyboard layout. So it's not like they added this input specifically. Still, the em dash really should have an easier input method given
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by semilin 10mo ago
I think it's mainly a matter of clarity as long embedded clauses without obvious visual delimiting can be hard to read and thus are discouraged in professional writing aiming for ease of reading from a wide audience. LLMs are trained o
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by semilin 10mo ago
As it stands I don't know what this poll means. Does "No AI" mean that generative AI should never be used or offered? Does "Yes AI" mean that generative AI should be used for everything all the time? One might accus
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Translating Cave Story into Classical Latin with Gemini(semilin.dev)
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by semilin 10mo ago
Also consider Aristotle who recognized the habituative nature of the self much earlier.
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by semilin 10mo ago
I'm not intending to say it's acceptable for professors to use AI entirely in their grading. They obviously ought to contribute. I realize I actually misread your original comment, thinking of "instructor can have AI do his j
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by semilin 10mo ago
Too bad. The premise should be that the instructor, by nature of having the position, already has understanding of the subject. As a student, you do not, and your goal is to gain it. Prompting an LLM to write a response for you does not bui
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by semilin 10mo ago
I think this points to the only real sustainable solution: make it so that students would prefer to do real work. We have seen for ages the distinction between seeming and being in regards to verbal understanding blurred. LLMs are only an a

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