sharkjacobs

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by sharkjacobs 7mo ago
Yes I agree. And I think that joining OpenAI will probably change their priorities, and that sucks.
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by sharkjacobs 7mo ago
Congrats to the Astral team, they've done great work and deserve everything. As a user of uv who was hoping it would be a long term stable predictable uninteresting part of my toolchain this sucks, right?
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by sharkjacobs 7mo ago
I'm not from Texas or California but it doesn't intuitively feel true to me that Texans are better at investing and saving for retirement. According to the first relevant search result I can find https://www.cnbc.com&#x
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by sharkjacobs 7mo ago
Sometimes a bug is indistinguishable from AB testing
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by sharkjacobs 7mo ago
I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around how this can scale beyond trivial programs like simplified FizzBuzz.
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by sharkjacobs 7mo ago
You're subtly shifting the framing to defend doing something different than the post describes. It makes it kind of unclear if you don't understand the difference between using CC to "investigate the codebase" so you can
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by sharkjacobs 7mo ago
My phone is littered with apps like these, which seem well designed to address a very specific problem which I don't have very often. The problem is remembering the app's there 3 or 6 or 9 or 18 months later when it would actually
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by sharkjacobs 7mo ago
Would you be assuaged if it was titled "Ad-tech is police state tech"?
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by sharkjacobs 7mo ago
> Blanchard's account is that he never looked at the existing source code directly. He fed only the API and the test suite to Claude and asked it to reimplement the library from scratch This feels sort of like saying "I just bl
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by sharkjacobs 7mo ago
I think that there were and are a lot of different DEI programs with lots of different targets and goals and that the people who were not "uplifted", either by any single specific program, or all of them in aggregate, do not make
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by sharkjacobs 7mo ago
Are you just talking hypothetically about an abstract harm that might occur in an imaginary world or do you think that's what DEI is?
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by sharkjacobs 7mo ago
There's this weird race where I have in my head some level of LLM performance which is "good enough" and the open models keep improving to that level, but by the time that they do my "good enough" has acclimatized t
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by sharkjacobs 7mo ago
I'll genuinely miss it getting dark at 4PM. Winter won't be the same.
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by sharkjacobs 8mo ago
Urban trees in Montreal (and presumably other cities) only survive through the summer because of the water they get from leaky pipes. > Maple trees drink about 50 litres of water every day, and it seems some of their hydration is coming
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by sharkjacobs 8mo ago
NNW is like a river stone tumbled smooth and with enough weight that it feels good in your hand
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by sharkjacobs 8mo ago
It was a victory that the teenage pregnancy rates plummeted during the 90's in my small town high school, but when I was there there was still a real drive to discourage kids from having kids, and I internalized the idea that "hav
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by sharkjacobs 8mo ago
> on July 26, CIA was officially born. Just a few months later, on October 1, CIA assumed all responsibility for the JANIS basic intelligence program. Shortly thereafter, JANIS was renamed the National Intelligence Survey (NIS), but cont
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by sharkjacobs 8mo ago
No, the World Factbook has been totally taken down. If you try to go to a page, e.g. the entry for Canada[1] it redirects to the statement[2] which the article does cite. That's all that's left online of it, there's nothing e
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by sharkjacobs 8mo ago
Yes, I too hate copyright law
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by sharkjacobs 8mo ago
Most people in my social circles are various flavours of anti-AI, and it drives me crazy how many of them, who were once stridently anti-copyright, are now using copyright as one of the great pillars of AI opposition
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by sharkjacobs 9mo ago
Has MacOS ever been better than Windows for allowing fine grained control over system services? I've been a Mac user for my entire life so maybe I didn't understand what things were like with Windows, but the fundamental problem i
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by sharkjacobs 9mo ago
The other thing about phones is that you have your old phone with you when you buy a new one, so without even really meaning to you're probably doing a side by side direct comparison and improvements to display technology are a much bi
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by sharkjacobs 9mo ago
It takes a certain amount of expertise to use LLMs effectively. And I know that some people claim otherwise but they simply aren't worth listening to. Just because Claude Cowork is for "other" kinds of work, not just software
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by sharkjacobs 9mo ago
It might matter that Nvidia sells graphics cards and Apple sells computers and computer-like devices with cases and peripherals and displays and software and services. TSMC is responsible for a much larger proportion of Nvidia's produc
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by sharkjacobs 9mo ago
Yeah, I want the Paul's Boutique of AI music, but I'm not interested in wading through the AI equivalent of a hundred thousand acoustic guitar covers of Wonderwall
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by sharkjacobs 9mo ago
It's not just the tech industry, this is a fundamental feature of humans as social animals. https://knowyourmeme.com/videos/433740-just-coffee-black > want to feel normal, to walk around and see that most other
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by sharkjacobs 9mo ago
That's why it's the dream. I mean, even if it's just a pastiche machine, I do believe that people could use it to make new and interesting music, just like they did with sampling. But yeah, music is so accessible and there is
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by sharkjacobs 9mo ago
> an alternative to Spotify’s increasingly AI-slop platform > Boom we did: https://hangout.fm/ clicks link, scrolls down one screen > Let’s get something started! Create your own hangout or craft a new song >
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by sharkjacobs 9mo ago
I'm not ideologically opposed to making music with AI, but the dream would be new songs which which showcase the new sounds and musical forms that AI enables, like Believe for autotune, or Rumble for electric guitar, or Autobahn for sy
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by sharkjacobs 9mo ago
Any metric that can be targeted can be gamed

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