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by smokel 11mo ago
There is a difference between wanting to make money and wanting to have money. If you understand the difference, it is often painfully obvious that most of us are in the last boat. If you want something, you would typically be doing it alre
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by smokel 11mo ago
Google Antigravity is subject to these additional terms of service. Under "Use restrictions" it states: You may not use the Services to develop machine-learning models or related technology. Taken literally, this appears to pro
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by smokel 11mo ago
Marvel and enjoy.
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by smokel 11mo ago
The source for that being OpenAI itself. Seems a bit unlikely, especially if it intends to mean unique users.
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by smokel 1y ago
If you're more into videos, be sure to check out Stefano Ermon's CS236 Deep Generative Models [1]. All lectures are available on YouTube [2]. [1] https://deepgenerativemodels.github.io/ [2] https://m.yo
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by smokel 1y ago
Is this what you mean? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45250759 (In the context of "Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content")
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by smokel 1y ago
Still, I would not trust that. The password could be leaked through other means, for example by setting a timer, and exfiltrating fragments of it across future requests. The website loads some external fonts and spits out many warnings in
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by smokel 1y ago
One could say the same about these kinds of comments. If you don't like the content, simply don't read it? And to add something constructive: the timeframes for enjoying a hype cycle differ from person to person. If you are on t
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by smokel 1y ago
You mention somewhere else that the lectures you watched were from 2008. That was probably at the height of the replication crisis . I'd suggest to look into more recent research, and/or to simply discard all this knowledge as
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by smokel 1y ago
> First, let’s establish our benchmark: job postings dropped 8% in 2025 compared to the same period in 2024. Indeed reported a 7.3% year-over-year decline for US jobs recently, so this was a good sanity check, and told me that my data m
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by smokel 1y ago
Cursor can use the Claude Sonnet and Claude Opus LLMs, so I would expect output to be quite similar in that respect. The agentic part of the equation is improving on both sides all the time.
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by smokel 1y ago
It doesn't come close to InDesign, but for some purposes Scribus [1] might be a viable alternative. I use it (in combination with a lot of Python scripting) to produce a printed diary every year. [1] https://www.scribus.net
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by smokel 1y ago
I tried quite a lot. I've come to the conclusion that thinking (and logic) is probably some pattern that only seems interesting to itself. (Yes, I am aware of the otherwise nonsensical concepts "pattern" and "interestin
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by smokel 1y ago
But where does logic exist in, then? Does it not need consistency to be useful? And what causes the consistency? It's turtles all the way down.
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by smokel 1y ago
Once the notion of objective truth is relinquished, what ontological or epistemic status remains for reasoning itself? Is it to be understood as a pragmatic construct, or as something with deeper necessity beyond empiricism?
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by smokel 1y ago
It might be empirically sound, but it does not make a priori sense that exercising a body will improve it. If I use almost any object in the universe frequently, it typically degrades rather than improves. The health benefits of exercise ar
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by smokel 1y ago
Perhaps they are, but what does that tell you? Note that you'd also have to be somewhat more precise as to what the "state" and "next state" are. It is likely that the state is everything that enters the brain (i.e
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by smokel 1y ago
Interestingly, this is the case in Chrome, but in Firefox both React and Backbone exhibit the same behaviour.
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by smokel 1y ago
The puzzle applies only to convex polyhedra.
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by smokel 1y ago
It is indeed a disaster waiting to happen. Figuring out a way to run agents safely is apparently a harder problem than getting to AGI :)
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by smokel 1y ago
Off-topic, but it would be great if everyone who voiced their opinion on something would add a small disclaimer with their actual knowledge about the subject. Thanks for sharing :)
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by smokel 1y ago
If you enjoy this kind of trend forecasting, you might also be interested in seeing which colors are expected to dominate clothing stores this winter: https://www.pantone.com/articles/fashion-color-trend-report/...
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by smokel 1y ago
The article raises several interesting points, but I find its claim that Claude Code relies primarily on grep for code search unconvincing. It's clear that Claude Code can parse and reason about code structure, employing techniques fa
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by smokel 1y ago
For most serious texts I start with a tree outline, before I engage my literary skills.
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by smokel 1y ago
Technical competence and an interest in sociological development do not always coincide. Technology often seeks simplicity, whereas sociology examines inherently complex human behavior.
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by smokel 1y ago
Whether something is important or unimportant is something that only humans, and possibly some animals, and possibly some AI, can reason about. Most of the universe does not reason, and does not think that things are important or not. Impo
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by smokel 1y ago
Extreme price points, not honest service. It's all fairly hypothetical. I don 't know exactly where you'd like the discussion to go. In reality things are always more complicated. I just think that it is a generally a g
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by smokel 1y ago
I'm not a plumber, but I think the analogy would require the plumber to be strategical about every job they take on. Within a few months, our plumber would only be plumbing for millionaires, installing golden faucets at extreme price
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by smokel 1y ago
ThoughtWorks gathers this phenomenon under the term "envy": Web Scale envy [1] or Big Data envy [2] are two relevant blips on their technology radar. It is typically better to keep things simple. [1] https://www.though
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by smokel 1y ago
Etymology to the rescue. "Valid" and "value" share a root, and so do "verify" and "verity." You validate something to see if it has value, meaning it works and is fit for purpose. You verify it to

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