solomonb

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by solomonb 9mo ago
The Corn Demon is alive and well in 2026.
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Such an incredible essay (and book) and author. I highly recommend all of her essay writing. She captures the dark death of the California hippy era in a captivating and beautiful way. Whenever I drive up the 5 leaving Los Angeles I get thi
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That its impossible to find an oil can with a zerk fitting. I need one for my bridgeport that uses zerks for oil and not grease.
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by solomonb 9mo ago
https://blog.cofree.coffee
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I write Haskell professionally and I can tell you that Opus 4.5 can do a great writing industrial Haskell code consistent with an existing code base. I don't think it is capable of writing galaxy brain Haskell libraries, it absolutely
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by solomonb 9mo ago
> But it could be that different programming languages are a bit like different human languages for these models: when they have more than some threshold of training data, they can express their general problem solving skills in any of t
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by solomonb 9mo ago
You are right that there is significantly more Javascript in the training data, but I can say from experience that I'm a little shocked at how well opus 4.5 has been for me writing Haskell. I'm fairly particular and I end up re-wr
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I'm biased by my preferred style of programming languages but I think that pure statically typed functional languages are incredibly well suited for LLMs. The purity gives you referential transparency and static analysis powers that th
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by solomonb 9mo ago
Still working on my new LPFM radio station https://www.kpbj.fm We are a 501c(3) and are actively fundraising to build a tower here in Shadow Hills and are launching our live stream and regular schedule February 1st. So far we ha
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> But your argument could be made against anything novel. What matters IMO is the lack substance not the quantity of novelty. Your chosen television show examples demonstrate that pretty well IMO.
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I hear you but I think you are simply asking for an entirely different blog post. I don't think Verity's aim here is to give an introduction to `Selective`, but rather to introduce a formalization for it; something which has been
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Both are responses to a miss-interpretation of my original comment (which I will grant is at least in part my fault).
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We are operating deep in the grey area here so I suppose that case could be made. Personally, I see creativity as more of a life long process which can express itself in a multitude of ways including strokes of genius and the daily iterativ
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by solomonb 9mo ago
Did you really interpret my statement as "AI content producers are being so creative and then quitting posting"? I'm not talking about people posting good content and then stopping posting. I guess its fair to say that "
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I'm very sympathetic to this view, and it would be a nice counter to claims of AI creativity, but I'm not convinced this is the only way creativity can express itself. There are examples of strokes of genius, hence the term. I sup
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what does any of that have to do with my comment?
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There are a bunch of these scifi world building short video channels now. IMO they all seem really creative initially but rapidly lose their luster and become repetitive. Sora makes the hard parts easy and the easy parts hard. I don't
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Hopefully! Supposedly it is pretty locked down but I'm hopeful there is a way to get other apps onto it.
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Why are you trying to make fun of me?
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I pay for parking with quarters or a credit card. If necessary I use a piece of paper for maps. For music I have an ipod.
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by solomonb 9mo ago
Wow I wish they had announced this sooner. I just ordered a keyphone but this looks way more suited to my use case. I just want a basic feature phone + qwerty keyboard + signal + whats app. I've been using a lightphone for 3 years but
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by solomonb 10mo ago
Psychiatric disorders are leaky abstractions.
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And ADHD meds seem like they would be helpful for studying.. How and where do we draw the line who gets and needs additional support?
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> Quite the opposite actually. certain live coding languages give you the tools to create extremely complex patterns I think I must not be expressing myself well. These tools seem to be optimized for parametric pattern manipulation. You
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I'm not saying anything negative about repetitive music. I'm saying that tools like live coding are going to constrain the kind of music you can produce reasonably.
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No one in this thread is saying quantization is never appropriate.
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yes exactly, and when I say "quantization of every dimension of composition" I mean an application of quantization to every aspect of composition not just pitch and rhythm.
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100% agree. I think this format of composition is going to encourage a highly repetitive structure to your music. Good programming languages constrain and prevent the construction of bad programs. Applying that to music is effectively going
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> more or less does that exact exercise for you at a press of a button. Well it would give you a similar final artifact but it wouldn't be doing the exercise at all.
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In college I had a professor assign us to write a 100% plagiarized paper. You had to highlight every word in a color associated with the source. You couldn't plagiarize more then one sequential sentence from a single source. It ended u

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