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by sota_pop 4mo ago
Sturgeon’s Law abounds. I’ve always found that most books within or similar to Ferris’ genre hold a nice message but are 90 fluff. He picks on summarization as the sort circuit and claims the lived experience imbued within his books is th
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by sota_pop 4mo ago
Could it be possible that Zuck has a Llama-shaped magic 8-ball to which he has fully committed himself to “dogfooding” an AI-only strategy to his responsibilities in the company? “[Ll]esus take the wheel”
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by sota_pop 5mo ago
Very cool! Analog mono has a very “Christmas sweater” vibe.
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by sota_pop 5mo ago
I can also relate here, seeking a product review on Sony wh1000x_, Google wrote a nice seeming summary, but scrolling down to some Reddit discussions, stumbled upon a single comment that was very nearly verbatim what the “AI Summary” said,
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by sota_pop 5mo ago
I agree with the sentiment, but native ads i.e. blogs, reviews, articles, etc. that do their best to hide that they’re a sponsored product review have been around for a long time. Admittedly, LLMs WILL make it even more difficult to discern
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by sota_pop 5mo ago
So many questions: Is “the goal of Search” really: “to help you ask _anything_ on your mind”? If “reimagined Search” is “designed to anticipate your intent”, Would it correctly infer my intent to not utilize an agentic approach? Is there an
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by sota_pop 5mo ago
I have been saying this and viscerally reacting to this “contrastive language” for months. it… “hits different”… “Load-bearing” is a new one for me though, yuck.
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by sota_pop 5mo ago
THANK YOU, 1000% agree. I call this style “contrastive language”, and find it viscerally unpleasant. It is a pithy attempt to be overly attention-grabbing and “punchy”. Everything that is (was?) wrong with social media (sic LinkedIn) posts,
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by sota_pop 6mo ago
“Wow, can’t believe our metrics this month, usage is way up! all our users are maxing out their token limits, KPI already achieved for the quarter!”
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by sota_pop 6mo ago
It came to my attention recently how many TOTAL objects currently exist in LEO. And that a study said that due to light deflection of these objects, that the earth’s night sky is an average of 10% brighter than it was in 1980s… although I g
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by sota_pop 6mo ago
That’s fair, the “practically plagiarize” comment was admittedly harsh and quickly written.It’s obviously an allusion to the paper. Nevertheless, referencing the LFR work and merely including a link where the paper is discussed feels a litt
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by sota_pop 6mo ago
How on earth can you write an article that practically plagiarizes the title, mention the paradox, and neither mention mandelbrot nor cite the original paper anywhere!? https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ion-Andronach
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by sota_pop 7mo ago
In what industry do you work?
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by sota_pop 7mo ago
Nice writeup. I’m curious why you went with chromadb and not pgvector. I haven’t built a rag system myself, but I’ve always understood the initial doc parsing to be a major challenge alone, so kudos there! Additionally, I also thought it wa
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by sota_pop 7mo ago
Very much this, it’s all the technical rigour, code debt, and none of controls/reversibility. At least when I report fraud to credit card or my bank, they can stop or undo/chargeback a transaction.
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by sota_pop 7mo ago
I really hope this is a TiST reference.
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by sota_pop 7mo ago
Or actually good (for smartphones…): radial drag so my thumb can slide ergonomically. Have the entire phone UI/UX have a left/right hand setting.
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by sota_pop 7mo ago
Single pushbutton: roll to set volume to random number. > clean, concise, single button
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by sota_pop 7mo ago
An org Microsoft’s size doesn’t do ANYTHING without 2 or 3 focus groups and an executive retreat.
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by sota_pop 7mo ago
> uvex init my_new_slop_project —-describe “make me the bestest saas that will make $1M ARR per day” —-disable_thinking —-disable_slop_scaffolded_feature > uvex add other_slop_project —-disable_peddled_package_recommendations > imp
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by sota_pop 7mo ago
Is this whole concept essentially a fundamental misunderstanding of the difference between "encryption" and "encoding"? I don't mean to be pedantic and don't want to make assumptions due to my respect for the s
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by sota_pop 8mo ago
Is it really oss death if SO many projects are created and shared by individuals that indie dev seems commonplace?
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by sota_pop 8mo ago
This reminds me of a gag voting simulation website from the early 2000s when BushJr was running for president against Al Gore. The (maybe flash?) game simulated voting, but when you tried to click, the buttons would “run away” from the curs
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by sota_pop 8mo ago
I feel I could write a long response to every comment in this thread as notekeeping is something I consider critical. Knowing when to commit to “The capital-N Notebook” is something I’ve struggled with as well. What has been effective for m
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by sota_pop 9mo ago
But this is the way of computer science at large for the last 15-20 years… most new CS students I’ve encountered have spent so much time grinding algorithms and OS classes that they don’t have life experience or awareness to build anything
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by sota_pop 9mo ago
> Slopacolypse Really… REALLY not looking forward to getting this word spammed at me the next 6-12 months… even less so seeing the actual manifestation. > TLDR This should be at the start? I actually have been thinking of trying out
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by sota_pop 9mo ago
This concept comes up a lot, especially on this site. I am sometimes surprised how seldomly it is mentioned by this name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai
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by sota_pop 9mo ago
To use anecdotes of specific influencers or even to cultural short/med-term memes misses the OP’s fundamental point in saying > “this is the future of culture”. The point is that the future of “culture” is increasingly decentralized
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by sota_pop 9mo ago
What an incredible read.
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by sota_pop 10mo ago
I always thought it should be called “ComputING Science” as opposed to “ComputER Science”.

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