staticshock

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by staticshock 8mo ago
The main problem here is that real people operate in fuzzy domains. Snapping them into place "with code" won't magically resolve the gray areas inherent to the most valuable real workflows. Think about the prized "high a
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by staticshock 8mo ago
false; wolfram has been circling the topic of "small yet mighty" rule-based systems for decades, and this is his writing style. if you don't like the topic or the style, you are welcome to move on from it with whatever grace
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by staticshock 8mo ago
"wildly misplaced trust" is a subcategory of "trust", which is exactly how i meant it
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by staticshock 8mo ago
Instead, the approach that will continue increasing in dominance is hiring referrals and finding jobs through personal networks. In a world that increasingly resembles The Library of Babel, - the main way to know what's true is to tune
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by staticshock 9mo ago
You're absolutely right!
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by staticshock 9mo ago
Oh! I stand corrected.
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by staticshock 9mo ago
Yes, the layoffs are a market correction initiated by non-AI factors, such as the end of the ZIRP era. The world is chock-full of important, society-scale problems that have been out of reach because the economics have made them costly to w
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by staticshock 9mo ago
Efficient markets route around bottlenecks. Technological revolutions accelerate the speed at which that re-routing happens. In software, we, the developers , have increasingly been a bottleneck. The world needs WAY more software than we c
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by staticshock 9mo ago
You can just ask ChatGPT what its training cut-off is, and it'll say June 2024.
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by staticshock 9mo ago
It is likewise unreasonable to look down on any kind of world model from the past. Remember that you, in 2026, are benefitting from millions of aggregate improvements to a world model that you've absorbed passively through participatio
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by staticshock 9mo ago
I don't see a CLI tool in the Typescript repo.
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What's going on here, with this human?(grahamduncan.blog)
2 points by staticshock 10mo ago|0 comments
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by staticshock 10mo ago
i used to use last.fm with winamp and the like. that needed scrobbling plugins. nowadays, i use it with spotify, and it's pretty simple: (1) make an account on last.fm. (2) go into spotify settings → social → connected apps, and add it
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by staticshock 10mo ago
Direct quote from RJ Scaringe, founder/CEO of Rivian: > This is a decision. It's generated, I said there's many millions of decisions, many of them will never get noticed and they're just under the surface. One of tho
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by staticshock 11mo ago
economic value is distinct from social value. the former can be used to describe small groups (e.g. criminals who benefit from a crime), while the latter can be used to describe the negative sum relationship between criminals and their vict
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by staticshock 1y ago
Unfortunately we bozos just aren't that imaginative :'(
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by staticshock 1y ago
This seems obviously wrong? Any system whose name includes the word "forecast" was built to predict the future in some domain / over some time horizon / to some level of granularity.
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by staticshock 1y ago
Have you ever tried to submit a PR of your Makefile to the maintainers of, say, an open source npm package? If you have, what compelling story were you able to tell about that Makefile that got the maintainers to merge your PR? And after th
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by staticshock 1y ago
nope, this is Mira Murati's thinking machines. she used to be the CTO of OpenAI, but started her own thing once she [I think] realized that she was missing out on the gold rush by staying there.
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by staticshock 1y ago
I do this and like it: https://github.com/staticshock/dotfiles/blob/main/Makefile I also tend to put a Makefile into the root of any repo I work in (ignored via .git/info/exclude), so that shel
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by staticshock 1y ago
Arc's fluid transition between tabs, bookmarks, and favorites was excellent UX. It finally helped me tame 100s of open tabs by helping me treat "apps" as distinct from "pages". Every new browser should be doing som
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by staticshock 1y ago
Some churn is fads, but some is legitimate (e.g. "we know how to do this better now".) Every living system is bound to churn, and that's a good thing, because it means we're learning how to do things better. I'm hap
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by staticshock 1y ago
The spirit of this post is great. There are real lessons here that the industry will struggle to absorb until we reach the next stage of the AI hype cycle (the trough of disillusionment.) However, I could not help but get caught up on this
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by staticshock 1y ago
i tend to draft everything lowercase, and then go back and uppercase things depending on how much of a formal vibe i'm going for. capitalization rarely helps me formulate an idea, and so my writing often splits into phases: (1) formula
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by staticshock 1y ago
I'd love a version of this where I can paste my full list of extensions, instead of a box where I can only paste one. The latter is tedious, so I'm not that likely to do it.
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by staticshock 1y ago
I think this is best seen as an art project, not as a business idea. I'm also assuming that the cost to run such an app are near zero, so the break-even cost would probably be, like, one person a month generating one new thing.
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by staticshock 1y ago
Confusingly, the about page suggests that this is an AI-driven storytelling app: https://www.thiings.co/about . Maybe that's a vestige of prior iteration of the app, though. The concept minds me of the million dollar ho
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by staticshock 1y ago
In addition to having the money, Google also needs the incentive to spend that money on such projects. If the perceived return on capital is low (or negative!), the incentive is simply not there.
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by staticshock 1y ago
Because it got voted up by people who found it interesting
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by staticshock 1y ago
As a rule of thumb, when the pause between two adjacent sentences implied by the period seems a bit too halting, try a semicolon. I find it easier to think about the utility of semicolons from the perspective of individual sentences to be

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