stephendause

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by stephendause 3y ago
It's very interesting to me that you say that because it hasn't been my experience. I am working in a ~20k-50k SLOC codebase with a few common patterns, and it seems to have picked up on most of them. It's not always right, b
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by stephendause 3y ago
Happiness is not the only important thing. Fulfillment, meaning, and purpose are important, too.
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by stephendause 3y ago
That's a good point. Still, I think that's different from an AI agent attending a meeting "for you" as a surrogate. If I were in a meeting where someone sent their personal AI assistant instead of attending, I would be i
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by stephendause 3y ago
Agreed. Surely the authors don't mean that stories qua stories make you stupid. The love of your own stories combined with confirmation bias, perhaps.
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by stephendause 3y ago
eh, I don't know. Cursive is pretty rare nowadays. You also in my opinion do not really need the capital letters, and many of them look like their lowercase counterparts, but I take your point. I definitely think English can be tricky
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by stephendause 3y ago
My guess is a lot of it. The 25% number is meaningless because they're not comparing to the proper baseline. Anecdotally, I was in Berlin last year, and there was a similar product, and locals said not that many people were taking adva
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by stephendause 3y ago
I think the use of "sir" depends on the person's background culture. If you're from the US, it's probably too formal unless you're in the military or something, but other cultures place a higher value on respec
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by stephendause 3y ago
I certainly don't think you have to, and I don't think that's what Graham is saying, either. For those who are ambitious/do seek "greatness" in some form, though, I think this is a good article.
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by stephendause 3y ago
> Primarily, what I’ve learned is that Wayland is actually really well-designed. The writing is on the wall for X, and Wayland really is the future. Hmm. The first sentence does not imply the second is true. I wonder what it would take t
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by stephendause 3y ago
Thank you for this detailed comment, which does a much better job in my opinion of critiquing the substance of the article than many others. If I may: > I think most of the arguments the author makes against worrying about superintellige
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by stephendause 3y ago
I agree that it seems kind of invalid but only kind of. Any site that has an editorial policy and/or a ranking algorithm for what gets more views will have some forms of bias. I agree that in the case of reddit, it makes sense to evalu
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by stephendause 3y ago
What about this makes it a pain point? Is it the amount of time that it takes to deal with cheating, the inability to effectively punish the behavior, the impact it has on the professors' (and perhaps some students') morale, or so
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by stephendause 3y ago
Hmm; I would think a better definition would include a description of the behavior as being greater than the sum of its parts. I can imagine abilities and behaviors being in the training data but not exhibited by a smaller LLM but being pr
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by stephendause 3y ago
> Use a language with good compile speeds. This is an interesting suggestion to me. Honestly, I consider a lot of other things like type safety and ergonomics of the language before I think about compile speed if at all. However, that&#x
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by stephendause 3y ago
Yes, that would be a good way of doing it.
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by stephendause 3y ago
Is it just me, or does the PR experience with Github leave a lot to be desired? Unlike some, I don't have a problem with the concept of a PR per se, but I frequently find navigating the various conversations in my PRs more difficult t
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by stephendause 3y ago
Do you have a source for that claim?
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by stephendause 3y ago
Re: your last sentence, I'm fairly certain this would fall under the category of neuro-symbolic AI. It, too, seems to me like the logical next step. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-symbolic_AI
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by stephendause 3y ago
I believe the relevant assertion is > Based on my understanding of the approach behind ChatGPT, it is probably very close to a local maximum in terms of intelligence To me that is an open question. OpenAI has not revealed a lot of the re
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by stephendause 4y ago
I have tried GPT-3.5 and 4. There is a marked difference. (I have used it do what I think of as simple but nontrivial programming tasks, asked it for recommendations for various products, etc.) GPT-4 still fails for me regularly but not
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by stephendause 4y ago
This is a very informative insight; thanks for this and your other comment.
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by stephendause 4y ago
So when you are speeding, you are endangering people and property on the road. The amount of danger is proportional to the time you spend speeding among other things. With the falsification of business records, the situation does not seem a
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by stephendause 4y ago
I don't know. I assume at least one is.
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by stephendause 4y ago
Yes, it is normal. I was talking about the method of counting. I suppose one has to pick something, and the number of checks written is as good as any other metric. I do think that it is a little disanalogous to speeding because it is the s
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by stephendause 4y ago
Interesting that they chose to go for 34 separate counts of the same thing, falsifying business records in the first degree. It seems to me that the punishment for a crime should be proportional to the amount of damage done, and how many c
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by stephendause 4y ago
Are you saying that you don't suffer (or at least consciously feel the effects of) cognitive fatigue? If I am interested in something, I like to focus on it for quite a while, but after enough time passes, I just can't any more. I
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by stephendause 4y ago
Suppose I write a unique and deeply technical textbook on a subject. Someone could buy that book, read it, become an expert on that subject, and then profit from that expertise. This is all well and good. One of the things that makes ChatGP
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by stephendause 4y ago
> libraries, frameworks, and paradigms evolve so rapidly in the web Speaking of that issue, wasn't GPT-3 trained with data that doesn't go past 2021? Won't this be an issue for any AI assistant using GPT-3 to write code?
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by stephendause 4y ago
One that I have been thinking about lately is the `QEnumComboBox` [1]. It takes the concept of a combobox (i.e. drop down list/`select`) and combines it with a python `Enum` to produce a very commonly desired functionality: allowing t
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by stephendause 4y ago
Cool! Do you have any Web programming experience? If so, how would you compare/contrast the experience coding in Qt vs. JavaScript? I have ~1-2 years of experience programming in each, and I tend to prefer Qt because to me, it seems ea

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