tantivy

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by tantivy 3mo ago
You're just looking for the study of rhetoric. LLMs have clustered on certain rhetorical patterns/gestures, probably because of a combination of frequency in input and bias in training. But rhetoric also concerns the logical struc
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by tantivy 6mo ago
Could you explain what you think veganism is or means?
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by tantivy 6mo ago
How many working class people would be happier and less stressed if they had high-quality transit to replace their car bills?
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by tantivy 6mo ago
Cars are enclosed sofas that move around. Could car dominance be contributing to obesity?
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by tantivy 7mo ago
HN has a disproportionate quantity of 23yo founders trying to vibe-code the "Stripe for pickleball gyms" or whatever. Don't fret about it
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by tantivy 7mo ago
Bizarre perspective. Imagine if you were hiring a chef and you found out they mostly do not go in the kitchen?
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by tantivy 7mo ago
Claude has been a big boost to my sense of competency. I get to point out so many poor solutions in slop PRs now
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by tantivy 9mo ago
Electric cars are the savior of the auto industry, not of the climate. It needs to become viable for most people to get around without cars at all. The intensity of their resource consumption, both for manufacture and for infrastructure, in
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by tantivy 9mo ago
I'm often so flustered to be interrupted by yet-another-marketing-modal that I will just close the tab and abandon whatever task, or purchase, I was undertaking. They are actively harmful to my holistic state-of-mind and make me into a
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by tantivy 9mo ago
What about a future where carbon emissions follow the same trend as carbon emissions for the last 50 years
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by tantivy 1y ago
I once tasked an LLM with correcting a badly-OCR'd text, and it went beast mode on that. Like setting an animal finally free in its habitat. But that kind of work won't propel a stock valuation :(
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by tantivy 1y ago
Best I ever feel is when I'm walking 4+ miles daily. The phenotypic human body (not to dismiss any individual's disabilities or idiosyncracies) is top-to-bottom built to walk long distances, and bipedalism is an older trait of our
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by tantivy 2y ago
None of the best or most famous poets of the last two centuries ever made a living off of their poetry. That's not why anyone does it.
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by tantivy 2y ago
What happens in society when every city is filled with the retired rich and zero actual workers?
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by tantivy 2y ago
Hundreds of thousands of people use public transit daily in America. Long headways, poor coverage, and lackluster maintenance budgets are a much more important problem than what you're describing.
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by tantivy 2y ago
This flagged for me right away too. I would be badly surprised if a Map-style chained method mutated the memory of the receiver.
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by tantivy 2y ago
Instant cmd-w from me as well. Our civilization must stop doing this
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by tantivy 2y ago
Vachel Lindsay himself took a couple of long-distance walking tours where he eschewed carrying money and would knock on strangers' doors each night to offer his poetry in exchange for food and shelter. His book about one of these tours
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by tantivy 2y ago
I love Ulysses because of what it says about growing into middle age, facing irresolvable insecurities about yourself, and the solace against these that you can find in friendship—the way you can feel your soul sing when you find someone wh
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by tantivy 2y ago
Many paid ebooks are in a low-quality format too. I've bought Kindle books from real, well-known publishing houses that had obviously not had a single proofreader go through after their OCR. A motivated volunteer would've done s
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by tantivy 3y ago
Sorry, got nothin on me
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by tantivy 4y ago
“Nature” and “natural” are normative terms that commonly distinguish the world altered and created by humans from the world that isn’t altered or created by humans. It’s clear in context that Sakamoto is using the term accurately in a norma
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by tantivy 4y ago
I dunno. It's worth asking, but we're not spoilt for people writing songs like "There's A Place" right out of secondary school. They had the juice.
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by tantivy 8y ago
Raising livestock means using cropland to grow feed. It's hugely less efficient than growing plants for human consumption using the same resources. If you eat meat, have you ever asked yourself why?
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by tantivy 9y ago
Circular reasoning. What kind of evidence can you have for some being "not smart enough" for any arbitrary experience? Nice essay though
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by tantivy 9y ago
Cycling dropping as a share of commuters doesn't tell you that fewer people are cycling. There are also more commuters. Seattle has been rapidly growing, and I'd guess that most new arrivals won't immediately take up cycling
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by tantivy 9y ago
Maybe you've heard of Dota 2 or Overwatch, two massively profitable and popular games with no interactive content behind transactions. EA could have easily just made different cosmetic skins for the USS Enterprise (or whatever) with a
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by tantivy 10y ago
They aren't. From the passage: "That was true as well in the United States itself when it was a much poorer country after World War II and huge numbers of students were able to enter college under the GI bill – a factor in uniquel
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by tantivy 10y ago
It hinges on the interpretation of "indoctrination." I think we colloquially use "indoctrination" to mean teaching people to consciously hear and repeat rote beliefs, aware of them but trained not to question. But Chomsk
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by tantivy 10y ago
The passage from Chomsky explicitly argues that institutions in the USA have been, over the last half century, restructured to indebt and disenfranchise young people while maximizing short-term material gains for the people in charge of tho

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