taylorlapeyre

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The Catherine Project(catherineproject.org)
4 points by taylorlapeyre 2mo ago|0 comments
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by taylorlapeyre 3mo ago
Well, LLMs have an obscene amount of context built into their weights about Ruby on Rails, and can work within it extremely quickly.
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by taylorlapeyre 6mo ago
The infrastructure piece is what they do best. I'd be happy if Anthropic became the AWS of AI. But this product is just a mediocre shot at Figma, when no such shot is strictly necessary for them. These kinds of consumer products are no
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by taylorlapeyre 6mo ago
If that is what they are optimizing for, then they are not doing a great job on that either. Their latest model is more expensive and less impressive, their downtime is abysmal by any comparison, their "Dispatch" product is unwork
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by taylorlapeyre 6mo ago
It really feels like Anthropic's product area is extremely overextended at this point. If they want to extend themselves horizontally in an unlimited fashion, they will need unlimited focus, and agents can't supply that. Things wi
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by taylorlapeyre 8mo ago
Sex is not like other subjects, it is peculiarly liable to harm, obsess, distract us. Sexual content is uniquely powerful in its ability to reduce human beings to objects for use, and having the ability to generate endless amounts of it com
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by taylorlapeyre 10mo ago
I've recently read the great moral philosopher Alisdair MacIntyre's book "After Virtue", and in it he defines a "practice" as: > "any coherent and complex form of socially established cooperative human
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by taylorlapeyre 10mo ago
Wait — isn't that exactly what good investors do? They look for what stocks are going to beat expectations and invest in them. If a stock broker I hired got this return, I wouldn't be rolling my eyes and saying "that's o
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by taylorlapeyre 10mo ago
The post mentions why - Bun eventually wanted to provide some sort of cloud-hosting saas product.
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by taylorlapeyre 1y ago
It once again completely fails on an extremely simple test: look at a screenshot of sheet music, and tell me what the notes are. Producing a MIDI file for it (unsurprisingly) was far beyond its capabilities. https://chatgpt.com&#
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by taylorlapeyre 1y ago
yes, certainly
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by taylorlapeyre 1y ago
I agree with you. Is it perhaps because of his religious background (he was a Catholic priest)? For much of the last couple decades, there has been an anti-religious streak in the educational mainstream universities.
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Classical Theism(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by taylorlapeyre 1y ago|0 comments
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by taylorlapeyre 1y ago
Any God, as long as it's not a being/creature. Thankfully there's only one of those! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_theism
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by taylorlapeyre 1y ago
I agree, but with a caveat about ice cream trucks specifically. If they park in one spot and play the same jingle very loudly for hours on end (say, three to four hours in one location outside of your home), it is in fact insanely maddening
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by taylorlapeyre 1y ago
The deep-ocean vent south of Antarctica is real but small, on the order of a few-tenths Pg C yr⁻¹. The claim that it could double atmospheric CO₂ exaggerates the flux by three orders of magnitude relative to observed values and known physic
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by taylorlapeyre 1y ago
Paul, I’m begging you to read the Gorgias!
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by taylorlapeyre 1y ago
People really avoid considering what the word "general" implies. Yesterday I tried sending o3 a screenshot of some sheet music, asking for a midi file of how it sounds. Complete failure x3. Could not even get the value of the firs
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by taylorlapeyre 1y ago
Well deserved, in my opinion. I often think about the fact that they spent 5 years (2012-2016) building essentially a brand-new graphics editor entirely in the browser way before Web Assembly was a thing that people knew about, all before e
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Figma Files for IPO(cnbc.com)
9 points by taylorlapeyre 1y ago|3 comments
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by taylorlapeyre 2y ago
What is a "late interpretation" in your view? What time period exactly? Job has been read as a story that directly dialogues on the possibility of faith and trust in God in the face of evil for millennia. See The Babylonian Talmud
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by taylorlapeyre 2y ago
A toddler dying of cancer falls under the category of "natural evil" (as opposed to moral evil, in which an intention or will is involved). You're correct to say that natural evil can sometimes be difficult to explain in a pe
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by taylorlapeyre 2y ago
Technically correct, but quite misleading. The idea of "trust in God" or "faithfulness" is completely central to Job. The story doesn't concern itself with "doctrinal faith", but it implicitly discusses &q
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by taylorlapeyre 2y ago
This is one of three major answers to the problem of Theodicy (justifying God in the face of evil) in Christian theology. They are: 1. Pedagogical (the one you mentioned) - Evil exists so that we may grow and learn. All evil will be used to
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by taylorlapeyre 2y ago
I wonder what would a ceremony like this look like before the era of cameras broadcasting every move to the entire planet simultaneously. It does seem like a lot of this is performative in the “showtime” sense, and I wonder if the character
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Notion Mail(notion.so)
3 points by taylorlapeyre 2y ago|4 comments
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by taylorlapeyre 2y ago
Yes! I often put it like this: education/reading is about formation, not just information.
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by taylorlapeyre 2y ago
By default, Figma will not using organizations' data to train.
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by taylorlapeyre 2y ago
They are extremely nice compact SUVs (Jaguars), extremely nice interiors with displays (like Teslas) that show the entire surrounding area with visualizations of what the car can see, you can choose music and air conditioning, and the drivi
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by taylorlapeyre 2y ago
Living here for the last 10 years, it's been jarring how just in the last few years, driverless taxis went from "it'll never happen" to "is this the default now?" The Waymos are genuinely good drivers. I look f

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