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by thom 1y ago
The falcon listens credulously to far too many falconers.
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by thom 1y ago
I've built quite a lot of functionality on top of Clojure's version of this. For deeply nested stuff it's great, necessary even. But for shallow sequences where you're mostly doing complex logic looking back and forth, I
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by thom 1y ago
One of the most delightful products I've ever owned. Almost perfect UX (to this day my wife and I refer to fast forwarding as 'bi-bipping' in reference to TiVo's sound effects), and there was a time when coming home to a
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by thom 1y ago
Well, ironically you then have the issue of how to present your database schema (including important things like the values in some categorical fields) to the LLM and in what format, so you never really escape this issue.
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by thom 1y ago
Yup, similar number of slaves too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_Roman_Empire https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/country-studie...
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by thom 1y ago
Sorry for your loss.
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by thom 1y ago
Shouting into the void no doubt, but there are few things in life that make me more disappointed than people extending that first note in the first cello suite. The prelude is a thing of such crystalline beauty and I have no problem with yo
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by thom 1y ago
We moved house recently and I bought some new knives for the kitchen. My wife is now constantly cutting herself because she has no intuition for how sharp a knife should be. I can’t really imagine what the safety argument is against dull kn
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by thom 1y ago
The world’s best portable Linux/DOS workstation!
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by thom 1y ago
I still have great affection for Midnight Commander, like Norton Commander before it. I used to use the latter to initiate a parallel cable connection to my brother's computer for Doom deathmatches, pretty cool for a file manager. For
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by thom 1y ago
An existing trained LLM is an enormous amount of 'data' however it might be encoded. AlphaZero didn't start with Stockfish or a database of games.
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by thom 1y ago
For values of zero quite far above zero.
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by thom 1y ago
Yeah trying to make well-researched buying decisions for example is really hard because you'll just quite a lot of opinions dominated by marketing material, which aren't well counterbalanced by the sort of angry Reddit posts or Yo
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by thom 1y ago
The sad fact is that having worked in big companies, it really does seem essential to "facilitate stakeholder alignment across cross-functional workstreams" at all sorts of different levels. Maybe these are bullshit jobs, and cert
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The Death of the Corporate Job(thestillwandering.substack.com)
3 points by thom 1y ago|1 comments
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by thom 1y ago
Shout to anyone whose parents took away their modem cable after an IRC-induced £300 monthly phone bill.
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by thom 1y ago
Perhaps because of the domains I work in I continue to find bitemporality completely uninteresting. Stop trying to make fetch-as-of happen.
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by thom 1y ago
In their defence, your boss is probably getting pressure from the board level to define their AI strategy. A partner at a VC company sitting on that board is in turn getting pressure to find synergies between their larger portfolio companie
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by thom 1y ago
We were all self-facilitating media nodes back then.
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by thom 1y ago
Many years ago the agency I worked for was tasked with delivering a new website for a major UK brand. The hipster London marketing agency we had to work alongside pushed so many garish ideas that I ended up creating a jQuery plugin called &
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by thom 1y ago
Deciding what colour it should be.
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by thom 1y ago
Materialize.com and Snowflake have pretty reliable incremental materialised views now, with caveats that aren’t back breaking. If you can transform in SQL rather than having to build a whole new pipeline or microservice to do the work that’
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by thom 1y ago
They don’t sell an editor, they sell editing.
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Stupidity as a Service(lawrenc.es)
1 points by thom 1y ago|0 comments
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by thom 1y ago
I suppose the question is whether the only way to educate good programmers is for them to spend time as a (possibly net-negative) apprentice in an enterprise job. Perhaps under the watchful and patient gaze of future AIs, they're able
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by thom 1y ago
Annoyed every other IRC user though.
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by thom 1y ago
You're born, you live, you die. There, I have freed you from the rest of this mortal coil.
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by thom 1y ago
Presumably this is a sign that Zuck has brought forward his estimate of (at least some significant step towards) AGI? Feels like we’re missing several novelties on that critical path. I would have thought you’d do better casting a wider, mo
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by thom 1y ago
It seems fairly obvious that the universe avoids doing work when it’s not necessary. I agree we’ll probably be disappointed looking for magical ways to make it yield much more.
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by thom 1y ago
Yes, but if less is more imagine how much more more would be.

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